Business & Tech SpaceX Employees Say Elon Musk's Twitter Persona Is an 'Embarrassment' as Musk Addresses Twitter Employees The same day that Elon Musk was addressing the employees of Twitter — which could become the fifth company Musk currently lords over if a deal to buy it goes through — employees at SpaceX posted an open letter urging the rest of SpaceX's leadership to acknowledge and account for Musk's behavior.
SF News Investigation Into Oakland Sideshows Leads to Arrest of Alleged Ghost Gun Peddler It's not clear why the FBI would have been investigating sideshows in Oakland, or if the Oakland PD just handed the case off. But an investigation into illegal sideshows in Oakland led directly to a man federal prosecutors say was selling ghost guns.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF School Board Likely to Extend Lottery Admissions at Lowell Another Year The SF school board is having a special meeting to debate extending lottery admissions at Lowell High, bus drivers for the VTA say they're being targeted for attack, and former San Jose Mayor Norman Mineta will be laid to rest today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Klay Thompson Impersonator Banned From Chase Center A YouTuber from Arizona who got onto the court at Chase Center before the Warriors Game 5 has been banned for life, Teslas account for most self-driving crashes according to a new report, and an American Canyon man is arrested for explosives.
Business & Tech CEO of Once-SF-Based Crypto Exchange Kraken Wants Employees to Know That If They Want to Debate Pronouns They're Welcome to Quit Jesse Powell, the CEO of Kraken, which is second only to Coinbase in the world of crypto exchanges, may be exhibiting some of the stress of the moment as crypto prices plummet.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ernest, Sorella, and San Ho Won Among New Entries Teased In 2022 Michelin Guide The folks at the Michelin Guide are doing something a bit unusual this season, teasing out a group of 17 new Bay Area restaurants that they say will be added to this year's California guide — though we don't know if any of these new entries will be getting stars.
SF News Oakland Man Is Latest High-Level Tenderloin Drug Dealer to Get Federal Sentence The feds continue to convict and put away drug dealers at various levels in the food chain who worked the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin. And while others likely quickly moved in to replace them, this is perhaps taking some fentanyl off the streets?
Business & Tech Bill Gates Disses Crypto, NFTs as 'Greater Fool' Follies at UC Berkeley Event Billionaire Bill Gates, serving as a counterpoint to fellow billionaire and noted crypto enthusiast Elon Musk, had some choice words Tuesday for the currently tanking cryptocurrency and NFT universe.
SF News One-Alarm Fire Breaks Out In Upper Level of Dolores Heights/Noe Valley Home A seemingly small fire broke out just after noon Wednesday at a residence on Clipper Street in Dolores Heights, near the edge of Noe Valley.
SF News California Man Charged With Trying to Kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh Was Convinced to Call 911 On Himself By Sister The Southern California man who was charged last week with attempting to murder or kidnap Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his Maryland home, was convinced to call 911 after texting his sister about his intentions.
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Marks One Year Since Pandemic 'Reopening' Depressingly, it's been one year since California "reopened" and declared the pandemic nearly over; an hours-long standoff ended in five arrests for child endangerment in Campbell; and two Bay Area counties see their COVID numbers spike again.
Arts & Entertainment Jay-Z's Embarrassing Dad Moment With Blue Ivy at Warriors' Game 5 Goes Viral Sitting courtside at the Chase Center Monday night there were plenty of celebs taking in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. But there was none bigger, arguably, than Jay-Z, who was there cheering on the Warriors alongside daughter Blue Ivy Carter.
SF Politics South Bay Rep. Zoe Lofgren Talks About the January 6th Investigation, and How Trump's Big Lie Bilked Donors Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has, in the course of her career, been on the inside of the impeachments of three presidents, but she says that what the House January 6th Committee has been engaged in is still unprecedented for Congress.
SF News San Francisco Sees 21st Homicide of the Year as 32-Year-Old Man Is Fatally Shot in Hunters Point A 32-year-old man was shot and killed Monday night in San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Answer Twitter Employee Questions at All-Hands Meeting — What Could Go Wrong? Would-be new owner of a newly privatized Twitter, Elon Musk, is set to address the company's employees directly on Thursday for the first time since making his buyout offer in April, and he'll be taking questions.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Britney's Ex to Face Felony Charges in Napa County A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in East Palo Alto last night, the 22-year-old anti-abortion activist who climbed Salesforce Tower last month just climbed a skyscraper in Oklahoma City, and Britney Spears's ex Jason Alexander is set to be extradited to Napa to face felony grand theft charges.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Recall Vote Margin Shrinks to 10 Points The win/loss margin for the Chesa Boudin recall is now down to 10 percentage points after mail-in votes were tallied, Sonoma County has extended its freeze on new vacation rentals, and Mister Jiu's chef Brandon Jew has won a James Beard Award for his cookbook.
SF News Bay Area Toll Authority to Crack Down on Unpaid Bridge Tolls With Penalties and Liens on Registrations Following a committee vote last week, the Bay Area Toll Authority says that the days of pandemic leniency are over, and they will be coming after the hundreds of thousands of drivers who have accrued unpaid toll bills from crossing local bridges.
SF News PG&E Not Only Caused the Massive Dixie Fire, a New Report Says It Also Was 'Excessively Delayed' In Responding to It PG&E is once again on the defensive following the release of a state report on the 2021 Dixie Fire that not only suggests the utility was negligent in its tree-removal program, which helped spark the fire, but also that their response the day of the fire was "excessively delayed."
SF News Man Requires Rescue From Outcropping Below Cliff House Popular With Taggers A man who may or may not have been up to no good required a rescue from the Fire Department early Monday morning after apparently going over the wall beside the Cliff House.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Google to Settle Wage-Disparity Suit for $118M Google is settling a five-year-old class-action suit brought by female employees over wages, the Muni bond appears to have failed by 1.5% of the vote, and Newsom says the Boudin recall was very "predictable."
Arts & Entertainment 'Dana H.' at Berkeley Rep Is a Haunting First-Person Portrait of an Abduction and Its After-Effects Lucas Hnath's play 'Dana H.' is not really a play at all. It is a tribute, and a reckoning of a sort, as well as an act of love for his mother that is tinged simultaneously with regret and great admiration.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink World-Class Pasta and Unique Bar Bites Make for Winning Combo at Sorella Newly made over with a new concept, Acquerello's six-month-old sister restaurant in Polk Gulch is a winner, offering Acquerello-level pasta and excellent bar snacks alongside cocktails, great wine, and a huge selection of amaro.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Pride Season Tale of a Gay-Owned Pizza Shop In Guerneville That Fended Off a Westboro Baptist-Like Protest Brigade For reasons that can probably only be explained in the dank, repressive corners of conservative social media, a group of anti-gay, quasi-religious protesters have returned again and again to the same low-profile, lesbian-owned pizza shop in Guerneville.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Board OKs First Fare Hike In Two Years Downtown SF businesses continue to struggle to stay alive, the BART board just approved a 3.4% fare hike, and beloved Chinatown seafood spot Yuet Lee has reopened after an earthquake retrofit.
