SF News 19-Year-Old UC Berkeley Student Dies After Frat Party Drowning Incident A 19-year-old Cal student who was found unresponsive after a near-drowning Friday night at a fraternity house has died from his injuries, but police are saying they do not suspect foul play.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Video of Them Shooting A Dog and Its Owner in Union Square Melee After officers shot an aggressive dog and its owner on the afternoon of Sunday, November 9, the SFPD has released bodycam footage of what led up to the shooting, and how the suspect threw a plastic bottle at officers after they shot his dog.
SF Politics Marc Benioff, Elon Musk Attend White House Dinner With Murderous Saudi Crown Prince The billionaires were all back in their billionaire bubble alongside Trump Tuesday night, and even Elon Musk has been welcomed back into the fold after his teenage-style tiff with Trump.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Alleged Shooter Took a Class With John Beam Suspect Cedric Irving Jr. was enrolled in a class taught by John Beam in 2022; an SF-based judge could restore temporary protected status to immigrants from three countries; and Sutter is planning a huge new hospital campus in Santa Clara.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergey Brin’s Blimp Shows Up Over SF Skies Again Tuesday SF Sketchfest has released its 2025 lineup; Lurie’s “family zoning” plan is getting an easy run through committees; and Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s big, inflated airship had San Franciscans looking at the skies and scratching their heads again today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now the Fillmore Has Its Own Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone,’ Where To-Go Cocktails Are Good To Go As booze-filled “entertainment zones” where people can buy to-go cocktails spread across San Francisco, now the Fillmore has one too, or rather, it has one big entertainment zone and another small one.
Business & Tech Tesla Human Robotaxi Driver Falls Asleep at the Wheel While Driving Passenger, Video Goes Viral Tesla robotaxis currently have human drivers while the company gets its permissions worked out, but one SF Tesla robotaxi rider saw their human driver fall asleep at the wheel multiple times on their ride.
SF News SF Supervisors Approve Program for New Affordable Artist Housing on Mid-Market, Courtesy of Anonymous Donor The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a new affordable-housing program based in a new building on mid-Market Street that would be dedicated to housing artists and creative types who are largely being priced out of the city.
SF News Ocean Beach Safeway Could Close For a While to Build Apartments on Top, Could Castro Safeway Be Next? The same developer that wants to build out the Fillmore Safeway into apartments now has the same idea for the Ocean Beach Safeway on LaPlaya Street, though in this case, that Safeway would reopen once construction was finished.
Business & Tech Meta Wins Antitrust Battle, Does Not Have to Spin Off Instagram or WhatsApp A yearslong fight between the FTC and Meta has ended with Meta prevailing, and a federal judge declaring that the company likely does not hold a monopoly in the social media sphere anymore.
Arts & Entertainment Anh Phoong Now Selling Official T-Shirts and Hoodies, If You Absolutely Must Have One Want to be a walking billboard for Bay Area billboard celebrity Anh Phoong? Now you can, for anywhere between $25-$50, with a new line of official Anh Phoong t-shirts and hoodies.
Business & Tech Amazon-Owned Autonomous Taxi Company Zoox Begins Offering Public Rides Zoox, whose funny-looking, steering-wheel-free, four-seater robocars have been roving about San Francisco for a while now, is now launching its first program to give rides to the general public.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bissap Baobab Closing Yet Again, But Vows to Find a New Space In what seems like the umpteenth closing of a Bissap Baobab restaurant and nightclub location, owner Marco Senghor says he’s leaving his 18th and Mission Street spot, but promises to reopen a new location elsewhere.
SF News Two Injured In High-Speed Crash on Lombard Street In the Marina A three-car crash at Broderick and Lombard streets Tuesday morning left a pickup truck partially lodged in the side of the La Luna motel and two people hospitalized.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Navy Apologizes For Delay In Shipyard Radiation Disclosure The House is voting to release the Epstein files; the Navy apologized at a community meeting about "mishandling" the situation in Hunters Point; and Waymo does appear to be assisting with the Saturday night shooting investigation in the Mission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Historic Earthquake Refugee Cottage Destroyed In Noe Valley The SF coroner succeeded in ID-ing an unidentified man found dead in SoMa; a developer has illegally destroyed a historic earthquake shack in Noe Valley, neighbors say; and the Trump administration is suing CA over the no-mask rule for ICE.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New British Gastropub, Dingles Public House, Opens Next Week In Hayes Valley At least a couple more new restaurants are expected to sneak open before the year is out, and one of those will be Dingles Public House, in the Civic Center-adjacent space in the ground floor of the Inn at the Opera.
Business & Tech Travis Kalanick’s Cloudkitchens Closes Its East Oakland Ghost Kitchen Complex, Looking to Sell the Place Maybe ghost kitchens aren’t scaring up as much business these days, as Uber founder Travis Kalanick just shut down a ghost kitchen that his new megabucks startup Cloudkitchens opened there five years ago.
Arts & Entertainment Those Puppies and Kittens Return to the Macy’s Union Square Windows for the Holiday Season This Friday The woof is on fire, as Santa’s little yelpers return to the Union Square SF Macy’s windows this Friday at noon, and this year the adorable, adoptable little critters will be available at “Name Your Price" rates.
SF News Alleged Shooter of Laney College Football Coach Reportedly Claimed Coach Used Witchcraft on Him It appears there are some mental health issues with the 27-year-old man accused of shooting and killing Laney College coach John Beam, as he reportedly told investigators that he shot Beam because he thought Beam was performing witchcraft on him.
SF News East Bay Pilot Who Nearly Brought Down Alaska Flight Sentenced to Time Served In Federal Case Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who had a bad and extra-long trip thanks to some magic mushrooms and consequently did something very dangerous while on the jumpseat inside a cockpit, has successfully avoided further jail time.
SF News What We Know About the Fatal Mission District Shooting Early Sunday A shooting on 16th Street in SF's Mission District Saturday night/early Sunday left one person dead and another critically wounded, and the crime may have been caught on camera by a passing Waymo.
SF News Body of Seven-Year-Old Girl Recovered After Friday Big Sur Drowning Incident That Also Killed Her Father A 39-year-old father and his seven-year-old daughter both drowned when hit by 15-20-foot waves swimming Friday near Big Sur, and after a hunt of nearly 48 hours, the young girl’s body was recovered Sunday afternoon.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Demolish Cardinals 41-22 In Brock Purdy’s Glorious Return Your San Francisco 49ers turned back into an offensive juggernaut and scored five touchdowns in Brock Purdy’s return at quarterback Sunday, but boy do these Niners seem to struggle with extra point attempts.
SF News [Updated] Traffic Backs Up Into SF Following Two Crashes, One on Bay Bridge Approach A pair of freeway crashes Monday morning in SF, both on roadways headed in the direction of the Bay Bridge, led to injuries, a significant fuel spill, and a traffic nightmare for those trying to drive to the East Bay.
