SF News Infamous Bay Area Serial Killer Anthony Sully Dies at San Quentin at Age 79 Anthony J. Sully, a one-time Millbrae police officer who became, with the help of some accomplices, a notorious local serial killer of the early 1980s, has died of natural causes.
SF News San Francisco Metro Area Gains 300,000 People After Census Bureau Correction The SF Bay Area just gained over a quarter million people in an error correction issued by the U.S. Census Bureau — but the error had to do with the North Bay.
SF News In Escalation of AV Backlash, Black-Clad Person Seen Vandalizing Cruise Vehicle With Hammer As has become clear, autonomous vehicles are not going to be allowed to proliferate on San Francisco's streets without some kind of protest. And the latest act of protest took things to a newly aggressive level.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Dorian Is Closing In the Marina After Eight Years, Following Halloween Bash Marina brunch and martini spot The Dorian will be flipping into a new concept next year under a new owner, but it will still be a cocktail-heavy Marina restaurant-bar where people get day-drunk on weekends.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SoCal Hit-and-Runs May Have Targeted Cyclists Alameda County authorities arrested four suspects in a Castro Valley carjacking Sunday; former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick has a new job in NoLa; and Huntington Beach police think a driver may have been targeting cyclists in hit-and-runs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pac Heights Sinkhole May Take a Week to Fix That sinkhole on Fillmore Street may take a week to fix; another group of writers including Michael Chabon has filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT; and there was another youth mall brawl, this time in SF.
SF News Temporary Tattoo Outfit On Valencia Closes All Locations Amid Bad Press, Complaints Its Tattoos Aren't So Temporary It's been almost a year since we started hearing rumblings that Ephemeral, the tattoo parlor on Valencia Street whose tattoos were allegedly "made to fade," had some unhappy customers who were waiting much longer than the 9 to 15 months the shop promised for their tattoos to disappear.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Luck Gato, a Mexican-Japanese 'Izakaya Cantina,' Set to Take Over Former Hopscotch Space In Oakland This Week A new culinary mashup concept is getting set to open in Oakland's Uptown, taking over the space from beloved Japanese-influenced diner Hopscotch, which shuttered in June after 10 years.
SF News Large Sideshows Break Out Overnight In Vallejo, Shots Fired Shots were fired into the air and a couple of spectators were reportedly injured overnight in Vallejo during a mobile sideshow there that took place at two different locations.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Is Now Suing California Over Its New Content Moderation Law In what seems like another ill-advised move from a PR and advertiser-comfort perspective, Elon Musk's X Corp. is now suing the state of California over a new law that requires social media platforms to make their content moderation policies and methods public.
SF News Massive Sinkhole Forms After Water Main Break On Fillmore In Pacific Heights A huge sinkhole has formed at the intersection of Fillmore and Green streets in Pacific Heights, as a result of a water main break Monday morning.
SF Politics Newsom Tried to Sidestep His Pledge to Appoint a Black Woman to Feinstein's Seat, and Barbara Lee Is Pissed The awkwardness continues for Governor Gavin Newsom around the hypothetical second appointment he could conceivably have to make to the U.S. Senate, as questions about Dianne Feinstein's health remain.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Woman Carjacked In Piedmont While Putting Child In Carseat A woman was carjacked in Piedmont Sunday morning while putting a child in a carseat; a new poll finds 60% of Californians opposing cash reparations; and the number of homes for sale in SF just jumped.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Admits to Preventing Ukrainian Drone Strike on Crimea These are extraordinary times when a billionaire capitalist is able to singlehandedly intervene in an international conflict on his own whims. But that appears to be at least partly what happened in an incident last year that's described in a new book about Elon Musk.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage From Tenderloin Shooting of Knife-Wielding Man As part of its transparency protocol, San Francisco police held a town hall meeting Thursday and presented body-camera footage from an August 28 incident in which multiple officers shot and wounded a man who refused to drop a knife he was carrying.
SF News Crusty Sailboat Owner Shows Up In Federal Court Barefoot, Promises to Get Stranded Boat Off Stinson Beach A sailboat that ran aground on Stinson Beach in July has until Monday to get back in the water, a federal judge has ruled, or else Marin County authorities are going to start taking it apart. Its crusty captain made a notable appearance in federal court on Thursday.
SF News Pleasanton Man Arrested For Murder of Fiancee, Whose Dismembered Body Was Found On Alameda Shoreline In July Alameda County authorities have arrested and charged a Pleasanton man in connection with the death of a woman he called his fiancee, after her body was identified last month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Square Outage Cost Bay Area Businesses Thousands; Company Says It Will Publish Full Report on the Cause Square and its parent company Block have apologized for a nationwide outage on Thursday that impacted businesses' ability to collect customer payments, but one can easily see how an outage like this is not the same as when Instagram goes down.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Not Retiring, Will Run For Re-Election In 2024 Depending on how you see it, it's either a lioness of Congress keeping hold of her role representing our city in Washington and continuing to school the youngsters in how to get stuff done, or it's another stubborn and aging politician refusing to cede power to the next generation.
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.