SF News Lawsuit Accuses Half Moon Bay Ritz-Carlton of Shocking Incident Involving Semen-Laced Water A female guest alleges that a Ritz-Carlton employee ejaculated into a water bottle that she was served —and that the hotel was negligent and won't comply with authorities.
SF News Saturday Links: 3.7M Earthquake Hits Right Under SFO Friday Evening A 3.7-magnitude earthquake rattled San Francisco around 6:45 p.m. Friday, but no damage was reported; a TikTok about Mountain View's Diddams Party & Toy Store went viral; and Alameda County DA's work laptop was stolen in a car break-in.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect in Fatal Stabbing Downtown Thursday Morning Arrested The suspect, 41-year-old Paul Durden, was arrested about 6 hours after the stabbing; the ex-MLB pitcher accused of fatally stabbing his father-in-law in Tahoe in 2021 has been extradited to California ahead of being arraigned; and a new Chinatown night market is set for November 10th and 11th.
Business & Tech One Year Into the Musk Era, Twitter/X Has Fewer Users, Fewer Advertisers, Less Clout Whatever Elon Musk's ultimate vision for the platform he and almost no one else calls X may be, it is still slow to take shape, and one year into his tenure at the company, the results of his leadership aren't great.
SF News Gavin Newsom Joins Chorus of Lawmakers Calling for Fentanyl Dealers to Be Charged With Murder For Overdoses In announcing a new joint task force between the state and the City of San Francisco, Governor Newsom and Mayor Breed vow that they’ll start having fentanyl dealers charged with murder when a user dies from an accidental overdose.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rosamunde Sausage Grill Shutting Down Its Final Location In the Mission Next Month You've got one month left to go have some hearty Oktoberfest fun at Rosamunde Sausage Grill in the Mission. The restaurant announced today that it is closing for good in late November.
SF News Another Valencia Bike Lane Accident, as Illegal U-Turn Injures Scooter Rider Valencia Street’s new center bike lanes are likely to remain the center of controversy after yet another accident, this time a driver making a U-turn and colliding with someone riding a scooter in that center lane.
SF News Broadest Red Flag Warning In Two Years Issued For Bay Area Ahead of Diablo Wind Forecast It's been an extremely — thankfully! — quiet fire season for our local area, but some serious fire danger is headed our way this weekend with a weather system that promises dry, offshore winds that often present wildfire hazards.
Business & Tech Downtown Tech Office Shuts Down Its Free Cocktail Bar For Employees, CEO Says 'The Office Is Dead' An experiment in 2020s incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occurs has ended with a whimper in downtown SF. Tech company Expensify is shutting down its bar, which it opened earlier this year, after six months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, Dungeness Crab Season Has Been Delayed For the Fifth Year In a Row Lest we had any hope that new-fangled crab pots or some innovation might help the industry start the season earlier this year, state wildlife officials announced Friday that our local Dungeness crab season will be delayed, yet again.
Arts & Entertainment Halloween Returns In the Castro Saturday With Screenings, Drag Performances, But No Street Closure Halloween is back in the Castro for the first time in 17 years, with storefront activations, movie screenings, drag shows, and a block party that will last all day and night Saturday — with a party for the kids happening on Sunday.
SF News United Airlines Flight Attendants Allege Racism on L.A. Dodgers Charter Flights Two veteran flight attendants, both women of color, are suing United Airlines, saying they were demoted off of working L.A. Dodgers team charter flights because the airline prefers “white, young, thin women” for that assignment.
SF News Cruise Suspends All Driverless Operations In Multiple Cities Following CA DMV Suspension GM-owned Cruise is hitting the pause button on all of its driverless taxi operations in order to "rebuild public trust," the company says, a move that comes two days after the California DMV ordered the company to cease operating its vehicles in San Francisco without a driver present.
SF News Woman Shot in Oakland Just for Honking at Driver Who Cut Her Off A 35-year-old woman is in stable condition after being shot multiple times, merely for honking at a driver who cut her off. But a 10-year-old girl who was in the car with her is thankfully unharmed.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Diablo Winds Coming This Weekend An 'inside slider' weather system is set to bring Diablo winds to the North and East bays; SFPD are on the hunt for a suspect in yesterday's Western Addition shooting; and Larry Elder is ending his longshot presidential bid.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Dead and One Injured In Western Addition Shooting A double shooting in SF's Western Addition Thursday left one person dead; an East Bay man has been acquitted after giving a false confession to murder; and the on-the-market 115 Sansome building has drawn an unexpectedly large slew of offers to buy it.
SF News Alaska Airlines Pilot Pleads Not Guilty; Wife Says 'That Is Not the Man I Married' Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson was arraigned in a Portland court on Thursday, and while he's essentially admitted to trying to interfere with a plane's engine amid an apparent mental breakdown, he has pleaded not guilty to 167 charges of attempted murder and reckless endangerment.
SF News Man Stabbed and Killed Early Thursday Morning at Market and Octavia Streets A Thursday morning confrontation between two men resulted in the stabbing and death of one of them, an unnamed 39-year-old male victim.
Arts & Entertainment That SF Library-Amoeba Music Free Streaming Music Platform for Bay Area Artists Launches Saturday The SF Public Library’s new streaming music platform for Bay Area bands and musicians launches Saturday, and they’re celebrating with a Saturday afternoon live music bash on the Fulton Street steps of the library’s Main Branch.
Business & Tech Two of SF's Largest Hotels Head Toward Receivership, Will Have a Year to Find Buyer Two enormous hotels in downtown SF, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the Parc 55, will likely be bought up by a new owner or owners within a year, and they are now set to go into receivership shortly.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Felicia Owner Now In Trouble With City of Oakland, Which Has Ordered $100K In Restitution to Former Employees The saga of Hi Felicia, the ambitious, short-lived Oakland restaurant borne out of a pandemic pop-up, owned by one-named 26-year-old restaurateur Imana, continues this week with a report that the defunct business is now on the hook for $105,000 in back pay to former employees.
SF News We Have a Winner! Behold SF’s New ‘I Voted’ Sticker After a two-month contest and a week-long voting blitz, SF voters have elected their new “I Voted” sticker, which features parrots, a sea lion, Sutro Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, and of course Karl the Fog.
SF Politics Sen. Alex Padilla Has COVID, Delaying Judiciary Committee Vote on Alameda County Judge The elevation of an Alameda County Superior Court judge to the federal bench is being delayed by the fact that California Senator Alex Padilla was absent Thursday, depriving Democrats of their one-vote majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
SF News Amateur Dungeness Crab Poachers Taking Uber to Half Moon Bay Beach Pose Threat to Crab Population Hundreds of crab bandits have been illegally swarming a Half Moon Bay beach to poach Dungeness crab out of season. They not only risk a nearly $500 fine, they’re also screwing up the hatching season and threatening the crab population.
SF News House Sadness: Condemned Home That Was a Meth Lab Listed for $1.55M A condemned house that had been home to a confirmed meth- and bomb-making lab in San Jose has just hit the market for $1.55 million.
