Business & Tech Sam Altman's World Networks Wants Union Square Shoppers to Come Get 'Scanned' and Prove They're Human A decidedly creepy but maybe ahead-of-the-curve business opened next to Macy's on Geary Street Thursday, across from Union Square Park, where a set of high-tech orb devices scan your iris and let you prove your own humanity.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Makes Initial Pitch to Rally Democratic Unity In SF Speech The woman who could have spared us the mess the country is currently in, former Vice President Kamala Harris, gave her first significant post-election speech on Wednesday in San Francisco, and it was an I-told-you-so moment for sure.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Is Firing Waltz CHP put out a new alert about a missing Oakland 3-year-old; May Day protests are happening around the Bay; and Trump is firing his first top aide, national security advisor Mike Waltz, the one who added the Atlantic guy to the Signal chat.
SF News Behavioral Health Emergency Temporarily Shuts Down Lower Deck of Bay Bridge An abandoned car and a "behavioral health emergency" led to a major traffic backup on the Bay Bridge and into downtown San Francisco Wednesday afternoon and evening.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Warehouse Fire Sparked In Oakland Firefighters were battling a warehouse fire on Oakland's waterfront that sent thick smoke across the city; a Walgreens in the Mission is bearing a large pharmacy burden; and Trump insists in a new interview that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has an MS-13 tattoo.
SF News 60-Year-Old Man Shot By Police In South San Francisco Is Identified as Death Metal Bandmember The man who allegedly engaged police in a shootout Monday in South San Francisco and was fatally shot himself has been publicly identified.
SF News Three Suspects Sought After Attempted Robbery and Shooting on 17th Street San Francisco police are looking for three male suspects after an attempted robbery that turned violent early Wednesday in the Mission District.
SF News Oakland Teachers' Union and District Reach Deal to Avert One-Day Strike A planned one-day strike by teachers in Oakland is now being called off after a last-minute deal was announced by the teachers' union.
Arts & Entertainment Actor Jeremy Renner Describes Tahoe Near-Death Experience In New Memoir Oscar-nominated actor Jeremy Renner was as close to death as one can get after his 2023 snowplow accident in Tahoe, as he describes in his new memoir My Next Breath — and he may have, in fact, briefly died.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Reptile Shop Finds Rare Two-Headed Snake A pet store in Berkeley that lays claim to the title of oldest reptile shop in the US, the East Bay Vivarium, has been taking care of a California king snake with a rare mutation — and even more rare is that it has survived over six months.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Harris Planning to Lay Into Trump In SF Speech Kamala Harris is reportedly planning to sharply criticize Trump in a speech in SF tonight; Oakland teachers are still intending to strike tomorrow; and we can expect some rain this weekend around the Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Couple Seeks to Create Dinner Party Vibe at New, Music-Centric Potrero Spot Side A A new restaurant serving bistro and comfort-food classics, done up with a Californian attention to freshness and seasonality, along with a side of live DJs takes over the former Universal Cafe space as of this week.
SF Politics Trump Administration Now Looking Into Building Immigrant Detention Camp In Solano County As part of its broader plan to use military facilities to house immigrants before systematically deporting them, the Trump administration is reportedly looking into creating a detention camp at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
Business & Tech Meta Launches Standalone AI App, Hopes It Will Compete With ChatGPT If the Meta brand weren't so tarnished, one could see its standalone AI app doing fairly well. But will anyone actually care or use this thing?
Arts & Entertainment Designer Ken Fulk Has Not Sold His 'Magic Factory' In SoMa, Will Start Throwing Events There Again It looked like the end of an era for Ken Fulk's loft-like office and event space on Seventh Street in SoMa when he put it on the market three years ago. But it has not sold, and Fulk now says he's going to get back to throwing parties there.
SF News Police Fatally Shoot Armed Man Who Was Firing Gun In South San Francisco South San Francisco police shot and killed a man Monday evening in what's been described as a shootout.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Teachers Planning Strike This Week Oakland teachers are planning a one-day strike over labor conditions on May 1; a small earthquake rocked Sonoma this morning; and George Kittle is now the highest-paid tight end in the NFL.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cybertruck Gets Stuck In Lake Mud Near Truckee Two suspects from Vallejo have been arrested in connection with an April 13 murder in Vacaville; details have emerged about a South Lake Tahoe party where four died; and a foolish Cybertruck owner tried to take "Wade Mode" too far.
SF Politics Amid Layoffs and Leadership Change, SF Parks Alliance Appears Under Financial Strain A local nonprofit that has had its hands in many prominent projects around San Francisco, and that was linked to the Mohammed Nuru corruption scandal, appears to be under a significant financial burden after some of its funding disappeared.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jewish Deli-Inspired Restaurant (With Cocktails) Coming to the Marina The Causwells team is pivoting their second space, which opened last year as the low-ABV cocktail and snack bar Lilah, and opening a new Jewish deli-inspired concept with high-ABV drinks.
SF News SFPD Officer Violated Multiple Department Policies After Incident Involving His Son and Brother A San Francisco police officer was called out by the Department of Police Accountability for a June 2024 incident in which he reportedly failed to disclose that he saw his son assault a man, and he failed to activate his body-worn camera in time to document the incident.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Coming to SF to Give First Major Speech Since the Election Our maybe possibly next governor Kamala Harris will be in town giving a speech this week, and it will mark her first significant remarks since being defeated in the November election by Donald Trump.
Arts & Entertainment Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Final SF Concert, Takes the Applause For His 80th Birthday San Francisco Symphony Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas took his final series of bows Saturday at Davies Symphony Hall at an event intended to celebrate his life and career.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Petaluma Man Arrested for Threatening Salesperson A Petaluma man was arrested for allegedly chasing down a door-to-door salesperson with a gun; a large fire damaged a warehouse in downtown Oakland; and the DEA raided an underground nightclub in Colorado, apparently looking to find undocumented migrants.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Le Colonial to Become Something New The former Le Colonial space has a taker, a beloved local English muffin maker is moving into the Castro, and an SF brewery expands to Mission Bay, all in This Week in Food.
