SF News Humpday Headlines: Israel and Hamas Reach Ceasefire Deal Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire deal that includes the release of some hostages; 15 candidates are looking to replace Pamela Price as DA in Alameda County; and Biden readies his farewell address.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince the Restaurant and Quince the E-Commerce Site Have Settled Out of Court In a follow-up to a story from a year ago, we're learning that Michelin three-starred San Francisco restaurant Quince quietly dropped its legal fight against SF-based e-commerce company Quince.com, but the financial details are not public.
SF Politics Bay Area Japanese-Americans Warn About Trump Using Racist Law For Mass Deportations Japanese Americans in the Bay Area and beyond are understandably upset about Donald Trump talking about reviving a 227-year-old law that was used to round up and incarcerate their relatives during World War II.
Business & Tech Meta to Lay Off Around 3,600 More Employees as It Faces 'Intense Year,' Zuckerberg Says Fast on the heels of Meta's announcement that it is curtailing a significant subset of its social media operations — namely content moderation — the company says it is also going to trim its workforce by 5%.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fire Danger Worsens In Los Angeles Winds are intensifying today in the LA area, creating more fire potential; the Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth is ongoing; and the family of a Berkeley man killed by police is suing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DOJ Sues Airbnb Over Hosts With Anti-Child Policy The DOJ is suing Airbnb over a policy that allows hosts to ban children under 12; a Kentucky man is accused of a road-rage incident over another driver's high beams in San Mateo; and a look back at SF's last mega-rich mayor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Team Behind Copra and Ettan Open New Wood-Fire-Driven Indian Restaurant In Menlo Park There is one splashy new restaurant opening happening on the Peninsula this week, and it's Eylan, the newest restaurant from chef Srijith “Sri” Gopinathan and restaurateur Ayesha Thapar, the team behind Copra in SF and Ettan in Palo Alto.
Business & Tech It's the Biden Administration's Fault That Big Tech Embraced Trump, Says Marc Andreessen This all feels like a political merry-go-round we've been on for too long, but as the post-election analyses continue to roll in, the New York Times podcast 'The Daily' is looking into why so many Silicon Valley bigwigs rolled over and got in bed with Trump this time around.
SF News This Is Shaping Up to Be One of the Driest Januarys on Record In San Francisco Dry January in more ways than one! January 2025 in San Francisco is starting to look a lot like the drought Januarys of a few years ago, with clear skies and sun nearly every day, and no rain in sight.
SF News Toppled Fire Hydrant Creates Huge Geyser In Downtown Berkeley A ruptured fire hydrant created quite the water show on Shattuck Avenue in downtown Berkeley Monday morning.
Arts & Entertainment Justin Timberlake, Noah Kahan, and Green Day to Headline BottleRock 2025 As tickets go on sale this week, the lineup for BottleRock Napa Valley 2025 is out, and it includes East Bay hometown stars Green Bay, Justin Timberlake, and rising folk star Noah Kahan.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Train Schedule Changes Today Two people were hospitalized after an early Sunday shooting in East Oakland; as BART implements a modern train-control system, there are slight changes to the BART schedule; and Steven Bannon is calling Elon Musk "evil."
SF News 3.7M Earthquake, This One Centered In East Bay, Shakes Bay Area Sunday Morning Another small earthquake struck on Sunday morning, two days after a couple of morning shakers rattled the Bay Area coming from a different direction.
SF News Presumptive Case of Bird Flu Found In Child In San Francisco Another probable case of H5N1 bird flu has been detected in the Bay Area, though this has not been confirmed by the CDC, and the patient has already fully recovered.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Pizza and Burger Favorites Head Downtown Outta Sight Pizza expands to Chinatown, Lazy Bear expands into French cuisine, and a wildly popular smashburger pop-up gets a brick-and-mortar outpost at IKEA's food hall, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment 'Some Like It Hot' Marries New Values With Old-Broadway Razzle Dazzle at SF's Orpheum Fans of the Billy Wilder classic film 'Some Like It Hot' will find plenty that's familiar in the plot of the Tony-winning Broadway musical adaptation, which just opened Thursday in its first American tour at SF's Orpheum Theater.
SF News Mayor Lurie Names New Fire Chief, Dean Crispen, a 34-Year Veteran of the SFFD In his first department-head appointment of his tenure as mayor, Daniel Lurie on Friday announced the appointment of second-generation firefighter and 34-year veteran of the city's fire department Dean Crispen as the new fire chief.
SF News Woman Injured By Firecracker During Lurie Inauguration Celebration It seems the festivities Wednesday didn't go off entirely smoothly in Chinatown, with news that a woman was injured and possibly multiple people were struck by a string of firecrackers that were lit outside a celebratory banquet.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Supreme Court to Decide Fate of TikTok The Supreme Court was hearing arguments about the TikTok ban today; Trump was officially sentenced, though his sentence was discharged, in the hush money case; and the Sonoma-founded Watch Duty app found huge popularity amid the LA fires.
SF News 3.7M Earthquake Rumbles Across SF, Centered Off the Coast — Aftershock Follows You may have been jostled awake, or you may have been up and felt the rumble of this morning's earthquake, which gave San Francisco a small shake at 7:02 am. You also might not have felt it.
SF Politics San Mateo County Sheriff Drama Continues as County Leaders Scoff at Lawsuit Threat San Mateo County officials put out a statement this week in response to a government claim by embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus, a claim which, they say, is riddled with "incorrect and misspelled names" and "is largely devoid of any alleged facts supporting its conclusions."
SF News Attempted Murder Charges Filed In Two SoMa Shootings In two separate shooting incidents that have occurred since the new year began in the SoMa neighborhood, two suspects are now facing attempted murder charges.
SF News UC Berkeley Custodian Takes Plea Deal In Oakland Gay Hookup Murder A former janitor at UC Berkeley has opted not to stand trial for the March 2023 killing of a beloved Oakland Gay Men's Chorus member and sometime drag performer, who died in his own apartment after what appeared to be an early morning hookup.
SF News Lurie Inaugural Bash In Chinatown Draws Thousands Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown was packed Wednesday night, as a night market, street performers, mainstage acts, and a VIP banquet celebrated the inauguration of Daniel Lurie as the city's 46th mayor.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Respite In SoCal Winds to End, More Fire Danger Looms Wind conditions are expected to worsen in LA throughout the day Thursday; the lack of rain this winter in SoCal is consistent with La Niña; and police in Santa Rosa arrest an alleged carjacker who shot at them.
