SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland’s Horn Barbecue Severely Damaged by Early Tuesday Morning Fire Less than two days after the celebrated Horn Barbecue was thoroughly tagged with graffiti, the building is now effectively ruined for the time being after an early Tuesday morning fire has left the West Oakland building red-tagged.
SF News SF Once Again Playing Chicken With State Over Housing Element, 'Builder's Remedy' Another deadline looms that could mean the difference between San Francisco officials maintaining planning controls or allowing a free-for-all of development, and it's happening because state housing officials are exerting serious pressure on the city to build more housing.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Appears to Be Engineering His Reinstatement at OpenAI Can you undo a coup? Freshly fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in talks to return to the company that canned him just five days ago, as the corporate infighting continues at the chaotic but red-hot AI startup.
Business & Tech Musk's X Sues Media Matters Over Article Regarding Hate Speech and Ads Elon Musk is extremely mad at Media Matters, a nonprofit watchdog group that has been calling out hate speech on X/Twitter, and now he's filed a lawsuit against them.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Speeding Car Flips Over In Tenderloin A speeding car hit two parked cars and flipped over on Golden Gate Avenue Monday night; a man was shot walking to his car at West Oakland BART; and gas prices in California have fallen below $5 for the first time since July.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ex-Boyfriend Convicted In San Carlos Beheading Jose Solano Landaeta was convicted Monday in the Sept. 2022 beheading murder of ex-girlfriend Karina Castro; two men have been arrested in a stray-bullet homicide in Oakland; and a longtime SF novelist dies at age 99.
SF News One Week Out From Mission Street Vending Ban, Alternative Vending Sites Revealed One week out from the Mission Street vending ban, Supervisor Hillary Ronen insists she won’t delay the ban, and revealed the alternative sites where vending will be allowed.
Bay Area Sports Saturday Night Live’s ‘Weekend Update’ Razzes Draymond Green Over His Headlock Suspension While Draymond Green serves his five-game suspension for headlocking an opponent in a chokehold, Saturday Night Live’s ‘Weekend Update’ lampooned Green in a segment mocking Green’s history of below-the-belt blows.
Arts & Entertainment New ‘Winter Lights’ Installation Proposed for Golden Gate Park, But Some Balk at the $40 Admission Fee Golden Gate Park’s famed gardens may be getting a new light-up show starting in November 2024, but the $28-$40 entrance fee has already garnered criticism, and there may be some opposition from wildlife advocates.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Sits Down With ABC News to Discuss SF's Reputation, Persistent Negative Attention, Signs of Hope After a year in which there was hardly a news outlet in the country that didn't pile on with a story about San Francisco circling the drain and facing an economic "doom loop," Mayor London Breed just gave another national news interview to discuss the actual situation on the ground.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Little Star Pizza Location On Divisadero Closing After 19 Years One of San Francisco's best pizza spots, Little Star on Divisadero, is shutting its doors at the end of the year. And the owner blames delivery apps.
SF Politics Large Gaza Ceasefire Protest Managed to Shut Down State Democratic Convention Saturday A routine political-nerd event devolved into chaos over the weekend, as pro-Palestine protesters mobbed a convention center, ending several speeches early and shutting down the convention’s Saturday night proceedings.
Sponsored LCD Soundsystem Rings In 2024 With New Year's Eve Bash In SF Music lovers, get ready for an unforgettable New Year's Eve celebration as Another Planet Entertainment announces LCD Soundsystem's two-night event at the iconic Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Delayed Again, This Time Until Mid-December The Commercial Dungeness crab fishing season has been delayed again, this time due partly to poor meat quality found in samples, and due to humpback whales still migrating south.
SF News One Dead After Sunday Night Double Hit-and-Run In East Bay California Highway Patrol officers are searching for two hit-and-run drivers, one who crashed into a Zipcar, and another who struck and killed a passenger of that Zipcar who was seeking help, in a late-night Sunday incident on Highway 13 near the Oakmore neighborhood.
Business & Tech Sam Altman and Other Key Players at OpenAI Head to Microsoft as OpenAI Hires Former Twitch Guy Whatever professional or interpersonal drama is underpinning the chaotic last few days at OpenAI, it sounds like the company's board might regret the mess they created by abruptly firing CEO Sam Altman on Friday, and an employee revolt at the company is ongoing.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: CEO of Cruise Resigns After Robotaxi Recall Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt has resigned after that recall of the company's robotaxis; a food truck worker in Oakland was shot after being robbed; and Thanksgiving week is expected to be extra busy at SFO.
SF News Bay Area Soaked in Rain During Surprise Weekend Storm, Wind Advisory Issued Through Monday Morning Sonoma got nearly 5 inches of rain over the weekend, and downtown SF saw about 1.3 inches. High-elevation areas across the region are still under a high wind advisory until 9 a.m. Monday morning
SF News Memorial for 45th Anniversary of Jonestown in East Oakland Saturday Remembers Victims, Honors Survivors A memorial event for the Jonestown massacre brought out survivors and victims' family members, although some disagreed about the inclusion of Jones' name on a memorial plaque.
SF News Amazon Driver Kidnapped While On Delivery Route, Forced to Withdraw Cash at East Bay ATMs After forcing an Amazon delivery driver off the road, two suspects then coerced him into withdrawing cash at two different banks, authorities say.
SF News Sunday Links: Cal Beats Stanford in Final Big Game of the Pac-12 Era OpenAI ex-CEO Sam Altman's next move is either a new venture or returning to OpenAI; Cal took home a victory over Stanford, 27-15; and a group of pro-Palestinian protestors disrupted the California Democratic Party Convention in Sacramento Saturday.
SF News Northern California River Sees Record High Salmon Fall Run More than 20,000 Chinook salmon have returned to the Mokelumne river in Northern-Central California this year to spawn, the highest number since record-keeping began in 1940.
SF News Saturday Links: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit from Gilroy Garlic Festival Mass Shooting Victims Against City The judge said that a mass shooting wasn’t a foreseeable event that defendants could be held liable for, despite allegations of negligence; SpaceX's recent rocketship test exploded (again); and more confrontations among pro- and anti-China protestors on the last day of APEC.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Federal Jury Finds 'Party Animal' VC Guilty of Defrauding Investors Out of $18 Million Companies like IBM, Oracle, Disney, and Apple aren't happy that their ads on X are showing up next to rampant hate speech; ex-investor Michael Brent Rothenberg was convicted on several fraud and money laundering counts; and it's been 45 years this week since the Jonestown massacre.
SF Politics Adam Schiff Edging Out Katie Porter for the Former Feinstein Senate Seat, But ‘Undecided’ is Crushing the Field Rep. Adam Schiff has a slight 16%-13% lead over Rep. Katie Porter in the Senate election that’s still nearly a year away, but the bigger news may be that nearly 40% of California voters are still totally undecided on the race.
