SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: WHO Declares COVID Emergency Over Three years and two months in, the WHO has declared the global COVID emergency over; the body of an Oakland man missing since Dec. 2021 was found in a barrel outside the city; and we can expect some more rain tonight into Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Chinatown Hot Pot Spot Offers a 'Ferris Wheel' of Meat A newly open restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown, Hotpot Champ, is offering a bunch of Instagram- and TikTok-worthy presentations, including a spinning mini-Ferris wheel of raw meat.
SF News T-Mobile Flagship at Market and Stockton Becomes 12th Union Square Store to Close/Announce Closure Since November The big, two-level T-Mobile store in what was formerly the Apple Store at the foot of Stockton Street in San Francisco has just abruptly closed, creating the next in a mounting list of vacancies in Union Square and the downtown core.
SF News [Updated] Suspect Arrested In Davis Stabbings, Knife Found On Him On Wednesday, Davis police said that they had detained a person of interest in the serial stabbing case that has left two men dead and one woman in critical condition, and on Thursday they confirmed the man is a suspect and has been booked into jail.
Business & Tech Google's Sundar Pichai and OpenAI's Sam Altman Summoned to White House For Meeting About Risks of AI Several tech CEOs whose companies have begun releasing products with powerful artificial-intelligence capabilities were called to a meeting at the White House Thursday to discuss the escalating nervousness around AI and calls to regulate it.
SF News Defense Attorney Paula Canny Apologizes For 'Cavalier' Comments About Bob Lee's Drug Use The criminal defense attorney hired by the family of murder suspect Nima Momeni, who's been described by colleagues using various attack-dog metaphors, has issued an apology for some incendiary comments about victim Bob Lee earlier this week. But this may just be indicative of her style.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Castro Theater Owners Respond to Alternative Plan A driver "limped" away from a hit-and-run crash in the Mission last night; the Nasser family who own the Castro Theatre have rejected a proposal by a nonprofit group to keep it as more of a movie house; and May the Fourth be with you.
SF News Day Around the Bay: United Airlines Bans Passenger For Life After Assault at SFO A Santa Clara city councilmember is in court over a leaked 49ers report; a Texas-bound passenger leaving SFO Sunday night has been banned for life from United Airlines over an assault; and the SF Main Library had $550K in damages from a clogged toilet in which someone flushed "foreign objects."
Business & Tech Musk Is Now Threatening to Take NPR's Twitter Handle From Them and Reassign It In the latest of many childish moves that show Elon Musk's downright Trumpian disdain for the media, the billionaire owner of Twitter has reportedly been threatening National Public Radio over the news org's decision to stop using its Twitter account.
Arts & Entertainment One of the Bay Area's Last Remaining Zoo Elephants Is Being Moved Out of State Where She'll Have More Friends After the death of her longtime friend and companion at the Oakland Zoo, 44-year-old elephant Donna is getting relocated to a new home — an elephant sanctuary where she won't be as lonely.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Music Festival Announces Dates For 2023 — and It's Not Folsom Weekend Members of the LGBTQ+ and fetish communities who are also fans of electronic music will be thrilled to know that the second annual Portola Festival is happening the weekend after Folsom Street Fair weekend.
SF News 21-Year-Old Oakland Woman Was Killed By Angry Man Who Was Randomly Shooting at 'Noisy' Cars A 21-year-old woman was fatally shot last weekend in East Oakland by a man, prosecutors say, who had come out of his house mad at "noisy" cars coming down his street late at night, and began randomly shooting at them.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Rescinds Invite For 80s Rocker Dee Snider to Perform After Weird Anti-Trans Tweet SF Pride thought they had a real publicity coup in the making with Dee Snider of Twisted Sister — who no one under the age of 45 is likely to remember — agreeing to perform his 1984 hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" at this year's Pride festivities.
SF News Peskin Calls On DA to 'Reconsider' Charging Walgreens Guard After Supporters of Slain Victim Protest at City Hall The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting on Tuesday turned raucous when family members and supporters of Banko Brown — the trans man killed last week by a Walgreens security guard — swarmed the chamber demanding justice for Brown.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Defense Attorney In Bob Lee Case Begins Victim-Blaming After Toxicology Report Nima Momeni's defense attorney has begun victim-blaming over drugs found in a toxicology report; a 26-year-old man died in Santa Rita Jail last week after drinking tons of water; and a state appeals court just upheld California's ban on AR-15 rifles.
SF News Oakland Sideshow In Which Frustrated Man Was Beaten and Hydrant Was Sheared Off Sparks 'Outrage' From Mayor Video emerged over the weekend of an Oakland man attempting to scold and yell at participants in a chaotic sideshow, only to get beaten bloody by the crowd — and at that same sideshow a car careened into the crowd and sheered off a fire hydrant, sending a fountain of water into the air.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Year In, Oakland's Hi Felicia Adds A La Carte Menu A year after opening as a brick-and-mortar restaurant, and two years after its mid-pandemic launch as a pop-up in chef-owner Imana's apartment, Oakland restaurant Hi Felicia is pivoting a bit to offer à la carte dishes for the first time.
SF News Nordstrom to Shutter Downtown SF Department Store, and Nordstrom Rack, This Summer Cue more talk of "doom loops" and retail apocalypses. Nordstrom just revealed plans to close its 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre in August.
SF News Serial Stabber Has City of Davis On Edge After Two Deaths, and Third Victim Reported Tuesday Two stabbing deaths in Davis last week as well as a third that injured a homeless woman have been attributed to the same male suspect, and the search for him prompted a brief citywide shelter-in-place order early Tuesday.
SF News No Charges Being Filed In SF Walgreens Shooting, Guard Claiming Self-Defense The suspect in last week's fatal shooting at the Walgreens near Union Square, who is a security guard employed by the store, has been released from custody without charges.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Your Late-Night Shows Might Be Gone For a Bit Expect some weird and turbulent weather today around the Bay; police are seeking suspects in a fatal shooting in Antioch; and the Writers Guild is officially on strike, and this means your late-night shows are likely going to airing reruns for a while.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Person Fatally Shot on Folsom Street Sunday Morning One person was killed early Sunday near the intersection of 5th and Folsom; local Marriott workers just won a settlement over withheld banquet tips; and a man who got frustrated with an Oakland sideshow took a beating Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina to Make Final TV Appearance With Peaches Christ on New Hulu Food Show Premiering May 31 on Hulu will be 'Drag Me to Dinner,' a new, tongue-in-cheek cooking competition show in which drag queen friends compete against each other hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burtka, along with Bianca Del Rio.
Business & Tech A Year Later and After Launching Open-Source Twitter Alternative, Jack Dorsey Says Elon Musk's Takeover Was a Mistake Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has changed his tune quite a bit since this time last year, when he seemed to fully endorse the sale of the company to fellow billionaire Elon Musk.
Business & Tech SF's First Republic Bank Seized and Quickly Sold to JPMorgan Chase In Largest Bank Failure of the Year After infusions of cash failed to shore up San Francisco's forty-year-old First Republic Bank, the bank was seized over the weekend by federal regulators and put out for bids on Sunday, resulting in a quick sale to JPMorgan Chase.
