SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New French Cafe and Champagne Bar Comes to Embarcadero In this week's edition, we have a new French spot taking over an Embarcadero space that's been dark for four and a half years, a fancy doughnut shop and cafe is coming to West Portal, and the Chase Center is getting a couple of exciting new food options.
SF News Allegedly Deplorable San Jose Teen Arrested and Charged for Intentionally Running Over Pedestrians A San Jose 16-year-old is in custody on charges of making multiple attempts to run over pedestrians after a late-night dispute at a restaurant, and one of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries.
SF Politics More Alameda County DA Drama: Judge Orders Former Prosecutor Booked on Misdemeanor Charges A former Alameda County DA’s Office prosecutor — who now just so happens to work for SF DA Brooke Jenkins — has been ordered to be booked on misdemeanor charges that he improperly leaked confidential information to a defendant.
Arts & Entertainment 'Morning Show' Star Billy Crudup Brings Acclaimed One-Man Play to Berkeley Rep Emmy- and Tony-Award-winning actor Billy Crudup has returned to the Bay Area, starring in the one-man play 'Harry Clarke,' which first made a splash off-Broadway in 2017.
Business & Tech OpenAI Board Fires Sam Altman For Reasons Unclear The board of OpenAI, one of the leading players in the currently booming artificial intelligence sector, just fired its celebrity CEO, Sam Altman, and we may not know the complete story behind this for some time.
SF News Tragedy in Santa Cruz County, as Five-Year-Old Boy Stabs and Kills His Twin Brother A fight between two five-year-old twin boys in a small Santa Cruz County town took a disastrous turn, as one stabbed the other with a kitchen knife, and the child died from the stab wounds.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Puts X/Twitter In Jeopardy Again With One Antisemitic Tweet Elon Musk can't help himself when it comes to tweeting, and his opinions on many matters are gross and/or deeply misguided, and thus him owning Twitter and taking all the guardrails off it has come back to bite him yet again.
SF News Two Arrests Made In Case of Body Found In Duffel Bag Near Outside Lands Two people have been arrested in connection with the bizarre discovery of a human body inside a duffel bag outside the perimeter of this year’s Outside Lands festival, but the pair are so far only charged with unlawful disposal of the body, and the cause of the victim’s death is still undetermined.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Photo Captures Circling Surveillance Over SF During APEC President Biden signed the temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown while still in SF last night; SF has surpassed the record for fatal overdoses this year; and a photographer captured the swirls of surveillance planes over SF during APEC.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Biden Says Very Nice Things About San Francisco at Big APEC Speech PG&E got the green light to raise your bill by 13%; SF’s historic Haas-Lilienthal House just laid off all their staff; and President Biden talked up San Francisco flatteringly in his Thursday morning APEC CEO Summit address.
SF News Bay Bridge Protest Fallout: Transplant Organs Delayed; Two Motorists Claim They Were Wrongfully Detained The massive traffic nightmare Thursday morning that was caused by a pro-Gaza-ceasefire protest on the westbound Bay Bridge meant that several donated organs that were in transit to and from UCSF hospitals were delayed in getting transplanted into patients.
SF News Shady COVID Testing Outfit Offering $5 Cash Payments Chased From SF, City Attorney Says They Fueled Drug Trade The lime-green tents offering the novelty of $5 cash to take a COVID-19 test have agreed to leave town after taking heat from City Attorney David Chiu, who claims the tents were fueling the local drug trade.
SF Politics Alameda County DA Pamela Price to Host Anti-Recall Campaign Party Thursday Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and her supporters will be having a campaign launch party Thursday evening in Oakland as they try to fend off an attempt to get Price removed from office.
Arts & Entertainment Alice 97.3 Abruptly Cancels Its ‘Alice in Winterland’ Holiday Concert With Little Explanation Country rapper Jelly Roll and mom-rock band Train were set to headline the Alice 97.3 holiday concert on December 1 in San Jose, but the show was just unexpectedly canceled.
Sponsored Kiki & Herb Deck the Halls With Cabaret Glitz In San Francisco Next Month The yuletide season in San Francisco is about to get a heavy dose of fabulousness and nostalgia combined, as the legendary punk cabaret duo, Kiki & Herb, waltz into the iconic Castro Theatre for an exhilarating holiday special on December 15th, 2023.
Arts & Entertainment There Are Now Dueling Lawsuits Between City College and SFMOMA Over That Diego Rivera Mural SFMOMA says that City College of San Francisco hasn't ponied up their share of the cash to move Diego Rivera's enormous 'Pan-American Unity' mural back across town. City College now says that they can't be blamed for the museum's "financial mismanagement."
SF News David DePape Found Guilty of Assaulting Paul Pelosi In Federal Trial In what was a fairly open-and-shut case, admitted Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape was convicted on federal charges Thursday morning after the jury had deliberated for just a matter of a few hours.
Business & Tech New 71-Story Tower Proposed for Howard and First Streets, Would Be City’s Third-Tallest Building Plans have been submitted for what would be the third-tallest building in San Francisco if completed, a 71-story tower at 530 Howard Street that would utilize a new state law to bypass SF Board of Supervisors approval.
SF News Biden Called Newsom a 'Helluva Governor' at Exploratorium Event; Gwen Stefani Performed, and There Were Fireworks That VIP event for APEC week hosted by President Joe Biden happened at the Exploratorium on Wednesday evening, and you might have seen or heard the fireworks going off as it was winding down.
SF News Body Found In Suitcase at Lake Merritt Identified, Police Seeking Information About Victim The grisly Halloween day discovery of a human body in a suitcase floating in Lake Merritt now has now resulted in the victim being identified as a 23-year-old man, but there’s not much information about him, and police are asking for help in that regard.
SF News [Update] Protesters Blocked All Lanes of Westbound Bay Bridge For Four Hours, Dozens Arrested A few dozen protesters stopped traffic on the Bay Bridge Thursday during the morning commute, locking arms and blocking all the westbound lanes just east of Treasure Island.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: MLB Owners Approve A's Move to Vegas Elon Musk dropped off the bill of an APEC event he was supposed to speak at today; that GAYPEC event didn't seem to have a lot of actual APEC people at it; and team owners in the MLB unanimously approved the A's move to Las Vegas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Traffic and Protests Continue as Biden and Xi Attend Dinners In SF Demonstrators laid out hundreds of children's shoes to symbolize child deaths in Gaza outside the Ferry Building; Presidents Biden and Xi reach an agreement on fentanyl; and both presidents headed to San Francisco for dinner events.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Complain That APEC Has Basically Ruined Their Business for the Week Even restaurants far from the Moscone Center and the “security zone” say they're losing a ton of business because of APEC, with all of its unexpected parking-space removals, worsened traffic, and customers just not wanting to deal with the APEC disruptions.
SF News Man Identified as APEC Volunteer Allegedly Punches Protester as Demonstrations Get More Hostile A fellow in a suit got shoved and shouted at by some APEC protesters and then apparently cold-cocked one of them, while a nearby China-related protest has police busy preventing fights among demonstrators.
