SF News Sunday Links: SF Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested for Domestic Battery, But Not Charged The man from the viral “Blinking White Guy” meme lives in SF; the perpetrator of a Hayward murder-suicide was fighting with his parents over his hygiene; and the sheriff’s department is investigating a deputy accused of domestic battery.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Is Looking Forward to When AI Takes His CEO Job So He Can Be a Full-Time Farmer Aspiring farmer Sam Altman is excited to take on the role full-time once his side hustle as OpenAI CEO is made obsolete by artificial intelligence. Altman anticipates machines will have the capability to fully outsmart humans by 2030.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Tarantulas, Ghost Tours, Floating Flicks, Blight to Bling, and Stonestown Buzz Bay Area librarian Mychal Threets to host ‘Reading Rainbow;’ lost jazz treasures; creative mutual aid; painted cars; bling from “bips,” ghosts in the city; tarantulas at Mt. Diablo; films on the bay; hidden views; and Jins and DSW open at Stonestown Mall.
SF News Saturday Links: Climber’s Death on El Capitan Inadvertently Livestreamed by TikToker One speed camera in SF’s South Beach generates a quarter of the city’s tickets; a fake Mission District lawyer and MAGA supporter won’t stop giving legal advice to immigrants; and the sole witness to climber Balin Miller’s death also livestreamed it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Yellow Fever’ Mosquito Spotted in Antioch, Residents Urged to Dump Standing Water NASA lost track of one of its probes, which ended up on a Texas farm; the SF Bar Association says SF DA Brooke Jenkins is creating a hostile environment for judges; and the “yellow fever” mosquito is thriving in Antioch thanks to the rain.
SF News Parents of College Students Killed in Piedmont Cybertruck Crash Sue Tesla, Say Kids Were Trapped in Burning Car The lawsuits against Tesla seemed likely after three college students died in a burning Cybertruck in Piedmont, and the parents of the victims say the doors of the Cybertruck would not open as the vehicle burned.
SF Politics Newsom Threatens to Cut Off Funds to Universities That Comply With Trump’s Threats to Cut Off Funds to Universities Governor Newsom has created a Spiderman-pointing-at-Spiderman GIF dilemma for any state universities that comply with Trump's demands to adopt his policies or lose federal funding, as Newsom says he’ll yank their state funding.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Palmer's Returns In Pac Heights Palmer's Tavern reopens after two years closed in Pacific Heights, Arsicault preps a fourth location downtown, and Memphis Minnie's may be permanently closed in the Lower Haight, all in This Week in Food.
Business & Tech Here Come the Creeps: Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Dudebro Stalking Women at USF, Posting Videos to Social Media The new Meta Ray-Ban video-recording glasses are being used exactly as you would expect, as some lonely perv is harassing and recording women on the USF campus, and posting his videos of this to social media without the women's consent.
SF News Threads Connected In Story of Zizian Shot In Vermont Who Was German Math Whiz The New York Times has attempted to explain one of the still unexplained pieces of the bizarre web of Zizian "murder cult" deaths, just as a Solano County trial for two of the cult's suspects gets delayed until next year.
SF News Shooting Suspect Arrested After Lengthy Standoff In SF's Tenderloin A suspect in a shooting engaged police in a multi-hour, overnight standoff on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin before being arrested early Friday morning.
Bay Area Sports Underdog 49ers Shock LA Rams With 26-22 Overtime Win, Take Sole Possession of First Place In NFC West Vegas oddsmakers had the 49ers as the biggest underdogs they’d been in five years, but a cast of no-name Niner back-ups stepped up and stunned a national TV audience with a 23-20 overtime victory over the LA Rams.
Arts & Entertainment What You Can Bring to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — and How to Watch From Home San Francisco's season of music festivals wraps up this weekend with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, which this year features The Reverend Horton Heat, Lucinda Williams, and regulars Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Apple Pulls ICE-Tracking App From App Store Apple has banned an app that allows people to report and track ICE activity; an experienced 23-year-old climber died on Yosemite's El Cap; and the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new Second Amendment case out of Hawaii.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Rosa Police Seize 5,000 Suspected Fentanyl Pills The Santa Rosa PD busted a suspected drug trafficker and found 5,000 suspected fentanyl pills; UC Berkeley is investigating a hate crime assault; and the FDA just approved a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Business & Tech Waymo in Hot Water After Robotaxi Illegally Blows Past School Bus With Stop Lights On in Georgia The latest safety scare for Waymo robotaxis comes from all the way in suburban Atlanta, where a Waymo vehicle illegally drove around a school bus that was dropping off kids and flashing its stoplights, and Georgia lawmakers are furious.
SF News Teen Accused of Defacing Pink Triangle Gets Felony Vandalism Charge, But No Hate Crime Charges The 19-year-old who allegedly spray-painted on the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle last Pride Month has been charged with a felony, though not a hate crime, as his attorney says the kid didn’t even know what the Pink Triangle meant.
SF News SFUSD to Open New Mission Bay Elementary School Next Year, Despite Declining Enrollment Wait, weren’t we just trying to close some SF schools? We were, but the SF Unified School District is still opening another elementary school this fall in the burgeoning Mission Bay neighborhood.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queens to Do Taylor Swift Tribute In Celebration of 'Life of a Showgirl' Release Swifties and drag fans can unite at Oasis to celebrate a new studio album from Taylor Swift, her 12th, 'Life of a Showgirl' — also, Alamo Drafthouse and the Metreon are showing the 'Release Party' movie.
SF Politics Trump Admin Trying to Stoke Fear That ICE Will Be at Santa Clara Super Bowl, Because of Bad Bunny Trump’s DHS is on a smear campaign claiming that this year’s Santa Clara Super Bowl will be overrun with "illegal aliens" because of Bad Bunny’s halftime show, even though Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican, and therefore an American citizen.
Arts & Entertainment Now Sam Smith Is Getting Blowback for Depicting Queer People Smoking In New SF-Shot Music Video Leave it to Bay Area denizens on Facebook, but some serious finger-wagging and multi-exclamation-point indignation is happening in at least one corner of social media about the amount of smoking seen Sam Smith's new music video, shot in SF's Castro.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Travis AFB Families to Feel Impacts of Shutdown Active duty Air Force members and businesses who depend on Travis AFB customers will feel impacts of stopped paychecks; a 47-year-old Santa Rosa woman goes missing on a hike; and the rain is supposed to stop today and give way to sun.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reggie Aqui Leaves ABC 7 News After Ten Years There were hundreds of wind-related flight delays at SFO Wednesday; Brock Purdy has been sidelined again for Thursday night’s Rams game; and Reggie Aqui is leaving KGO and his 'ABC7 Mornings' position after ten years at the station.
SF News More Frank Somerville Trouble, as He’s Charged With Battery Over Alleged Drunken 2024 Incident Yet another troubling development involving former KTVU anchor Frank Somerville, as we’re learning of a November 2024 incident over which he’s now charged with battery, and the story sure is similar to what got him arrested again last month.
SF News California AG Rob Bonta Leading 16-State Revolt Against Trump’s Harsh Student Visa Restrictions Trump trying to charge people $100,000 for visas is only one of his administration’s over-the-top new restrictions on visas, and state Attorney General Rob Bonta is leading a crusade to reverse the administration’s proposed new student visa rules.
