SF News Day Around the Bay: Huge New Tower Proposed For Sunset Mag Campus In Menlo Park Mayor London Breed announced her proposed budget cuts to cover a $790M deficit; the former Sunset Magazine campus in Menlo Park could get a 431-foot tower; and asking rents in San Francisco ticked up again.
SF News L-Taraval Trains Get Closer to Returning as SFMTA Completes Paving Project The L-Taraval light-rail line, which has been suspended since 2019 and replaced by a bus, will be returning to service this fall. And the SFMTA just completed a paving project on Taraval Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Pasta Supply Co. Arrives In the Mission Anthony Strong's second location of Pasta Supply Co. debuts Saturday on 22nd Street, Biscuits & Blues returns to Union Square, and Don Pisto's has been reborn as a burrito bar.
Business & Tech Google Scales Back 'AI Overviews,' Admits the AI Has Been Getting Things Wrong Despite what they said was extensive testing before launch, Google is admitting that its "AI Overview" system has been prone to spreading untruths, and some very weird untruths at that.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chobani Yogurt Founder Buys Anchor Brewing, Plans to Reopen Brewery Soon The billionaire founder of the Chobani yogurt brand, Hamdi Ulukaya, has stepped in to save and revive Anchor Brewing Co., and he even has plans to rehire its employees.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Arrests Made at UC Santa Cruz Protest Blockade Police reportedly arrested "many" of the pro-Palestinian protesters at UC Santa Cruz this morning; a driver was killed on Hwy 101 in Palo Alto this morning after their car became disabled and was struck by other cars; and Paul Pelosi is expected to take the stand today in the David DePape trial.
Arts & Entertainment American Finance Is the Stuff of Epic Drama In 'The Lehman Trilogy' at ACT American corporate history doesn't often inspire poetry, let alone theater. But such is the feat of the epic historical play 'The Lehman Trilogy,' a London import now making its West Coast premiere at ACT, directed by Oscar- and Tony-winner Sam Mendes.
SF Politics Trump Convicted, Xitter Goes Wild You may have heard by now that, in the last hour, an American president was for the first time convicted of a felony in criminal court. 34 felonies, actually.
Arts & Entertainment Crowd of 25,000 Expected In Civic Center Plaza for Fred Again/Skrillex Show Saturday Will it be easy to hang around nearby and listen to the electronic music show Saturday in Civic Center Plaza even if you didn't get a ticket? Maybe! But promoter Another Planet says their equipment will be able to focus the sound pretty well so as not to disturb too may neighbors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lunette, the New Cambodian Spot From Nyum Bai Chef Nite Yun, Opens This Weekend at the Ferry Building The much anticipated new Cambodian noodle shop from the chef at the wildly popular Nyum Bai in Oakland is finally arriving this weekend at SF's Ferry Building.
SF News Heat Dome May Bring Us Another Heatwave Next Week, With Triple-Digits Possible In Some Spots Weather forecasters seem to agree that by Wednesday of next week, it should be feeling very warm throughout California. But a heat dome taking shape over the western half of the US will either bring us a major heatwave, or just a mild warming trend in the Bay Area.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Arrests Seven In CVS Robbery San Francisco police arrested seven people Wednesday for an alleged group heist at a CVS in Ingleside; a Bay Area doctor returns home from Rafah; and the Supreme Court sides with the NRA in a First Amendment case.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Affordable Project Breaks Ground on Former Bus Depot Site There was a groundbreaking ceremony for a new affordable project in SoMa; the SFMTA got a federal accessibility grant; and of course Samuel Alito won't recuse himself from the January 6th/Trump cases.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Barebottle Is Throwing a Beer Festival You Can Bring Your Kids To Barebottle Brewing Co., whose Bernal Heights taproom is well known as a family-friendly hangout, is capitalizing on their reputation and hosting a first-of-its-kind family-friendly beer festival this summer in Salesforce Park.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Long-Awaited Marina Outpost of Original Joe's Opens Thursday A new location of Little Original Joe's, this one with seating and a full bar, is set to open Thursday at the corner of Chestnut and Scott streets in the Marina.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day-By-Day Lineups Revealed, Single-Day Tickets On Sale Thursday Saturday is looking like the best day of the Outside Lands festival this year, as Another Planet Entertainment has just unveiled the single-day lineups for August 9 to 11.
SF News SF Sheriff's Department Training Exercise That Sickened San Bruno Schoolkids Used Old, Possibly Toxic Munitions There seems to be more to the story of some noxious tear gas that leaked out of a building where an SF Sheriff's Department training exercise was going on last week in San Bruno.
SF Politics 'Appeal to Heaven' Flag, Part of City Collection For Decades, Quietly Removed From SF's Civic Center Plaza A flag that had caused zero controversy for much of its time in a San Francisco city-owned collection of historic flags, which have flown outside City Hall since the 1960s, has been quietly removed by Rec & Park staff after it has come to take on new meaning.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Scott Peterson Back In Court The David DePape state trial gets underway; Scott Peterson is back in court to argue for his new trial; and residents in a South Lake Tahoe neighborhood are upset after a man shot a bear cub.
SF News 'Bad Breath Rapist,' On the Run For 16 Years, Found and Arrested In the East Bay A fugitive who had been on trial for sexual assault almost 17 years ago in Massachusetts was recently apprehended by US Marshals in the East Bay, where he had apparently been staying for some time.
SF News SF Health Department Urges Queer Community to Get Vaccinated Against Mpox Ahead of Pride As the summer and Pride season are upon us, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) is urging everyone who wants to — but particularly men, trans people, and nonbinary people who have sex with men — to get the two-dose regimen of the mpox (aka monkeypox) vaccine.
SF News David DePape Offers Apology at Second Sentencing, Says He's Doing Better Mentally Following an error by a judge at the first sentencing for Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape, DePape was resentenced Tuesday morning in federal court to 30 years in prison.
SF News BART Track Work to Cause Suspension In Service Between 24th Street and Daly City This weekend, June 1 to 2, there will be no BART service — as in no trains running, bus bridge instead — between 24th Street & Mission Station and Daly City, so plan accordingly.
SF News Fatal Shooting Leads to Crash Near Oakland-San Leandro Border A man was found fatally shot Monday night after he crashed his car in San Leandro, near the Oakland border.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Firefighters Put Out Encampment Fire Inside Old Industrial Building The SFFD put out a fire inside an industrial building in the Bayview; workers on the Alcatraz ferry went on strike over the holiday weekend; and Steph and Ayesha Curry just had a fourth child.
