SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: An Al Pastor Master Comes to Union Square Al Pastor Papi debuts in Union Square, WesBurger & More says farewell, and San Francisco gets snubbed entirely at the James Beard Awards again, all in This Week In Food.
SF News Tesla Driver Charged With Assault and Elder Abuse For Allegedly Running Down Protester at 'No Kings' March The protest and march down Market Street last Saturday was mostly peaceful for the 'No Kings' day demonstration in SF. But at least one frustrated driver not only tried to drive through the marchers, but also allegedly hit an elderly marcher and ran over their foot.
SF News Former Private Prison In SoCal Being Converted Into Largest Migrant Detention Camp In the State The mass-deportation effort by the Trump administration, which is all but certain to cost the American people much more money than it saves — and deprive multiple industries of an able and willing workforce — soldiers on.
SF News Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman's Son Accused of Rape at NYU The youngest of Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman's four children, Abe, who was raised in Berkeley, has been brought up on a criminal rape charge in New York, where he is attending college.
SF News Ninth Circuit Sides With Trump Over National Guard, But Battle Continues In District Court Friday In celebrating a temporary legal victory Thursday night, Donald Trump immediately threatened to deploy the National Guard in any state where protests occur. But California will continue to do battle with the administration in district court Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Santa Cruz Man to Face Murder Charges After Fleeing to Europe Residents of SoMa and the Mission experienced power outages Thursday; a 54-year-old Santa Cruz man is suspected of killing his father and fleeing to Switzerland; and the Valkyries triumphed over the Fever in Caitlin Clark's first Chase Center pro game.
Business & Tech Zoox Opens Factory In Hayward, City Very Pleased About This Amazon-owned autonomous taxi company Zoox has opened a new production facility in Hayward, which is already employing around 100 technicians, and the City of Hayward is quite happy to welcome them.
SF News Vallejo Kidnapper Matthew Muller Pleads Guilty In 32-Year-Old Cold Case In Sacramento County The guilty pleas continue to rack up for Matthew Muller, the man convicted in the infamous 2015 kidnapping and sexual assault of Denise Huskins which was the subject of Netflix's American Nightmare.
SF News New Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Hopes For Safe Juneteenth Celebration, Asks Revelers Not to Repeat Last Year On Juneteenth last year at Oakland's Lake Merritt, celebrations gave way to a raucous sideshow which then gave way to a brawl and a mass shooting that left 14 people wounded. Oakland city leaders are promising a safer situation this year.
SF News Racist History of Piedmont to Be Commemorated With Memorial For First Black Family Driven Out A very racist episode in the history of the City of Piedmont, in the East Bay, is likely going to be commemorated with a memorial sculpture park, as the town's leaders announce this Juneteenth.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland Fire Burns Hundreds of Porta-Potties A brush fire in Antioch grew to 290 acres and prompted an evacuation warning Wednesday; a fire in East Oakland burned hundreds of portable toilets; and SpaceX had another massive explosion on the launchpad.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Conducts Multiple Tenderloin Drug Busts The SFPD made 25 arrests in coordinated drug raids in the Tenderloin; John Fisher is selling the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team; and there are still tickets for the SF Gay Men's Chorus Pride Concert this weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Laughing Monk Brewing Expands With New Nopa Location Laughing Monk Brewing, which has had a taproom in the Bayview for nine years, is taking over a large space that's been vacant since last summer on Fulton Street in NoPa.
Business & Tech Meta's AI Efforts Include Huge Privacy Flub; Sam Altman Says Meta's Been Trying to Poach OpenAI Staff It looks like we're back to "move fast and break things" at Meta, with Meta.ai appearing to be off to a troubled start, exposing users' very private search queries in a bizarre public feed. And the company has reportedly been offering $100 million signing bonuses to OpenAI staff?!
SF Politics Newsom Calls Trump 'Truly Disturbed' For Threatening to Withhold Federal Disaster Aid From Los Angeles The latest escalation in President Trump's feud with California Governor Gavin Newsom finds him quite characteristically and yet again threatening to withhold federal funds from the state, and Newsom is already punching back.
SF News Suspect Accused In Marina District Antisemitic Attack Charged With Hate Crime A suspect in an antisemitic attack on two people last weekend in SF's Marina District has been charged with a hate crime and is being arraigned today.
SF Politics Supreme Court's Conservatives Let Stand Tennessee's Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Youth In an outcome that had been broadly predicted in the legal and LGBTQ+ communities, the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Tennessee's statewide ban on gender-affirming healthcare for minors may stand.
SF News Humpday Headlines: More National Guard Troops Sent to LA For No Reason Trump activates an additional 2,000 National Guard troops in LA; workers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland are on strike over pay; and the SFMTA board voted on banning RV parking.
SF News 19-Year-Old Suspect Arrested After Alleged Vandalism of Pink Triangle In SF The giant Pride Month Pink Triangle on Twin Pinks was reportedly defaced Tuesday afternoon, and police were called and quickly arrested a suspect who was in the act.
Business & Tech TikTok to Remain in Legal Limbo Another 90 Days as Trump Signs Another Executive Order Chinese-owned company ByteDance is getting another 90 days to figure out how to separate its American user base of TikTok and sell the business to an American company, even though there's been no movement on this since Trump announced his tariffs.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Judges Appear Inclined to Support Trump's Use of the National Guard In LA It's not looking good for Gavin Newsom in the faceoff with President Trump over what a federal judge agreed last week was the illegal federalizing of National Guard troops in Los Angeles.
Business & Tech Twitter Bird Logo Blown Up In the Desert as Marketing Stunt By Classifieds Site In a silly and probably misguided marketing stunt, online classifieds site Ditchit just "ditched" one of the 500-pound Twitter bird signs that used to adorn the erstwhile Twitter Building in San Francisco by way of explosives.
Business & Tech OpenAI Lands Government Contract, Reportedly Might Want Divorce From Microsoft The tech world drama of the week comes via a new report about growing tensions in the relationship between OpenAI and its major backer Microsoft, and today we learn that OpenAI has just landed a $200 million government contract.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF House Fire Displaces Twelve A fire in SF's Oceanview neighborhood left 12 displaced; a project to renovate Chinatown's Portsmouth Square came in very over-budget; and the Ninth Circuit is having its hearing today about Trump and the National Guard deployment in LA.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pride Banner Vandalized at East Bay Church A Pride banner was slashed with a knife outside a Pleasant Hill church; Trader Joe's is now the cheapest grocery store in SF (besides Grocery Outlet); and a new operator is about to reopen the movie theater at 1000 Van Ness.
