SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Anyone Want to Buy a Legacy Taqueria? El Faro is in trouble again, popular smashburger pop-up Maillards has a new Outer Sunset home, and Eat Americana has closed its doors in the Richmond, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment New Mural at Oakland Ice Center Pays Tribute to Skaters Alysa Liu and Kristi Yamaguchi Bay Area artist Julie Engelmann completed a new 100-foot mural on the exterior of Oakland Ice Center honoring Olympic figure skaters, Alysa Liu and Kristi Yamaguchi, who both trained there during their professional careers.
SF News East Bay Company Dumps Debris Into Customer’s Yard Over Unpaid Bill, But They Moved Out Frustrated over an unpaid debt and faced with a $1,000 bill to discard a giant pile of junk at the dump, an East Bay dumpster company instead unloaded it back into the nonpaying customer's yard, but the problem is they moved out when they rented the dumpster.
SF Politics AOC Declines to Endorse Former Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti In Awkward Video Maybe this was a strategic decision on her part, but Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clearly declined to offer an endorsement of Saikat Chakrabarti when asked by a reporter this week about his primary race in SF.
SF News Eight Years Later, the First of Those Fancy New Trash Cans Arrive on SF Streets After the very long and some would say unnecessary selection, design, public comment, and fabrication process, the first of those fancy new, custom-made rubbish bins have arrived on San Francisco streets.
SF News SF Now Second Only to Baltimore In Overdose Deaths New data from the Centers for Disease Control finds that Baltimore and San Francisco are, among major cities, home to the highest concentrations of overdose deaths in the last year.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 at Hippie Hill Is Still Canceled, But a Lot of People Will Probably Show Up Anyway, Per Usual While 4/20 at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park has been canceled for the past three years due to budget cuts and low sponsorship, a few thousand diehards still show up annually to mark the occasion.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz Coffee Reverses Pride Flag Policy After Backlash, Boycott Threats After a truly baffling decision by its CEO to demand the removal of Pride flags and other flags from all of its stores, Philz Coffee will go back to allowing the flags, and the CEO has issued an apology.
SF News Suspected Car Thief Fleeing Police Crashes Head-On Into SF Muni Bus A driver who was being pursued by San Francisco police Thursday suffered serious injuries after he collided with a Muni bus and had to be extricated from the vehicle using the Jaws of Life.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California Schools See Enrollment Drops Enrollment is down across the board at California schools, both public and private; an at-risk 80-year-old woman is missing in SF; and singer D4vd has been arrested for the murder of his underage girlfriend who went missing in 2024.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Ramon Earthquakes Causing Widespread Leaks The swarm of small earthquakes in San Ramon has been causing more underground damage than previously realized; that AI-run boutique in Cow Hollow gets bad reviews; and Utah is seeing a whole lot of measles.
Business & Tech Meta Is Creating an AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg to Attend Meetings for Him Imagine a world where your boss says she doesn't have time to meet with you, but she's sending her AI to meet with you instead. That world may not, in fact, be too far in the future.
SF News SF Supe Pushes to Ban Smoking on Bar Patios, as Most Bay Area Cities Have Already Done Supervisor Myrna Melgar has introduced a ban on smoking at outdoor bar and tavern patios in San Francisco, which would make it one of the last major cities in the Bay Area to do so, and some local venues fear the ban would kill their business.
SF News Mercedes Driver Charged With Murder After Hit-and-Run In SoMa The 30-year-old man who allegedly ran into and then ran over an elderly woman in SoMa on Monday has now been charged with murder.
SF News Disturbing Details Emerge In Death of 37-Year-Old Woman on Big Sur Camping Trip Friends say they're heartbroken and details remain sketchy following the death last week of a 37-year-old woman in the Ventana Wilderness area of Los Padres National Forest, near Big Sur.
SF News SF DA Charges Couple With Murder Over Toddler’s Fentanyl Overdose Death In addition to earlier charges of felony child endangerment, the district attorney's office has added murder to the charges against an SF couple whose two-year-old daughter died of a fentanyl overdose in February — the city’s first time filing a murder charge in such a case.
SF Politics With Swalwell Out, New Governor's Race Poll Has Republicans In Lead, But Democrats on the Rise Several Democrats in the race for California governor gained some ground in a new poll conducted just in the last two days, following the swift downfall of Eric Swalwell, but the two Republican candidates still hold a small lead.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Yolo County Explosion Defendants Make Court Appearance Six of the people indicted last week in Yolo County over last July's fireworks explosion are appearing in court; two Inner Sunset buildings had to be evacuated due to an electrical pole fire; and a missing Berkeley man has been found alive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Snap Inc. Lays Off 1,000 Employees, Because of AI BART has had two major train issues during rush hour in the last day; a wealthy benefactor in LA kicked Eric Swalwell out of his house; and Snap Inc. is laying off 1,000 employees.
SF News NYC SantaCon Organizer Accused of Diverting $1 Million In Donations to Personal Account When SF’s organizers disavowed SantaCon in 2014 due to the chaos it brought the city every Christmas, one of the event’s organizers in NYC leaned into the chaos by forming a charity — at first to appease officials and then later to allegedly collect and divert funds for personal use.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz CEO Says Pride Flags Still Are Coming Down, Despite Pushback, and 'Unifying' Artwork Will Replace Them It's hard to understand where Philz CEO Mahesh Sadarangani is coming from other than a place of fear and Trump-inspired bigotry, but in a confidential memo to employees he's apparently digging in on this Pride flag issue, controversy be damned.
SF News Video Suggests SoMa Hit-and-Run Death Was Intentional Video that was posted to Reddit appears to show the moments before, during, and after a woman was killed near the intersection of Mission and South Van Ness on Monday.
SF Politics Candidates for Governor Attend Sacramento Forums, Say Swalwell Exit Signals Fresh Start Several California gubernatorial candidates attended two forums in Sacramento Tuesday where they discussed issues affecting Latino and Hispanic communities throughout the state. While one forum heavily discussed the Swalwell scandal, the other left him out of the discussion entirely.
SF News Case of Measles Found In San Francisco Infant Following International Travel An infant in San Francisco has contracted the measles virus and is infectious, according to the SF Department of Public Health, in the first known measles case in the city since 2019.
Business & Tech Anthropic's New Model, Mythos, Is So Dangerous It Isn't Being Released to the Public Anthropic's latest AI model, named Claude Mythos Preview, is capable of hacking into major banking systems, perhaps many at once, and doing massive damage if it fell into the wrong hands. Banks are being encouraged to test it out.
