Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Lawrence Calls Off Long-Anticipated Elizabeth Holmes Movie Actress Jennifer Lawrence, who has been on something of an acting hiatus, quietly decided to shelve a planned Elizabeth Holmes biopic and dramatization of the meltdown of Theranos, saying the story's already been told.
SF News Atherton Buried Car Mystery Appears Solved: The Car Was Buried To Collect the Insurance Money Investigators in the bizarre buried Mercedes-Benz case in Atherton have concluded the whole thing was a case of insurance fraud, and lo and behold, the car’s late owner Johnny Bocktune Lew collected a cool $87,000 after reporting the car stolen in 1992.
Business & Tech Twitter Building Shuttered Until Monday as Employees Get Emailed Pink Slips; Lawsuit Filed Over Layoff Notification Twitter employees in San Francisco, New York, Dublin and elsewhere got their emails Thursday night and into Friday morning informing them whether or not they still had jobs with the company.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Charges Filed In Fatal Beating at 7-11 David DePape will have a preliminary hearing date set today, security is high at the Pelosi home now that Paul is back recovering, and the man accused in a fatal beating at a Visitacion Valley 7-11 has been charged with murder.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Beloved LED Art Forest Coming Back to Golden Gate Park in December That bizarre case of a buried car in Atherton appears to be solved, a customer is alleging rough treatment at the DNA Lounge, and the hit light-up art installation Entwined will again return to Golden Gate Park for the holidays.
Business & Tech AOC Says Her Twitter Account Was ‘Bricked’ After Musk Criticism, Possibly the Shape of Things To Come While Twitter employees are working 12-hour days under the threat of termination, their boss Elon Musk is engaged in trolling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and possibly limiting features on her account.
Arts & Entertainment Union Square Ice Rink Back For 15th Year, Now With ‘Welcome Ambassadors’ to Calm Your Smash-And-Grab Fears The holly, jolly Union Square Holiday Ice Rink opened for its 15th year Wednesday, now with orange-jacketed “Welcome Ambassadors” tasked with making tourists and families feel safer.
SF News Paul Pelosi Is Out of the Hospital, Resting at Home Following Last Friday's Attack A little under a week after being admitted to intensive care following surgery for a skull fracture and other injuries, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's husband is now recovering at home.
SF Politics Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith Convicted On All Counts In Corruption Trial A civil grand jury has found her guilty on all six counts she was charged with, including corruption and willful misconduct.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Hit With More Ethics Allegations Over Alleged Unauthorized Sharing of Sensitive Department Documents A new report alleges DA Jenkins shared a suspect’s information for use in the recall campaign with another colleague who was also quitting on Boudin, and Jenkins is responding by launching an investigation into the leak.
SF News Newsom Temporarily Cuts Off Homeless Funding to SF and Other Cities Pending Better Local Plans The Governor's Office on Thursday announced that it was putting a pause on releasing a third round of grants totaling $1 billion from a key funding program that sends money to address homelessness to cities and counties across the state.
Business & Tech Lyft and Stripe Both Lay Off Hundreds of Employees, Citing Economy A day ahead of expected layoffs at Twitter that will thoroughly gut the company as we know it, San Francisco-based Lyft announced the laying off of 13% of its workforce, and South San Francisco-based Stripe is cutting 14% of its workforce.
Business & Tech Musk Reportedly Laying Off 50% of Twitter Staff, Layoffs to Begin Friday Black Friday is coming a few weeks early at Twitter, as reports come in that Elon Musk will lay off 50% of the company starting Friday, which hardly bodes well for the new paid blue-check system which is supposed to launch Monday.
SF News Accused Pelosi Attacker David DePape Was In the US Illegally, Still Managed to Become Obsessed With MAGA Crap It's funny how even a non-U.S. citizen who can't vote can be caught up in the thrall of right-wing rhetoric, imaginary conspiracy plots and election lies, and obsessed with saving the country from "tyranny."
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: More Charges Pile Up For SF Serial Stalker The SF DA's Office filed more charges against serial stalker/groper Bill Hobbs, an SF supervisor is vowing more security at the Excelsior Safeway where a shooting occurred, and half of California's 10 biggest cities are electing new mayors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Condor Club In North Beach Seeks Legacy Status The judge in Santa Clara Co. Sheriff Laurie Smith's corruption trial won't dismiss the charges even though she resigned, a Capitol Corridor train collided with a Tesla, and the notorious Condor Club wants Legacy Business status.
SF News New Valencia Street ‘Temporary’ Tattoo Parlor Faces Complaints the Tattoos Aren’t Temporary, Don’t Go Away The tattoo parlor Ephemeral on Valencia Street promised tattoos that are “made to fade” within a year, but worried customers are frantic that after a year and a half, their tattoos have not faded much at all.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zero Zero to Close In SoMa After 12 Years of Wood-Fired Pizza Glory The pandemic and the extra-slow recovery of downtown have taken out another well-loved, established restaurant.
SF News Feds Make 21 Arrests In Nationwide Catalytic Converter Theft Ring, Including 3 In Sacramento Who Sold $38M Worth One family in Sacramento is allegedly responsible for selling $38 million worth of stolen catalytic converters, and along with 18 other associates in a nationwide theft ring, they were arrested Wednesday in one of a series of raids.
SF News State AG Calls Out Plastic Bag Companies, Says Bags Aren’t Actually Recyclable California Attorney General Rob Bonta says plastic bag manufacturers are flat-out ignoring a law that their bags must be recyclable, and says grocery bag makers must produce proof that bags can be recycled.
SF News Snowy, Slippery Roads Near Tahoe Led to Six-Truck Pile-Up Wednesday Morning The passing weather system that brought SF some rain brought snow and ice to the Sierra, and I-80 saw a multi-vehicle crash near Truckee Wednesday morning.
SF News Walgreens and CVS Agree to $10 Billion Settlement for Opioid Overprescription, But SF Case Still Looms Walmart has also reportedly agreed to be on the hook for a $3 billion settlement, but the Walgreens settlement does not stop the case that SF City Attorney David Chiu is bringing against that pharmacy chain.
SF News 73-Year-Old Man Killed and ‘Several’ Others Beaten in Attack at Visitacion Valley 7-Eleven An early Tuesday morning attack on several people at a 7-Eleven on Bayshore Boulevard has left one man dead, and the alleged perpetrator is in police custody.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Had a Zoom Meeting Last Night With Nonprofits About Hate Speech Chief Twit Elon Musk apparently had a hastily planned meeting with seven nonprofits via Zoom on Tuesday night, and it left them feeling some type of way about how hate speech and elections will be handled, going forward, at Twitter.
SF News Six Teens — Including Three 13-Year-Olds — Arrested In Connection With Stabbing Outside Marin School Five teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and one 19-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed and critically wounded outside an elementary school in Novato last week.
