Business & Tech The Musk Era of Whack-a-Mole With Fake 'Verified' Accounts at Twitter Has Begun, and More Execs Are Resigning If a verified, blue-checkmarked LeBron James account is tweeting at you, don't be alarmed. It's probably not LeBron James. Also, several key Twitter executives in charge of safety and privacy just resigned. WHAT COULD GO WRONG.
SF News Hayes Valley Retailer Who Closed Store In a Huff and Bemoaned a 'City of Chaos' Has Reopened Said Store It seems like only yesterday — actually three weeks ago — that the owner of trendy outerwear company Cotopaxi was proclaiming, as so many have, that San Francisco was unsalvageable and he was closing his Hayes Valley store for good due to rampant crime and "chaos."
SF News Vallejo Settles Lawsuit With Family of Angel Ramos, Who Was Killed By Police One of five men fatally shot by Vallejo police in recent years, Angel Ramos, will be getting some kind of justice after the city has agreed to pay his family $2.8 million to settle a wrongful death case.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Loren Taylor Extends Lead In Oakland Mayor's Race Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor remains poised to be the city's new mayor, Musk makes it clear that remote work is over at Twitter, and all this rain has meant that fire season is probably over.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Biden Says He'll Decide Next Year If He's Running In 2024 Twitter has filed paperwork to become a payment processor like WeChat, Windsor has a new Latina mayor, and the National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for much of the Bay Area tonight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ahead of New Michelin Guide Release, We Know That Cyrus, Osito, and Itria Made the Cut We're now getting a second list of "New Discoveries" for 2022 that includes the formerly Michelin two-starred Cyrus, which took a decade-long break and has just reopened in a new town.
SF Politics Both Sports Betting Props Go Down In Flames Despite Huge Spending; Prop 30 Also Fails Our long, statewide nightmare of sports-betting campaign commercials for dueling propositions is over, and for now California voters have roundly rejected all expansion of sports gambling — at casinos or otherwise.
SF Politics Mayoral Appointees Brooke Jenkins and Matt Dorsey Hold Leads as Ranked-Choice Results Are Tabulated Two closely watched city races, the District 6 supervisor race and the district attorney's race, do not yet have final results — but both Brooke Jenkins and Matt Dorsey appear to hold solid leads.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Rob Bonta Keeps AG's Job; Malia Cohen Is CA Controller All the Dems won the big state races in CA including Sen. Alex Padilla, AG Rob Bonta, and obviously Gov. Gavin Newsom; Loren Taylor appears poised to be Oakland's new mayor; and overall the "red wave" predicted by Republicans did not come to pass and things don't look so grim for Democrats.
Business & Tech Meta/Facebook Lets Go Of 11,000 Workers; Zuckerberg: 'I Got This Wrong' Mark it: Today, November 9, 2022, is the day that the seemingly unstoppable rise of Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire was stopped.
SF News Street-Racing Teen May Be Responsible For Crash That Killed Two Peninsula Parents A teenage driver allegedly going at a high rate of speed, possibly street-racing with another car, was likely responsible for the dramatic crash that took the lives of the parents of twin girls in Redwood City on Friday.
SF News The US Department of Justice Has Dispatched Poll Watchers to Sonoma County Sonoma County was selected to be one of 64 voting jurisdictions around the country in which federal election monitors are being deployed today, in an effort to protect voting rights and ensure people have access to the polls.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Readies For Reopening at Long Last On Tuesday, November 22, Liholiho Yacht Club will make its debut for the third time — after originally opening on Lower Nob Hill in early 2015, pivoting in the pandemic to take over the 18th Street space that had housed a defunct sister restaurant, and now finally returning to its original home.
SF News Winning $2B Powerball Ticket Sold In SoCal; Million-Dollar Winner In San Francisco This is sure to piss off the people in the 44 other states who bought up Powerball tickets and who think that everyone in California is already rich. But the winning $2 billion ticket was sold in the Los Angeles area, we are now learning, and there is one $1 million winner in San Francisco.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge In Elizabeth Holmes Case Denies New Trial Elizabeth Holmes has been denied her new trial and will be sentenced next week, a 37-year-old Brisbane man has been charged in death of a man he allegedly punched and knocked to the ground in North Beach, and the morning rain caused some minor flooding around the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive 'League of Legends' Esports Tournament Took Over Chase Center The family of Alexis Gabe gave an emotional press conference, BART was experiencing weather-related delays, and a massive esports tournament took over Chase Center for the first time and was completely sold out on Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Most SF Museums Will Be Free the First Weekend In December, Thanks to Anonymous Donors 21 museums across San Francisco will be open to the public free of charge on the weekend of December 3, thanks to some generous, anonymous patrons of the arts who are underwriting the weekend.
SF News Water Main Break Floods Big Intersection In Cow Hollow Residents of San Francisco were being advised to avoid the area of Fillmore and Union streets Monday afternoon following a water main break that flooded the intersection — and there was also a report of gas smell in the air.
SF News Man's Partially Clothed Body Pulled From Bay Near Port of Oakland, Investigation Begins An investigation into a suspicious death has begun after a man's body was pulled out of the water near the Port of Oakland on Monday morning.
SF News Meteorite Strike May Have Been the Cause of a House Fire In Nevada County A rare meteorite strike may be to blame for a fire that destroyed one couple's home and two vehicles parked outside in Nevada County on Friday.
SF News Sideshows Sprang Up Saturday In Multiple East Bay Cities and Vallejo Saturday was a big night for sideshows in multiple places in the Bay Area, as police chased down gatherings of hundreds of cars in Vallejo, Richmond, Rodeo, and Hayward in a span of hours.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Teen Party Shakes Up Quiet Mill Valley An unruly party of 100 to 200 teenagers caused a ruckus in a shopping center parking lot in Marin, parents of seven-year-old twins were killed in a Redwood City crash, and Kathy Griffin had her Twitter account suspended.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stoa, a New Cocktail Bar From the Nopalito Team, Is Coming to the Lower Haight The Lower Haight has continued to be a pretty bustling neighborhood during the pandemic, and while a couple of key vacancies remain, one corner spot is set to have a new business by early next year.
Business & Tech Twitter Layoffs Cut Across Many Divisions; Musk Is Whining About Activists Whom He Blames For Advertiser Exodus The layoff sweep at Twitter was nothing if not chaotic and cruel, and after months of speculation and hollow denials about what was to come, employees are left either holding the bag or waiting to find out what their severance packages look like.
Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Lawrence Calls Off Long-Anticipated Elizabeth Holmes Movie Actress Jennifer Lawrence, who has been on something of an acting hiatus, quietly decided to shelve a planned Elizabeth Holmes biopic and dramatization of the meltdown of Theranos, saying the story's already been told.
