SF News Family Says San Francisco Boy Was 'Poisoned' By Intensely Spicy 'One Chip Challenge' Another TikTok challenge is wreaking havoc across the country, this time on the gastro-intestinal systems of tweens and teens, and there's been a case of serious illness here in San Francisco.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Square Says Services Slowly Returning After Outage Square and CashApp are recovering from a Thursday outage; police in Hayward fatally shot a man holding a BB gun outside a Safeway; and a suspect in a San Jose murder trial violently attacked his own attorney in court.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Not a Shocker: NFT-Backed Restaurant In Salesforce Park Is Not Happening It seemed like a stretch from the start, but now we have confirmation that the dual Japanese restaurants planned for one of the larger spaces atop the Transbay Transit Center, are joining the graveyard of dead SF restaurant projects.
Business & Tech SF-Based Square and Cash App Experience Widespread Outages, Leading to Widespread Headaches If you were trying to pay for something with Square or Cash App today and had a problem, you're not alone. Square, and its Cash App, both apps were experiencing major issues Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Actress-Turned-Duchess Meghan Markle Seen as a Scab Seated Next to Strike Villain and Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos While Meghan Markle may not need her union anymore or her residuals from the streaming of 'Suits,' it maybe wasn't a great look for her to be seated next to Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos at the Beyonce show Monday in Los Angeles.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical' Begins Its Exuberantly Nostalgic Pre-Broadway Run at A.C.T. "And you can bet your last money, it's all gonna be a stone gas, honey," said 'Soul Train' creator and host Don Cornelius — and you can bet this musical about the iconic show is going on to Broadway glory.
SF News Longtime Nudist Activist Gypsy Taub Paroled; Daughter Demurs About Accused Pelosi Attacker Stepdad Inti Gonzalez, the daughter of nudist activist and general Bay Area character Gypsy Taub and accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape, is now 22 years old. And despite a chaotic upbringing and an unsettled couple of years, she now says she's "figured things out" and is doing just fine.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Four-Year-Old Dies In Tragic Oakland Bike Accident A four-year-old girl thrown from a bike in an Oakland "dooring" incident has died from her injuries; SF-based Instagram is setting its IPO price; and gay hookup app Grindr has lost half its staff in a return-to-office revolt.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ground Broken on UN Plaza Makeover The UN Plaza makeover has broken ground on schedule despite farmers' market protests; a vegetation fire broke in Lake County; and one of the Chronicle's critics did not have kind words for Matt Horn's new burger spot in Oakland.
SF News Body of Missing Netflix Engineer Found Near Golden Gate Bridge The remains of a young man who had just graduated from college and moved to the Bay Area to take a job with Netflix were found near the Golden Gate Bridge last week, and they've now been positively identified.
Arts & Entertainment Japanese Arcade Complex With East Bay Locations Headed For Stonestown Mall Bowling, karaoke and arcade chain Round1, which is basically the Japanese version of Dave & Buster's, is taking over a space formerly occupied by Nordstrom at the Stonestown Galleria.
SF News Police and Crisis Negotiators In Standoff With Armed Man In Car on Cathedral Hill San Francisco residents were being advised to avoid the area of Eddy and Franklin streets Wednesday afternoon, due to a standoff with an armed suspect.
SF News Feinstein's Daughter Heads to Court With Trustees Next Week; Senator Has No Time for Questions About This It sounds like the Chronicle caught Senator Dianne Feinstein off guard this morning, getting her on the phone after a Senate committee hearing, leading to some cleanup work by her staff and a follow-up phone call.
SF News Road Rage Shooting On I-280 In San Bruno Leaves One Man Injured Southbound I-280 was briefly shut down Tuesday evening due to a freeway shooting, and we are now getting some further details.
SF News Burners Leave Behind 'Shoe Cemetery,' Plenty of Muddy 'Moop' to Clean Up Burning Man staff are not rushing anyone off the playa this year, as a massive cleanup still needs to take place amid some quickly hardening, alkali mud.
SF News Ninth Circuit Denies City Request to Modify Lower Court Injunction on Encampment Clearing The Ninth Circuit has ruled on a motion from the city to modify that injunction on homeless encampments, and the wording of the ruling only adds more questions to this debate.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Sea Lion Deaths In Sonoma Blamed On Disease Sea lion deaths on the Sonoma coast have a different cause than a similar die-off in SoCal; Oakland's Skyline High School cancels classes after shooting; and Biden nominates Rep. Barbara Lee for U.N. event.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Opens Its New Taproom and Pizza Restaurant In Oakland Growing craft brewery Cellarmaker, which began life in a small space in SoMa a decade ago and has since expanded with a Berkeley-based brewing operation and some highly acclaimed Detroit-style pizzas in the Mission, has just debuted its much-anticipated Jack London Square brewpub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Tyler Florence Will Be Reviving Those Two Cafes On Either Side of Union Square The cafe spaces on either side of Union Square will almost surely be seeing some new life soon, and celebrity chef Tyler Florence is behind the project.
SF News United Airlines Experienced Systemwide Outage That Briefly Grounded All Planes Tuesday For what sounds like less than an hour on Tuesday, all United Airlines flights were grounded and prevented from taking off due to an as-yet-unexplained "technology issue."
SF News East Bay Man Arrested For Apparent Fencing Operation With $190K Worth of Retail Goods A 52-year-old man was arrested at his home in El Sobrante last week and was found in possession of nearly $200,000 worth of allegedly stolen goods from retailers including Lululemon, Victoria's Secret, CVS, Walgreens, and Target.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Owners Confirm Reopening at New Location on Folsom Street Legendary SoMa nightclub The Stud is indeed reopening a few blocks from where it lived until 2020, and the drag shows are set to begin again maybe by early next year.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Sees Its 19th Pedestrian Death This Year A 7-Eleven store in Oakland was the scene of a robbery and then the discovery of a dead body; San Jose saw its 19th pedestrian death so far this year; and I-80 westbound reopened Monday in the late afternoon.
SF News Burning Man Exodus Set to Begin Monday Amid Still Muddy Conditions; Man Burn Set for Monday Night The traditional burning of the man at Burning Man was delayed by two days due to an unusual rainstorm and extremely mucky conditions on the playa Saturday. And organizers said they would open the exit gates Monday and begin letting people leave.
SF News Labor Day Headlines: Smash Mouth Frontman Steve Harwell Dies at 56 The former lead singer of Bay Area band Smash Mouth, Steve Harwell, has died at age 56; BART is hoping to boost ridership during Transit Month; and tourism in SF seems be up this Labor Day Weekend.
