SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Sheriff's Excercise Involving Pepper Spray Sickens Elementary School Students A San Francisco man was arrested in Pacifica for burglarizing businesses; an SF Sheriff's Dept. exercise involving chemical agents impacts kids at a nearby school; and Shasta Lake has filled up for the second year in a row.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] North Beach's Park Tavern to Be Reopened Former Partner In Restaurant, With Original Chef The ex-husband of Park Tavern owner Anna Weinberg, James Nicholas, has signed a lease to take over the restaurant's space in North Beach, and it will be reborn as Park Tavern this fall.
SF News House Fire Near Alamo Square Potentially Linked to Racist Threats A house fire that broke out on the same block as the famed Painted Ladies gutted a two-unit building, and it happens to be the home of a longtime neighborhood dog-walker who was recently targeted with racist threats.
Business & Tech Can We Talk About How Creepy and Meta It Is That OpenAI Made a Voice Assistant That Sounds a Lot Like Scarlett Johansson? Did OpenAI think it was cool to try to turn 'Her' into reality with the help of voice actor Scarlett Johansson?
Business & Tech Pixar Hit With Layoffs Affecting 14% of Its Staff As parent company Disney pushes for budget cuts, Pixar Animation Studios is going forward with some previously announced layoffs, primarily impacting staff working on series production for Disney+.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Turbulence Kills One and Injures Dozens On Singapore Flight One person died in a fiery crash in Fremont this morning; over 70 people were injured and one man died on a Singapore Airlines flight in a severe turbulence incident; and Half Moon Bay farmworkers are getting a payout.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Falcon Name Finalists Now Up For Vote OpenAI is pulling a voice chat assistant that sounded a lot like Scarlett Johansson; the only queer bar in the FiDi is finally reopening; and four sets of finalists have been named in the voting contest to name the newest brood of peregrine falcon chicks at UC Berkeley.
Business & Tech Waymos Waylaid In Their Lot After Robbery Suspects Ram Into One at 14th and Folsom An unoccupied Waymo was reportedly hit in a hit-and-run collision early Monday just outside the Waymo dispatch lot at 14th and Folsom streets, and the suspects had apparently just stolen a car in SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment Bradley Cooper, José Andrés, and Cameron Diaz Among the Celebs Confirmed for BottleRock Culinary Stage The Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage will once again host a bevy of celebrities and celebrity-chef talent throughout the upcoming BottleRock weekend in Napa.
SF News Man Ejected From Vehicle Located on Remote Sonoma County Cliff After Car's Crash Alert A seriously injured driver was rescued Sunday after his vehicle's crash-alert system notified authorities of the location of his car, which had gone off a cliff on the Sonoma County coast.
SF News David DePape to Be Resentenced Due to Federal Judge's Error, Sentence Unlikely to Change David DePape, the 44-year-old man convicted in the October 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi and sentenced last week in federal court, will see another sentencing hearing later this month due to a court error.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Downtown Oakland Shooting Leaves One Dead A 36-year-old man was shot while driving in downtown Oakland early Monday; one block in the Marina sees the city's most calls about blocked driveways; and Sam Altman says he can't eat out in public anymore.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Sushi, Tacos, Beer New high-end sushi comes to Hayes Valley, some great new tacos arrive in the Castro, and a huge new Korean marketplace that wants to compete with H Mart is headed for Daly City.
Bay Area Sports SF's New WNBA Team, the Golden State Valkyries, Just Hit 10,000 Season Ticket Deposits, Will Host Block Party Saturday It's been just three days since we learned the name of the WNBA expansion team that is coming to San Francisco next year, and interest in the women's league and this SF team seems very, very high.
SF News Pelosi Attacker David DePape Gets 30 Years In Federal Case; State Trial Begins Next Week The first of two sentences which will likely put 43-year-old wingnut David DePape behind bars for the rest of his life was handed down Friday in federal court.
SF Politics Supervisors Stymie Mayor Breed In Panda Fundraising Plan, Creating First Roadblock A San Francisco supervisors' committee on Thursday effectively shot down a resolution concerning Mayor London Breed's announced plan to bring Chinese pandas to the San Francisco Zoo.
SF News Highway 1 Reopens Ahead of Schedule, Making Way for Big Sur Travel Ahead of Summer Highway 1 has reopened to regular traffic, thanks to a new signal system that will allow traffic to flow in one direction at a time past the area where a rockslide made part of the roadway disappear in late March.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Justice Alito Flew an Upside-Down Flag On His Lawn David DePape faces sentencing in federal court today for the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi; protesters who took over a building at UC Berkeley have been arrested; and Justice Samuel Alito will have to answer for a 'Stop the Steal' symbol that appeared on his lawn in January 2021.
Arts & Entertainment World Premiere Musical 'Galileo' Turns the Famed Astronomer Into a Rock Balladeer In the new musical 'Galileo,' which had its world premiere Wednesday night at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway star Raul Esparza commands the stage as the maverick Seventeenth Century astronomer, in a rock musical that is at turns both audacious and confounding.
SF News Unsheltered Homeless Population In SF Nearly Unchanged Since 2022, Overall Number Rises 7% Despite spending many millions of dollars to address the issue of homelessness in San Francisco, the city got some disappointing news Thursday with the release of the latest (preliminary) point-in-time census count of the homeless.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash, Oakland's Drag and Queer Performance Festival, Returns This Weekend For Its Seventh Year The Oaklash Festival is coming stomping and sashaying back this weekend, celebrating drag and queer performance in all its forms for a diverse and adoring Bay Area audience.
SF News Number of Homeless In Berkeley Drops 45% In Promising Sign; Oakland's Number Still On the Rise, Though The number of unsheltered homeless people in Berkeley dropped by nearly half in the two years between the biennial point-in-time homeless censuses in 2022 and 2024, according to a preliminary report.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 4.0M Earthquake Hits NorCal Coast A 4.0M earthquake rumbled in Humboldt County around midnight last night; the SF State protest encampment is scaling back; and the Supreme Court rejected a challenge over the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Final Section of Harvey Milk Terminal to Open In June A big rig carrying 73,000 pounds of rice overturned in Oakland near the Bay Bridge this morning; the number of homeless families living in SF has doubled; and the last renovated section of Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at SFO opens on June 11.
SF News Mentally Ill Man Accused of Hate Crimes In Castro Who Said Being LGBTQ Goes 'Against God' Is Acquitted of All Charges The San Francisco Public Defender's Office today announced the acquittal of a 21-year-old man who had been in jail since an arrest last June in connection with a series of incidents described as hate crimes in the Castro.
