Arts & Entertainment Former Pixar Screenwriter Says 'The Holdovers' Was Plagiarized From Something He Wrote The Oscar-winning film 'The Holdovers,' which stars Paul Giamatti and is set at a New England boarding school in the 1970s, is brazenly similar to a screenplay that a former Pixar writer penned and shopped around Hollywood in recent years, that writer says.
SF News Scott Peterson Will Be Back In Court (Virtually) on Tuesday In Redwood City for New Hearing In 2002 Murder Case Convicted murderer Scott Peterson has, for some reason, attracted the attention of the Los Angeles Innocence Project, and the case against him in the 2002 murder of his wife Laci Peterson is getting a new hearing this week in San Mateo County.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Joyride Pizza Is Headed for Pier 1 on the Embarcadero Popular Detroit-style pizza outfit Joyride Pizza is expanding once again, and will be opening a new location soon right next to San Francisco's Ferry Building.
Business & Tech Trump Calls Facebook an 'Enemy of the People' For No Particular Reason Donald Trump is attacking Facebook again for no particular reason, calling it an "enemy of the people" and sending Meta's stock price tumbling.
SF News [Update] FBI Raids Dublin Women's Prison, Warden and Three Others Ousted Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations descended on the women's prison FCI Dublin Monday morning for unknown reasons, but it likely is connected with an ongoing cascade of abuse allegations against officer there.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fatal Hit-and-Run on I-80 In San Francisco A pedestrian was killed early Monday in a hit-and-run on I-80 in San Francisco; a Vallejo woman was arrested in a violent carjacking; and Jewish students at UC Berkeley are rallying against antisemitism.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Dinner Is Back at Tartine Manufactory, With Pizza Tartine Manufactory returns to dinner service with a sourdough pizza-focused menu, Four Kings debuts in Chinatown, and a new wine bar is headed for the Lower Haight.
SF News SF Shakespeare Festival Van Was Stolen In Oakland, and They're Asking the Public to Look Out For It Police in the East Bay don't exactly have the bandwidth to track down stolen vehicles. But the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival thought for sure someone would have spotted their stolen 12-person passenger van, with their name and logo emblazoned on it, by now.
SF News California Forever Puts Out First TV Ad, Which Is Predictably Short on Specifics The first TV spot for the campaign to get a new city-from-scratch built on Solano County farmland in the coming years has hit the airwaves, and much like the website for the project, it touts big plans and promises for housing and jobs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cheesecake Factory Fans Are Literally Talking About a Ballot Measure to Keep It From Closing While there has been plenty of online grief pouring out about the eventual loss of Macy's in SF's Union Square, for some, the conversation quickly turned to "What is going to happen to the Cheesecake Factory?"
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Restoration Work Begins With the Grand Ceiling A month after its final public events before renovations began, the Castro Theatre is undergoing the first phase of its glow-up, and restorers are already working on the elaborate, gilded ceiling.
SF News Suspect In Pleasanton Murder Leads Police On Pursuit, Takes Own Life On 580 Freeway A total shutdown of I-580 in both directions Thursday morning in San Leandro was the result of a reported murder-suicide case that began with a homicide in Pleasanton.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Shooting In SF's Outer Mission A shooting at a home in the Outer Mission left one person critically wounded; the former Fremont city manager has been convicted of misusing city funds; and UC Berkeley parents are hiring private security guards.
SF News Another Day, Another Two Union Square Retailers Say They're Closing — Zara and The North Face In addition to news that The North Face is closing its only San Francisco store in Union Square this month, we now have word that Zara plans to close its longtime boutique on the square too.
SF Politics Changing to 'A City of Yes': SF Mayor London Breed Touts Accomplishments In State of the City Address Coinciding with Biden's State of the Union address this evening, San Francisco Mayor London Breed gave her annual State of the City address to supporters and business leaders today, touting all the positive change she's seeing in SF.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Retains New Attorney Who Questions Why She's Still Being Held Without Bail We are coming up on three years that Shannon O'Connor, the mother of two boys at Los Gatos High School who was arrested in 2021 for throwing illegal, booze-drenched parties for teens at her home, has been behind bars.
SF News Japan-Bound United Airlines Flight Out of SFO Loses Tire During Takeoff, Gets Diverted to LAX A United Airlines flight leaving SFO had a problem during takeoff on Thursday and ended up being quickly diverted to Los Angeles.
SF News Thousands of Gallons of Wastewater Spills From Treatment Plant Into Russian River A significant spill of partially treated wastewater, likely storm-related, happened in Sonoma County last weekend, but officials seem to be downplaying the matter.
SF News Homicide In the Tenderloin Is SF's Fourth Killing of the Year There was a fatal stabbing Tuesday night in the Tenderloin that is being investigated as a homicide.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Outage Hits Central San Francisco A power outage was impacting over 4,000 PG&E customers around Japantown and Lower Nob Hill this a.m.; the Union Square North Beach store is closing; and Grocery Outlet just opened in Marin City.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Closing Downtown Tunnel Weeknights Next Week There's no Muni underground service on nights from 9:30 p.m. Friday until the following Friday; some intense thunderstorms caused localized flooding around the Bay today; and there was a tragic discovery inside a Santa Rosa apartment.
SF News California Forever Releases Aerial Rendering of Its Proposed, Utopian 'City of Yesterday' There was nothing on the ballot Tuesday in Solano County about the proposed new town/development that's being proposed by a cabal of Silicon Valley billionaires. But the group, called California Forever, did just release a new rendering.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole Has Closed, Team to Relocate to New Valencia Street Space Bar Agricole, which won accolades for its drinks and design after opening more than a decade ago in SoMa, has closed its second location, which opened post-pandemic in the base of the tower at 1550 Mission Street.
SF News Video: Man Arrested After Shrieking Freakout at SFO Ticket Counter A man who appeared to be in the throes of a mental health crisis, perhaps brought on by the stresses of travel, was seen shrieking in the faces of ticket agents at the Frontier Airlines counter at SFO recently.
Business & Tech OpenAI Publishes Old Emails From Musk Showing He Approved For-Profit Venture In its first public response to a lawsuit from Elon Musk, OpenAI has published some emails with Musk showing that he signed off on the company's for-profit structure, and that he tried to claim "absolute control" of the company.
