Arts & Entertainment Sup. Engardio Touts New SF July 4 Parade, Which Would Not Be on July 4, But Instead on Pride Weekend District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio is announcing plans to bring a Fourth of July parade to SF this year. Predictably, it’s in his district, but unpredictably, it’s five days before July 4, and overlapping with Pride Weekend.
Business & Tech Google Scales Back 'AI Overviews,' Admits the AI Has Been Getting Things Wrong Despite what they said was extensive testing before launch, Google is admitting that its "AI Overview" system has been prone to spreading untruths, and some very weird untruths at that.
SF News SFPD Has ‘Possible Suspect’ In Case of Dog Walker Whose Home Burned After Racist Threats Police say they’ve executed two search warrants and have a “possible suspect” in connection to an Alamo Square dog walker who’d received racist threats prior to his house burning, though it’s unclear whether these leads are concerning the threats, the house fire, or both.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chobani Yogurt Founder Buys Anchor Brewing, Plans to Reopen Brewery Soon The billionaire founder of the Chobani yogurt brand, Hamdi Ulukaya, has stepped in to save and revive Anchor Brewing Co., and he even has plans to rehire its employees.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Arrests Made at UC Santa Cruz Protest Blockade Police reportedly arrested "many" of the pro-Palestinian protesters at UC Santa Cruz this morning; a driver was killed on Hwy 101 in Palo Alto this morning after their car became disabled and was struck by other cars; and Paul Pelosi is expected to take the stand today in the David DePape trial.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Clear Lake Algae Bloom So Large It Can Be Seen From Outer Space Both SF Four Seasons hotels are now on the market; a politically conservative Sonoma County real estate firm is facing a federal fraud investigation; and a Clear Lake algae bloom can now be seen from outer space.
SF News SFPD Will Place Its New Surveillance Cameras at 24th and Mission, 19th and Mission Streets After SF voters allowed cops to put more surveillance cameras all over the streets of San Francisco, the SFPD has decided where they will place the first two of them: 24th and Mission streets, and 19th and Mission streets.
Arts & Entertainment American Finance Is the Stuff of Epic Drama In 'The Lehman Trilogy' at ACT American corporate history doesn't often inspire poetry, let alone theater. But such is the feat of the epic historical play 'The Lehman Trilogy,' a London import now making its West Coast premiere at ACT, directed by Oscar- and Tony-winner Sam Mendes.
SF News Record Pier 39 Sea Lion Population Explodes Even Further, Now There’s More Than 2,000 of Them A sea of sea lions at San Francisco's Pier 39 has gotten even larger, and there is now an all-time record of more than 2,000 sea lions at the pier, smashing a 30-year-old record.
SF Politics Trump Convicted, Xitter Goes Wild You may have heard by now that, in the last hour, an American president was for the first time convicted of a felony in criminal court. 34 felonies, actually.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Suspected of Slow-Walking Police Commission Appointments, Causing Meeting Cancellations The SF Police Commission is supposed to meet three times a month, but they’ve canceled five of their last eight meetings, and there is speculation that Mayor London Breed is engineering absences so the commission can’t meet regularly.
Arts & Entertainment Crowd of 25,000 Expected In Civic Center Plaza for Fred Again/Skrillex Show Saturday Will it be easy to hang around nearby and listen to the electronic music show Saturday in Civic Center Plaza even if you didn't get a ticket? Maybe! But promoter Another Planet says their equipment will be able to focus the sound pretty well so as not to disturb too may neighbors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lunette, the New Cambodian Spot From Nyum Bai Chef Nite Yun, Opens This Weekend at the Ferry Building The much anticipated new Cambodian noodle shop from the chef at the wildly popular Nyum Bai in Oakland is finally arriving this weekend at SF's Ferry Building.
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SF News Fire Consumes Castro Valley’s Lake Chabot Public Market, Seven Small Businesses Likely Destroyed A three-alarm fire around 2:30 am Thursday morning engulfed Lake Chabot Public Market in Castro Valley, and the seven businesses that called the food hall home have apparently lost everything.
SF News Heat Dome May Bring Us Another Heatwave Next Week, With Triple-Digits Possible In Some Spots Weather forecasters seem to agree that by Wednesday of next week, it should be feeling very warm throughout California. But a heat dome taking shape over the western half of the US will either bring us a major heatwave, or just a mild warming trend in the Bay Area.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Arrests Seven In CVS Robbery San Francisco police arrested seven people Wednesday for an alleged group heist at a CVS in Ingleside; a Bay Area doctor returns home from Rafah; and the Supreme Court sides with the NRA in a First Amendment case.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Affordable Project Breaks Ground on Former Bus Depot Site There was a groundbreaking ceremony for a new affordable project in SoMa; the SFMTA got a federal accessibility grant; and of course Samuel Alito won't recuse himself from the January 6th/Trump cases.
Bay Area Sports Surging Giants Now in Thick of Wild Card Race, Nearly Come to Blows as Benches Clear Against Phillies We almost got a good brawl in Wednesday’s Giants game against the Philadelphia Phillies, but more importantly, the slow-starting Giants have now won 10 of their last 13 and are right in the Wild Card hunt.
SF News More Details Emerge on Last Week’s Graduation Shooting In Oakland, Four Suspects Taken Into Custody There are now four suspects who’ve been taken into custody in connection with the shooting that followed graduation ceremonies at Oakland's Skyline High School, and their getaway car may have been a stolen Maserati.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Barebottle Is Throwing a Beer Festival You Can Bring Your Kids To Barebottle Brewing Co., whose Bernal Heights taproom is well known as a family-friendly hangout, is capitalizing on their reputation and hosting a first-of-its-kind family-friendly beer festival this summer in Salesforce Park.
SF News Pro-Palestine Protesters Block Entrances to UC Santa Cruz, Classes Moved Online Both entrances to UC Santa Cruz were blocked Tuesday, and classes moved online, as that school becomes the latest UC campus flummoxed by the disruptions of pro-Palestine protesters.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Long-Awaited Marina Outpost of Original Joe's Opens Thursday A new location of Little Original Joe's, this one with seating and a full bar, is set to open Thursday at the corner of Chestnut and Scott streets in the Marina.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day-By-Day Lineups Revealed, Single-Day Tickets On Sale Thursday Saturday is looking like the best day of the Outside Lands festival this year, as Another Planet Entertainment has just unveiled the single-day lineups for August 9 to 11.
SF News SF Sheriff's Department Training Exercise That Sickened San Bruno Schoolkids Used Old, Possibly Toxic Munitions There seems to be more to the story of some noxious tear gas that leaked out of a building where an SF Sheriff's Department training exercise was going on last week in San Bruno.
