Business & Tech xAI's Grok Being Blocked, Investigated By Multiple Countries Over the Creation of Sexualized Deepfakes Elon Musk's no-holds-barred AI chatbot Grok is again having one of its holds barred as regulators across the globe are balking at its widespread production of sexualized images, based on real images posted to X.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Wiener Changes Course on Gaza A 16-year-old boy was critically injured in a shooting in East Oakland; a 92-year-old Novato woman went missing Sunday; and Scot Wiener has decided to start calling the war in Gaza a genocide.
SF News Hundreds Gather on Ocean Beach to Spell Out 'It Was Murder - ICE Out!' There were multiple protests Saturday around the Bay Area expressing rage over the killing of a Minneapolis mother of three at the hands of an ICE agent with a gun, including a gathering at Ocean Beach to spell out another aerially photographed message.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Get Ready For Big 4 Cafe Jacqueline says "au revoir" after half a century, Big 4 says "hello again," and Restaurant Naides makes its debut on Nob Hill, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Coroner Confirms Pacific Grove Swimmer Died From Shark Attack A suspected rare, fatal shark attack that killed an avid ocean swimmer and triathlete last month near Santa Cruz has now been confirmed by the county coroner.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Super Duper Burger Takes Over Remaining Union Square Restaurant Space The small, counter-service restaurant space on the east side of Union Square, which has sat empty for the last year, will become a new outpost of local burger chain Super Duper, later this year.
SF News Concord Man Accused In New Year's Eve Murders of His Parents Dies In Jail A 61-year-old man accused in the December 31 killings of his elderly parents in Concord was found dead in his jail cell Thursday evening.
SF Politics Lawsuit Filed to Stop Mayor Lurie's Upzoning Plan, Because of Course For many who reside in the city's westside neighborhoods and in the Marina, it'll be a cold day in hell before they allow their suburban-esque environs to get any more urban or dense. But it is a city, people!
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: San Ramon Sees More Small Quakes More than 100 people turned out for a vigil in Pleasanton for the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis; SF Supervisor Alan Wong is conducting outreach to businesses seeking PG&E credits; and San Ramon was struck by more small earthquakes this morning.
SF News Man Charged With Threatening Barbara Lee Also Allegedly Threatened SF Judge An El Cerrito man who clearly has a bone to pick with liberals, and who allegedly channeled his anger into specific, violent threats via email to Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, also apparently sent similar threats to federal judge Charles Breyer.
SF Politics In Final State of the State Address, Gov. Gavin Newsom Contrasts Himself With Trump, Calls DC 'Carnival of Chaos' Thursday was Governor Gavin Newsom's last opportunity for a big State of the State address before the California Legislature, and he used it to tout a small drop in homelessness, to admit to some failures, and to celebrate California standing up to the Trump administration.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Will Reopen With Screening of 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' on February 6 Following its two-year-long, $41 million renovation, the Castro Theatre will officially reopen to the public on February 6 with a film screening — and a very queer one at that.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Gives Odd, Mid-Trial Interviews to Local News Outlets, Offering Apology Perhaps knowing that things aren't looking great for her at trial, and apparently against the advice of her attorney, accused Los Gatos "party mom" Shannon O'Connor reached out to several news outlets to offer some of her own side of her story.
SF News Deadly ICE Shooting of Minnesota Woman Prompts Protests Across the Bay Area Hundreds marched through San Francisco's Mission District Wednesday night following a deadly shooting by ICE agents across the country in Minneapolis, and there was a simultaneous protest in Oakland as well.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Gives Extended Interview to the Times President Trump gave a wide-ranging interview to the NY Times; a child died from the flu last month in San Mateo County; and Gov. Gavin Newsom is giving his final State of the State address today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oroville Dam Spillway Lets Loose Parts of the Bay Area are under an "extreme cold watch" for Friday morning; another Oakland athletics coach had his life threatened; and ICE agents shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis today.
SF Politics Downtown San Francisco Immigration Court Set to Close In a Year The federal immigration court in downtown San Francisco that started 2025 with 21 judges and will soon be down to just four, thanks to Trump administration mass-firings, will close by January 2027.
Arts & Entertainment Controversial Alt-Rock Troll and Trump Fan Ariel Pink Set to Play SF Show at the Chapel Friday Indie musician Ariel Pink is coming to town just days after the fifth anniversary of January 6th — which he actually attended, at least the Trump rally part, though he denies joining the horde that stormed the Capitol.
SF News Testimony at Trial of Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Shannon O'Connor Just as Lurid and Gross as You'd Imagine The trial continues this week of onetime Los Gatos resident Shannon O'Connor, who clearly wanted her sons and their friends to think of her a "cool mom" who'd let them drink, but the alleged teen parties she threw actually sound pretty sordid, and unsafe.
SF News Section of Highway 116 Near Guerneville Washes Out, Could Take a Year to Repair A section of winding Highway 116 slid into the Russian River in Sonoma County on Monday, and the washout near Monte Rio is only expected to grow as the rain-soaked banks of the river continue to be saturated and unstable.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supervisors Call For Hearing on December Power Outage Supervisor Alan Wong and others are calling for a hearing into PG&E's massive outage last month; Sonoma County is under a flood warning today; and Valero has begun shutting down its Benicia refinery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Bartender Fired After Viral Incident Involving Drunk and Belligerent Customers The Hazie's bartender who had his hair pulled by a very intoxicated customer who was irate about being cut off on SantaCon Saturday, in a video that went internationally viral, says he's now been fired.
Business & Tech Uber Unveils Robotaxi Design at CES In Las Vegas Uber's line of robotaxis that are set to hit the road in San Francisco sometime later this year made their big public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday.
SF Politics Trump Announces Fraud Probe of California Social Services, Withholds Federal Funds In Wake of Minnesota Scandals The Trump administration is now waging more political war with Democrat-led states, announcing the withholding of $10 billion in social services funding to five states: Minnesota, California, New York, Illinois, and Colorado.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved North Beach Soufflé Restaurant Café Jacqueline Closes After 46 Years A full-throated "Noooo!" is being shouted around San Francisco today by anyone who knew and loved Café Jacqueline, because the stalwart, soufflé-focused restaurant has closed for good.
