SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Chinatown Hot Pot Spot Offers a 'Ferris Wheel' of Meat A newly open restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown, Hotpot Champ, is offering a bunch of Instagram- and TikTok-worthy presentations, including a spinning mini-Ferris wheel of raw meat.
SF News The Bay Bridge Is Getting a New Yerba Buena Island Off-Ramp, Opening On Sunday The ongoing effort to make Treasure Island a thing hits a new milestone Sunday, as a new and more modern eastbound off-ramp to Yerba Buena Island opens Sunday morning, and bicyclists will be able to access the islands (from the Oakland side) seven days a week.
Arts & Entertainment That Rogue Butterfly Statue Has Been Placed In Storage, Arts Commission ‘Evaluating Options’ For Its Future That unauthorized but very well-designed butterfly statue that went up in Golden Gate Park last month could still have a future, though the SF Arts Commission says the statue would not “last long in an outdoor environment.”
SF News T-Mobile Flagship at Market and Stockton Becomes 12th Union Square Store to Close/Announce Closure Since November The big, two-level T-Mobile store in what was formerly the Apple Store at the foot of Stockton Street in San Francisco has just abruptly closed, creating the next in a mounting list of vacancies in Union Square and the downtown core.
SF News [Updated] Suspect Arrested In Davis Stabbings, Knife Found On Him On Wednesday, Davis police said that they had detained a person of interest in the serial stabbing case that has left two men dead and one woman in critical condition, and on Thursday they confirmed the man is a suspect and has been booked into jail.
Business & Tech Google's Sundar Pichai and OpenAI's Sam Altman Summoned to White House For Meeting About Risks of AI Several tech CEOs whose companies have begun releasing products with powerful artificial-intelligence capabilities were called to a meeting at the White House Thursday to discuss the escalating nervousness around AI and calls to regulate it.
SF News Alleged Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Somehow Has All-Male Jury In Sexual Assault Trial The trial of accused serial groper Bill Gene Hobbs is now underway, and in an odd development, the man accused of groping and fondling 13 different women got an all-male jury for his criminal trial.
SF News Defense Attorney Paula Canny Apologizes For 'Cavalier' Comments About Bob Lee's Drug Use The criminal defense attorney hired by the family of murder suspect Nima Momeni, who's been described by colleagues using various attack-dog metaphors, has issued an apology for some incendiary comments about victim Bob Lee earlier this week. But this may just be indicative of her style.
SF News Oakland Teachers Officially On Strike Over Pay and Working Conditions It is now Day One of the 2023 Oakland Unified School District teachers’ strike, and schools are still open, but attendance is sparse as teachers are out on the picket lines
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Castro Theater Owners Respond to Alternative Plan A driver "limped" away from a hit-and-run crash in the Mission last night; the Nasser family who own the Castro Theatre have rejected a proposal by a nonprofit group to keep it as more of a movie house; and May the Fourth be with you.
SF News Day Around the Bay: United Airlines Bans Passenger For Life After Assault at SFO A Santa Clara city councilmember is in court over a leaked 49ers report; a Texas-bound passenger leaving SFO Sunday night has been banned for life from United Airlines over an assault; and the SF Main Library had $550K in damages from a clogged toilet in which someone flushed "foreign objects."
SF News Formerly Homeless Pittsburg Woman Wins $5 Million On Lottery Scratcher Ticket Homeless in 2017, Lucia Forseth hit a $5 million jackpot Wednesday when she bought one lottery scratcher ticket at the Walmart Supercenter in Pittsburg.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Kuba Has Opened In the Former Cha Cha Cha Space on Mission Street The new restaurant Kuba has taken the reins at the former Cha Cha Cha at Mission and 19th Streets, and they’re keeping it Cuban with the jerk chicken and famed sangria pitchers.
SF News SFMTA Touts That Slow Streets Have Seen 50% Drop In Traffic Collisions, No Traffic Deaths A new analysis of SF’s Slow Streets program shows that people are still driving too fast on many of them, but they’ve also enjoyed a nearly 50% reduction in traffic accidents, and there have been no traffic fatalities on any Slow Streets.
Business & Tech Musk Is Now Threatening to Take NPR's Twitter Handle From Them and Reassign It In the latest of many childish moves that show Elon Musk's downright Trumpian disdain for the media, the billionaire owner of Twitter has reportedly been threatening National Public Radio over the news org's decision to stop using its Twitter account.
Arts & Entertainment One of the Bay Area's Last Remaining Zoo Elephants Is Being Moved Out of State Where She'll Have More Friends After the death of her longtime friend and companion at the Oakland Zoo, 44-year-old elephant Donna is getting relocated to a new home — an elephant sanctuary where she won't be as lonely.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Music Festival Announces Dates For 2023 — and It's Not Folsom Weekend Members of the LGBTQ+ and fetish communities who are also fans of electronic music will be thrilled to know that the second annual Portola Festival is happening the weekend after Folsom Street Fair weekend.
SF News 21-Year-Old Oakland Woman Was Killed By Angry Man Who Was Randomly Shooting at 'Noisy' Cars A 21-year-old woman was fatally shot last weekend in East Oakland by a man, prosecutors say, who had come out of his house mad at "noisy" cars coming down his street late at night, and began randomly shooting at them.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Rescinds Invite For 80s Rocker Dee Snider to Perform After Weird Anti-Trans Tweet SF Pride thought they had a real publicity coup in the making with Dee Snider of Twisted Sister — who no one under the age of 45 is likely to remember — agreeing to perform his 1984 hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" at this year's Pride festivities.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Hook Up Veteran 36-Year Muni Operator With Free Playoff Tickets, Custom Jersey Angel Carvajal, a Muni operator for nearly four decades, was styled out by the Warriors with free tickets and a custom jersey with his name on it at Tuesday night’s big playoff game.
SF News Former Recology Exec Pleads Guilty To Bribing Mohammed Nuru With More Than $55,000 Another ousted Recology executive has pleaded guilty to bribing former Public Works director Mohammed Nuru with cash, meals, and gifts to the tune of around $55,000, and concealing the bribes as donations to Lefty O’Doul’s Foundation for Kids.
SF News Peskin Calls On DA to 'Reconsider' Charging Walgreens Guard After Supporters of Slain Victim Protest at City Hall The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting on Tuesday turned raucous when family members and supporters of Banko Brown — the trans man killed last week by a Walgreens security guard — swarmed the chamber demanding justice for Brown.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Defense Attorney In Bob Lee Case Begins Victim-Blaming After Toxicology Report Nima Momeni's defense attorney has begun victim-blaming over drugs found in a toxicology report; a 26-year-old man died in Santa Rita Jail last week after drinking tons of water; and a state appeals court just upheld California's ban on AR-15 rifles.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro Valley Couple Sets U.S. Record by Having Fourth Set of Twins This nutty May rainfall could continue until Thursday, the California reparations task force is throwing out some million-dollar estimates, and a Castro Valley couple gave birth to a record fourth set of twins.
SF News Oakland Sideshow In Which Frustrated Man Was Beaten and Hydrant Was Sheared Off Sparks 'Outrage' From Mayor Video emerged over the weekend of an Oakland man attempting to scold and yell at participants in a chaotic sideshow, only to get beaten bloody by the crowd — and at that same sideshow a car careened into the crowd and sheered off a fire hydrant, sending a fountain of water into the air.
