Business & Tech Of Course a Waymo Got In the Way of Kamala Harris's Motorcade on Nob Hill Friday Night You can't even get a (vice) presidential motorcade through the streets of San Francisco these days without tripping over a self-driving taxi.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Grows Into Massive Rave In Its Third Year, With Shining Performances By Jessie Ware, Disclosure The Portola Music Festival, now in its third year on San Francisco's Pier 80, felt far more crowded and much better organized than in its initial outing — and the VIP offerings have only grown to occupy a huge footprint of the event.
Bay Area Sports Farhan Zaidi Out, Buster Posey In as Giants President of Baseball Operations As had been predicted by many baseball watchers and Giants fans, the Giants' president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi has been let go after the team's less-than-stellar 2024 season.
SF News Power Issue On BART's Red Line In San Francisco Causes Major Delays BART was reporting significant delays and disruption Monday morning due to a power issue affecting the tracks between Balboa Park and Daly City, which led to the complete suspension of Red Line service.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The Park Fire Is Finally Out A motorcyclist was killed on I-880 this morning; five people needed rescue from a boat in distress off Ocean Beach on Sunday; and the Park Fire in Butte and Tehama counties is finally fully contained, two months later.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New High-End Sushi Takeout Comes to Downtown SF A new sushi takeout spot comes to downtown, the Marina gets a new low-proof cocktial bar, and MacKenzie Chung Fegan returns to duty with a Chronicle review of Tiya in the Marina, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Called Las Vegas a 'Sh*thole,' Now Las Vegas Radio Stations Are Boycotting Their Music At a concert appearance in the SF last weekend, East Bay natives Green Day took a stand about the Oakland A's decision to decamp to Las Vegas, and while their beef is more with the A's ownership than with Las Vegas, two Las Vegas radio stations are taking it personally.
SF News Is the 'East Cut' Finally Dead? Awkward Neighborhood Name Disappears From Google, Apple Maps It's been just over seven years since the city and a nascent business district decided that Rincon Hill needed some rebranding, and they tried to make "East Cut" happen. It never happened, and now Google and Apple Maps seem to agree.
SF News Coyotes Have Killed Three Off-Leash Dogs at Crissy Field So Far This Month It has become increasingly dangerous to bring your (smaller) dogs to Crissy Field, and if you let your dog off-leash there or elsewhere near the Presidio, it could prove deadly.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Person Stabbed as Final A's Game Let Out One person was stabbed and injured as the last ever A's game let out at the Oakland Coliseum; at least 40 people are dead in the wake of Hurricane Helene coming to shore; and the great Dame Maggie Smith is dead at age 89.
Business & Tech Meta Actually Paying Celebrities Like Judi Dench and Awkwafina to Use Their Voices For Its AI Tool Unlike OpenAI, which just went and hired an actress who sounded like Scarlett Johansson after ScarJo declined to voice an AI model for them, Meta appears to be actually paying some big-name celebrities to lend their voices for its new AI voice tool.
Business & Tech Xitter Releases First Transparency Report Since 2021, Shows Far Fewer Actions With Regard to Hate Speech Because the EU requires companies to produce such reports, Elon Musk's X has sucked it up and produced a transparency report — the first since Musk took over the company formerly known as Twitter in 2022.
SF News SF District Attorney Announces Arrest of Another Alleged 'Prolific' Retail Thief The San Francisco District Attorney — and Mayor London Breed — are eager for residents to know that something is being done about rampant retail theft in the city. And another arrest of an allegedly prolific retail burglary suspect was just announced.
Business & Tech Some Upheaval at OpenAI as Company Announces Plan to Become a For-Profit Enterprise OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made some public comments at a conference in Italy on Thursday indicating that the company intends to restructure and let go of its nonprofit structure, but he said the departures of several key executives a day earlier were unrelated.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Scores of A's Fans Tailgate Before Final Coliseum Game Over 1,000 A's fans were already in the Coliseum parking lot before 8 am today ahead of their final home game; two Vallejo firefighters were injured during a rescue; and BART ridership hit a new post-pandemic record on Tuesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Video of Nima Momeni Pantomiming Stabbing Will Be Shown to Jurors A video of Nima Momeni that defense attorneys say should be protected by attorney-client privilege is admissible, a judge says; the stray cats of Golden Gate Fields need homes; and Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Oldest Continually Operating Business, Boudin Bakery, Turns 175 It may not be the first place San Franciscans think about going for their fresh bread these days, but Boudin Bakery is one of the remaining vestiges of San Francisco's "49er" days in the early Gold Rush.
SF News Pleasanton Police Investigating Following Death of Dog on Sweltering Apartment Balcony A possible case of animal cruelty is being investigated in Pleasanton after a video went viral on social media of a dog barking and whining while trapped on an apartment balcony in 100-degree heat.
Business & Tech What's Up With Mark Zuckerberg Talking to Trump on the Phone Twice This Summer? The New York Times and Mark Zuckerberg would like us to think that Zuckerberg is "done with politics." But is he, though?
SF News Hayes Valley's PROXY Likely to Stick Around for Years as Affordable Housing Development Remains Stalled What was intended to be a temporary community benefit on a site slated for affordable housing development within a few years, Hayes Valley's PROXY, shows no signs of going away anytime soon, despite some activists pushing for the housing to be built.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley Police Searching For Missing 12-Year-Old Girl A man hijacked a city bus in LA this morning and a passenger was killed; police in Berkeley are searching for a missing 12-year-old girl; and concession workers at the Oakland Coliseum face an uncertain future.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Neighborhood Wants In on Night Market Game, Will Host One On 18th Street Next Month A first-ever Castro Night Market will be happening on Friday, October 18, following the success of recent neighborhood night markets in Chinatown and the Sunset.
SF Politics Does Janet Jackson's Beef With Kamala Harris Stem From Comments Harris Made Before Michael Jackson's 2005 Trial? Pop star Janet Jackson has not walked back some odd comments she made during an interview with a UK publication, repeating falsehoods promulgated in right-wing circles about Kamala Harris's race. And this has raised questions about what Jackson's motivations may be.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Pro Artem Chigvintsev Won't Be Charged In Napa Domestic Violence Case The Napa County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday that Artem Chigvintsev will not face charges relating to a domestic violence arrest last month that made national headlines.
SF News Investigators Say Gambling Debt Was Motive In Friday Shooting at VTA Yard Authorities said Monday that a shooting on Friday, allegedly committed by one Valley Transportation Authority employee against another, did not have to do with workplace tensions.
