SF Politics Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Attends Connie Chan Fundraiser Nancy Pelosi has made no endorsement in the race for her seat, but she did attend a Connie Chan event; Oakland hills residents keep losing internet due to copper wire theft; and a US army soldier made a Polymarket bet based on classified information and made $400K.
Arts & Entertainment The Oakland Zoo Now Has Two Rescued Mountain Lion Cubs Named ‘Crimson and Clover’ Clover, an orphaned mountain lion cub from El Dorado County, was brought to the Oakland Zoo last month, and Crimson was transported to Oakland from Los Angeles in early April, marking the zoo’s 33rd mountain lion rescue.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamnet' at ACT Offers Another Take on Shakespeare's Mysterious Wife Who was Shakespeare's wife Agnes, or Anne as she's been known to most historians, and what was her relationship to the man, eight years her junior, who ended up becoming one of the great poets and playwrights in Western Civilization?
Business & Tech Writer Discovers Claude Opus 4.7 Can Identify Her From 125 Words of Unpublished Work Anonymity for published writers and users with a heavy online presence is quickly becoming a thing of the past, as writer Kelsey Piper warns that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 managed to identify her based on a brief passage of unpublished work — while logged out and using incognito mode.
Business & Tech Mass Layoffs at Meta Begin With 8,000 Let Go; 6,000 Roles Frozen As artificial intelligence continues to drive both spending and job cuts in the tech industry, Meta just announced the first major wave of layoffs this year, which will likely be followed by a second wave before the end of the year.
SF News Could Marijuana Actually Become Federally Legal Under Trump? One initiative of the Biden administration that, surprisingly, President Trump didn't kill off and counter immediately was an effort by the Justice Department to finally reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
Arts & Entertainment Michael Tilson Thomas, Beloved Composer and Conductor of SF Symphony, Dies at 81 Michael Tilson Thomas, who served as music director of the San Francisco Symphony for 25 years and became a preeminent figure in the global classical music scene, has died at age 81.
SF News Two Unrelated Deaths Occur on the UC Berkeley Campus One Day Apart Authorities at UC Berkeley are investigating two separate deaths that occurred on campus a day apart, including a student who died after falling from a dorm and a man who was found dead in the bushes near the school’s administrative offices.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Standoff With UPS Truck Thief Ends Peacefully Police in Fremont arrested a suspected UPS truck thief following a standoff; Santa Clara County has put 10 social workers on leave due to the Jaxon Juarez death investigation; and California is getting three new state parks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Flight Had to Abort Landing at SFO Due to Other Plane on Runway A United flight had to abort a landing Monday night at SFO; a new state bill seeks to protect whales in SF Bay; and Kash Patel had the FBI investigate a NYT reporter because of a story about his girlfriend.
SF Politics Becerra, Steyer Tie For Democratic Lead In Governor’s Race Following Endorsements Xavier Becerra’s popularity shot up following endorsements from 15 state assembly members, and he and Steyer, who was endorsed by Betty Yee Tuesday, are now tied for the Democratic lead in the governor’s race.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queen Katya Smirnoff-Skyy Launches New Career as Realtor, In Full Drag Well known local drag queen and self-styled chanteuse Katya Smirnoff-Skyy is now moonlighting — or, daylighting? — as a San Francisco realtor, and she's using her drag persona to sell property on social media.
SF News Proposed SFMTA Budget Includes Slightly Raised Muni Fares and Parking Fines SFMTA’s proposed budget would slightly increase single-ride Muni fares and some parking fines while significantly increasing cable car fares. As a compromise, fines for uncurbed wheels would go down, and the fare for two single Muni rides would cover a full day of rides.
SF Politics That California Ban on Masked ICE Agents Just Got Struck Down A three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit just made permanent an injunction that blocks the enforcement of California's law banning masks on federal agents — basically because a state can't tell a federal agency what to do.
Arts & Entertainment Disassembly of Vaillancourt Fountain to Begin Next Week, With Full Removal In May Fans of the not-widely-loved Vaillancourt Fountain have just a few days left to pay their respects to the Brutalist landmark at Embarcadero Plaza, with the process to remove it set to start Monday.
SF Politics Former CA Congressman Devin Nunes Fired From Trump Media We haven't heard much from blowhard former Republican Congressman Devin Nunes the past few years, and that's because he's been busy losing over a billion dollars over at Trump Media & Technology Group.
SF Politics Four Democrats Rally Behind Caretaker Candidate to Fill Swalwell’s Seat Until End of Term A group of Democrats pledged to drop out of the special election to fill Eric Swalwell’s seat in favor of a caretaker candidate — retired state Senator Bob Wieckowski, with the goal of avoiding a runoff election that would cause Swalwell’s replacement to miss important votes.
SF News Rockridge Trader Joe's Could Be Redeveloped as Senior Living Towers The same developer that is looking to redevelop four Safeway properties in San Francisco is proposing a massive new senior living development on the site of the Rockridge Trader Joe's in Oakland.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Gubernatorial Candidates to Face Off In New Debate Six leading candidates for governor will face off in a debate tonight; a tornado touched down near Clovis on Tuesday; and San Mateo has banned the sale of kratom.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two People Found Dead Inside Car at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park Texas lawmakers can now legally require public schools to display the Ten Commandments; Alcatraz is closed to tours for a week while the dock gets repaired; and a man and a woman were found dead of potential overdoses inside a car in West Berkeley.
SF News Fugitive Suspect Arrested, Extradited In East Palo Alto Double Homicide From 2018 Nearly eight years after two men were fatally shot during a late-night altercation at a private Halloween party in East Palo Alto, the suspect, who reportedly fled to Mexico after the shooting, has returned to face justice.
SF News Water Line Rupture Leads to Flooding Inside Yerba Buena Tunnel on Bay Bridge A burst water main caused flooding Tuesday afternoon on a portion of the eastbound Bay Bridge lanes inside the Yerba Buena Tunnel, leading to the brief closure of two traffic lanes.
SF News Health Officials Warn of ‘Hyper-Mutated’ COVID Strain That First Appeared In US Last June While the numbers and health risks are low, the new “Cicada” strain has been slowly — but heavily — mutating since it arrived at SFO last summer. Officials say it may be capable of evading immunity, and they warn that COVID typically spreads more rapidly in the summer months.
SF News AI Store Manager Paying Female Employees Less, Can't Stop Ordering Candles That AI-run retail store experiment in Cow Hollow may or may not be going well, depending on who you ask. But it's gotten plenty of media attention, and perhaps that is mostly what the company behind it was after.
SF News Monday Night Stabbing Leaves One Man Critically Injured Near Sixth Street A man was stabbed Monday night on an alley off Sixth Street in SF's SoMa, and his injuries were said to be life-threatening.
