SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Mayor Breed Does Not Support Police Raid On Journalist Breed is walking back some initial perceived support of the SFPD raid on journalist Bryan Carmody's home, teachers are on strike in Union City, and a Utah man was arrested for making threats to shoot YouTube employees.
SF News Depressed-Sounding New Yorker Writer Describes Bleak, Dystopian San Francisco A new piece in The New Yorker, part of a recently popular genre of bleak takes on San Francisco losing its soul to tech wealth and tech everything, stands out in part because it was written by someone who moved here for a tech job.
SF News Sunday Links: A Mostly Dry Bay to Breakers PG&E says it could put San Francisco in a blackout if it shuts off high-voltage transmission lines to prevent wildfires elsewhere, and the DA has dropped all charges against a cable car operator accused of pocketing fares.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kaya Closes And Two More Chefs Cut Ties With Daniel Patterson's Restaurant Group A bit of local food world drama: Two minority chefs who appear to have had creative or managerial differences with Daniel Patterson's Alta Group, Nigel Jones of SF's Kaya and Reem Assil of Oakland's Dyafa, have ended or are in the process of ending their relationships with Patterson.
Arts & Entertainment Lady Gaga Gives Private Concert For Apple Employees, Tells Off Haters In Audience Apple employees all had a big party at Apple Park Friday night, celebrating the completion of the new campus, and there was a surprise guest! But things got awkward for a minute.
SF News Saturday Links: Gilroy Garlic Farmers Applaud Tariffs A man was fatally shot in the Western Addition this morning, Willie Brown poo-poos Kamala's campaign, and a pet-sitter is caught misbehaving on camera.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ICE Scouts Detention Facility Sites In Bay Area A driver was assaulted and robbed at a stoplight in the Mission Thursday night, a 31-building residential complex is being designed for the CPMC hospital site on California Street, and there's a "magic" echo chamber in the Montgomery BART station.
SF News Harvey Milk Plaza Redesign Gets Weird New Pink Canopy Structure The contentious redesign effort for Harvey Milk Plaza and the Castro Muni station, which now goes back a full two years, has yet another update that will get publicly debated and openly derided.
SF News Measles Case Confirmed In Berkeley, Berkeley Bowl Shoppers Warned Shoppers who visited Berkeley Bowl on May 7 are being warned of possible measles exposure as a single new case of the disease has been confirmed in Berkeley.
SF News Big Sur Resident Launches, Removes Instagram Account To Shame Disrespectful Tourists Now that tourists have come swarming back wanting to take selfies from Big Sur's scenic vistas, one local resident launched an Instagram account solely devoted to shaming tourists who misbehave or otherwise disrespect the landscape.
SF News San Francisco Homeless Count Jumps Double Digits; More People Living In Cars Though we are still over a month away from the release of the finalized 2019 point-in-time homeless census that is mandated by the federal government, preliminary numbers for homeless populations across the Bay Area were released late Thursday. And overall they're way up since 2017.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Wilbur Hot Springs Goes On The Market Rainy weather could impact grape crops, Warriors win Game 2, and another whale dies of malnutrition.
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Jose Homeless Population Up 42%, SF's Up 17% Since 2017 Preliminary numbers from the 2019 point-in-time homeless census have been released, the accused triple homicide suspect Stefon Jefferson has officially been charged in Alameda County, and Bay 2 Breakers looks to be rainy.
Arts & Entertainment Inaugural MAX Festival Kicks Off Thursday In SF, Melding Art, Science and Space Exploration A new multi-disciplinary, eclectic new cultural festival kicks off tonight at the Exploratorium, but there are multiple events happening at venues across the city all weekend.
Business & Tech Don't Want To Chit-Chat With Your Uber Driver? New 'Quiet Mode' Is For You Uber has just rolled out a new feature for its black-car service: Quiet Mode. Without having to say so or be passive-aggressively terse, this new option will let your driver know you'd like to ride in silence, thanks.
Arts & Entertainment New Netflix Movie 'Always Be My Maybe' Stars Ali Wong As A Celebrity Chef Opening A San Francisco Restaurant Comedian Ali Wong stars in an upcoming Netflix movie that did some of its exterior shooting in San Francisco, all about a jilted, newly single celebrity chef who rekindles a romance with a childhood friend.
SF News Wiener's Housing Density Bill Gets Put Off Until 2020 By State Senate Committee Sen. Scott Wiener's contentious Senate Bill 50, which is aimed at forcing denser zoning in larger California cities in neighborhoods near transit hubs, is now dead for the time being.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willkommen Beer Hall Softly Open In Castro, Grand Opening Friday Willkommen, the beer hall at Sanchez and Market from Black Hammer Brewing, is finally open and pouring beer, and it's celebrating a grand opening on Friday evening, May 17.
SF News Ninth Circuit Upholds Conviction For Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow The case of convicted Chinatown mob boss Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow dominated news headlines during his 2015 federal racketeering trial in San Francisco. And now a three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Chow's latest appeal.
Arts & Entertainment Rolling Stones Reschedule Bay Area Concert For August The Rolling Stones are restarting their North American tour after Mick Jagger's health forced a postponement announcement in March.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Chronicle Condemns SFPD Raid On Journalist's Home The FBI has stepped in after a string of six shootings this week, some likely connected, in Richmond; and SFPD Chief Bill Scott defended the raid on freelance journalist Bryan Carmody's home in front of the Police Commission.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ghost Ship Families Watch Firefighter's Helmet Video Juul is trying to go the ballot-measure route to keep vape pens legal in SF, the city just bought a former McDonald's site on Bryant, and PG&E has officially been blamed for the Camp Fire by the state.
SF News 50 Years Ago Today, The Battle For Berkeley's People's Park Became 'Bloody Thursday' May 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous street battle between local law enforcement and unarmed UC Berkeley students over People's Park which left one man dead and over 100 people injured.
Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Sign On With 'Christchurch Call' To Quash Extremist Content; White House Refuses The White House is signaling to white nationalists that it wants to protect their free speech rights by refusing to sign on with multiple Western governments to a non-binding pledge to stem the tide of extremist content.
Arts & Entertainment New Season of 'Black Mirror' Featuring Miley Cyrus Tackles AR, Home Assistants The upcoming, three-episode season of Black Mirror, its fifth overall, turns its dystopian lens on augmented reality technology, Alexa-esque home assistant devices, and somehow Miley Cyrus is involved as a Hannah Montana-like pop-singer alter-ego?
