Business & Tech Amazon Submits Their Plans for That Mission Bay Delivery Warehouse They Had to Put On Ice The SF Board of Supervisors put Amazon’s proposed Mission Bay “fulfillment center” in a two-year time-out, but that pause is now finished, and Amazon just unboxed their plans for the facility at Seventh and Berry streets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, The Slanted Door Is Returning to Its Original Spot on Valencia Street We called it back in May, and it has come to pass: Chef Charles Phan is bringing The Slanted Door full circle back to its original digs in the Mission District, five years after closing the restaurant at the Ferry Building.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: East Bay BART Station Briefly Shut Down Over Weapon A person brandishing a weapon caused a major disruption at West Dublin/Pleasanton Station; the Kremlin is trying to calm fears about Telegram; and an SF homeless advocate says latest encampment sweeps aren't helping.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Elton John Pulls Out of Dreamforce Concert A 26-year-old man has been charged with arson in connection with the early July Thompson Fire near Oroville; an arrest has been made in Friday's homicide in Dublin; and Elton John has backed out of performing in SF at Dreamforce.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Yanks Her Support From Commission Reform Measure, Alleging It’s Just a Slush Fund for Mark Farrell SF Mayor London Breed just un-endorsed the Prop D ballot measure to trim the number of commissions at City Hall, amidst continuing allegations that rival Mark Farrell is just using the Prop D contributions to finance his own mayor’s race.
Business & Tech Apple Gears Up to Unveil First Generative AI Phone, the iPhone 16, on September 9 — But AI-Powered Siri Likely a Year Off It's once again about time for Apple's annual, post-Labor Day product launch event, and this year it comes with a semi-big new product, with a lot of caveats.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Sets Date to Blow Up Tropicana Hotel So the Oakland A’s Can Build Their Ballpark There The now-defunct Tropicana Las Vegas resort and casino has been sentenced to death by implosion on October 9 so the carpetbagging Oakland A’s can try to build a stadium there, and the destruction will come complete with "a drone and fireworks show."
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Continues to Get More Queer, Wealthier, Majority Female The Burning Man Census for 2023 is now out, just as Burners are arriving on the playa for another late-August week of revelry in the Black Rock Desert. And many of the demographic trends seen in the 2022 census are continuing.
SF News Alameda County Firefighter Placed on Leave as Racist Confrontation Goes Viral on TikTok An unidentified Alameda County Fire Department officer has been placed on administrative leave after a TikTok video showed him confronting a driver and calling that driver a “dumbass Mexican” who was “going to work some f***ing lawn job.”
SF News Off-Duty Oakland Cops Seen Using Police Boat to Take Pleasure Cruise to Tiburon An off-duty Oakland police officer or two appeared to have taken an Oakland Police Department boat out for personal use on Saturday, along with their significant others and at least a couple of children, for a trip up to Tiburon.
SF News Dirt Bike Mayhem Swarmed Both Sides of the Bay Sunday; Oakland Store Robbed, Traffic Held Up In SF The motorbike gangs were particularly brazen on both sides of the Bay Sunday afternoon, halting traffic on the Bay Bridge, allegedly robbing a store in Oakland, and creating bedlam in the Castro, Mission District, and North Beach.
SF News Woman Dies on Playa on Day One of Burning Man 2024 There was a death reported Sunday in Black Rock City, on the first full day of this year's Burning Man festival, and so far the only detail released is that the victim was female.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Telegram CEO Arrested In France Oakland police are investigating the shooting of a driver who ultimately crashed their car Monday morning; a hardware store in SF's Parkside neighborhood was damaged in a fire; and Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France.
SF News Sunday Links: Kamala Downplaying Her Berkeley Ties on Campaign Trail A San Jose restaurant is selling super-cheap burgers; Kamala Harris is erasing Berkeley from her history; and an invasive tree-killing beetle has been spotted in the South Bay.
SF News Sideshow With Cars, Snake, and a Ring of Fire Leaves One Dead In Vallejo In Vallejo, one person is dead after a sideshow early Saturday morning that included lasers, drones, cars drifting around a ring of fire, and guns fired.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Is Reportedly Using an SUV the City Hasn't Paid For The City of Oakland has yet to make a single payment on the vehicle in the 16 months since acquiring it, according to reporting published earlier this week from The Oaklandside.
SF News Saturday Links: Burning Man Gates Closed For Early Arrivals Due to Storm The gates into Black Rock City were temporarily closed Saturday due to rain; Berkeley's new dorms were funded by a family with pro-Israel ties and that is causing controversy; and Sunnyvale has made yet another push to solve its housing crisis.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatal Domestic Shooting In East Bay Might Have Been Planned A San Leandro woman may be charged with homicide in the fatal shooting of her boyfriend; the California College of the Arts is facing a $20M deficit: and a man was caught on camera jumping onto a Waymo's hood and blowing kisses.
SF Politics New Trump PAC Ad Unloads on Kamala Harris Over 2008 Incident When She Was SF DA You won’t see this TV ad in California, but it’s all over the swing states, dredging up a 2008 incident where an undocumented immigrant whom Kamala Harris released on drug charges committed a purse-snatching that ended in the victim’s skull being fractured.
SF News After SF Supes Banned It Locally, Rent Price Software RealPage Gets Sued by US Justice Department Less than a month after the SF Board of Supervisors banned a rental price algorithm tool from being used here, the company called RealPage that makes that tool was just sued by the US Department of Justice for illegal price-fixing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Julius' Castle Rises From the Dead, Maybe Julius' Castle could finally be getting close to a reopening after 12 years of teases, sandwich spot Limoncello is expanding to Civic Center Plaza, and three new restaurants have been announced for vacant spaces in Stonestown Galleria.
SF News As Accused Killer Nima Momeni Heads to Trial Next Month, Lawyers Debate Witnesses We are just three weeks and change from one of the highest-profile murder trials in recent memory in San Francisco, that of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee.
SF Politics Trouble for Trumper Silicon Valley Billionaires: Project 2025 Is Actually Pretty Anti-Tech Even though some of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capitalists are jumping on the Trump train, the Project 2025 that would apparently guide a second Trump term says that tech companies "prey on children, like drug dealers."
SF Politics SF School Board President Resigns Ahead of Tense Season, Mayor Appoints Replacement SF Board of Education President Lainie Motamedi abruptly resigned from the board Friday morning, citing "health and personal circumstances," and Mayor London Breed is already swearing in her replacement.
SF News Alaska Airlines Pilot Who Nearly Downed Plane Goes on 'Good Morning America' as He Awaits Trial Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who attempted to shut off an SFO-bound plane's engines as he rode in the cockpit last fall, due to a bad and extended mushroom trip he was on, has given a new TV interview.
