Arts & Entertainment Video: Baby's First Word Is 'Google' It's 2019. We've sent men space, possibly cured AIDS, and we regularly tell bodiless robots to do things for us in our homes like turn on lamps and play songs we like. Why shouldn't babies imitate us?
Arts & Entertainment Raise Your Hand If You Still Have A Collection Of Old Colorful Muni Passes Long gone are the days when the SFMTA printed boldly color-blocked monthly Muni passes that riders would treasure for their clean and attractive graphic design.
SF News Wife Of Maine Man Arrested For Threats Against YouTube Actually Deleted His Channel, Lied To Him About It The story about the jilted YouTuber who took a cross-country trip just to have a word with Google about his deleted channel has taken a darkly funny new twist.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Experience Simultaneous Server Issues It ain't so great having three major social platforms served from the same place when the servers go down!
SF News Newsom Calls For (Largely Symbolic) Halt To Death Penalty In CA Due to legal challenges, no one has been executed in California since 2006. But after two ballot initiatives to end the death penalty failed to garner enough votes, Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking it upon himself to end it.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Google Tells Hardware Division Staff To Find New Jobs Google has some non-layoff layoffs, Mission teenager temporarily avoids eviction from grandmother's apartment, and why California figures prominently in the college fraud scandal.
SF News Day Around The Bay: 12,000 Units Proposed For Redwood City Salt Ponds The suspect in the Feb. 28 murder of Bambi Larson in San Jose was undocumented and has a rap sheet, and a 122-unit condo development is proposed for the Candlestick parking lot.
Arts & Entertainment Dodgeball Meets 'Exploding Kittens' In New Game 'Throw Throw Burrito' A new game in development from the creators of popular card game Exploding Kittens involves cards and trying to accrue like cards, and then also throwing plushy burritos at other players.
SF News AOC Piles On With Elizabeth Warren In Saying Our Democracy Has 'A Facebook Problem' Facebook was squarely in the sights of liberal politicians this week after the presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren decried the company's decision to remove three of her ads that talked about breaking up Facebook.
SF News Sonoma County Teacher Arrested For Refereeing 'Fight Clubs' In His Classroom A high school teacher in Cloverdale was arrested in connection with accusations that he condoned and played referee at "fight clubs" in which his students participated. At least one student required medical attention.
SF News Bay Area Rich People, Stanford Sailing Coach, Two Hollywood Actresses Indicted In College Admissions Scandal In what's being called the biggest case of college admissions fraud ever, 50 individuals in six states have been indicted, including 14 people in the Bay Area, and actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Butcher & Farm Heads To Beso Space in Castro, From the Team Behind Lark Following the closure of Beso on 18th Street in the Castro last week, we have news of a taker for the space, and it's the team behind Mediterranean spot Lark just a few doors down.
SF News After Cyclist's Death, SFMTA To Remove Parking And Extend Howard Street Bike Lane Following the death of bicyclist Tess Rothstein on Friday, the SFMTA says it will immediately be removing street parking on the north side of Howard Street between Fourth and Sixth Streets in order to extend the protected bike lane.
SF News Tuesday Morning Links: Homeless Man Arrested In Killing of San Jose Woman A 24-year-old transient has been arrested in the Feb. 28 death of Bambi Larson, a murder-suicide in a Santa Rosa mall parking lot, and Feinstein pushes to ground Boeing 737 Max jets.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pelosi Says Trump 'Not Worth Impeaching' Pelosi's not "for impeachment," a 35-year-old woman was stabbed with an ice pick in SoMa, and a sheriff's deputy faces trial soon following a battery incident in 2017.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Hates In-N-Out's Fries, Got Nasty Letter About Her Chez Panisse Review From Mimi Sheraton It was just Week 2 for Soleil Ho at the Chronicle — in print at least — and we now have the second edition of her Bite Curious newsletter, as well as her latest Sunday review.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AL's Place To Open AL's Deli In Yuzuki Space at 18th and Guerrero Chef Aaron London's Michelin-starred Mission hit AL's Place is expanding for the first time, and it's onto the gourmet ghetto of 18th Street.
SF News Two-Alarm House Fire Blankets Mount Davidson In Smoke A house fire in the Miraloma Park neighborhood sent smoke up over the skies of San Francisco Monday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 100-Square-Foot Sunnyvale In-Law Is A Steal, And A Squeeze Everyone's favorite schadenfreude-heavy real estate column is back! And this one's a real humdinger in the South Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noooo! Chow on Church Has Closed After 22 Years The original location of Chow at 215 Church Street, which opened in 1997, has closed for good, and the Castro/Duboce Triangle neighborhood is going to be crying about this for months.
SF News Hilariously Bad Chinese Translation On City Survey Calls Tenderloin 'A Beef Filet' Thanks to some unskilled translators, a recent outreach effort by the city in Chinatown did not go over smoothly.
SF News Weather Report: Sun and Warmth at Long Last Hallelujah The storms are passing us by in the Bay Area this week, and just before the official start of spring we'll be getting a solid taste of balmy spring weather by mid-week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Warriors Tank Against Last-Place Phoenix Suns Woman drives wrong way on the Bay Bridge upper deck, SF acupuncturist indicted for fraud, and the Chronicle architecture critic is no big fan of the new Van Ness hospital.
Arts & Entertainment Want To See a Superbloom In California This Spring? Head South Crazy amounts of rain up and down the state this winter mean some crazy beautiful superblooms will be popping up this spring in multiple desert locales — just don't expect anything too spectacular in Northern California.
SF News Sunday Links: Bicyclist's Death Prompts Outpouring Of Grief A search is on in the Sierra for a missing Marine, Sierra locals are annoyed with inconsiderate motorists, and Yountville just marked a tragic anniversary.
