Bay Area Sports The Giants Are Dumping That GM Cruise Patch on Their Uniforms That Fans Hated Here’s one reason to get excited for Giants baseball after the free agency flops in the offseason — the team won’t be wearing that cursed Cruise patch on their uniforms this year.
SF News State Raid of Richmond Home Turns Up Tons of Guns, a Million Rounds of Ammo The California Bureau of Firearms raided a home in the East Bay city of Richmond, and arrested a man for having nearly 250 guns and a million rounds of ammunition. And for good measure, the fellow had already been prohibited from owning weapons.
Bay Area Sports The Newly Formed Oakland Ballers Will Renovate and Play Ball at West Oakland’s Raimondi Field Oakland is getting a new minor league baseball team called the Oakland Ballers (or “The B’s”). They just announced they’ll be playing at Raimondi Field in West Oakland, and spiffing the place up with a $1.6 million renovation.
SF News SF’s Ankle Monitor System Not Working, As People Still Commit Crimes, or Just Tear Them Right Off GPS ankle monitors seem like a humane alternative to jail. But they may be too humane, as suspects are still committing crimes in San Francisco while wearing them, or simply cutting them off and throwing them in the trash.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tony's Launches 'Pizza Around the World' Tasting Menu (For Parties of Six) Tony's Pizza Napoletana in North Beach, which has long had an encyclopedic selection on its pizza menu that makes ordering decisions difficult, will for the first time offer a tasting experience that will let diners taste across multiple styles.
Bay Area Sports A’s Negotiating to Stay In Oakland Three More Years, Because They Have Nowhere Else to Play The Oakland A’s are dragging their tails into negotiations with the City of Oakland and Alameda County to continue playing at the Oakland Coliseum through 2027, even though they’re still planning to move to Las Vegas, because they don’t have anywhere else to play.
Business & Tech Big Investor and Protégé of Warren Buffett Looks to Buy 3 Million Square Feet of SF Office Space A man whose family fortune was built in part on investing in New York real estate during the dark days of the 1970s in the city is reportedly bargain hunting right now in the San Francisco office market.
Business & Tech The Reviews Are Rolling In For Google's New Chatbot, Gemini, But They’re Not Exactly Raves Google rebranded its public AI chatbot formerly known as "Bard" to "Gemini" last week. But reviews so far are mixed.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: East Bay Cities Form Crime-Fighting Task Force Law enforcement in East Bay cities from Richmond down the 880 corridor to Fremont are teaming up for a crime task force; SF City Hall had 'Winter of Love' celebrations on Wednesday; and there's an upzoning fight brewing in the Marina.
SF News Two Killed After Car Stalls on Eastbound Bay Bridge, Traffic Backed Up Into SF Two people were killed in a Mini Cooper early Thursday on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge, reportedly after the car stalled and was struck by a pickup truck.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vintage Cable Car Dedicated to Tony Bennett A refurbished 1907 cable car was dedicated to the late Tony Bennett today, for Valentine's Day; Lyft saw its stock price leap up due to a typo in an earnings report; and the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade was marred by a deadly shooting.
SF News Waymo Problems With Self-Driving Cars, as Waymo Collisions With Tow Truck Force Software Recall Two self-driving Waymo robotaxis hit a truck being towed in Phoenix two months ago, perhaps confused because the angle of a truck being towed but facing rearward, and the Google-owned company recalled the software running the vehicles.
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Sergeant’s Crime Novel Just Got Picked Up to Be Developed As a TV Series San Francisco police sergeant Adam Plantinga’s new novel ‘The Ascent’ is in some ways autobiographical, with one major exception — the protagonist cop is forced to break out of a maximum security prison.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fire Defensive Coordinator Steve Wilks, Making Him Scapegoat for Super Bowl Loss The 49ers’ defensive collapse late in the Super Bowl was the last straw that has drawn the firing of defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, who was shown the door despite the Niners being the third-best defense in the league over the season.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nyum Bai Chef Bringing Noodle Bar to SF's Ferry Building Good news for fans of Nyum Bai, the very popular Oakland Cambodian restaurant that closed at the height of its popularity two years ago: Chef Nite Yun is coming to SF and opening something new.
SF News Two Teens Have Died In Two Weeks by ‘Surfing’ on the Tops of BART Trains, Agency Considers Modifications What appears to be another social media-fueled “dare” trend has taken the lives of two Bay Area teens who engaged in BART-surfing on the tops of trains, and BART is now considering modifications to the trains’ rooftop access.
SF News Contract With Woke Kindergarten Terminated at East Bay School Following Controversy Long after the Hayward Unified School District entered into a $250,000 contract with a teacher training program called Woke Kindergarten, a school board member and a teacher at the school raised objections to it, and the story launched into the national conservative media morass.
Arts & Entertainment Meet Your 2024 'Hearts in San Francisco,' Including One That Once Belonged to Robin Williams SF’s annual display of huge Valentine’s hearts beats on for its 20th anniversary, and this year’s batch includes one that used to belong to Robin Williams. You can see them at the Ferry Building through February 29.
SF News San Mateo Deaths Look to Be Triple Murder-Suicide, Father Was Gunman While San Mateo police have been slow to release information in the case of a family found dead inside a home on a quiet street Monday morning, some pieces are starting to come together via multiple sources.
SF News It's Going to Be Pretty Wet Again From Now Into Next Week You may have been getting comfortable with this balmy, Fool's Spring weather we've been having. But little did you know, Second Winter is upon us.
Business & Tech X’s SF Landlord Is Suing Over Unpaid Rent, Seeking $13.6 Million Ahead of X's trial with its Market Street office landlord over rent nonpayment, court filings reveal that the landlord is looking for $13.6 million to refill a line of credit.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pro-Palestinian Protest Briefly Blocks Golden Gate Bridge A dozen or so protesters briefly shut down the Golden Gate Bridge this morning; the influx of CHP officers in Oakland last week netted 71 arrests; and a person was struck and killed by a BART train at MacArthur Station.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Getting First Woman Primary Play-By-Play Announcer in MLB History The vacant Castro flower shop space for Ixia has a new tenant, Pinterest has unloaded their former headquarters as a sublease, and the Oakland A’s have hired the first-ever woman to be their primary play-by-play announcer.
SF Politics Let’s Consider the Upcoming SF Judge Elections, Which Have Been Upended by Pretend ‘Report Cards’ There are two SF Superior Court judge seats up for grabs in next month’s election, and a partisan group has been issuing report cards. These oddly leave out how one supposedly tough-on-crime candidate has a husband with a druggy past.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As He Prepares to Open Another Pizza Restaurant, Oakland Chef Charlie Hallowell Is Dogged By 2017 Scandal News broke Tuesday that chef Charlie Hallowell, who has kept himself out of the news for the past five years, is planning to open a new restaurant in Oakland's Laurel neighborhood — an offshoot of the 19-year-old Pizzaiolo.
