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.
Business & Tech Have You Had a Lot of Uber Drivers Cancel Trips On You Recently, Or Refuse to Take You Somewhere? Are You a Driver? We'd Like to Hear From You Rideshare services, while still private companies with their own profit motives and foibles, have become like utilities we take for granted. But the days of quick and easy Uber rides seem to be gone since the pandemic.
Business & Tech Aww, Elon Musk Says He Bought Twitter For the Good of Humanity, Doesn't Want It to Become a 'Free-For-All Hellscape' Elon Musk says his intentions are really pure and selfless in deciding to buy Twitter for $44 billion and take it private, and he's doing this "to help humanity, whom I love."
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland City Council Candidate Under Fire For Tweet Supporting Ye Oakland City Council candidate Nenna Joiner tweeted some troubling support for Kanye West, a Solano County high school student was caught with a gun at school, and an Alameda community theater has been going through some tensions over diversity and race that have bubbled up to the Chronicle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bloomberg Dumping Money Into Yes on 31 Campaign A woman was arrested in SF in connection with the killing of a boy found in a suitcase in Indiana, a federal judge rules partly against the SF's "lifetime lease" law, and Michael Bloomberg just put $29M into Yes on 31.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF-Born Brewery and Distillery Seven Stills Is Shutting Down Its Flagship Facility In Mission Bay In another clear case of a local business that went into expansion mode at just the wrong time before the pandemic, Seven Stills Brewery and Distillery in Mission Bay has announced it will close after Halloween weekend.
SF News Pair of Suspects Charged With Arson In Antioch Case of Woman Found Burned, But No Murder Charges Yet The death of 25-year-old Mykaella Sharlman, whose family reported her missing the same day her burned remains were found on an Antioch trail last week, remains under investigation. But two men are in custody and have been charged in connection with her death.
SF News Driver Who Allegedly Killed Pedestrian In Sunset Was High, Police Say A 47-year-old man from the East Bay has been identified as the suspect driver in a horrific pedestrian collision in the Outer Sunset on Monday, and police now say he was high on prescription drugs and cannabis.
SF News 19-Year-Old Woman Shot and Critically Injured In Bernal Heights A shooting occurred just before midnight on Tuesday about a block away from the Bernal Heights Safeway on a quiet block of Coleridge Street.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Chilly Fall Temps Are Here It's going to be a windy day and a chilly night tonight, around 90,000 people received early warnings about Tuesday's earthquake, and a teen stabbed in Novato is in critical condition.
Business & Tech Major Investor Says Meta 'Needs to Get Its Mojo Back,' Says Pivot to the Metaverse Was Too Hasty Another shoe may be dropping for Facebook/Meta, and for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as a key investor in the company speaks out publicly, on behalf of investors, saying that the company needs to dial back its investment in the metaverse and lay off about 20% of its employees.
SF News Public Defender In Stockton Serial Killer Case Calls Law Enforcement Statements 'Inflammatory,' But Gag Order Denied It's sort of inevitable that cops who think they nabbed a serial killer after six killings occurred are going to make inflammatory statements. But serial killer suspect Wesley Brownlee is still technically a suspect, and his public defender is doing her best to get him a fair trial.
SF News Sizable 5.1M Earthquake Shakes Bay Area, Epicenter Near San Jose An earthquake that struck at 11:42 a.m. Tuesday, with an epicenter near South San Jose, gave a good shake to San Francisco and much of the Bay Area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bourbon & Branch's Bar Group Is Opening Another Speakeasy Nightclub on Market Street, The Dawn Club This winter we shall see the opening of a new bar and jazz venue from the group behind Bourbon & Branch and other cocktail spots. And it's a revival of a legendary speakeasy turned legit nightclub from the 1930s and 40s, in the same spot where that venue resided.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Scott Peterson Moved to Sacramento Area Prison Redwood City has moved to temporarily ban a gun store from opening there, convicted murderer Scott Peterson has been moved off of San Quentin's death row, and a fire at a Tenderloin SRO has displaced ten people.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around the Bay: Farewell, Marina Sub Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a young woman whose burned body was found in Antioch, Elon Musk has to close his Twitter deal this week or else face trial, and Marina Sub is closing on Union St. after 36 years.
Arts & Entertainment Lil Nas X Pays a Visit to Oasis For a Drag Show, Tips Queens Generously The biggest openly gay rap star/pop star ever to make it in America, Lil Nas X, was in San Francisco to perform the final U.S. stop on his tour on Sunday, but Saturday night he headed to SoMa for drag show.
SF News SF to Deploy 150 'Ambassadors' to Make Downtown Shopping District Feel Safer This Holiday Season After the PR disaster that San Francisco faced last year around the holidays, with smash-and-grab robberies being conducted left and right by coordinated gaggles of thieves, the mayor is hoping for a calmer season this year.
