Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Muttville's New HQ, Tactile Maps, Pavement Plants, ‘Fairyland’ Flick, and a Hidden Mansion In this week's Field Notes: from a chic Mission dog shelter and a mansion under the Bay Bridge to pavement plants and dahlias in Oakland. Also, tactile SF maps, Obon in the park, queer family stories, cat zines, and a Sacramento ghost town.
SF News Saturday Links: Radioactive Shrimp Recall Widens to California, Several Brands Affected An SFPD recruit died two days after suffering a medical emergency during a training session; a small sinkhole ruined some drivers’ days near Golden Gate Park; and the radioactive shrimp recall now includes California.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Australian Bank Fires, Rehires Staff After Chatbot Fails Spectacularly The Pickett Fire in Napa County was at 7% containment on Friday afternoon; the vermin-infested Cupertino Whole Foods that shut down in April is still closed; and an Australian bank had to hire back the employees it fired when its new chatbot bombed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Alamo Square to Get a Friulian Restaurant A small restaurant devoted to the cuisine of Friuli (in Italy) comes to Alamo Square, San Francisco celebrates Tomato Week, and the Chronicle decides to do a blind bagel ranking, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Thursday’s San Rafael Apartment Fire Now Deemed ‘Suspicious,’ One Person Confirmed Dead Investigators are still going through the wreckage caused by Thursday morning’s San Rafael apartment building fire, and they’re now confirming at least one person died, but the origin of the blaze is being classified as “suspicious.”
SF News ‘Guerrilla Bench’ Activists Back At It, Install 12 More Lovely But Unauthorized Benches at Muni Stops The team of anonymous transit activists who put benches at Muni stops that had no benches in June has struck again, adding 12 new benches to bench-less bus stops in the Lower Haight, Bayview-Hunters Point, and Potrero Hill.
SF Politics Trump, Gunning For More Legal and Militaristic Chaos, Doubles Down on Threat to Bring Troops to SF Whether he's legally permitted to or not, Herr Trump is doubling down on his earlier threat to send National Guard troops to combat "crime" in Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Is Doing a Book Tour, Coming to San Francisco on October 5 It’s still not clear what Kamala Harris’s next act will be after losing the 2024 election, but for now she’s on a book tour, promoting her apparent behind-the-scenes account of her three-month presidential campaign called “107 Days.”
SF News Parents of Baby Reported Missing In Southern California Arrested on Suspicion of Murder A seven-month-old infant was reported missing by his mother last week, kidnapped outside of a Big 5 Sporting Goods store in San Bernardino County. The case has grown stranger, and now both the child's parents have been arrested.
SF News US Citizen and SF Native Arrested by ICE After Protest We are now at the point where ICE agents are apparently arresting and detaining US citizens, as a San Francisco native became the third US citizen ICE agents have arrested this month in SF, though she was released on Thursday.
SF News Pickett Fire, Which Began Thursday In Calistoga, Grows to 2,133 Acres A wildfire that is burning in a remote area of Napa County in northern Calistoga grew overnight to over 2,100 acres, and it is currently 0% contained.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Musk Agrees to Pay Severance to Fired Twitter Employees Elon Musk and X have reportedly agreed to pay out severance that was denied to some 6,000 former Twitter employees; CHP makes a human trafficking arrest during a traffic stop in Oakland; and Erik Menendez was denied parole.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Celebrate 20th Anniversary, Party Planned for Saturday The California redistricting measure is officially coming to your November 4 ballot; Lil Nas X was arrested and may have overdosed; and the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps celebrate their 20th anniversary on Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica Set to Headline This Year's Dreamforce Concert, With Benson Boone Performing Too The corporate Salesforce conference Dreamforce has named Metallica as its headliner for the big concert they have every year, and Benson Boone will play too, but the bigger news may be that Dreamforce is moving to mid-October.
SF News Livermore Father Deported By ICE Gets Some Help From Congressman Eric Swalwell, Awaits Hearing In October A Livermore man who has lived in the Bay Area his entire adult life and raised three children here remains in Mexico, where he has no family, after being deported, while his wife and family here await his next immigration hearing.
Business & Tech People Like Sam Altman and Eric Schmidt Are Calling Out the AI Bubble, Just as Meta Pauses AI Hiring Big names in Silicon Valley collectively seem to be saying the same thing about the AI boom lately, namely that it is looking more and more like a bubble, and that the rush to AGI (artificial general intelligence) may be very misguided.
SF Politics Elon Musk Getting Sued Over His Sham $1 Million Trump Election ‘Sweepstakes’ While Trump was complaining about a rigged election, his boy Elon Musk was running a rigged sweepstakes for $1 million that people who entered could not actually win, and now he’s facing a class action lawsuit over it.
SF Politics The Trump Administration Tried to Subpoena Medical Records of Children Seeking Gender-Affirming Care In one of the most disgusting and fascistic moves by this second Trump administration — which is saying a lot! — a new report details how the Justice Department tried to subpoena the medical records of children seeking gender-affirming care in Philadelphia.
SF News Muni Drivers Up In Arms Over New Policy That Restricts Their Bathroom Breaks All SF Muni drivers must now request permission from their boss to take a bathroom break, and their union is complaining about these stricter new driver rules they say don’t even allow drivers to eat or use their phone while on breaks.
SF News Former Ally Testifies About Evidence of San Mateo County Sheriff's Romantic Relationship That She Denies Some testimony on Day 3 of the removal hearing for San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus contradicts her claims that she had no romantic relationship with the man she hired as her chief of staff.
Arts & Entertainment That ‘Diplo’s Run Club’ Footrace Is Returning to SF in October Dancehall DJ and producer Diplo managed to get 13,000 people in SF to do his EDM-fueled early morning 5K run and live performance last year, so Diplo’s Run Club is returning to SF this October, but this time it’s in Golden Gate Park.
SF News Eight Injured In Early Morning Fire at Apartment Complex In San Rafael Eight people were injured and reportedly 50 people are now displaced after a fire tore through a 19-unit apartment complex in San Rafael Thursday morning.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Waymos to Hit Market Street Next Week Waymos and a limited number of Uber and Lyft black cars will be permitted back on lower Market Street next week; a San Jose bus driver was attacked; and an Alameda bank teller thwarted a robbery.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Auction to Sell Off Mall Delayed Again The auction to offload SF's half-empty mall has been postponed for a seventh time; there's plague in South Lake Tahoe again; and people with those HOV/EV stickers won't be able to use the carpool lanes as single drivers starting in October.
SF News 16 People Named in Alleged $400,000 Santa Clara County TJ Maxx Theft Ring Talk about getting the Maxx for the minimum! The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 16 people for allegedly stealing nearly $400,000 worth of TJ Maxx merchandise, and then reselling it at flea markets.
