SF News Cliff House Not Significantly Damaged In Tuesday Crash, Caused By Rear-End Collision The 157-year-old waterfront restaurant building, The Cliff House, was struck by a vehicle Tuesday afternoon in a crash that left the driver of that vehicle dead. And we are now getting some more details about what happened.
SF News At Least a Few Airline Passengers Are Getting Confused About Oakland Airport Name Change, Showing Up at SFO Oakland Airport's name change to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport has duped at least a couple of Spirit Airlines passengers so far, who have shown up at SFO wondering why they can't find any Spirit Airlines counter.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Shot and Injured Near 16th and Mission A man was shot and left with life-threatening injuries Wednesday night in the Mission District; there is now surveillance video of the teen suspect moments after the Ricky Pearsall shooting; and the OPD isn't likely to shake federal oversight soon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland's Burdell Named Food & Wine's Restaurant of the Year SF's Dream Keeper program may be getting an audit; an arrest was made in a Tuesday BART stabbing; and Oakland soul food restaurant Burrell was just named Restaurant of the Year by a national magazine.
SF News Accused Teen Shooter of Ricky Pearsall Is 'Very Sorry,' Says Attorney The 17-year-old from Tracy who allegedly shot and wounded 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall during an attempted robbery on Saturday made his first court appearance Wednesday. And his attorney expressed remorse on his behalf.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Open-Air Drinking Zones Coming to Chase Center, Several Downtown Alleys With news last week about the establishment of SF's first Entertainment Zone on Front Street, just in time for Oktoberfest, we now get word on the next new zones in the works.
SF News Santa Clara County DA Is Looking For This Convicted Con Artist Who Skipped Out on Prison Sentencing A scamster who likes to bilk investors with phony tech invention schemes may be out there conning someone new, after he was a no-show at a sentencing hearing last month in Santa Clara County.
Arts & Entertainment Sculpture Garden Comes to Transamerica Pyramid, Featuring Famous French Sculptors When the Transamerica Pyramid reopens to the public next week after a renovation, it will have some new, publicly accessible, outdoor art from a pair of renowned French sculptors.
Business & Tech Lyft Laying Off More Staff, Scaling Back Bike and Scooter Division SF-based Lyft is going through a restructuring, and making some changes in its bike and scooter division to become more profitable, which includes laying off 1% of its staff.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Monterey County Man Goes on Alleged Animal Killing Spree The body of a missing 71-year-old hiker has been found in Stanislaus National Forest; a man was arrested Tuesday for an alleged farm animal shooting spree in Monterey County; and Atherton is dealing with another rash of burglaries.
Arts & Entertainment Elton John Reveals Reason For Canceling His Dreamforce Concert Elton John has now explained the "unforeseen circumstances" that are keeping him from performing his much-anticipated Oracle Park show during Dreamforce.
SF News New Interim SF Fire Chief Sandy Tong Sworn In By Mayor London Breed Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced and swore in San Francisco's new interim fire chief, Sandy Tong, who takes over after the sudden retirement of Chief Jeanine Nicholson.
SF News Weekend Stabbing In SF Turns Into Crime Spree That Ends In Castro District A stabbing Sunday in the NoPa neighborhood led to an alleged rampage by a suspect in a vehicle, including hit-and-run collisions, and an ultimate confrontation with police.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Charges Coming In Union Square Shooting Charges should be filed today or tomorrow in the shooting of Ricky Pearsall; there was an increased police presence in Union Square Sunday and Monday; and a Spare the Air Day has been declared for Tues. and Wed.
SF News Labor Day Links: Shooting of 49er Turns Political With Farrell Comments Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell engaged in some political opportunism vis a vis Saturday's shooting; Ricky Pearsall is out of the hospital; and slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was mourned at events in Berkeley and Jerusalem.
SF News Berkeley-Born Hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin Among Six Found Dead In Gaza Among the six hostages found fatally shot in a tunnel under the city of Rafah on Saturday was American citizen and Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents have spent the past eleven months advocating for the hostages.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: The Brixton Is Back In this week's food news, a new Peruvian-influenced spot comes to NoPa, The Brixton reopens with a new menu, and The Slanted Door is set to return to its old spot.
SF News Lombard Street Home of Woman Who Fought to Save Redwood She Planted Hits Market For $5.2M A house on SF's famous Lombard Street — the "crookedest" block of Lombard, in fact — has just hit the market, and it has some stories attached to it.
SF News SF Firefighters Rescue Paddle Boarder After Incident at Ocean Beach San Francisco Fire Department paramedics were called to Ocean Beach Friday morning after surfers pulled a paddle boarder out of the water who was floating and apparently unresponsive.
Arts & Entertainment Institute of Contemporary Art Moving to Downtown SF's 'Cube' Building The two-year-old Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is expanding and moving to a new space in San Francisco's Financial District, in a deal with a real estate investment firm.
SF News Father Mourns Son and Ex-Wife Killed In Wrong-Way Crash In San Jose A Bay Area man posted a moving tribute to his son and ex-wife on Reddit, after they were both killed in a tragic collision Monday afternoon on a freeway in San Jose.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pedestrian Killed In Hit-and-Run In Oakland A man in his 70s was killed in a hit-and-run in East Oakland; Kamala Harris says she'd appoint a Republican to her cabinet; and a Castro business owner says he's fed up with break-ins.
Business & Tech Bye, Elon!: Xitter to Exit the Twitter Building For Good on September 13 Finally shedding the last vestiges of the company once known — and still often referred to — as Twitter, Elon Musk is shutting the operation down for good at the Twitter Building on mid-Market Street on Friday the 13th of September.
Arts & Entertainment Oprah Winfrey Hosting Prime Time Special on AI Featuring Sam Altman, Bill Gates Oprah is taking on the topic of artificial intelligence, and she'll be airing a prime-time special on ABC in September to ask the question "AI: What is it?" and other things your parents and grandparents have been asking.
Business & Tech Google Says It's Fixed Gemini People-Generating Feature, Also It's Releasing Customizable Chatbots Google's AI project Gemini hit a snag earlier this year when its image-generating feature was found to create wild historical inaccuracies in the interest of diversity. Google says it's been working on that, and the new and improved people-generator will made available to some paid users soon.
