SF News Trial Finally Underway for 2021 Killing of 84-Year-Old ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee Nearly five full years after the unprovoked killing of an 84-year-old Thai immigrant in Anza Vista, the long-delayed trial for the murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee got underway Monday at SF Superior Court.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Asian Art Museum Returns Looted Thai Statues SF's Asian Art Museum is repatriating some looted statues to Thailand; yesterday's earthquake swarm in San Ramon totaled 10 small quakes; and SF's RV parking crackdown is off to a slow start.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Murder Charges Filed Against SF General Stabbing Suspect Murder charges have been filed against he man accused of stabbing a social worker at SF General; a small earthquake rattled Piedmont; and South San Francisco police shot a man they say charged at officers with a knife.
Business & Tech SF-Based Catering Website Swaps Restaurants’ Real Food Pictures With AI Pictures, Restaurants Get Pissed These bagels claim to be Boichik Bagels on the catering website Forkable, but they are fake AI-generated bagels, as perhaps evidenced by the oddly uniform size of the bagel slices, all slightly larger than a normal bagel half. Now restaurants listed on the website are furious.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Wine Importer and Retailer Kermit Lynch Opens Second-Ever Location In Marin Longtime Berkeley-based wine importer and retailer Kermit Lynch, one of the keystones of the Berkeley food world for five decades, has just expanded with its second-ever retail location, in Larkspur.
Business & Tech Watch: Two Waymos Appear to Collide In SF, Then Cause Traffic Jam That Traps Residents on Street The latest Waymo dustup is a Saturday incident where two Waymos appear to have collided with one another, resulting in three Waymos just stopping in place, and blocking a dead-end street so residents could not drive out.
SF News As It Prepares to Close Mall Location, Could H&M Be on Its Way Back to Union Square? One of the last retailers to close up shop at the nearly shuttered San Francisco Centre mall is H&M, which just confirmed it will close down in January, after the holidays.
Arts & Entertainment Video Shows How San Francisco Bar Pilots Help Steer Large Ships Into the Bay A new video documents the fairly unsung work of the San Francisco Bar Pilots, an elite group of local maritime experts and ship captains who board huge container ships and cruise ships to help them safely navigate through the Golden Gate.
SF News Dive Teams Searching Lake Merritt for Gun Used to Kill Condor Club Manager A strange twist in the investigation of the murder of the Condor Club strip joint manager, as while the shooting happened in Santa Rosa, police now believe that the murder weapon may be lying at the bottom of Lake Merritt.
SF News Redwood City Man Allegedly Kills Wife, Shoots Himself In Failed Murder-Suicide Redwood City police say that a man fatally shot his wife early Sunday and then turned the gun on himself, but he remains alive in critical condition.
SF News Vigil at SF General Hospital for Slain Social Worker Amplifies Concerns About Hospital Safety After Saturday’s news that a 51-year-old social worker had died from a violent stabbing attack by a patient at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital last week, the victim’s coworkers held a Sunday night vigil to sound the alarm about security at the hospital.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Sees Yet Another Messy Monday Commute BART's Red and Green lines were both out of service causing major delays Monday morning; another swarm of small earthquakes struck San Ramon; and Paramount is launching a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.
Politics Supervisor Chan Claps Back at Colleagues For Admonishing Her Budget, Housing Plan Concerns In a text exchange following Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Chan accused Board President Mandelman of acting in bad faith and setting her up with “two assholes” — Mahmood and Sauter, who are temporarily filling seats on the budget committee.
Arts & Entertainment Octogenarian Steals the Show With ‘Best Technique’ at Rikki’s Lesbian Pie-Eating Contest In honor of Lesbian Visibility Week last month, Rikki’s sports bar held a raucous pie-eating contest, with a contestant named Jenn winning grand prize, but “best technique” went to 81-year-old Babs Daitch who recently starred in an award-winning documentary.
SF News Sunday Links: Trump Takes MLK Jr. Day Off List of Free National Parks Holidays, Adds His Own Birthday Mayor Lurie talked about his socks during Wired’s ‘Big Interview’ while Governor Newsom trolled MAGAts with his sitting position; California residents are urged to avoid foraged mushrooms after 21 recent poisonings; and Golden Gate Ferry is adding two new vessels.
SF News [Update] Social Worker Dies From Injuries Following Stabbing at SF General Hospital, Suspect Arrested The social worker who was stabbed by a patient several times in the neck and shoulder at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Thursday has died from his injuries. The suspect, who reportedly has a history of violent behavior, has since been arrested.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: The Cockettes’ Tahara, Christmas Bar, and SCRAP Jewelry Pop-Up This week: 1960s gems at SCRAP, Muni’s holiday wrap artist, and Deck the Halls out the wazoo. Plus, queer performer and activist Tahara, astronomy talks, queer land stewardship, the wildlife of Yosemite, and ushering in the salmon.
SF News Video: Driverless Waymo Takes Passenger Through Police Standoff in Los Angeles Last week, a Waymo robotaxi was filmed driving through the scene of an active, high-risk felony arrest in Los Angeles. The autonomous car could be seen turning left through a red light, inches away from the suspect on the ground at gunpoint.
SF News Saturday Links: Historic SF Mansion Sells for Half Its Original Price, Despite ‘Mansion Shortage’ A shredded cheese recall has expanded to include 1 million bags from major retailers nationwide; the Oakland community packed the venue at a memorial for Laney College coach John Beam Friday; and an 1899 mansion on “Billionaires’ Row” sold for $17.75 million.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Drag Queen Pattie Gonia Raises $1 Million for Nonprofits on 100-Mile Hike to SF Regulators from the European Union fined Elon Musk’s X $140 million for violating transparency rules; Governor Newsom had a public spat with actress Halley Berry; and drag queen and environmentalist Patty Gonia raised $1 million for nonprofits prior to her show at the Warfield Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Not Leaving SF, Despite False Report Claiming Otherwise There hasn’t been any news on the rebirth of Anchor Brewing in a while, but there was some fake news about it this week, as a craft beer publication wrongly claimed the company was leaving SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chicken-Fried Everything Chicken Fried Palace debuts in the Mission, Standard Fare calls it quits in Berkeley, and we get the first big review of Via Aurelia, all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Hopped Up: That Bunny Cafe In Fisherman’s Wharf Announces December 21 Opening Date Rabbit lovers can finally let their hare down when that long-rumored Bunny Cafe comes to Fisherman’s Wharf with a just-announced opening date of Sunday, December 21, and the crazy rabbits will indeed be up for adoption.
SF News Newly Released Video Shows Moment Bodega Cat Was Killed on 16th Street Some newly released surveillance video from Randa's Market, from the October night when the store's beloved resident cat, KitKat, was fatally injured by a Waymo, complicates the picture of what happened.
SF News [Updated] Social Worker In Critical Condition After Being Stabbed at SF General Hospital A 51-year-old UCSF social worker was stabbed in the neck and shoulder by a patient Thursday afternoon, and the suspect was quickly taken into custody, as the hospital had already called authorities on the unruly patient.
