SF News CA Attorney General's Office Weighs In on Controversial No-Charge Decision In Banko Brown Shooting After being asked by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to review a decision by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins not to file charges in the April 2023 shooting of Banko Brown by a Walgreens security guard, the California Attorney General's Office has come back with a response, one year later.
Business & Tech Apple Announces Their Plunge Into Generative AI in WWDC Keynote Apple’s WWDC keynote showed the tech giant’s jump into AI is along the lines of a personal assistant with more privacy emphasis than its competitors, though many features are copycats of what Google and Facebook have already offered for years.
SF News San Francisco Writer David Talbot Suffers Second Debilitating Stroke Chronicler of San Francisco history as well as the history of liberal movements in the US, David Talbot, reportedly suffered a massive stroke last week — his second in seven years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NightJar, a Sister Pop-Up to Nightbird In Hayes Valley, Opens With Homage to House of Prime Rib NightJar, a new pop-up venue opening next door to Nightbird in Hayes Valley from chef Kim Alter and partner/GM Ron Boyd, is debuting this week and will spend its first three months serving a menu inspired by House of Prime Rib.
Bay Area Sports 83-Year-Old Golden Gate Fields Has Run Its Last Race, Closed Permanently on Sunday The Berkeley-Albany horse-racing track Golden Gate Fields, the last full-time horse-race track in Northern California, ran its last race ever on Sunday as the facility is now closed permanently. And no one has any idea what will happen next to those 140 acres.
SF News Driver Sought In Napa Valley Hit-and-Run That Left One Person Dead The driver of a minivan remains at large after fleeing the scene of a fatal crash on foot Saturday afternoon in the Napa Valley.
SF News Roving Sideshows In SF and Oakland Include Vehicle Set Ablaze on Embarcadero There were more sideshows Saturday night and into Sunday morning, and a caravan of dozens of cars apparently moved from Oakland to San Francisco, putting on a sideshow on the Embarcadero and another in the Mission District.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Kite Surfer Rescued After Spelling 'HELP' on Beach There was a solo car crash early Monday at the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza; a kite surfer got stranded on a remote beach and needed rescue in Santa Cruz; and an Oakland church was severely vandalized and left without electricity.
SF News Sunday Links: Suspect In Sacramento Mass Shooting Dies In Jail One of three suspects in the April 2022 mass shooting in downtown Sacramento died in jail; a car fire shut down part of the Bay Bridge Saturday night; and a fire in SF's Outer Sunset has displaced one family.
SF News Saturday Links: 19-Year-Old Killed In Dolores Park Was Lowell High Grad The 19-year-old man who was fatally shot Wednesday in Dolores Park has been identified; the Peninsula Humane Society has rescued two baby peregrine falcons in the span of a week; and the Japantown Mall has seen a major comeback thanks mostly to teens.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Juneteenth Parade Happening Saturday on Market Street Expect lots of downtown street closures and crowds Saturday for SF's second annual Juneteenth Parade; the ShakeAlert earthquake warning system gets some updates; and there was another clash at the Israeli Consulate in SF Friday.
Business & Tech Nvidia Stock Rally Made the Company More Valuable Than Apple This Week, But Government Antitrust Probe Looming Santa Clara-based chipmaker Nvidia briefly toppled Apple as the second most-valuable company in the US after a market rally on Wednesday, but the feds may have Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI in their sights for an antitrust investigation.
Arts & Entertainment Gender-Reversed 'Company' Recasts a Classic Sondheim Score Centered on Marriage The sexual politics of 2024 are a far cry from what they were in 1970, when Stephen Sondheim wrote 'Company,' arguably the first in a string of brilliant Broadway shows that together encompass the peak of his talents.
Arts & Entertainment Big Outdoor House Music Festival ‘All Day I Dream’ Returns to Golden Gate Park Saturday Golden Gate Park’s Hellman Hollow will become a combination of Ibiza and Burning Man on Saturday, as the house and techno festival All Day I Dream brings back its outdoor, daytime house music party with DJ Lee Burridge.
SF News Image Released of Person Who Might Be Linked to Racist Threats Against Alamo Square Dog-Walker The SFPD has released a surveillance image of a person of interest whom they are seeking for questioning in connection to the racist threats that were left at and mailed to the home of a dog-walker in Alamo Square.
SF Politics Breed and Supervisors Arguing Publicly After Committee Rejects Breed’s Police Commission Pick With two of Mayor Breed’s nominees for the Police Commission up for a vote, a Board of Supervisors committee rejected Breed’s pick Debra Walker, setting off Twitter spats between the mayor and Supervisor Ahsha Safai, but the full board will have the final say on this.
SF Politics Solano Land Trust Tells Voters to Vote 'No' on California Forever Ballot Measure The influential environmental group Solano Land Trust has registered its formal opposition to the California Forever proposal for building a new city in Solano County on some dry farmland east of Fairfield.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Ballers Have First Woman Pitcher to Start Game in League History, Which Results In Win Anything you can do, yadda yadda yadda… Oakland Ballers pitcher Kelsie Whitmore became the first woman to start a game in the history of the club’s minor-league Pioneer League, and the end result was a 9-8 victory.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Faces Lawsuit From Real-Life Woman Who Allegedly Inspired 'Baby Reindeer' Stalker The Scottish woman who publicly outed herself as the inspiration for Martha, the stalker character in Netflix's hit series Baby Reindeer, is now suing Netflix for damages, defamation, and for causing "severe and extreme emotional distress."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: NorCal Woman's Death Caused By Bear Mauling Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell's record on addressing homelessness is thin, though he's trying to use it as a campaign tentpole; that Trump fundraiser raised $12 million; and a 71-year-old woman was fatally mauled by a black bear in a small Sierra County town.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trumpers Descend on SF for Rally, Met by Inflatable Trump Chicken We now know where that Union Square Nintendo store is going to be; San Franciscans are suddenly smoking less weed than they have in years; and MAGA masses are in the Marina to cheer on Trump — but they’re met by a giant Trump Chicken in a prison jumpsuit.
SF News New State Legislation Targets Street Vendors Selling Stolen Goods, Permitted Vendors Are All For It The latest attempt at a crackdown on illegal street vending is a law that hopes to separate the legal, permitted vendors from the folks just selling stolen stuff, and the legal vendors on Mission Street say it’s a step in the right direction.
Arts & Entertainment Juanita MORE! Hosting Pride Month Fundraiser Friday at Saks Fifth Avenue, Has Now Raised $1 Million in Charitable Donations The fashion of Mr. David Couture and the fashion icon Juanita MORE! will hold a free fundraiser for LYRIC this Friday at SF’s Saks Fifth Avenue, as Juanita has now raised a staggering $1 million for local charities over the last 30 years.
SF News Standoff Between SWAT Team and Possibly Armed Suspect Ongoing In SF's Mission District A standoff has been going on for much of Thursday forcing the closure of a block of 24th Street in San Francisco's Mission District, and it involves a possibly armed suspect.
SF Politics Tonight’s SF Trump Fundraiser Shows the MAGA-fication of So-Called ‘Moderates’ Bay Area VC billionaires and podcast bros will roll out the red carpet for convicted felon Donald Trump Thursday night at a Pacific Heights fundraiser, a sign of the increasing commingling of political “moderates” with full-on Trumpers.
