Business & Tech Tesla Shareholders Sue Elon Musk For Starting Competing AI Company, xAI Elon Musk has often said that Tesla is an AI company, and not just a car company, and now some shareholders in Tesla want to hold him to that.
SF News SF's Downtown Mall Markets Itself to Small Businesses, Signs Seven New Leases There's some good news on the retail front for San Francisco, with the Union Square-adjacent Emporium Centre San Francisco having signed seven new leases in recent weeks to fill some of the abundant vacancy in the troubled mall.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Musician to Stand Trial For Girlfriend's Murder as More Details of the Crime Emerge In Court A preliminary hearing has concluded, and a Santa Cruz County judge has concluded that there is enough evidence to put 54-year-old Theodore Lengyel of El Cerrito on trial for the murder of a Capitola woman he was in a relationship with.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Pill Access The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of upholding women's access to mifepristone; there was a fatal motorcycle crash on westbound I-580 in Livermore causing a major backup; and the Oakland City Council approved the sale of the Coliseum complex.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Caltrain's Electrified Trains Set to Begin Rolling In September Caltrain says its electrified trains will be launching on September 21; an SF supervisor introduces legislation to try to save Queer LifeSpace in the Castro; and Alaska Airlines will begin service out of SFO's Harvey Milk Terminal 1 next week.
Arts & Entertainment Duran Duran Fans Delighted at Discovery of 'Rio' Album Cover Model, Who Happens to Run a Napa Winery A young model whose image was used by artist Patrick Nagel for the illustration that adorns the cover of Duran Duran's seminal 1982 album 'Rio' has been revealed after years of sleuthing, and she lives right here in the Bay Area.
SF News Mission District Stabbing Follows Shooting In Potrero Hill One man was injured in a shooting Tuesday morning in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood; another man was stabbed in the Mission District Tuesday evening, and the suspects in both crimes remain at large.
SF News DA Pamela Price Reassures Public That Men Who Allegedly Shot Five-Year-Old Will Be Held Accountable Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price seemed to be trying to quash rumors when she insisted in a new statement that three alleged gang members accused in an April 2023 freeway shooting that left a five-year-old girl dead will indeed be prosecuted.
SF News Board of Supervisors Approves Mayor's Plan to Tap Wealthy Donors and Companies For Panda Money The SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday signed off on Mayor London Breed's plan to raise $25 million to bring some pandas over from China to reside temporarily at the San Francisco Zoo.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Declared a Sanctuary City For Transgender People San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to make the city a sanctuary for transgender people; a new poll finds Mark Farrell leading in the SF mayor's race; and In-N-Out has raised its prices in California to cover the state's minimum-wage requirements.
SF News A Federal Building By UN Plaza Might Be Named After Dianne Feinstein The naming-things-after-Dianne-Feinstein movement is not letting up just yet, and California's two senators just introduced a bill to name a federal building in San Francisco after her.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Once Again, San Francisco Is Snubbed at the James Beard Awards It was almost inevitable given how paltry the number of local finalists were, but the James Beard Awards were on Monday — the chef and restaurant portion of the awards, which span multiple nights — and SF got nothin', once again.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Flips Out Over Apple's Deal With OpenAI, Threatens to Ban All Apple Devices In his ongoing quest to convince the world that OpenAI is up to no good and that only he can build the world's best and most ethical generative AI models, Elon Musk sounded off on Xitter Monday in the wake of Apple's announcement that it is partnering with OpenAI.
SF News Details Emerge About Couple Who Allegedly Fled the Scene After Their Dog Bit a 3-Year-Old Boy In SF We have some more details about the case of a Cow Hollow dog-biting incident last month that left a little boy injured and now terrified of dogs, and the couple who left the scene without providing any of their information.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Liberal Activist Secretly Records Alito and His Wife A liberal activist attended a black-tie event in DC last week and secretly recorded Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts; also, Alito's wife talked about her religion and her love of flags; and Cal Fire is conducting major training exercises for nighttime firefighting.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Floating Light Installation Could Be Part of Powell Street Rejuvenation A 25-year-old man has been charged in an unprovoked attack in UN Plaza; Oakland had three homicides this morning, the victims all young men; and there are some renderings for a project to rejuvenate beleaguered Powell Street, which include a floating LED orb.
SF News CA Attorney General's Office Weighs In on Controversial No-Charge Decision In Banko Brown Shooting After being asked by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to review a decision by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins not to file charges in the April 2023 shooting of Banko Brown by a Walgreens security guard, the California Attorney General's Office has come back with a response, one year later.
SF News San Francisco Writer David Talbot Suffers Second Debilitating Stroke Chronicler of San Francisco history as well as the history of liberal movements in the US, David Talbot, reportedly suffered a massive stroke last week — his second in seven years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NightJar, a Sister Pop-Up to Nightbird In Hayes Valley, Opens With Homage to House of Prime Rib NightJar, a new pop-up venue opening next door to Nightbird in Hayes Valley from chef Kim Alter and partner/GM Ron Boyd, is debuting this week and will spend its first three months serving a menu inspired by House of Prime Rib.
SF News Driver Sought In Napa Valley Hit-and-Run That Left One Person Dead The driver of a minivan remains at large after fleeing the scene of a fatal crash on foot Saturday afternoon in the Napa Valley.
SF News Roving Sideshows In SF and Oakland Include Vehicle Set Ablaze on Embarcadero There were more sideshows Saturday night and into Sunday morning, and a caravan of dozens of cars apparently moved from Oakland to San Francisco, putting on a sideshow on the Embarcadero and another in the Mission District.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Kite Surfer Rescued After Spelling 'HELP' on Beach There was a solo car crash early Monday at the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza; a kite surfer got stranded on a remote beach and needed rescue in Santa Cruz; and an Oakland church was severely vandalized and left without electricity.
SF News Sunday Links: Suspect In Sacramento Mass Shooting Dies In Jail One of three suspects in the April 2022 mass shooting in downtown Sacramento died in jail; a car fire shut down part of the Bay Bridge Saturday night; and a fire in SF's Outer Sunset has displaced one family.
SF News Saturday Links: 19-Year-Old Killed In Dolores Park Was Lowell High Grad The 19-year-old man who was fatally shot Wednesday in Dolores Park has been identified; the Peninsula Humane Society has rescued two baby peregrine falcons in the span of a week; and the Japantown Mall has seen a major comeback thanks mostly to teens.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Juneteenth Parade Happening Saturday on Market Street Expect lots of downtown street closures and crowds Saturday for SF's second annual Juneteenth Parade; the ShakeAlert earthquake warning system gets some updates; and there was another clash at the Israeli Consulate in SF Friday.
