SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Person Stabbed as Final A's Game Let Out One person was stabbed and injured as the last ever A's game let out at the Oakland Coliseum; at least 40 people are dead in the wake of Hurricane Helene coming to shore; and the great Dame Maggie Smith is dead at age 89.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fair Amount of Fan Mayhem at A’s Last Ever Game in Oakland A battery fire in a garage briefly shut down Cesar Chavez Street Thursday; Gavin Newsom vetoed a reparations bill; and there were a few incidents of fan rowdiness as the Oakland A’s won their last-ever game in Oakland.
Business & Tech Meta Actually Paying Celebrities Like Judi Dench and Awkwafina to Use Their Voices For Its AI Tool Unlike OpenAI, which just went and hired an actress who sounded like Scarlett Johansson after ScarJo declined to voice an AI model for them, Meta appears to be actually paying some big-name celebrities to lend their voices for its new AI voice tool.
Arts & Entertainment City to Buy Barry's Building In the Castro, Will Make It the GLBT Historical Society Museum What was once the popular Tower Records building at Market and Noe streets has just been bought by the city, and its upper floor will be home to the museum and archive for the GLBT Historical Society.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Mistakenly Print Up “A’ss” Hat, Quickly Remove It, Now It’s Selling for $5,000 on eBay I’ve heard the term “asshat,” but this is ridiculous. Major League Baseball printed up Oakland A’s hats that appear to say “A’ss,” and while they immediately yanked them, some fans still managed to buy one, so now they’re on eBay for $5,000.
Business & Tech Xitter Releases First Transparency Report Since 2021, Shows Far Fewer Actions With Regard to Hate Speech Because the EU requires companies to produce such reports, Elon Musk's X has sucked it up and produced a transparency report — the first since Musk took over the company formerly known as Twitter in 2022.
SF News Breed Proposes Yet Another Incentive to Convert Offices to Housing, as No One’s Been Jumping on Previous Incentives Mayor Breed is pushing a new proposal to eliminate an estimated $70,000 and $90,000 per unit in costs to convert downtown office space to housing, as developers aren’t really biting on previous conversion incentives.
SF News SF District Attorney Announces Arrest of Another Alleged 'Prolific' Retail Thief The San Francisco District Attorney — and Mayor London Breed — are eager for residents to know that something is being done about rampant retail theft in the city. And another arrest of an allegedly prolific retail burglary suspect was just announced.
Business & Tech Some Upheaval at OpenAI as Company Announces Plan to Become a For-Profit Enterprise OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made some public comments at a conference in Italy on Thursday indicating that the company intends to restructure and let go of its nonprofit structure, but he said the departures of several key executives a day earlier were unrelated.
SF News Waymo Gets Tagged With Rider (and Little Dog) Still Inside in Mission District The latest SF anti-self-driving car shenanigans were captured on a now-viral video where a team of taggers gangs up on a Waymo and tags the bejesus out of the vehicle, while a passenger and a little dog are stuck nervously inside.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Scores of A's Fans Tailgate Before Final Coliseum Game Over 1,000 A's fans were already in the Coliseum parking lot before 8 am today ahead of their final home game; two Vallejo firefighters were injured during a rescue; and BART ridership hit a new post-pandemic record on Tuesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Video of Nima Momeni Pantomiming Stabbing Will Be Shown to Jurors A video of Nima Momeni that defense attorneys say should be protected by attorney-client privilege is admissible, a judge says; the stray cats of Golden Gate Fields need homes; and Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk.
SF News Amazon Semi Truck Seems to Join In on NorCal Sideshow This seems like a first — an Amazon semi truck appears to have joined in on a recent sideshow in Sacramento, as several revelers jumped on the truck for the ride.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Oldest Continually Operating Business, Boudin Bakery, Turns 175 It may not be the first place San Franciscans think about going for their fresh bread these days, but Boudin Bakery is one of the remaining vestiges of San Francisco's "49er" days in the early Gold Rush.
Bay Area Sports A’s Fans Tried to Steal Seats From Coliseum Tuesday Night, But Did Not Successfully Steal the Seats In the third-to-last ever Oakland A’s home game Tuesday night, a couple fans ripped their seats out of the Oakland Coliseum. But they reportedly did not manage to leave the Coliseum with those seats, and could face charges.
SF News SFPD’s Non-Lethal ‘Lasso’ Tool Failed Three Times In Lead-Up to Union Square Police Shooting Just-released bodycam video shows that a September 13 Powell Street BART station police shooting was preceded by three attempts to use a sort of “lasso gun” called a BolaWrap, but that tool failed to subdue the suspect three times.
SF News Pleasanton Police Investigating Following Death of Dog on Sweltering Apartment Balcony A possible case of animal cruelty is being investigated in Pleasanton after a video went viral on social media of a dog barking and whining while trapped on an apartment balcony in 100-degree heat.
Business & Tech What's Up With Mark Zuckerberg Talking to Trump on the Phone Twice This Summer? The New York Times and Mark Zuckerberg would like us to think that Zuckerberg is "done with politics." But is he, though?
SF Politics AG Rob Bonta Finds Himself Possibly Dragged Into Whatever the Sheng Thao Raid Is All About New reporting on one possible suspect in the Sheng Thao FBI raid shows that state Attorney General Rob Bonta once steered $680,000 in state money to a failed energy startup run by that particular suspect who had an extremely checkered past.
SF News Hayes Valley's PROXY Likely to Stick Around for Years as Affordable Housing Development Remains Stalled What was intended to be a temporary community benefit on a site slated for affordable housing development within a few years, Hayes Valley's PROXY, shows no signs of going away anytime soon, despite some activists pushing for the housing to be built.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley Police Searching For Missing 12-Year-Old Girl A man hijacked a city bus in LA this morning and a passenger was killed; police in Berkeley are searching for a missing 12-year-old girl; and concession workers at the Oakland Coliseum face an uncertain future.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Releases Full Schedule for Next Weekend’s Festival Caltrain’s first day of all-electric train service was marred by electrical problems; there’s more prison high-jinks for the FTX crypto kids; and we now have the full three-day schedule for next weekend’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
SF News SF Supervisors Streamline Permit Rules to Create More Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ Parties The recent tick-up of more alcohol-permitted “entertainment zone” parties may turn into a flood of more such parties, as the SF supervisors just approved legislation to create a whole lot more of these parties downtown, and in SoMa and Union Square.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Neighborhood Wants In on Night Market Game, Will Host One On 18th Street Next Month A first-ever Castro Night Market will be happening on Friday, October 18, following the success of recent neighborhood night markets in Chinatown and the Sunset.
SF News SFMTA Unveils New Valencia Bike Lane Design That’s No Longer in Center of Street, ‘Swerves’ Around Parklets The center-running Valencia Street bike lane experiment is done for, and the bike lanes will move back to the curb side. The SF Municipal Transit Agency just released diagrams of what the redesigned bike lanes might look like.
