SF News Saturday Links: SF Federal Building to Be Named After Nancy Pelosi The SoMA federal building is getting renamed; An "Oakdale Ninja" has been convicted of murder via samurai sword; and Steve Jobs's widow recently hosted a philanthropic event downtown.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Black Friday Quiet This Year Black Friday is quiet this year in SF; A San Jose animal shelter is facing backlash for inhospitable conditions; and a man died today from being run over by an Amtrak train in Berkeley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Post Thanksgiving Edition A new Palestinian restaurant is coming soon to Noe Valley, Thomas Keller is closing his Yountville Mexican spot after this weekend, and downtown Oakland has a new cocktail bar — with pickles! — all in This Week In Food.
SF News Two People Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide In Sonoma County A Sonoma County sheriff's deputy made a gruesome discovery Wednesday when performing a welfare check at a home east of Santa Rosa.
SF News Post-Thanksgiving Constitutional: Amazon Workers Set to Strike One person was killed in a crash on 280 in Daly City Thursday night; the three people killed in the Cybertruck crash in Piedmont have been identified; and an SF family received help from the fire department after their oven caught on fire during their Thanksgiving prep.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrest Made In Shooting of Pregnant Woman A person required rescue after falling into the Bay from Pier 45; a 30-year-old man has been booked on attempted murder charges in connection with the Bayview shooting of a pregnant woman; and Mayor London Breed has named a new SFO director.
Arts & Entertainment Annual Alcatraz ‘Unthanksgiving’ Sunrise Ceremony Is On for Thursday Morning, Will be Streaming Online SF’s most untraditional Thanksgiving tradition continues early Thursday morning, as the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island returns, and will be streamed online.
Arts & Entertainment Ha! AI Image-Generators Love to Stick the Golden Gate Bridge Just Any Old Place The Chronicle has a funny look today at the variously, hilariously wrong images of San Francisco that are being spit out of AI image generators like OpenAI's DALL-E and xAI's Grok.
Arts & Entertainment Expect Magic, Music, and Puppetry In ACT's World Premiere 'A Whynot Christmas Carol' In setting out to do a new spin on the Dickens classic, American Conservatory Theater Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon enlisted playwright and friend Craig Lucas to write a new metaplay about a small-town putting on a production of 'A Christmas Carol.'
Arts & Entertainment No ‘Nutcracker’ This Year? SF Ballet Labor Dispute Threatens Beloved Annual Show San Francisco Ballet dancers say they're paid at levels below SF's low-income threshold, and they’re threatening to go on strike on the opening day of their popular annual production ‘The Nutcracker.’
SF News SF Man to Be Sentenced In Brutal Domestic Violence Case Where He Hung Wife’s French Bulldog A 36-year-old San Francisco man not only beat his estranged wife for five hours, but also hung her French bulldog from a stairway banister, and today he’ll be sentenced to as many as ten years in prison.
SF Politics Trump Names Anti-Lockdown Stanford Doctor to Lead NIH The ridiculous clown car that is the second Trump administration just gained another clown.
SF News Three Dead, One Injured In Early Morning Fiery Cybertruck Crash In Piedmont A Tesla Cybertruck jumped a curb, hit a cement wall, and burst into flames just after 3 am Wednesday morning in Piedmont, and three of the four occupants in the car died at the scene.
SF News Thanksgiving Eve Headlines: Pedestrians Killed On I-5, I-680 Pedestrians were killed this morning in separate collisions on I-680 and I-5; a man was just convicted in a March 2022 murder outside a San Leandro bar; and PG&E is requesting yet another rate hike.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giant Holiday Wine Barrel Tree Lighting Up in St. Helena Wednesday Former Rep. Katie Porter has filed for a restraining order against an ex-boyfriend; the long-vacant Lombardi Sports building in Russian Hill finally has a tenant; and the lighting of a 36-foot-tall wine barrel tree kicks off the holiday season Wednesday night in St. Helena.
SF News Woman Who’s Been Serially Menacing Children in SF Parks Has Been Charged and Detained 37-year-old Kim Andrews is well-known to parents and nannies as someone who frequently makes violent threats toward small children, but her four-year run of terrorizing kids may be over, as she’s been arrested and may be detained indefinitely.
SF News Suspected DUI Driver Kills Two, Injures Three Others In Ingleside Crash A tragic Monday morning car crash took the lives of two women while injuring three other people in the Ingleside District, and SFPD is charging a 21-year-old Santa Rosa man with driving under the influence.
SF News Brrr! Cold Snap to Take Hold Across the Bay Through the Weekend Following the rains, expect some frigid winter cold to set in, with the season's first frost advisory happening Wednesday night into Thanksgiving morning.
SF News Injury Crash on Southbound 101 In San Francisco Snarls Airport-Bound Traffic Anyone trying to run to SFO Tuesday afternoon for the Thanksgiving holiday could encounter a snag unless they avoid the 101 freeway until they're further south.
SF News SF’s ‘Bus the Homeless Out of Town’ Strategy Now Catching On With Other California Cities A few other California cities are duplicating San Francisco’s tactic to merely hand the homeless a one-way bus ticket out of town, not because it's proven to be a particularly effective strategy, but more because it's just cheap and easy.
SF News Berkeley-Born Animal Rights Extremist Captured For Bay Area Bombings Two Decades Ago A radical animal-rights activist who was linked to three Bay Area bombings in 2003 has recently been captured after two decades on the run, in the United Kingdom.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whiskey Lovers Line Up For Rare Finds at New Pleasanton Costco In case you weren't aware (I wasn't), grand openings at Costco are treasure hunts for a certain band of whiskey lovers and wine aficionados, with certain labels getting stocked just for opening events.
SF Politics FBI Probe That Brought Raid of Sheng Thao’s Home Has Witnesses Giving Closed-Door Testimony The FBI appears to be making progress in whatever investigation resulted in the June raid of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, as witnesses are being subpoenaed, but we still don’t know why the raid happened or who the FBI’s suspects are.
SF News Man Shot and Critically Wounded In SF's Bret Harte Neighborhood A male victim was found shot and critically wounded Monday night in San Francisco's Bret Harte neighborhood.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Mateo County Sheriff Speaks Out ABC 7 gave a very friendly interview to embattled San Mateo Co. Sheriff Christina Corpus; Urban Alchemy was hit with some hateful graffiti; and Kamala Harris was passing through SF last night.
