SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Before New Guide and Star Announcements, Michelin Adds Three Bib Gourmands From Bay Area We're now a week out from the release of the 2022 Michelin Guide to California — which should probably be called the 2023 guide at this point but now that it's all app-based I guess it doesn't matter.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Declares ‘War’ on Apple, In Tweets Clearly Marked as Being Sent From ‘Twitter for iPhone’ Apple is the biggest advertiser on Twitter, but Elon Musk is picking an attention-seeking public feud with Apple, though all of Musk’s tweets on the topic are plainly labeled as being sent from an iPhone.
SF News In Test of Civil Liberties Law, the Mayor of New York Announces Sweeping Program to Remove Mentally Ill From Streets It's likely to incite pushback from civil liberties advocates as well as plenty of outcry from residents of other cities like San Francisco who want to see more mentally ill, unhoused people involuntarily committed for treatment.
SF News Man Shot Near Bus In West Oakland Is City's 112th Homicide of the Year A man was fatally shot Monday night in West Oakland, and an AC Transit bus may have been struck by the gunfire.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Major BART Delays Due to Problem at Millbrae There were major BART delays this morning due to an equipment problem at Millbrae, a UCSF specialist is telling everyone to get their flu shots now, and there's a big game for the US in the World Cup against Iran.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Google Settles Suit Over Misleading Pixel Phone Campaign Google/Alphabet and iHeartMedia are settling a lawsuit over a misleading Pixel 4 ad campaign, the air quality management district wants to buy your old (pre-1999) car, and the UC worker strike is in its third week.
SF Politics KRON4 Bumps Into Dianne Feinstein at SFO, She Talks Gun Control Not even Senator Dianne Feinstein was immune to the long lines at San Francisco International Airport in the wake of Thanksgiving weekend, and a KRON4 reporter got lucky with a chance to buttonhole Feinstein as she was held up in line at SFO.
SF News As SF DA's Office Prepares For Preliminary Hearing of David DePape, Judge Recuses Herself Over Pelosi Link A preliminary hearing date has been set for the accused attacker of Paul Pelosi, David DePape, in the state case against him — and the initial judge on the case has decided to recuse herself.
SF News Video: Four Tomales Bay Kayakers Get Helicopter Rescue After Nearly Being Swept to Sea A Sunday afternoon helicopter rescue on the waters of Tomales Bay has yielded some video from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, who lent the efforts of their helicopter known as Henry-1 to Marin County’s Fire Department to ensure four kayakers made it safely back to shore.
Business & Tech AG Rob Bonta Calls On Apple to Shore Up Privacy on Reproductive-Related Data After Vice managed to buy the location data of people who visited 600 Planned Parenthood clinics (for a mere $160!), California AG Rob Bonta is urging Apple to better protect users’ private information in App Store third-party apps.
Bay Area Sports After Shutting Out the Saints, It's Time for the 49ers to Define Themselves The true test of who this San Francisco team really is will come next week, when the 8-3 Miami Dolphins, who have won five in a row, come to Levi's Stadium.
SF Politics For the Umpteenth Time, Gavin Newsom Insists He Won't Run for President In 2024 Newsom seems to really want to tamp down the loud rumor that he's looking to replace Biden on the 2024 ticket.
SF News California Will Now Automatically Seal Criminal Records of Many Ex-Felons Who Have Completed Their Sentences A new state law hailed as “the most expansive and comprehensive record-clearing law of its kind in the country” will seal the criminal records of everyone who’s served their time, though there are a few exceptions for sex offenders and violent felons.
Business & Tech After Layoffs and Resignations on Trust & Safety Team, Twitter Faces Challenge With Chinese Propaganda, Protests China's state-run propaganda machine appears to be working overtime to flood Twitter searches with porn and escort ads, whenever anyone searches for the name of a Chinese city where protests might be occurring.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: I-880 Reopens After Long Overnight Closure Due to Gun Incident I-880 in Oakland was closed for around three hours Sunday night after a man was seen brandishing a gun, five pets were killed and a person was injured in an East Bay house fire, and Meta was just fined again by the EU's data privacy regulator.
SF News Almost $180K Worth of Camera Gear Stolen From Store Close to SF's Union Square Despite this year's uptick in police presence in Union Square, a quick group of thieves managed to raid a high-end store in downtown San Francisco Saturday afternoon, leaving the camera shop Leica with $20K in damages and without $178K worth of products.
SF News Sunday Links: Comic-Con-Like Event Comes to San Francisco SFPD responded to a bizarre biting incident Saturday, Solano County remains the “most affordable” place to buy a home in the Bay Area, and tens of thousands of people have flocked to SF's Moscone Center for Fan Expo this weekend.
SF News Pedestrian Fatally Struck by Train in San Francisco; Second Caltrain-Related Fatality in Three Days Saturday morning, Caltrain's #221 train heading north collided with a person on the track of Tunnel 3 in San Francisco — becoming the second deadly Bay Area train collision in just three days and Caltrain’s tenth fatality recorded this year.
SF News SF’s New 'Futuristic’ Public Toilet Breaks Down On Just Third Day On the Job A highly hyped new SF bathroom hailed as “the future of public toilets” lasted only three days into said future, as the high-tech bathroom kiosk quickly had to be relieved of its duty and found itself closed for repairs.
SF News Hijacked Muni Bus Hits 10 Cars in Mission District, Suspect Now in Custody Friday night around 8 p.m., a suspect allegedly assaulted a Muni driver operating a bus at Cortland and Mission streets, before stealing the vehicle and traveling up to 19th and Guerrero streets — striking at least ten cars on their way.
SF News Saturday Links: BART's Powell Street Station Closes Due to 'Major Medical Emergency,' Reopens After Person Pulled Off Tracks East Bay's Wingen Bakery is expanding, Lower Nob Hill just got a new (and very green) corner store, and BART announced Saturday morning that it closed the Powell Street station because of a "major medical emergency" — but was reopened after it was resolved.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Ranks Worst for Package Theft, According to Report There's a good chance we're in for a winter boom in COVID cases, you can (for the first time ever) cut down your own Christmas tree inside the Stanislaus National Forest, and a new report shows SF Bay Area residents are most likely to experience package theft.
SF News Giant New Illuminated LED Art Thingy Now Adorns Ceiling at Powell Street BART Station Some BART art is freshly installed into the ceiling of the Powell Street station, paying homage to both the architecture of Union Square and the “bubble tiles” of that station’s walls.
SF News Thanksgiving Hangover Headlines: Holiday Homicide In Bay Point There's some rough surf and high chance of sneaker waves at local beaches today, a 63-year-old Bay Point man has been arrested for a Thanksgiving morning homicide, and Elon Musk fired a couple dozen more engineers.
SF News National Park Service Closes Municipal Pier at SF's Aquatic Park Cove Indefinitely Citing its poor state of condition — "[the pier] is incrementally deteriorating" — the National Park Service quietly and abruptly closed SF's "Muni Pier" on October 27... with no plans of reopening it anytime soon.
