Business & Tech United Airlines to Start Boarding People With Window Seats First, Aisle Seats Last Hallelujah! United Airlines is soon going to implement a new boarding procedure that it previously tested at a handful of airports, boarding economy passengers with window seats first in order to cut down on boarding time.
SF News 34 Years Ago Today, the Bay Was Shaken By the Loma Prieta Quake, and One Local News Anchor Stayed as Cool as Can Be The Bay Area's last major earthquake over 6.5 in magnitude occurred 34 years ago today, on a day when the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's were coming onto the field for their first-ever Bay Bridge Series.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Announces Ballot Measure to Reduce Police Paperwork, Allow Car Chases For Petty Crimes "Right now [SFPD] officers spend too much time on paperwork, which keeps them off our streets where they're needed most," says San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Mayor to Give State of the City Address Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is set to give her first State of the City address; a home in Daly City was badly damaged in a fire Monday evening; and Julia Roberts's Presidio Heights house just sold for an unknown price — asking price $12 million.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DA Jenkins Acknowledges 'Pro-Hamas March' Tweet, Doesn't Exactly Apologize A website falsely reported that Sup. Dean Preston had retired; there was an apparent murder-suicide this morning in Sunnyvale; and DA Brooke Jenkins acknowledged deleting a controversial tweet about Saturday's march supporting Palestinians.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fiorella Expanding Once Again, Plans Fourth Location In Old Paxti's Space In Noe Valley SF Italian restaurant mini-chain Fiorella has its sights on a new location, and the pasta and pizza will be coming to a former pizza spot in Noe Valley that's been closed for over a year.
Business & Tech LinkedIn Lets Go of Hundreds More Employees In New Round of Layoffs Following two earlier layoff rounds that occurred this year, Bay Area-based LinkedIn announced Monday that it is slashing 668 more jobs, or 3% of its workforce.
SF News Anti-Jewish Graffiti Appears on Market Street Following Pro-Palestinian March Following a rally and march Saturday in support of the Palestinian people, which brought thousands of activists marching up San Francisco's Market Street, some anti-Jewish and anti-Israel graffiti was found on windows along the street.
SF News Shopping Center Fire Sends Smoke Soaring Over Livermore Sunday An abandoned shopping center in Livermore went up in flames Sunday evening in a significant blaze.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 4.8M Earthquake Rattles Northern California A 4.8M earthquake and several smaller quakes shook Humboldt County early this morning; Senator Laphonza Butler has COVID; and an 18-year-old girl was fatally shot in Oakland Saturday night.
SF News Sunday Headlines: Oakland Sees 100th Homicide of the Year One person was killed and two others were wounded in an East Oakland shooting Friday; there was a large march up Market Street in SF in support of the Palestinian people; and scammers are imitating SF restaurants on Instagram.
SF News Saturday Headlines: Automated Speed-Detection Cameras Coming to SF, Oakland Gov. Newsom signed a bill into law that will bring automated speeding tickets to SF, Oakland, and San Jose; a surfer may have gotten a shark bite near Pacifica; and a pedestrian was killed on I-280 in SF early Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Nabs Retail Thieves Who Showed Up at Walgreens With Wagon The SFPD arrested six people who were part of a blitz-style robbery at an Excelsior District Walgreens; a San Jose mother and daughter have been arrested in connection with those two day-care drowning deaths; and the suspects arrested for a string of armed robberies in the Mission were arraigned.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Pizza Burger, Burger Pizza A longtime Italian stalwart in North Beach is calling it quits, a legendary Japanese yakitori shop is coming to Japantown, and more news from this week in the Bay Area food scene.
SF News Sunset District Police Officer Injured While Trying To Stop Car Break-In An SFPD officer responding to a report of a car break-in was injured Wednesday night when the suspects' getaway car dragged him down the street.
SF Politics Preston Becomes Latest SF Supervisor to Quit Twitter/X SF Supervisor Dean Preston says he's deleting his Twitter/X account, two weeks after the company's owner, Elon Musk, tweeted that Preston should "go to prison," becoming the latest in a string of city supervisors to leave the platform.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Police On Alert Over Call For 'Day of Jihad' From Hamas Police across the country and in the Bay Area are stepping up patrols around Jewish community centers and more due to a jihad call from a Hamas leader; weather may hamper views of Saturday's eclipse; and a car went off a cliff in Pescadero, killing one.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Suing City College Over Diego Rivera Mural Moving Expenses The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is suing City College of San Francisco over unpaid expenses relating to the conservation and 2021 relocation-by-truck of the massive Diego Rivera fresco titled 'Pan-American Unity.'
SF News Double Shooting In Tenderloin Closes Leavenworth Street There was a shooting Thursday afternoon near the intersection of Leavenworth Street and Golden Gate Avenue, and reportedly two people were shot.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud, When It Reopens, Plans to Host SF's First School of Drag The Stud Collective wants to teach the children well who are coming up in SF's drag scene, and they just announced that when the bar reopens in new digs this winter (or spring?), it will be hosting The Stud School of Drag.
Business & Tech Cruise Announces Software Updates to Its AVs In Response to Emergency Situations After a number of concerning incidents involving its autonomous vehicles getting in the way of fire engines and ambulances, Cruise announced a set of software improvements Thursday aimed at "minimizing operational impact" for emergency responders.
Business & Tech As Misinformation About Israel-Hamas War Proliferates, EU Threatens X/Twitter With Fines The European Union's digital enforcer has sent an urgent letter to Elon Musk about the proliferation of misinformation on X regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, "reminding" Musk of the company's obligations under the EU's Digital Services Act, and CEO Linda Yaccarino has replied.
SF News Man Shot By SFPD Who Crashed Into Chinese Consulate ID'd By Coroner The man who was fatally shot by police Monday after he crashed his car into the lobby of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco has been identified.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Uber Assault Suits Rolled Into One SF Mayor London Breed is ordering mid-year budget cuts to address a growing deficit; 79 different class-action lawsuits against Uber are getting rolled into one; and the winning $1.76B Powerball ticket was sold in California.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing: Focaccia Di Recco at Union Square's Corzetti Among a flurry of late-summer and early fall openings in SF we have Corzetti, the newest Italian restaurant from Back of the House restaurant group. And one of the stars on the opening menu is a delicious, indulgent, cheese-stuffed flatbread known as focaccia di recco.
