SF News Sunday Links: Corgi Con Draws 1,000 Dogs A grass fire in Antioch was sparked by illegal fireworks, all debris fires have been suspended in six NorCal counties because of wildfire risks, and Ocean Beach was overrun with Corgis on Saturday.
Bay Area Sports ICYMI: This Video Of Drake Taking Credit For the Raptors' Win Is Insane Drake probably shouldn't give impromptu press conferences. Just saying.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Cops Can't Stop the Sideshows A 23-year-old man was arrested in Concord after making threats to shoot up a synagogue, Pelosi was in town for Mayor Breed's women's summit, and a runaway golf cart injured five at Pebble Beach.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Flint's BBQ Is Coming Back As A Pop-Up Facebook is unveiling its cryptocurrency Libra next week, BLM wants to cap Burning Man attendance where it was last year, and BART's new cars are soon going to be built locally, in Pittsburg.
SF News SFMTA Wants Your Input About Extending The Central Subway Past Chinatown Want to take a train from Union Square to the Presidio? That could be an option. Someday.
Business & Tech Bay Area Billionaire Vinod Khosla Believes That AI Will Replace Musicians and Songwriters In 10 Years You may be hooked on your algorithm-generated Discover Weekly playlist listening on Spotify, but what if machine learning could auto-generate music tailored to your exact taste and mood? That's what local billionaire Vinod Khosla thinks will be happening within 10 years.
SF News Duboce Park Area Resident Detained For Chasing Down, Allegedly Assaulting Car Burglar In the heat of Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, one SF resident near Duboce Park decided to take justice into his own hands after seeing a man outside his apartment breaking into his car.
SF News SF's TV-Friendly Medical Examiner Leaving For Better Paying Job In Central Valley SF's chief medical examiner since 2015, Dr. Michael Hunter — also known for his work on a cable TV series — is leaving the job for a major pay raise in San Joaquin County.
SF News Sonoma County Man Pleads No Contest In 2004 Jenner Beach Murders, Killing Of Brother On the eve of his trial for both the 2017 murder of his brother and the highly publicized 2004 double homicide of a couple who were camped on a beach in Jenner, 40-year-old accused killer Shaun Gallon entered a new plea of no contest Thursday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Klay Tore His ACL The Toronto Raptors' president apparently shoved an Alameda deputy, the Ritz in Half Moon Bay is being fined over beach access issues, and a tree crushed a car on Sutter Street.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Unarmed Man Fatally Shot By Police In San Leandro Defense witnesses testify to the character of Max Harris in the Ghost Ship trial, BART board rejects fare hikes, and a visit to the Rat Bar.
Arts & Entertainment Mezzanine Gets Three-Month Extension, May Get More Thanks To Sup. Matt Haney The Board of Supervisors has been known to push its weight around and impose zoning controls when popular entertainment venues and bars are at risk, and that is now the threat by District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney to the landlords of Mezzanine.
SF News Anonymous Anti-Transphobia Group Puts Hangtag 'Alerts' On Muni Trains The incendiary language points to the work of Gay Shame, but these professionally printed hangtags saying "Transphobia Prohibited" came from an ostensibly new underground group called Anti-Transphobia Action.
Bay Area Sports Tickets For Final Warriors Game Ever In Oakland Going For $900 to $35,000 As the clock ticks down to tip-off at tonight's Game 6 of the NBA Finals, prices for Warriors tickets on the resale site TickPick are also ticking down a bit, but the average list price this morning was $5,822.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Loves The $8 Slices At Flour + Water Pizzeria, But Twitter Critics Are Skeptical A $10 lunch or dinner in this town that didn't come from a taqueria or a Burger King is sadly a rarity these days.
SF News San Mateo Cop Catfished By Gender-Swap Filter, Arrested For Contacting A Minor A 20-year-old in the Bay Area says that he went seeking potential predators on Tinder by using Snapchat's gender-swap filter, and claiming to be a 16-year-old girl. The guy he ensnared turned out to be San Mateo police officer, and that officer was arrested and placed on administrative leave.
SF News Salesforce Tower Needs To Offer More Tours Than One Day A Month The company released some more free tickets for tours of the 61st floor which were snapped up in record time, but four time slots once a month seems stingy, no?
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: BART's New Fare Gates Dangerous For Disabled Oakland City Council pushes to expedite new A's stadium, the Sand Fire in Yolo County nearly reaches containment, and ACE train service was suspended due to a gas leak.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tamale Lady (RIP) Gets Her Own Honorary Day The body of the young man who drowned in Lake Del Valle has been recovered, California is trying to fight plastic waste, and SF's jail is going to stop charging inmates for phone calls.
Bay Area Sports Kevin Durant Posts Photo To Instagram After Achilles Surgery, Says 'I Wanted To Be Out There' "Like I said Monday, I'm hurting deeply, but I'm OK," Durant writes. He adds that the surgery to repair his torn Achilles tendon was a success, and "My road back starts now!"
SF News Power Goes Out For 4,000 In Japantown and Cathedral Hill PG&E and the Bay Area apparently can't handle the heat, and following large power outages Tuesday that impacted 17,000 households and businesses outside of San Francisco, two new outages are impacting a swath of the city and Lafayette.
SF News Feds Bust East Bay Meth Ring But Fail To Find The 'Heisenberg' Behind It Federal authorities have just filed charges against three men accused of trafficking methamphetamine by the pound out of the East Bay city of Concord. But the investigation failed to score a meeting with the group's main supplier, known only as "The Man."
SF News Guess What! Bird Bought Scoot In the Great Scooter War of 2018-19, a new volley has come over the horizon: Scooter-rental company Bird, which got booted out of the game in SF last year because they were playing too aggressively, is officially back in the game with the acquisition of Scoot.
SF News Two Drowning Deaths In Two Days Amid Bay Area Heatwave As residents across the Bay Area have been hitting beaches and swimming in lakes to combat the intense heat of the last few days, there have been two fatal drowning incidents, one at Crissy Field on Monday, and one at Lake Del Valle near Livermore.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFPD Officers Sue Over 'Biased' Promotions Uber and Lyft are joining forces to try to quash AB5, a state bill that would force them to make drivers employees; the SFMTA won't name a new director before the current one leaves; and a shark was spotted in Bodega Bay.
