Bay Area Sports Giants Set to Use Facial Recognition on Fans, Privacy Advocates Say It’s a Slap in the Face Like it or not, facial recognition cameras are coming to gates at Oracle Park, in what Major League Baseball calls “hands-free” ticketing, but others call a “nuclear bomb of privacy.”
Arts & Entertainment Performers at Immersive Theater Piece 'The Speakeasy' Allege Harassment and Other Problems as Show Remounts The Speakeasy, an immersive theater piece set in the 1920s that ran for 425 performances pre-pandemic in a subterranean space in North Beach called The Palace Theater, is reopening tonight. And as it does, former cast members are raising alarms.
SF News Plan to ‘Lift’ the Ferry Building by Seven Feet Raises Alarm of Ferry Building Operator SF is embarking on a plan to “lift” the Embarcadero by as much as seven feet to address rising sea levels, but the Ferry Building’s operator is not taking kindly to the notion that the building could be shut down for years.
SF News Wealthy Peninsula Town Could Get Denser Housing Forced Upon It As State Revokes Its Housing Element The state may be making an example of Portola Valley, which has failed to complete the rezoning necessary to get its Housing Element certified, and now the "builder's remedy" could go into effect.
Business & Tech Uber Eats Already Outsourcing Delivery to Robots Via Partnership With Waymo Uber once had grand plans to operate its own driverless taxis, but now it's playing nice and partnering with Waymo to have food delivered without humans involved in Phoenix.
SF News New Trees Installed in Civic Center Mark Grand Plan to ‘Reintroduce Vegetation on a Grand Scale’ to Plaza A tiny start to a very ambitious project got underway when Rec and Parks installed a few new sycamore trees in Civic Center Plaza, though this lofty landscape design has been stalled for years.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Are Officially Moving to Sacramento for the Next Three Seasons This will in fact be the final season that the Oakland A’s play in Oakland, as the team officially announced Thursday morning that they’re moving to Sacramento to play in a rinky-dink minor-league ballpark while their Las Vegas stadium gets built.
Business & Tech One SF Engineer Might Have Just Saved the World From a Massive Cyberattack A 38-year-old software engineer for Microsoft was apparently curious, eagle-eyed, and lucky enough to have discovered a pernicious bit of code in the widely used Linux operating system, that someone, somewhere, had gone to some lengths to hide.
SF Politics Aaron Peskin Makes Mayoral Campaign Unofficial-Official; Breed Camp Already On the Attack SF Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who we've known is running for mayor for over a month now, is finally ready to make his official announcement, but first he leaked it to several news outlets again.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Three Wounded In Shootings Overnight In Oakland Three people were wounded in two separate shootings in East Oakland; automated speed cameras are coming sooner than we thought to SF; and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan asks "what happened" to Tosca Cafe.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Crashes Into Valencia Street Taqueria A car crashed into El Buen Sabor taqueria at 18th and Valencia today, but no one was hurt; residents of The Paramount have been waiting for compensation for a 10-day power and water outage in February; and there's already at taker for The North Face store in Union Square.
SF News Newsom’s Highly Touted CARE Court Has Seen Only 22 Referrals In SF In Its First Six Months Gavin Newsom ordered SF to start compelling severely mentally ill people into CARE Court back on October 1. But now six months into the program, it’s only served 22 people.
Arts & Entertainment Richmond Woman on Verge of Holding World Record for Longest Scarf Ever Crocheted An East Bay woman has crocheted what appears to be the world's longest scarf at 982 feet long, and that scarf’s measurements are currently under review to grant her the Guinness World Record.
SF Politics The Race for Second for South Bay Congressional Seat Has Ended In a Tie? Crazily, only one vote separated congressional candidates Evan Low and Joe Simitian as the final votes were counted earlier this week, and one vote was added to Simitian's tally, resulting in a dead-even tie.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New High-End Japanese Spot Headed for Former Trou Normand Space In Downtown SF A new, likely high-end Japanese restaurant is in the planning stages at 140 New Montgomery, in the ground-floor space formerly home to Trou Normande in the building that was formerly home to Yelp's headquarters.
Bay Area Sports El Farolito’s Amateur Soccer Team Beats Yet Another Pro Team, Continuing Stunning Tournament Run No beans about it, the amateur soccer team affiliated with the taqueria El Farolito is now the best Cinderella story in soccer, as they beat their second consecutive professional team in the US Open Cup tournament Tuesday night.
SF News Antioch Mayor Says Police Got Drone Footage of This Weekend’s Sideshows, Vows Arrests and Impoundings A rash of East Bay sideshows this weekend involved one in Oakland with a hit-and-run, but the mayor of Antioch claims he sicced drones on one of the sideshows, and he’ll bring the daredevil drivers to justice.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisch & Flore to Softly Open Tonight In the Castro, In the 51-Year-Old Cafe Flore Space After four years of being closed and variously boarded over, the former Cafe Flore space at Market and Noe streets comes alive again tonight as Fisch & Flore.
SF News No Ins and Outs at Big Sur as More Rain Threatens to Cause More Road Damage Residents of Big Sur are being told that their last chance to evacuate the area for the next several days is at 4 pm Wednesday, after which there will be no more convoys of vehicles allowed to pass across a partially collapsed section of Highway 1.
SF News SF Skier Rescued After Outdoor Overnight Ordeal In Lake Tahoe Wilderness A 34-year-old San Francisco man got a little off course at Lake Tahoe’s Kirkwood ski resort and ended up spending a night in the wilderness, but was eventually rescued by a cavalcade of search personnel and a CHP helicopter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's The Morris and Pacific Cocktail Haven, Oakland's Burdell Honored With James Beard Nominations The shortlist of nominees for this year's James Beard Awards is out, and while San Francisco has been largely snubbed once again, there are a handful of Bay Area honorees.
SF News North Bay School Gymnasium Evacuated After Naked, Bloodied Woman Walks In A woman experiencing a mental health crisis who wandered into a high school gymnasium in Petaluma on Tuesday had apparently suffered self-inflicted wounds after exiting her house through a window.
SF News Humpday Headlines: People's Park Case Arrives at State Supreme Court A 16-year-old Oakland girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found; the CA Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the People's Park case today; and it's going to be an unseasonably cold day around the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: El Farolito Soccer Team Plays Another Pro Team Tonight, Match To Be Streamed Online A block of the Sunnyside neighborhood was shut down over a gas leak Tuesday morning; Oakland and the A’s failed to agree on a three-year Coliseum lease extension; and the El Farolito soccer team’s Cinderella tournament run continues tonight.
Arts & Entertainment Mission District Bar Casements Wins Right to Extend Their Back Patio Hours Later Into the Evening The Mission Street Irish cocktail bar Casements recently got permission to keep their back patio open, but only until 10 pm. On Tuesday, the SF Board of Supervisors extended their patio hours until 11 pm on weeknights and midnight on weekends, though with a lot of requirements.
