SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Gas Fire Burns Outside Daly City Home A natural gas fire broke out due to a ruptured line outside a home in Daly City; 70 miles of I-80 near Tahoe were closed in both directions due to whiteout conditions; and Burlingame is moving to ban outdoor smoking.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Explosion Suspect Pleads Not Guilty Heavy gunfire rang out at Ninth and Howard in SoMa today in a driveby; Sunset District explosion suspect Darron Price entered not guilty pleas today; and someone wearing a 'Scream' mask freaked out people in Sonoma Plaza.
Business & Tech John Oliver Goes After SF-Based OpenAI and Its ChatGPT Product: ‘The George Santos of Technology’ John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ went on a fiery rant against AI products, pointing out how artificial intelligence is a lot more ‘artificial’ than it is ‘intelligent.’
SF Politics Duuude, Marianne Williamson Is Running For President Again Joe Biden has a challenger for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, and it's crystal-slinging self-help author Marianne Williamson, who just announced that she’s throwing her hat in the ring to run for president again.
SF News Someone Stole a Van Full of Stray Cats In Napa, Van Full of Cats Still at Large A Napa animal rescue, shelter, and adoption organization had its van stolen this weekend, but more alarmingly, there were 16 rescue cats in the van when the cat burglar struck.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area's Latest Pizza Pop-Up, From a Chez Panisse Alum, Makes Appearances at Berkeley Wineries The newest wood-fired pizzas to be had in the East Bay are being cooked in an oven mounted on the bed of a pickup truck, and they can only be found on select dates outside of a couple of Berkeley wineries.
SF Politics Billionaire SF Standard Financier Gets Guff for SF-Bashing (and SF Chronicle-Bashing) In NYT Op-Ed A Sunday New York Times op-ed from the money-man behind the SF Standard reads like a formulaic Mad Libs SF-trashing hit piece, but his attacks on the rival publication The San Francisco Chronicle raise questions about his real motivations.
SF News Violent Weekend In Oakland Leaves Five Dead, Police Address the Public Three people were fatally shot in Oakland in separate incidents in the same three-hour period on Friday, and that burst of violence was followed by multiple other incidents throughout the weekend that left two more people dead and five others wounded.
SF News Man Fatally Shot on SF's Pier 5 A homicide came to San Francisco's piers early Monday, as police say that a man was fatally shot in the early morning hours on Pier 5 along the Embarcadero.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Lays Off 200 More ‘Hardcore’ Twitter Employees; Also He Was Weirdly Quick To Defend ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Even sleeping on the office floor won’t buy you Elon Musk’s love at Twitter, as another 200 staffers who met his ‘hardcore’ requirements were pink-slipped Saturday night, but the “Dilbert” cartoonist did win Elon’s love over his racist diatribe.
SF News 26 Arrested In Central Valley Gang Sweep Linked to January Massacre of Family Authorities arrested 26 individuals and seized guns and drugs during a major gang crackdown operation involving 17 law enforcement agencies, following the allegedly gang-related killing of six people, mostly family members, in a home in Goshen.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Driver In Fatal Hit-and-Run Sought In East Palo Alto This latest storm system will be keeping the Bay Area wet and cold for a couple of days; police are seeking a hit-and-run driver in East Palo Alto; and there are still no leads in the disappearance of Wild 94.9's JV, who is considered "at risk."
SF News Bay Area Vegan Cheese Company Miyoko’s Creamery Is Suing Its Founder, Alleging Trade Secret Theft The company alleges former CEO Miyoko Schinner transferred tens of thousands of documents to a non-company hard drive, physically stole unreleased products, and owes backpay on a loan, following her termination last year.
yosemite Yosemite Closed Due to Serious Snow and Storm Conditions Through Wednesday The storm behind this week’s snow in the Bay Area is moving east into the mountains and causing whiteout snow conditions across Yosemite National Park.
SF News Sunday Links: Distributor Drops Scott Adams's 'Dilbert' Following His Racist Tirade Newspapers are dropping Dilbert in droves and so is the strip's distributor; San Franciscans might see more thunderstorms Monday; and a 24-year-old man had to be rescued by a helicopter from a Daly City beach Sunday morning.
SF News Big Rig Joins In Sideshow In Oakland, Spins Donuts Near Port In one of three separate sideshow incidents early Saturday in Oakland, a big rig took center stage and, with a shipping container in tow, spun a few donuts near the Port of Oakland, to the delight of the assembled crowd.
city of oakland Three People Died Within Three Hours in Separate Shooting Incidents in Oakland Friday Evening The Oakland Police Department called it "a bloody Friday night" and is still investigating all three shootings, but no more details have been released.
Real Estate Famous Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Della Walker House In Carmel Sells for $22 Million The single-story house was originally only 1,200 square feet and was built for $125,000 for Carmel resident Della Walker in 1952.
SF News Saturday Links: JV from 'The JV Show' on Wild 94.9 Reported Missing In San Francisco Police are asking for the public’s help locating JV after he disappeared Thursday night; 10-20 boats caught on fire on Lake Berryessa Friday night; and Oakland's sixth annual Black Joy Parade is set for 12:30 p.m. Sunday in downtown Oakland.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Convicted of Murder in 2021 Deadly Shooting of Afghan Refugee Uber Driver in San Francisco A jury found Clifford Stokes guilty of first-degree murder for the 2021 fatal shooting of Afghan refugee Ahmad Fawad Yusufi; police made an arrest the hit-and-run that resulted in the death of 100-year-old Tzu-Ta Ko near Lake Merritt; and SFO briefly lost power Friday morning, causing delays.
Bay Area Sports Giants Lowering Beer Prices, Though Only At a Few Concession Stands Facing dwindling ticket sales since 2017, the SF Giants announced they’re lowering the price of beer from $14 to $9, though this only applies at select concession stands at Oracle Park.
SF News East Bay-Based ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Declares White People Should ‘Just Get the F*** Away’ From Black People More newspapers are dropping the cartoon “Dilbert” this week, after its creator Scott Adams went full racist granddad in a podcast rant declaring “the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f*** away.”
SF News The LGBTQ Book-Banning Debate Comes to the Bay Area Suburbs Lest you think the Bay Area is immune to the sort of fights that are raging in school districts across the country, we are not, and a school board meeting in the East Bay was just this week filled with vitriol over books for LGBTQ kids.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Had Her Second Baby and Her Lawyers Are Still Trying to Get Prison Entry Delayed New court documents reveal that convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes now has two young children, and also, maybe she and Billy Evans aren't legally married after all?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Someone Robbed The El Tonayense Taco Truck At Gunpoint This Week The eminently popular taco truck El Tonayense was the victim of an armed robbery Wednesday, with the gunman making off with an estimated $500 from the truck, which has done business outside the Harrison Street Best Buy for 17 years.
