SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zero Zero to Close In SoMa After 12 Years of Wood-Fired Pizza Glory The pandemic and the extra-slow recovery of downtown have taken out another well-loved, established restaurant.
SF News Feds Make 21 Arrests In Nationwide Catalytic Converter Theft Ring, Including 3 In Sacramento Who Sold $38M Worth One family in Sacramento is allegedly responsible for selling $38 million worth of stolen catalytic converters, and along with 18 other associates in a nationwide theft ring, they were arrested Wednesday in one of a series of raids.
SF News Snowy, Slippery Roads Near Tahoe Led to Six-Truck Pile-Up Wednesday Morning The passing weather system that brought SF some rain brought snow and ice to the Sierra, and I-80 saw a multi-vehicle crash near Truckee Wednesday morning.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Had a Zoom Meeting Last Night With Nonprofits About Hate Speech Chief Twit Elon Musk apparently had a hastily planned meeting with seven nonprofits via Zoom on Tuesday night, and it left them feeling some type of way about how hate speech and elections will be handled, going forward, at Twitter.
SF News Six Teens — Including Three 13-Year-Olds — Arrested In Connection With Stabbing Outside Marin School Five teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and one 19-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed and critically wounded outside an elementary school in Novato last week.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFPD Appears to Be Making More Stops and Arrests Under New DA A study of the first three months since Brooke Jenkins was appointed DA finds that SFPD officers are making more stops and arrests, Washington High teachers are staging a sickout, and the break-in at the Pelosis' was caught on camera but no one was watching.
SF News Imposter Student Caught Living In Stanford Dorm, Had Been Living On Campus at Least a Year A pretty odd story that has the makings of a streaming series just unfolded on the Stanford University campus, where a pretend student from Alabama had convinced pretty much everyone around him that he was enrolled at the school and lived in one of the dorms.
Business & Tech Musk Said to Be Demanding 12-Hour Shifts In First Week at Twitter; Has Set Up 'War Room' of Cronies to Lead Transition It can't be very fun to be inside Twitter HQ this week — and dad jokes aside, new Chief Twit Elon Musk is apparently presenting himself as a taskmaster seeking to test employees' devotion to the company, their skills, and their work ethic right out of the gate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iron Chef Morimoto Is Opening a Mostly Chinese Restaurant Near His Napa Flagship Japanese celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto is getting set to open a second restaurant in downtown Napa called Morimoto Asia, which will focus primarily on Chinese cuisine.
SF News DePape Spoke of 'Fighting Tyranny' As He Held Paul Pelosi Hostage, and More Details From FBI Investigation A clearer picture has emerged of what transpired inside the Pelosi home in Pacific Heights Friday morning, and according to what David DePape himself told investigators, he sure sounds like one of the right-wing rioters at the Capitol on January 6th.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom Blames Fox News for 'Creating the Culture' That Led to Pelosi Attack The motive in the killing of Oakland dentist Lili Xu was allegedly financial, Newsom denounces Fox News and its culture of hate villainizing Democrats, and Trump has spoken out calling the attack on Paul Pelosi "a terrible thing" but saying crime in SF is "worse than Afghanistan."
SF News Day Around the Bay: State Charges Filed Against Pelosi Attacker; Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith Resigns DA Brooke Jenkins announced attempted murder and other charges against Pelosi attack suspect David DePape, Elon Musk dissolved Twitter's board, and Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith is retiring a couple months earlier than planned.
SF Politics Republicans Continue to Rewrite and Spin Pelosi Story Because, Ultimately, They Don't Want to Offer Sympathy It doesn't exactly work for the broader narrative of Republican superiority and "Crazy Nancy's" hold on the "evil" Democratic Party if anyone acknowledges that a crazed lunatic apparently attacked an elderly man and wanted to maim and kidnap the Speaker of the House.
SF News [Update] Pelosi Attacker David DePape Now Facing Federal Kidnapping and Assault Charges, Said He Would 'Break Her Kneecaps' In addition to being charged locally with the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi, alleged assailant David DePape was charged Monday by federal prosecutors with the attempted kidnapping of Nancy Pelosi, as well as the assault of an immediate relative of a U.S. official.
Business & Tech Twitter to Charge $20/mo Subscription For Blue Checkmarks; Musk Polls Users About Bringing Back Vine As we await word on how swift and widespread layoffs may be at Twitter, Chief Twit Elon Musk is making moves and hinting at others — and still acting like a child with a new toy he may break any second.
SF News Gypsy Taub Speaks Out About Ex-Boyfriend David DePape, Confirms He Wasn't a Trumper, But Had Mental Illness It's both a surprising twist in the long narrative of Bay Area kooks and political dramas and an inevitable "of course" that an incident involving an unhinged attack on a national political figure in SF should somehow circle back to Gypsy Taub, but it has.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Prescribed Burn Sends Smoke Into Bay Area An 800-acre prescribed burn in Humboldt County sent a lot of smoke into the North Bay, DA Brooke Jenkins corrected some misinformation about the Pelosi attack, and a man was injured in a shooting near the Balboa Park Safeway.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Promises Facebook-Style 'Moderation Council' to Make Content and Ban Decisions at Twitter New Chief Twit Elon Musk announced Friday that he will be allowing some content moderation to happen at Twitter after all — but it won't be staff doing it, it will be an independent "content moderation council" like Facebook has.
SF News Reactions and Condemnations Flow In From National, State, and Local Leaders Following Attack at Pelosi Home The toxic and vitriolic energy of our body politic erupted into the city of San Francisco once again Friday morning with an attack by a conspiracy-obsessed loon on the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that left her husband seriously injured.
SF News Rain Is Coming Next Week, But When Will Be the First Atmospheric River? Rain is in the forecast for the Bay Area next week, likely Tuesday and Wednesday, but this won't be much of a storm.
SF News Will Trump Be Allowed to Mouth Off on Twitter Again Before the Midterms? We're counting down the minutes or days before Donald Trump is welcomed back on Twitter by new Chief Twit Elon Musk. Because what's a 246-year-old democracy worth when you'd rather be "saving humanity" through unfettered dialogue and free speech.
SF News Two Arrested In Slaying of Oakland Dentist; One Is Victim's Longtime Boyfriend Two men were arrested Thursday in connection with the August murder of Lili Xu in Oakland's Little Saigon neighborhood, and one of the suspects is Xu's longtime boyfriend who was with her at the time of the killing.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Top Twitter Execs Fired as Musk Takes the Helm The Elon Musk Era at Twitter has officially begun, a second fatal pedestrian crash happened in the Sunset, and 41 of the 47 Alameda County sheriff's deputies put on leave over their psych evaluations are now back on active duty.
SF Politics [Update] Jane Fonda Is Speaking About Climate Change at Manny's and Oasis On Wednesday The legendary Jane Fonda will be in San Francisco on Wednesday, six days ahead of the election, to talk about her life, career, and her Jane Fonda Climate PAC — as well, presumably, as her support for Prop 30.
SF News Third Employee of Dublin Federal Women's Prison Pleads Guilty to Sex Abuse Crimes The third of five officers and employees of the federal women's correctional facility in Dublin to be charged with sex abuse crimes, former prison cook Enrique Chavez, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of groping an inmate.
