SF News SF Rec & Parks Planning Makeover of UN Plaza This Fall With Skate Park, Ping-Pong, and Teqball Tables Plans were filed this week for a new activation project in SF's generally drug-addled UN Plaza, in what appears to be an effort by City Hall to make some positive change and bring non-drug dealers and non-users to the plaza.
SF News Hit-and-Run Collision Takes Out Utility Pole at Gough and Golden Gate A yellow SUV slammed into a utility pole/traffic signal at Gough Street and Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition on Tuesday, and a suspect reportedly fled the scene on foot.
SF News Parents Fume That Their Kids Were Injured In Dolores Hill Bomb Arrests as SFPD Defends Harsh Tactics The controversial mass-arrest of 81 minors (and 32 adults) at the year's unsanctioned Dolores Park Hill Bomb has some parents alleging brutal treatment of teens, but SFPD and Mayor Breed are doubling down on the need for that heavy response.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma's Own Guy Fieri Seen Palling Around With Trump In Vegas — This Should Go Well For Him Why did Anthony Bourdain (RIP) despise Guy Fieri so much? Well, we have a new clue, and it's how Fieri appeared to happily greet Donald Trump when the pair ran into each other at a UFC match in Las Vegas over the weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four Bay Area Restaurants Added to Michelin Bib Gourmand Picks, Including SF's Bansang and Oakland's Snail Bar The new California Michelin Guide — with its updated star ratings — is set for release next week, just seven months after the last guide's delayed release. And today four Bay Area restaurants have been added to the Bib Gourmand roster of semi-affordable eats.
SF News Armed Robbers Stole an Estimated $48,000 of Merchandise From Union Square Gucci Store Monday A group of four to six suspects, reportedly with guns, pulled another Union Square heist at the Gucci store at Stockton Street and Maiden Lane Monday, and the suspects are still at large after police lost them in a chase.
Business & Tech Threads Beats ChatGPT to 100 Million User Milestone; Twitter Traffic Allegedly 'Tanking' Meta's Threads app, which just went live last Wednesday evening, already reached 100 million users on Sunday, handily beating ChatGPT's recently set record for achieving that many users in a brief span of time.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge Declines to Block Microsoft-Activision Deal A federal judge in SF has declined to block Microsoft's $69 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard; Elizabeth Holmes has already seen her sentence reduced by two years, and a man was shot and injured in West Oakland Tuesday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Summer Warmth Is Coming to SF, Finally Writers have filed a new class-action suit against OpenAI and Meta over use of their work in language models; late snow-melt is causing a mosquito boom in the Sierra; and a heatwave is headed to the Bay which we'll even feel in SF.
Bay Area Sports New York Times Completely Guts Its Sports Section, Sources It to SF-Based The Athletic The NY Times will now source its sports coverage from SF’s The Athletic, which has poached a ton of prestigious sportswriters, pulled $140 million in VC money, was bought up by the NYT, though has never shown a profit.
SF News Gallery Owner Seen Spraying Homeless Woman In Infamous Viral Video Gets 35 Hours Community Service The saga of the “spray seen ‘round the world” seemingly came to a quiet close Monday morning, as the gallery owner charged with misdemeanor battery for spraying an unsheltered woman with a hose was sentenced to 35 hours of community service.
SF Politics RV Lot Sheltering Dozens of Formerly Unsheltered Homeless People In SF to Remain Open Under Tentative Agreement An RV shelter park that opened early in the pandemic on a lot near the Bayview is now set to remain temporarily open as a shelter for the homeless, despite moves by the Port of SF to reclaim the property.
SF News Now City of Hayward Suffers Cyberattack, Forced to Shut Down Website It’s back to snail mail and landines for the city of Hayward, who discovered “a cyber-security incident and intrusion into its computer networks” Sunday, and has yanked its website and all city portals offline.
SF News Madonna's October Shows at Chase Center Officially Postponed Following Health Scare Madonna's "Celebration Tour" appears to be on hold, with the North American leg likely pushing into next year at this point, as she recovers from a major health issue that landed her in intensive care last month. That also means her appearances at the Chase Center have been postponed.
Business & Tech Four More East Bay Chain Hotels Being Surrendered to Lenders In Nationwide Loan Default This is not just a Bay Area “doom loop” story, as Dallas-based Ashford Hospitality Trust is handing back the keys to 19 U.S. hotels, four of which are in Oakland, Newark, and Walnut Creek.
SF News BART Plagued By Multiple Problems Monday, Including Fire at Civic Center Station The BART system, which was already dealing with delays from an equipment issue in the East Bay Monday morning, was hit with multiple problems this morning including a disabled train, and police and fire activity at Civic Center.
SF News Report: Many Tenderloin Drug Dealers Hail From the Same Area In Honduras, Which Is Dotted With SF Swag Drug money made in the open-air markets of the Tenderloin and South of Market has fueled a "housing boom" in one impoverished area of Honduras. The Chronicle traveled there and conducted an 18-month investigation into this source of one of the dominant groups running SF's drug trade.
SF News Woman Shot and Injured Near Oakland's Lake Merritt Early Monday A 22-year-old woman was reportedly shot in the early morning hours of Monday near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Her injuries are not life-threatening.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Protesters Gather at SFPD's Mission Station Over Hill Bomb Arrests BART was having major issues on its Green Line Monday morning; dozens of protesters marched on SFPD's Mission Station over the police response to Saturday's Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding event; and the Ruby Princess finally set sail for Alaska with 600 fewer passengers.
SF News Police Crack Down on Skateboarders' Dolores Hill Bomb Saturday, Arrest and Detain Dozens Hundreds of police officers in riot gear shut down the notorious Dolores Hill Bomb event Saturday night, arresting and detaining dozens of adults and teenagers in a chaotic scene.
SF News Underground Vault Explosion Causes Property Damage In Pacific Heights Around 8 p.m. Saturday night, an underground PG&E vault in Pacific Heights spontaneously caught on fire, causing an explosion through a manhole that damaged a vehicle and nearby windows, but caused no injuries.
SF News Sunday Links: High Winds Result in a Dozen Water Rescues Near San Francisco on Saturday At least 12 people had to be rescued from extra choppy waters on Saturday, including kayakers and kite surfers; Higher minimum wages went into effect in many Bay Area cities; and the Ruby Princess cruise ship can finally set sail Sunday after crashing into Pier 27 four days ago.
SF News Lake Tahoe Residents On Alert as Foot Fondling Intruder Strikes Sleeping Hotel Guests' Feet In two separate incidents this week, women staying at a resort near Lake Tahoe said they woke up to a prowler in their room touching their feet in the middle of the night.
SF News Doctor Accused of Driving Tesla Off Pacifica Cliffside Requests Mental Health Diversion, Seeks Case Dismissal Dr. Dharmesh Patel originally said that he drove his Tesla with his wife and children inside off Devil's Slide due to tire issues, but in court Friday his lawyers say he has major depressive disorder and should get mental health treatment.
SF News Saturday Links: Fiery Big-Rig Crash in Livermore Shuts Down East Bay I-580 Saturday Morning A tractor-trailer crash has shut down eastbound I-580 near the Altamont Pass in Livermore "indefinitely;" The Twitter-banned account tracking Elon Musk's private jet is now on Meta's Threads; and Calif. Rep. Adam Schiff raised $8.1M in the second quarter after a Congressional rebuke.
