SF News East Bay Media Center Burns In Monday Morning Fire The nonprofit East Bay Media Center on Addison Street in downtown Berkeley was heavily damaged in a fire Monday morning that led to the evacuations of some neighboring apartments.
Business & Tech Hackers Reprogram Peninsula Crosswalk Signals to Mock Elon Musk and Zuckerberg Pedestrians expecting to hear normal crosswalk commands in Silicon Valley are instead hearing prank voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg saying things like “F***, I'm so alone,” as some joker has hacked those cities’ crosswalk systems.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Couple Found Dead In Cloverdale A couple was found dead in a possible murder-suicide in Cloverdale; several lanes of the San Mateo Bridge were closed Monday morning after a car fire; and Green Day's pyrotechnics lit a palm tree on fire at Coachella.
Arts & Entertainment Things To Do This Week: ‘Love Isn’t Blind’ Comedy Dating Show, Featuring Silent Bachelors This week, 4/13-20, we present a few stand-out events among a huge roster of Earth Day, Easter, and 420 festivities, including Nerd Nite, a Tenderloin walking tour, a comedy-dating show, and a spirituality and psychedelics conference.
SF News Man Shot by Berkeley Police During Domestic Violence Standoff Berkeley police shot a domestic violence suspect after responding to reports of a woman screaming for help on Sunday morning. The man allegedly threatened officers with a gun and is now in critical condition.
Arts & Entertainment Notable Humans: Susan Kare, Designer Of Mac’s Earliest Icons — And Its Friendly Aesthetic In this week’s roundup, SFist pays tribute to Susan Kare, the groundbreaking designer of Mac’s early icons; Jorge Leon, the mastermind behind Oakland’s thriving sports scene; and Matthew Kraft, a social worker who received “Child Protector of the Year.”
SF News Sunday Links: Hundreds Attend Juanita More’s People’s March, Dance Party, For Democracy Hundreds marched and danced during the annual People's March for Democracy; ICE now has access to the records of undocumented immigrants under federal investigation; and a 64-year-old man reportedly propositioned two underage girls in Petaluma.
Arts & Entertainment At Least Downtown SF Doesn’t Have A Giant Marilyn Monroe Upskirt Statue Like Palm Springs Did Commentary surrounding the newly installed 'R-Evolution' sculpture brings to mind the heated battle over a Marilyn Monroe upskirt statue in Palm Springs last year. In both cases, many folks have wondered, “Who asked for this?”
Business & Tech Tech Updates: Nokia Brings 200 Tech Jobs to San Jose With Sustainable Chip Plant Bay Area companies are leading the charge in sustainable tech: Nokia expands its semiconductor hub to San Jose; Lightmatter unveils an energy-efficient AI processor; Savor Foods introduces carbon-based butter; and Longshot Space develops a low-cost cargo space launch system.
SF News Living Seawall Pilot Shows Early Success in Boosting Bay Biodiversity Back in the summer of 2022, 288 specially designed tiles were installed along San Francisco’s Embarcadero seawall, which are now brimming with marine life, including barnacles, mussels, and algae.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Reverses Decision To End Kids' Free Summer Lunch Program After announcing the closure of its free summer lunch program, the City of Oakland said it would continue at limited sites; Mayor Lurie is holding a competition to help revitalize downtown; and nearly 70 people were arrested during a joint operation in the Tenderloin and the Mission.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Record-Breaking 79-Year-Old Orinda Woman To Run In Her 39th Boston Marathon A 79-year-old retired nurse from Orinda is running her 39th Boston Marathon in a row; Elon Musk got brutally ridiculed during a gaming livestream; and Record Store Day is this Saturday.
SF News Person Fatally Shot In Oakland's Eastmont Hills Neighborhood, Near a Preschool Police in Oakland are investigating a homicide in Oakland's Eastmont Hills neighborhood, after a shooting took place around 12:45 pm Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Gold Club Brings Back Its $5 All-You-Can-Eat Fried Chicken Buffet SoMa striptease joint the Gold Club earned the title “Tech's Hottest Lunch Spot” with their $5 lunch-hour fried chicken buffet. The pandemic forced that deal onto hiatus, but last week, the $5 chicken buffet returned to strut its stuff.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Half-Price Lobster Rolls? A new pizza spot comes to Saluhall, special menus for Passover and Easter, and Woodhouse Fish Co. is practically giving away the lobster rolls, all in This Week In Food.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues More Tenderloin Stores for Being Gambling Dens, One Allegedly Selling Meth Over the Counter There’s another batch of Tenderloin corner stores in the city’s crosshairs for running illegal gambling dens, and some are also accused of selling meth and weed right over the counter.
SF News Republicans In Congress Investigating Point Reyes Deal Converting Dairy and Cattle Operations to Parks Marin County environmentalists won a big victory when cattle ranchers agreed to a multimillion-dollar deal to leave the Point Reyes National Seashore. Now the Trump administration might want to blow that deal up.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Said to Be Weighing 2028 Presidential Run Against Bid for California Governor The reason why former Vice President Kamala Harris hasn't jumped into the race for California governor yet is apparently that she is still of several minds about her future, and she sees a gubernatorial bid as a final choice against vying for the presidency again.
SF News John Varvatos Moves Back to Union Square; Could H&M Be Next? As retailers flee the dying, anchorless SF Centre mall, it looks like it could be Union Square's gain.
SF News Parts of Berkeley Might Ban All Plants Within Five Feet of Homes for Wildfire Prevention, Plant Lovers Furious Berkeley is poised to pass a law banning combustible materials being kept within five feet of homes in high wildfire-risk areas, which means people would have to rip out the plants right next to their houses, and many aren’t happy about it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Suspects Charged In Montclair Robbery and Shooting Two adults and a juvenile have been charged in connection with an April 2 armed robbery and shooting in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood; two San Jose women have been charged with pimping; and SF-born actor Eric Dane was diagnosed with ALS.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Google Gets Sued for Unlawfully Harvesting Data on Schoolchildren A grass fire is wreaking havoc in the Oakland Hills; this weekend’s Coachella festival will stream some of its biggest live acts for free; and Google is getting sued for using the tools they donated to schools to spy on and track the children.
SF News Someone in Sacramento Is Selling an Old Muni Bus for $8,000, Has 'Only 41,608 Miles' On It You could be rocking down the road in your very own Muni bus for the low price of $8,000, and the seats are ripped out so it can serve as some sort of vacation RV party ride, just be warned that it “might need new batteries or a jump start.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Original Food Truck Market, Off the Grid, Returns Next Week Off the Grid, which predates SF's latest night-market craze by fifteen years, is coming back to life at Fort Mason Center a week from Friday, on April 18, following a lengthy hiatus.
SF News Supervisor Sauter Has Had It With These Dirt Bike Gangs, Looks to Beef Up Enforcement Laws San Francisco’s street-riding dirt bike gangs have certainly gotten more brazen since the pandemic, and Supervisor Danny Sauter is fed up enough that he’s looking to change the rules around SFPD engagement and enforcement to break up the gangs.
