SF News Saturday Links: 2023 Dolores Park Skate Bomb Lawsuit Extends to Class Action Status, 113 May Now Join The Millbrae police chief suspected of commuting from Idaho is now being investigated by Idaho officials; the firefighter who saved the Marina after the 1989 earthquake has died; and 113 people who were arrested during the 2023 Dolores Park hill bomb can now take part in an existing lawsuit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Locker Room Bullying Prompts Forfeiture of Antioch High School Football Game Amazon laid off 780 Bay Area workers this week and twice as many layoffs are coming next year; two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to continue funding SNAP payments; and several Antioch High School football players were allegedly caught on camera bullying another student.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Basically Accuses Sam Altman of Murdering OpenAI Engineer on (Of Course) Joe Rogan’s Podcast Elon Musk visited Joe Rogan’s podcast again, and continued his crusade against his more successful AI competitor Sam Altman, pretty much flat-out saying that Altman murdered the engineer found dead in his SF apartment.
SF News US Navy Found High Levels of Airborne Plutonium at Hunters Point, Failed to Mention This for 11 Months The US Navy detected high levels of the radioactive isotope plutonium-239 at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard about a year ago, and the city of SF is wondering why they didn’t get around to informing us until just now.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Bunny Cafe? An upscale Filipino spot is set to take over the Sons & Daughters space on Nob Hill, YUJA Kitchen from an AL's Place alum opens in Rincon Hill, and North Beach is getting a bunny cafe, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment LED Disco Dinosaur ‘Doloresaurus’ Revs Up to Roar for Halloween Here’s one costume that goes paleo for Halloween, and the entire year, as the fifteen-foot-long glowing LED dinosaur “Doloresaurus” roars, plays music, and tricera-tops all the other costumes in town.
Arts & Entertainment 'Stereophonic' Artfully Evokes Rock Legends Holed Up In a Sausalito Recording Studio In 1976 Tony-winning play Stereophonic blew into town this week with the bravado of the legendary rock band that it sorta kinda imagines the story of, pulsing with 1970s recording studio vibes, and using fiction to fill in the missing pieces of an iconic moment in American music history.
SF News SFPD Arrests 19-Year-Old Suspect in Last Week’s Golden Gate Park Sexual Assault of a Child Not a moment too soon for SF parents whose kids are heading out trick-or-treating tonight, SFPD has arrested a 19-year-old in the case of a girl who was dragged into a bathroom and sexually assaulted at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field.
SF Politics City Economist Report Says Lurie’s Upzoning Plan Won’t Build Much Housing, Lawsuits and Recall Threats Now Brewing A new City Hall report throws cold water on Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan, saying it won’t really build much housing. YIMBY groups are threatening to sue, while west side voters say it’s overdevelopment and are threatening a recall.
Arts & Entertainment SF Rec & Parks Appears to Make End Run to Get Rid of Vaillancourt Fountain In a Hurry Many have called the hulking Brutalist fountain at Embarcardero Plaza "maligned" and even "ugly," but artist Armand Vaillancourt's sculptural work still has many fans who will not be pleased by the lastest move by SF Rec & Parks to remove it in short order.
Business & Tech Waymo Confirms Vehicle's Role In Death of 16th Street Bodega Cat, as Mourning Continues Waymo has acknowledged that one of its autonomous vehicles ran over a beloved corner store cat on 16th Street Monday, and the company says it will be making a donation to an animal rights organization in the cat's honor.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Air Traffic Control Shortages Continue The woman charged with being an accessory in the murder of Condor Club manager Mark Calcagni pleads not guilty; flight delays and ground stops continue at some airports due to air traffic control staffing; and Trump is calling on Senate Republicans to scrap the filibuster to end the shutdown.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Where All of the SF Trick-or-Treat Street Closures Will Be for Halloween Mayor Lurie reportedly ghosted Marc Benioff for Dreamforce; the Raiders donated $250,000 to fix that scorched Mount Diablo football field; and Mission Local scared up a map of all the streets closed to cars for trick-or-treating.
SF News Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Forced to Remain in Custody, Curses Out Judge in Courtroom Longtime serial SF harasser Bill Gene Hobbs will remain in SF County Jail for the foreseeable future after a Thursday morning hearing, but went off on the judge with a profane tirade that likely did him no favors for upcoming hearings.
SF News SF Rec & Parks Bids Fond Farewell to Giant Cypress That Had to Be Taken Down In Golden Gate Park "Farewell to the giant!" says San Francisco's Rec & Parks Department, after announcing the demise of a 100-year-old, 90-foot cypress tree in Hellman Hollow, the enormous trunk of which had recently split, creating a dangerous situation.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Confirms Return to Castro Theatre For 50th Anniversary Film Fest As has been expected, San Francisco's LGBTQ+ film festival, Frameline, is going to return to its old home at the Castro Theatre in 2026, and this will be for Frameline 50, marking 50 years of the world's oldest queer film fest.
Arts & Entertainment Skrillex to Return In Late December, Plus Swedish House Mafia Too, as Lurie Announces ‘Winter of Music’ Mayor Lurie took to Instagram to announce a series of late December SF concerts at places you wouldn’t expect them, featuring Skrillex, Four Tet, Swedish House Mafia, and Fisher, between December 19-30.
SF News Massive Art Heist Hits Oakland Museum of California, More Than 1,000 Items Stolen One of the biggest California art thefts in years went down at a warehouse for the Oakland Museum of California, and now the FBI is involved, as thieves pilfered more than 1,000 artifacts and works of art in a 3:30 am heist this month.
SF News Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claims Grandfather Was 'Boiled Alive' By Hotel Shower In San Jose The family of a Marine Corps veteran who had traveled to San Jose to see his granddaughter graduate from college in May is suing the hotel where he was staying after he was found dead and severely scalded in the shower of his hotel room.
SF News San Francisco to Cover Gap In SNAP Funding, Assuming Checks Don't Arrive, With Help of Foundation Recipients of SNAP assistance, or food stamps, in San Francisco will not see their benefits lapse due to the federal government shutdown, thanks to a partnership between San Francisco and the charity started by billionaire Michael Moritz and his wife.
SF News Early Morning FBI Raid Hits Oakland After Feds Indict Nine Alleged Gang Members Oakland’s Lower Dimond district was rocked by a 4 am Wednesday morning FBI raid that targeted nine freshly indicted alleged members of the Sureño gang, alleging they pulled a pair of 2019 murders and a host of drug crimes.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 196-Unit Apartment Complex Planned In Presidio The Presidio Trust announces plans for a new, 196-unit residential complex; a fistfight in East Oakland turned into a shooting Wednesday; and the Trump administration admits in a court filing that it has the funds the cover SNAP benefits for November.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Leaves Baby, Walks Away From East Bay Crash Scene A woman was arrested after allegedly walking away from her crashed car on I-580, leaving an infant inside; Mayor Lurie's upcoming plan might not produce enough new units; and the death toll from Hurricane Melissa rises to 30.
Arts & Entertainment Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre Sets Sights on Reopening Under New Ownership, Possibly With Booze and Karaoke Once dubbed “the Carnegie Hall of public sex in America,” the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre has been closed since the pandemic. But a new ownership group hopes to revive it, possibly with alcohol service and karaoke.
SF News Berkeley Animal Rights Activist Convicted of Stealing Chickens From Petaluma Farm The trial has ended for Direct Action Everywhere activist Zoe Rosenberg, and she has been convicted of trespassing and conspiracy in connection with a 2023 raid on a Petaluma poultry farm in which she stole/rescued four chickens.
