SF News NorCal's 'Gone Girl' Who Faked Her Own Kidnapping Let Out of Prison After Less Than a Year The very made-for-'Dateline' saga that was Sherri Papini's 2016 hoax kidnapping and its aftermath wrapped up with her conviction on federal charges last year, and her sentence of 18 months behind bars. But she has apparently been released into some other form of custody already.
Business & Tech OpenAI Rumored to Be Close to Signing Deal For One of Uber's Mission Bay Buildings In what would be one of the first big office-lease deals in San Francisco since the mad sublease sell-off wave began during the pandemic, AI pioneer OpenAI is said to be in "serious" talks to take one of Uber's four buildings next to the Chase Center in Mission Bay.
SF News Protest March and Rally Planned Wednesday Over Relocation of Civic Center Farmers' Market For Skate Park Vendors, organizers, and fans of the Heart of the City Farmers' Market will be staging a protest on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to change the city's mind about its plans to turn UN Plaza and its promenade near City Hall into an outdoor recreation area.
Business & Tech X Rolls Out Its First Non-Tweet-Related Feature, and It's a LinkedIn Competitor Saying over the weekend that he can't bring himself to look at resumes on LinkedIn because "the cringe level is so high," Elon Musk rolled out a beta version of X Hiring, which will charge verified organizations a fee to post jobs.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Fatal Shootings Kill Female Victims In East Bay An arrest was made in a hit-and-run that injured a dog walker in Santa Rosa; two women were killed in separate shootings in Oakland and Rodeo over the weekend; and Silicon Valley had its own Pride Parade.
SF News Mystery Group Behind Solano County Land-Grab Revealed to Be Silicon Valley VC Types, Plus Steve Jobs's Widow It didn't take the New York Times very long to get to the bottom of the mystery that has been troubling Solano County officials for several years, namely the identity of the people behind a massive buy-up of farmland totaling over $800 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Police Union Calls Out Reem's In the Mission for Refusing to Serve Uniformed Cops We've got another one of these controversies in which a Bay Area restaurant has made it a policy not to serve armed and uniformed police officers, and the SF Police Union is again up in arms.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Chef of Empress By Boon to Open New Restaurant In the Marina Next Month The acclaimed chef behind Empress By Boon, Ho Chee Boon, is opening a new, casual restaurant in the Marina District, and it's opening soon.
SF News The Bidens Are In Tahoe, and Two F-16 Fighter Jets Just Had to Chase a Plane Out the Restricted Airspace There President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have been spending the week on vacation in Lake Tahoe, and this morning two fighter jets had to be deployed by NORAD to chase a private plane out of the temporarily restricted airspace around the lake.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Cruise Vehicle Involved In Crash A Cruise AV was involved in a crash with a construction vehicle on Gough; there was a 3.9M earthquake this morning in Sonoma; and the updated COVID booster is coming available in mid-September.
SF News Downtown SF IKEA Store Evacuated on First Day Due to False Alarm The city-sized IKEA store that opened Wednesday on Market Street in San Francisco had to be evacuated midway through its first day — and let's hope this isn't a harbinger of things to come!
SF News Tourists' Car Broken Into at Palace of Fine Arts Just as SFPD Holds News Conference On Break-Ins Nearby SF officials held a press conference Thursday morning to discuss a long overdue crackdown on the epidemic of car break-ins in the city. And just as they were about to kick it off, a break-in was occurring a short distance away.
Bay Area Sports The A's Could End Up Sharing Oracle Park With the Giants In 2025 Well this would be odd. It looks like the A's management have come up with a shortlist of possibilities for what happens when their lease runs out at the Oakland Coliseum in 2024, and one of them is temporarily moving to San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Civic Center Carnival Kicks Off With Funnel Cakes and a 100-Foot Super Slide San Francisco's latest effort at temporarily activating the plaza in front of City Hall, a four-day, county-fair-style carnival, begins at 2:30 p.m. Thursday and runs through the weekend.
SF News Authorities Seize $15,000 Worth of GHB From Marin Nail Salon Federal and local authorities conducted a sting operation after U.S. Customs agents recently discovered a package full of the party/date-rape drug GHB being shipped to a nail salon in Fairfax.
SF News Kristin Smart's Convicted Killer Paul Flores Gets Attacked In Prison The man convicted last year for the 1996 murder of his college classmate Kristin Smart, Paul Flores, was reportedly attacked in prison Wednesday and was hospitalized in serious condition.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Uber Requires Drivers to Be at Least 25 Now Uber is requiring drivers to be at least 25 because of insurance costs; Trump's interview with Tucker Carlson went up on X last night, and it's nuts; and participants in Tough Mudder Sonoma have been getting nasty rashes and other symptoms.
SF News Day Around the Bay: H.E.R. Cancels Lights On Festival at Shoreline The SFPD explains why they didn't intervene on that dirtbike flashmob on Lake Street Sunday; H.E.R. has canceled the Lights On Festival at Shoreline next month; and the 49ers demoted Trey Lance to third string.
SF News Mystery Company Buying Up Solano Co. Land Appears to Want to Build New City With 'Tens of Thousands' of Homes The mystery may soon get solved about the massive land-buying spree near Fairfield by one private company, and it may not be so sinister after all.
SF Politics Poll: Republicans Are Much More Scared of San Francisco Crime Than Democrats, Because Fox News Thanks to the willful exaggerations of Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Tucker Carlson, and the whole gang at Fox News and Newsmax, Republican-leaning voters are far more scared to visit San Francisco right now than Democrats.
SF News Scared Kitten Rescued From Median On I-580 In Livermore A CHP officer did the Lord's work on Tuesday, chasing down a scared, tiny black kitten who was somehow let loose on an East Bay freeway.
Arts & Entertainment Rufus Wainwright, Rickie Lee Jones, and Soul Legend Irma Thomas Added to Hardly Strictly Lineup A little less than half of the complete Hardly Strictly Bluegrass lineup for 2023 has been revealed, and this year is shaping up to be a stellar year for the free music festival in Golden Gate Park.
SF News SF Gets One More of Hopefully Many (Several?) September-Like Beach Days Much like on Sunday and Tuesday, it's going to be nice and warm in San Francisco today, a full week and a half ahead of schedule for our usual September warming pattern.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Armed Robbery Suspect Crashes In Ditch In Lafayette Lafayette police chased a gas station armed robbery suspect Tuesday who quickly crashed into a ditch; the first tourist identified among the dead in Maui was a 72-year-old California woman; and that COVID-rule-flouting San Jose church continues to battle the county in court over its punishment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Badlands Manager Claims the 49-Year-Old Castro Nightclub Will Reopen By Halloween We must, given the players involved, take this with a massive grain of salt. But the latest word from the man who is ostensibly going to be the new manager of Badlands in the Castro is that it will remain Badlands, and it's reopening in two months.
