SF News 'California Forever' City Plan In Solano County Isn't Polling Well A new poll suggests that California Forever has a major uphill climb to get a ballot measure passed this November that will allow their new city-from-scratch project to move forward.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Apple Lays Off Over 600 Workers Apple laid off 614 workers in Santa Clara; police in Fremont nabbed an arson suspect for setting small fires in Fremont and Newark; and there was a 4.7M earthquake in New York City this morning.
Arts & Entertainment Performers at Immersive Theater Piece 'The Speakeasy' Allege Harassment and Other Problems as Show Remounts The Speakeasy, an immersive theater piece set in the 1920s that ran for 425 performances pre-pandemic in a subterranean space in North Beach called The Palace Theater, is reopening tonight. And as it does, former cast members are raising alarms.
SF News Wealthy Peninsula Town Could Get Denser Housing Forced Upon It As State Revokes Its Housing Element The state may be making an example of Portola Valley, which has failed to complete the rezoning necessary to get its Housing Element certified, and now the "builder's remedy" could go into effect.
Business & Tech Uber Eats Already Outsourcing Delivery to Robots Via Partnership With Waymo Uber once had grand plans to operate its own driverless taxis, but now it's playing nice and partnering with Waymo to have food delivered without humans involved in Phoenix.
Business & Tech One SF Engineer Might Have Just Saved the World From a Massive Cyberattack A 38-year-old software engineer for Microsoft was apparently curious, eagle-eyed, and lucky enough to have discovered a pernicious bit of code in the widely used Linux operating system, that someone, somewhere, had gone to some lengths to hide.
SF Politics Aaron Peskin Makes Mayoral Campaign Unofficial-Official; Breed Camp Already On the Attack SF Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who we've known is running for mayor for over a month now, is finally ready to make his official announcement, but first he leaked it to several news outlets again.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Three Wounded In Shootings Overnight In Oakland Three people were wounded in two separate shootings in East Oakland; automated speed cameras are coming sooner than we thought to SF; and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan asks "what happened" to Tosca Cafe.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Crashes Into Valencia Street Taqueria A car crashed into El Buen Sabor taqueria at 18th and Valencia today, but no one was hurt; residents of The Paramount have been waiting for compensation for a 10-day power and water outage in February; and there's already at taker for The North Face store in Union Square.
SF Politics The Race for Second for South Bay Congressional Seat Has Ended In a Tie? Crazily, only one vote separated congressional candidates Evan Low and Joe Simitian as the final votes were counted earlier this week, and one vote was added to Simitian's tally, resulting in a dead-even tie.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New High-End Japanese Spot Headed for Former Trou Normand Space In Downtown SF A new, likely high-end Japanese restaurant is in the planning stages at 140 New Montgomery, in the ground-floor space formerly home to Trou Normande in the building that was formerly home to Yelp's headquarters.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisch & Flore to Softly Open Tonight In the Castro, In the 51-Year-Old Cafe Flore Space After four years of being closed and variously boarded over, the former Cafe Flore space at Market and Noe streets comes alive again tonight as Fisch & Flore.
SF News No Ins and Outs at Big Sur as More Rain Threatens to Cause More Road Damage Residents of Big Sur are being told that their last chance to evacuate the area for the next several days is at 4 pm Wednesday, after which there will be no more convoys of vehicles allowed to pass across a partially collapsed section of Highway 1.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's The Morris and Pacific Cocktail Haven, Oakland's Burdell Honored With James Beard Nominations The shortlist of nominees for this year's James Beard Awards is out, and while San Francisco has been largely snubbed once again, there are a handful of Bay Area honorees.
SF News North Bay School Gymnasium Evacuated After Naked, Bloodied Woman Walks In A woman experiencing a mental health crisis who wandered into a high school gymnasium in Petaluma on Tuesday had apparently suffered self-inflicted wounds after exiting her house through a window.
SF News Humpday Headlines: People's Park Case Arrives at State Supreme Court A 16-year-old Oakland girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found; the CA Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the People's Park case today; and it's going to be an unseasonably cold day around the Bay.
SF News SF Mayor Heads to China Next Week to Promote Tourism — and Lobby For a Panda San Francisco Mayor London Breed is heading to China next week to conduct some "panda diplomacy," or, at least, to ask again for some, and to promote tourism to SF.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Outside Lands 'Eager Beaver' Presale Tickets Sell Out In Under Two Hours Those who know they will be going to Outside Lands this summer regardless of what the lineup is get their chance at an early-bird discount Wednesday morning.
SF News Assault on Shotwell Street Caught on Video; Neighbors Complain of Violence Involving Sex Workers A broad daylight assault involving two female suspects and one female victim who may be unhoused has neighbors on Shotwell Street newly complaining about the rampant sex trade happening there.
SF News Chesa Boudin, Other Bay Area Lawyers Implore Supreme Court to Protect Civil Rights of Homeless Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, now a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, joined with a group of Bay Area lawyers in an amicus brief filed Tuesday in the Oregon case about penalizing homeless camping that the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on later this month.
Arts & Entertainment Jon Stewart Says He Parted Ways With Apple Because They Wouldn't Let Him Talk About AI, or China, or Talk to the FTC Comedian Jon Stewart tore into his former employer on 'The Daily Show' Monday evening, suggesting that he severed his professional relationship with Apple over instances in which they instructed him to avoid certain subjects.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Mpox Cases on the Rise Again Mpox cases appear to be ticking up again nationally; three people were shot in American Canyon on Monday; and the personal information of 73 million AT&T customers has been posted on the dark web.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gray Whale Population Appears to Be Rebounding AsiaSF is staying open one more month after "overwhelming" community support; Safeway stores in the Bay Area continue to overcharge for goods; and the West Coast's gray whale population appears to be rebounding after that mass die-off five years ago.
SF News Two 16-Year-Olds Arrested for Fatal Shooting at Powell Street BART Station Two juveniles have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of another juvenile in Hallidie Plaza last Thursday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Upscale Indian Restaurant From Michelin-Starred Chicago Chef Opening In the Marina San Francisco will soon get a new restaurant from the James Beard-recognized, Michelin-starred chef of Chicago's Indienne.
