SF Politics Elon Musk Furious That His Fresh-Out-of-College DOGE Employees Have Been Named By the Press As new reporting reveals that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is being staffed by recent college grads, who now have access to our personal data and taxpayer dollars, Musk is on a warpath that their names have been made public.
SF News Ayesha Curry Closing Her Home Goods Store Sweet July In Oakland, Citing Safety Concerns After a four-year run in Uptown Oakland, Ayesha Curry’s kitchen furnishings shop and cafe Sweet July is closing down permanently Sunday, with ownership citing “the safety of our patrons and staff” as the reason.
SF News Shots Fired Near 16th and Mission Minutes After Mayor's Press Event With Wiener Exemplifying the general and ongoing sketchiness of the area around the 16th and Mission BART Station, there was a shooting Monday minutes after and less than a block away from a press conference with Mayor Daniel Lurie and state Senator Scott Wiener.
SF News Remains of Bay Area WWII Veteran Returned Home — 80 Years After His Death 80 years after his death when he was killed on a flight mission in World War II, the body of Sebastopol native and US Army Sergeant Yuen Hop was finally returned home Friday night, after his remains were recently identified at a German cemetery.
SF News 22-Story, Mostly Affordable Tower Nears Final Approvals In Lower Nob Hill A 303-unit residential project split into two adjoining buildings has used creative financing and obscure state programs to overcome some funding hurdles, and is on its way to starting construction in SF's Lower Nob Hill.
SF News Tahoe Braces For Major Snow, Bay Area Under Flood Watch as Atmospheric River Storms Continue This past weekend's rains are going to extend through most of this first week of February as an inbound atmospheric river keeps the rain coming to the Bay Area, and promises some major snow in the Sierra.
SF News Scott Wiener Teams Up With Mayor Lurie on Proposed New Illegal Street Vending Law The latest effort to tamp down the illegal vending scene in SF is a state-level bill from state Senator Scott Wiener, though it only applies to San Francisco, and Wiener has lined up Mayor Lurie and several SF supervisors to support it.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: One Dead In Oakland Warehouse Fire One person died in a two-alarm warehouse fire in East Oakland; a San Francisco woman accidentally shot herself near Mint Hill; and Elon Musk appears poised to shut down USAID.
Politics 'A Day Without Immigrants' Rallies To Take Place Monday Bay Area activists are organizing protests and “A Day Without Immigrants” on Monday in response to the president’s recent crackdowns and aggressive deportation policies.
Arts & Entertainment The Rousseau Family: Prolific Beaux Arts-Era San Francisco Architects The Rousseaus were a high society family of Beaux Arts-era architects who built hundreds of buildings during the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. They also had their fair share of scandals.
SF News New Resort Tours Enable Big Spenders To Bypass Yosemite's 'Firefall' Reservation Limits In Spite Of Environmental Impact Despite the National Park Service’s efforts to mitigate environmental damage to Yosemite by limiting the number of spectators at the park’s "Firefall" site, visitors can now circumvent the rules by purchasing a $110 shuttle tour from nearby resorts.
SF News Sunday Links: Small Plane Drifts Off Runway At Palo Alto Airport, No One Injured Apple Watch settles class action lawsuit over bloated batteries; an explosion at Martinez Refinery resulted in a shelter in place; and Musk adds additional big-name defendants to his existing lawsuit claiming the brands conspired to divest from advertising on X.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vietnamese Fave Turtle Tower Expected To Re-Open Mid-February Vietnamese staple Turtle Tower anticipates re-opening in mid-February at an iconic Financial District location. Devotees can expect some new menu items in addition to old standbys along with an elevated ambiance.
Arts & Entertainment “Roller-Skating Engineer's” Public Bench Project Spawns 210 Inner Sunset Benches To Date Local “roller-skating engineer” Chris Duderstadt has made it his mission to outfit his Inner Sunset neighborhood with as many community benches as possible.
Arts & Entertainment Historic Oakland Music Landmark Vandalized, GoFundMe Campaign Launched Thieves recently stole 40 plaques from Oakland’s Walk of Fame, erasing tributes to music legends like B.B. King and Aretha Franklin. A GoFundMe aims to raise $150K to replace them and restore the landmark.
SF News Saturday Links: Two Oakland Gyms Ditch CrossFit Over Its New Gender Policy Business owners in potential flood zones attempt to prevent flooding on their own; Musk's aides have locked federal workers out of data systems; California Historical Society shutters downtown S.F. location.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lawrence Livermore Lab Partners With OpenAI Muni subway experiences mid-morning technical issues and delays; S.F. man charged with hate crime and assault over Tenderloin garage incident; and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory tests OpenAI's AI models in hopes of streamlining its fusion research.
Arts & Entertainment Don’t Fall for That Facebook Post Claiming the Bay Lights are Coming Back on March 7, Because They’re Not A locally viral Facebook post this week declares that the Bay Bridge’s beloved Bay Lights display is coming back on March 7. But the Bay Lights organizers tell us this is completely false, saying “It ain't happening March 7."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Mediterranean In the Mission Anatolian Table arrives in the Mission, Berliner Berliner bids adieu, and The Farmacy takes shape on South Park, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7 Mile House Celebrates Its 167th Anniversary This Sunday, With $1.67 Jack Daniels Shots Sunday marks the 167th anniversary of the 7 Mile House bar and restaurant, and they’ll be marking the occasion with $1.67 whiskey shots, free adobo, and a historical presentation of 7 Mile House’s (often criminal) 167-year history.
SF News Possible Cult Leader 'Ziz,' Who Faked Her Own Death and Was Questioned In Pennsylvania Double Murder, Still at Large It feels like there are still shoes to drop in the strange case of the Zizians, whose troubling beliefs and alleged pattern of extreme violence came to light in just the last several days.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Claims Tesla Will Have Self-Driving Robotaxis This Year, Which He Has Claimed in Five Previous Years This is at least the fifth time that Elon Musk has declared he’d have self-driving cars this year, though if it ends up being true, at least they would start rolling in Texas and not San Francisco.
SF News AJ Gonzalez Describes Killing His 8-Year-Old Neighbor, Going Out For Chipotle After The 25-year-old man who, at age 15, brutally strangled, stabbed, and sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl who was his neighbor, just took the stand for the first time in a trial to determine if he will stay behind bars.
SF News Oakland Police Arrest More Youngsters for Fatal Shooting After They Stole a Scooter When three deplorable teens stole a scooter the day after Christmas, a father confronted them, and they shot and killed him. Now Oakland Police have arrested an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old for their involvement.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: The Rain Returns A storm that was supposed to stay more in the North Bay will now bring significant rainfall to SF; UC Berkeley students protest Trump's immigration policy; and Oakland's Waterfront Hotel is closing after 35 years.
