SF News Michelle Obama Makes Surprise Appearance at Livermore Costco, Hawking Soda Did you know Michelle Obama had a healthy soda line? Neither did I!
Arts & Entertainment 'Private Lives' at ACT Transposes Noel Coward's Classic Comedy to Argentina The 2024-25 season at ACT kicked off Wednesday night with the opening of 'Private Lives,' Noel Coward's beloved 1930 comedy about the impossibilities and intransigencies of romantic love.
SF News City of Berkeley Approves Deal With BART for New Housing Development at Ashby Station Berkeley's city council this week voted to approve a long-delayed deal to authorize BART to move forward with building hundreds of new housing units on the parking lot property at Ashby Station.
SF News Lawyers For Alameda Cops Accused In Mario Gonzalez's Death Seek Dismissal Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price acted in haste and missed a procedural deadline when she refiled charges in April against three City of Alameda police officers, their lawyers say.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Four Arrested After Vehicle-Smash Store Burglary In Richmond District A 57-y-o Oakland man who was a suspect in a Berkeley murder died in police custody Tuesday; four people were arrested after a pickup truck smashed into a Richmond District store and it was burglarized; and Prop 36 is enjoying plenty of voter support.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Firefighters Put Out Apartment Fire In East Oakland Oakland firefighters put out a significant fire at a vacant apartment building Wednesday morning; the SF Symphony Chorus is threatening to strike; and a flash flood warning comes to the Park Fire burn scar area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Pizza Pop-up Jules, From a Tartine and Roberta's Alum, Lands Permanent Spot In Lower Haight It's official: Buzzy pop-up Jules has secured a brick-and-mortar location, in the Lower Haight, and by mid-winter you should be seeing crowds gathering near Haight and Fillmore for their excellent New York-meets-California pies.
SF Politics President Biden to Host Global AI Safety Summit In San Francisco In November In late November, when, god willing, we will have a new president-elect whose name is not Trump, President Joe Biden will be gathering AI experts together in San Francisco for a global AI safety summit.
SF News Bombshell Testimony Comes Three Weeks Into Murder Trial of Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Theobald "Mylo" Lengyel has been on trial since September 4 for the December 2023 murder of his girlfriend, Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, in Capitola. And this week, a witness took the stand who only reached out to prosecutors after reading about testimony in the trial so far.
SF News In Murder Trial of Bob Lee Stabbing Suspect Nima Momeni, Defense to Claim Lee Had 'Flash of Aggression' The much anticipated trial of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee is getting ready to begin, and the defense team has laid out more of their argument for why they say their client is innocent.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Stabbed In SoMa A man was left with life-threatening injuries after a Tuesday night stabbing on Natoma Street in SF; a Pleasanton woman has been charged with her boyfriend's murder over a year after it occurred; and a landmark clock on Market Street is in need of serious repair.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Korean Steakhouse From Globally Prolific Chef Coming to Union Square A Korean steakhouse with a location in Los Angeles, ABSteak, from acclaimed chef and Iron Chef America competitor Akira Back, is opening in Union Square's Hotel Fusion next month.
SF News SF City Attorney Files for Injunction to Immediately Stop Oakland Airport's Use of Its 'Confusing' New Name The City of San Francisco has now filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in its case against the Port of Oakland over the name change of Oakland Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Cliff House Won't Reopen This Year Due to 'Unanticipated Repairs' Some unexpected infrastructure problems with the Cliff House building have caused a delay in its reopening, and the new operators are now aiming for 2025 to reintroduce their new concept for the place.
SF Politics Trump Panders to Libertarians, Says He'd Pardon Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Donald Trump is again making promises to constituents that he may or may not keep, believing it's politically expedient to tell some libertarian crypto bros that he would pardon Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht if he became president again.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Bolinas Beach Closed Due to Human Waste A woman was killed Friday after falling out of a vehicle doing donuts in San Jose; Pleasanton police catch suspect with loaded ghost gun; and most of Bolinas Beach is closed due to an urgent public health concern.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Rolls Out Fleet of Mobile Security Cameras SF just rolled out some new mobile security cameras for "high-crime zones"; two planes crashed in mid-air in Tahoe; and the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair just celebrated its 45th edition on Sunday.
SF News 50 Years Ago Today, BART's Transbay Tube Opened For Business It's been 50 years since BART began shuttling passengers under the Bay between Oakland and San Francisco. And with a recent seismic retrofit of the Transbay Tube complete, the agency is celebrating the big anniversary today.
SF News Protesters Gather at SF Hall of Justice as Golden Gate Bridge Gaza Protesters Appear In Court Some of the 26 individuals who are facing criminal charges stemming from a Tax Day protest in April that shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for several hours made court appearances on Monday, and were joined by activists protesting their prosecution.
SF News Dreamforce Kicks Off Tuesday With Celebrity Speakers, Largest Crowd Since 2019 Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference, which these days is all about AI, is set to bring in about 45,000 attendees when it kicks off Tuesday in SoMa, which is the biggest crowd it's had since the pandemic.
SF News One Person, Two Cats Rescued In Tenderloin Apartment Fire One person and two cats had to be rescued from a fire escape Sunday evening after an accidental kitchen fire spread inside a top floor apartment in SF's Little Saigon neighborhood.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Suspect In Second Attempted Assassination of Trump Was Known to Media Ryan Routh, the suspect arrested for possibly trying to assassinate Donald Trump, was a known, passionate supporter of Ukraine; Salesforce gives money to SF schools for AI education; and Jane's Addiction cancels reunion tour after onstage fight.
SF News Update: Powell Street BART Station Closed After Police Shooting A major police situation was happening in or near Powell Street Station Friday morning after an armed suspect apparently fired a gun, and then was shot by police.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Laser Show Lights Up Transamerica Pyramid Lasers light up the Transamerica Pyramid; Newsom signs bill making penalties harsher for smash-and-grab thieves; and Trump comes to California looking for campaign funds.
Arts & Entertainment Shakespeare In the Park Brings ‘The Tempest’ to the Embarcadero, and ‘As You Like It’ Opens at CalShakes This season of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival got extended to include two weekends of performances of ’The Tempest’ at Sue Bierman Park at the foot of Market Street, on the Embarcadero. And CalShakes comes back alive in Orinda this weekend with its production of ‘As You Like It’.
