SF News Former North Bay Cop Found Guilty of Posing as Federal Agent to Rob Drivers of Weed, Cash A federal jury on Friday convicted former Rohnert Park police officer Joseph Huffaker on all six counts tied to a yearslong scheme in which he and other officers illegally stopped drivers on Highway 101 and stole their cannabis and cash — prior to the legalization of recreational cannabis.
SF News UC Berkeley Professor Fatally Shot by Masked Gunman in Broad Daylight While Visiting Kids in Greece A UC Berkeley professor was shot multiple times on July 4 in an Athens, Greece suburb by a masked gunman who reportedly fled in a waiting vehicle and remains at large. Authorities are investigating whether it was a targeted hit.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Valkyries Podcast, Audium’s 50th Anniversary, Hidden Alcatraz, and Bandaloop In this week's Field Notes: a Golden State Valkyries momcast, Audium’s 50th anniversary 176-speaker revival, Bandaloop in Oakland, Tamera Avery’s surreal art, the best swimming holes, Victorian towns, zany dioramas, and more.
SF News Saturday Links: Federal Judge Issues Restraining Order Blocking Race-Based ICE Raids Some South Bay high schools are working to educate students about using AI tools ethically while curbing cheating; former Emeryville mayor John Bauters is now a contestant on reality show, 'The Snake'; and a federal judge has blocked ICE from conducting indiscriminate raids.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Admin Erases Bi History From Stonewall Site After Earlier Trans Omission Berkeley Flea Market vendors are still setting up outside the Ashby BART station on the weekends; a worker was killed during Thursday's raid at Glass House Farms in SoCal; and references to bisexual people have been erased from the Stonewall Memorial site.
Business & Tech The Grok Chatbot Is Apparently Programmed to Check for Elon Musk's Opinions to Answer Questions Well well. Should it be at all shocking to learn that Elon Musk's xAI has built an AI chatbot that essentially seeks to parrot Musk's own views of the world whenever it gets the chance?
SF News Video: Nutty Robbery Suspect Driver Dashes Wrong Way on Bay Bridge in July 4 Melee An alleged July 4 robbery in SF led to some fleeing suspects evading police, and SFPD just released wild drone video of the suspects trying to get away by driving the wrong direction across the Bay Bridge into oncoming traffic.
Business & Tech Good News for Union Square, as Bang & Olufsen Is Returning, in the Old Britex Fabrics Location Danish luxury electronics retailer Bang & Olufsen actually closed their Union Square store long before the pandemic and subsequent downtown SF downturn, but they're coming back this October in the former Geary Street Britex Fabrics space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A New Dogpatch Hotspot Takes Shape Details on the new project from the Lord Stanley team, Osito's chef Seth Stowaway has launched a dining club, and the Chronicle reviews two reopened classic SF restaurants, all in This Week in Food.
SF News More Homeless Individuals Traveling Out to SF Airport at Night (Again) In what appears to be an echo of a trend that was happening before the pandemic, likely spurred by increased hassling by police and outreach workers in the city, SFO has been seeing increased numbers of homeless people taking the train there and hanging out, or sleeping.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Long-Stalled Reopening of Don Ramon’s Turns to Crowdfunding to Make Its Final Push The new incarnation of the longtime SoMa Mexican restaurant Don Ramon’s could be just months from opening at the Embarcadero Center, but only if longtime fans come through on a new crowdfunding campaign to help finance its buildout.
SF News Seven Victims Identified In Yolo County Fireworks Warehouse Blast, Four Were Bay Area Residents Of the seven people who died in last week's explosion and fire at Devastating Pyrotechnics in Yolo County, two were residents of San Francisco and two were residents of the East Bay city of San Pablo.
SF News Revised Plans Call For Very Tall New Tower at Former PG&E Headquarters, 150 Feet Taller Than Salesforce A proposed new office tower would become the tallest building on the West Coast, and would tower above Salesforce Tower by 150 feet, under a new plan by developer Hines for the former PG&E headquarters complex near the foot of Embarcadero.
SF News Trump Administration Sues California, Claims We’re Driving Up the Price of Eggs The latest legal fight between Trump and California cracks open an argument that California’s anti-animal cruelty laws are responsible for spikes in egg prices, even though the price of eggs has stabilized since the bird flu emergency ended.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Earthquake Rumbles Off the CA Coast A 3.4M earthquake struck this morning about 50 miles from Eureka, under the Pacific; Richmond just saw its first homicide of the year; and it's Free Slurpee Day at 7-Eleven stores.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Want to Design One of Those ‘Hearts in SF?’ Here’s Your Chance That big NASCAR race at Sonoma Raceway is this weekend; an immigrant activist who Trump jailed for 104 days is suing for $20 million; and this is your chance to design one of those famed “Hearts in San Francisco.”
SF News Sure Enough, SFO Not at All Receptive to Oakland Airport’s New Proposed ‘San Francisco' Name In their ongoing quest to put the words ‘San Francisco’ in their name, the Oakland airport recently floated the new name ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.’ SFO officials have responded that they hate it, and they’re not pulling back their lawyers.
SF News Cannabis Farm In SoCal Sees Chaotic ICE Raid; Subsequent Protest Met With Tear Gas A chaotic scene on California's Central Coast is making the national news Thursday evening as an ICE raid at a cannabis farm was met with a protest, and federal agents and National Guard troops then began deploying tear gas and rubber bullets.
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo’s Relentlessly Adorable Red Panda ‘Tenzing’ Has Died While the SF Zoo tries to bring in giant panda bears, the zoo’s tinier specimen of the Himalayan red panda, 12-year-old viral video star and crowd favorite Tenzing, passed away this week from apparent complications of a parasitic infection.
Arts & Entertainment Illuminated, 100-Foot-Long Sea Creature Installation Coming to Golden Gate Park What's being billed as the largest piece of public art ever to be installed in the history of Golden Gate Park is going to debut later this month along JFK Promenade.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose Woman Still Suing Thai Restaurant For Serving Her Spicy Meatballs That She Says Injured Her It would seem strange for a doctor to file a frivolous injury lawsuit, so we'll give the benefit of the doubt to the case of a San Jose woman, who is a doctor, who claims that an extra-spicy Thai dish caused her permanent internal injuries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Warriors’ Jimmy Butler Opens Coffee Pop-Up In Former Lucca Ravioli, and Boy Is It an Instagram and Influencer Trap Would you wait in line for 45 minutes to pay $10 for a cup of coffee? Then you will love Bigface, Jimmy Butler’s celebrity-branded coffee pop-up that’s currently taking over the Square Corner Store in the former Lucca Ravioli space.
Business & Tech Musk Threatens to Bring Tesla's LiDAR-Free Robotaxis to Bay Area Within Months Lest we thought that Elon Musk was finally done with the Bay Area, having closed down Xitter's offices and moved several of his companies to Texas, he's now claiming that Tesla's robotaxis will be coming to compete with Waymo soon.
SF Politics Sunset Night Market on Pause, Possibly Falling Victim to Recall Fight Involving Supervisor Joel Engardio If you ask the folks trying to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio, the merchants and the community don't want the popular Sunset Night Market to return this summer — but also, if you're a fan, it's Engardio's fault that it's not coming back.
SF News Early Morning East Bay Freeway Gunfire Sends One Person to the Hospital Someone started firing shots at a Tesla 3 driver at about 12:30 am this morning on I-680 about five miles north of Danville, and while the driver took a bullet to the head, their injuries are relatively minor and they’re expected to survive.
