Business & Tech Uber Actually Turned a Profit For the First Time Since Going Public Five Years Ago Guess it’s time to knock off the jokes about how Uber loses so much money, as the company just posted a $1.9 billion profit for 2023, its first annual profit since Uber’s 2019 IPO.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs From Dalida, Mourad, and Shuggie's All Part of 'Top Chef' Season 21 Cast Three out of the cast of 15 of the upcoming Top Chef season hail from San Francisco kitchens, which puts the odds of the show crowning a new local celebrity chef at one in five.
SF News Cruise Ship Where ‘Mystery Illness’ Has Sickened 150 People Has Docked in SF Here we go again with luxury cruises being vessels for illnesses, as a cruise ship suffering an outbreak of unexplained gastrointestinal illness has now docked itself in San Francisco.
SF News Anti-Abortion Nitwit Who Climbed Salesforce Tower Just Scaled The Sphere In Las Vegas A guy who likes to climb big buildings for internet glory — and, he says, anti-abortion advocacy — was just arrested in Las Vegas for scaling The Sphere.
SF Politics SF School Board Likely to Switch to Elections By District, Because a Lawsuit Is Forcing Them To More political drama completely unrelated to education at the SF school board, as some out-of-town attorney had lodged a lawsuit to force school board members to be elected by geographic districts, and SFUSD may have no choice but to comply.
SF News Lawsuit From Former Oakland Police Chief Claims Mayor Didn't Want to Fire Him Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, who was fired one year ago by Mayor Sheng Thao amid an internal affairs scandal, has now filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city.
Business & Tech Self-Driving Waymo Collides With Bicyclist In Potrero Hill A self-driving Waymo robotaxi apparently hit a bicyclist at about 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at 17th and Mississippi streets, which may put a dent in Waymo’s hopes to be considered the safer of the two big self-driving car companies.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Sheriff Seizes 90 Cars From Sideshow, Wants to Destroy Them The sheriff in San Joaquin County wants to destroy all 88 cars that his deputies seized in a sideshow last weekend; a boy was killed in a freak accident at a Marin County school; and the power remains out for 35,000 PG&E customers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Someone’s Illegally-Owned Marmoset Golden Boy Pizza is opening a new location in Parkside; the flagship Trader Vic’s in Emeryville may have to close next year; and the Oakland Zoo has taken in an illegally-owned and injured marmoset monkey.
Business & Tech The Kid Who Tracked Elon Musk’s Jet is Now Tracking Taylor Swift’s Jet, and Taylor is Seeing Red The young man who posted Elon Musk’s private jet coordinates has drawn the ire of Taylor Swift for tracking her private jet coordinates too (and posting her CO2 emissions), so Swift’s attorneys have handed him a pre-Super Bowl cease-and-desist letter.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Mayor Comes Out Swinging Against the Idea of the A’s Moving to Vegas In a stunning podcast interview published today, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman seemed to square up against the A’s moving to Las Vegas, saying their proposed stadium site “doesn’t make sense,” and “they’ve got to figure out a way to stay in Oakland.”
Arts & Entertainment Will Reclusive Artist and San Francisco Resident Tracy Chapman Get Back Out on Stages After Grammys Comeback? One of the highlights of Sunday's highlight-filled Grammy Awards was a duet between the great Tracy Chapman and young country music star Luke Combs, whose 2023 cover of her 1988 hit "Fast Car" hit No. 2 on the Billboard chart.
SF News Underground Vault Fire Sends Smoke Into SoMa, Closes Mission & Third Intersection An underground electrical fire was creating some traffic in and around SoMa Tuesday afternoon, so be warned.
SF News This Week Is the 50th Anniversary of the Patty Hearst Kidnapping, One of SF’s All-Time Wildest Stories SF headlines of the mid-1970s were dominated by the saga of Patty Hearst, an heiress who was kidnapped, only to join her captors and rob banks with them. After her release from prison, she has led a life of dog shows and John Waters movies.
Business & Tech Feds, DMV Investigating More SF Cruise Robotaxi Incidents Than We Realized, Two Cars Allegedly Almost Hit Kids The self-driving robotaxi company Cruise may have had a worse track record of highly dangerous near-misses than previously reported, and faces five state and federal probes into incidents like almost running over children.
SF News Muni Ridership Reached 71% of Pre-Pandemic Levels In 2023, With Some Bus Routes More Crowded Than In 2019 Ridership on Muni buses and trains was up to 86% of pre-pandemic levels on weekends last year, and up to 68% on weekdays, but revenue across the SFMTA remains down — and are these ridership numbers even real if people don't pay?
SF News Gov. Newsom Sends 120 Extra State Police Officers to Oakland in Crime Crackdown Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he's increasing state police presence in Oakland and the East Bay by a whopping 900% in response to a crime surge.
Arts & Entertainment Gap Inc. Hires Star Designer Zac Posen to Chief Creative Role to Revamp Old Navy, Other Brands High-profile fashion designer Zac Posen, known for designing red carpet looks and showing at New York Fashion Week, is taking on a new corporate role as executive vice president and creative director at Gap Inc., and CCO (Chief Creative Officer) of Old Navy.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 65,000 Still Without Power Around the Bay Just under 65,000 PG&E customers were still without power as of this morning; the man killed by a fallen tree in Santa Cruz County has been identified; and an appeals court has ruled that Trump is not immune from prosecution for January 6th.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF to Acquire St. Mary's and St. Francis Hospitals UCSF is reportedly weeks away from closing a deal to acquire two struggling hospitals; a sex offender was arrested for jumping a fence at a Livermore school and acting lewdly; and the top wind gust recorded in the Bay on Sunday was 102 mph.
SF Politics Defeated Ron DeSantis Still Campaigning on ‘Don’t Allow Florida to Become San Francisco’ Kick Fresh off having his clock cleaned by Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is still seeking attention with his new “Don’t Allow Florida to Become San Francisco” campaign.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Seen Playing With Kids In Prison Yard For Her 40th Birthday Convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, who is nine months into an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos, celebrated her 40th birthday over the weekend at the Texas women's prison where she resides.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Taking Great Pains to Ensure Their Players Don’t Party Too Much In Las Vegas This Week Sunday’s 49ers-Chiefs Super Bowl will be the first one ever played in Sin City, and the 49ers team brass is going to great lengths to make sure the players keep their noses clean amidst the Las Vegas nightlife and gambling scene.
SF News Mission Street Vending Ban Declared a Success, Gets Extended for Six More Months A little over two months into the Mission Street vending ban, city officials are pleased enough with the general decrease in blight that they’re extending the ban for another six months.
Bay Area Sports 2026 World Cup Matches Scheduled at Levi's Stadium, None Are In Final Rounds Six matches in the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be played at Levi's Stadium in June and early July 2026, but these won't include any of the more decisive games in any of the later rounds of the tournament.
