SF News Sunday Links: The US Army Is Using 'CamoGPT' To Omit DEI References From Training Materials The US Army is using an aptly named bot called 'CamoGBT'; 350 protestors in Manhattan shut down the Tesla showroom, resulting in six arrests; and SF's 20-something population is declining more quickly than other cities.
Arts & Entertainment Musicians: Submit Your Music To SFPL's Streaming Platform, Bay Beats; Plus, Upcoming Free Shows Bay Beats, SFPL's fairly new free streaming music platform, is having its annual open submissions right now through May 31. Plus, some upcoming shows at neighborhood libraries.
SF News California’s Effort to Reduce, Overturn Unjust Prison Sentences From 2021 through 2024, the state of California ran a pilot program that aimed to correct excessive sentences from '90s-era “tough on crime” policies.
SF News Local Legends Too Short And Billie Joe Armstrong Are Now Oakland Ballers Investors East Bay legends Too Short and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong have joined the ranks of Oakland Ballers fans who own a portion of the local minor baseball league team, which launches its second season with the Independent Pioneer League on May 20.
SF News Saturday Links: Arson and Vandalism Abound At Tesla Sites Nationwide And In France Seven Telsa charging stations in Boston and a Tesla dealership in France were set on fire; sources say the Trump administration has been falsely flagging the business expenses of USAID and EPA employees as "fraud;" and Walgreens has been acquired by a private equity firm.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trump Might Be Ready To Set Some Limits With Musk Trump might be about to start reining Musk in after a heated exchange between Musk and Rubio in a Cabinet meeting; the former officer involved in the scandals surrounding the Antioch Police Department admits that he enjoyed inflicting violence; and Gene Hackman and his wife died a week apart.
SF News SFMTA Announces More Proposed Muni Service Cuts, Chopping Parts of 5-Fulton, 9-San Bruno, and 31-Balboa The Market Street components of the 5-Fulton, 9-San Bruno, and 31-Balboa would be lopped off under a proposed new batch of Muni service cuts, and there could be more bad news for 6-Haight-Parnassus and 21-Hayes riders.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Orphan Andy's Goes Up for Sale A new modern French bistro arrives in the Inner Sunset, the opening of Jules is getting closer in the Lower Haight, and iconic Castro diner Orphan Andy's is up for sale, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment Effort Underway to Bring a Bruce Lee Statue to SF’s Chinatown A two-year effort to put up a statue to martial arts film star Bruce Lee in Chinatown is really kicking into high gear, and supporters held a press conference today with Willie Brown involved.
Arts & Entertainment Tony! Toni! Toné! Co-Founder and Oakland Native D'Wayne Wiggins Has Died A year-long bout with bladder cancer has taken the life of Tony! Toni! Toné!'s D'Wayne Wiggins, who had three Top 10 hits with that group, and helped launch the careers of Destiny's Child and Beyonce.
SF News Man Killed In Shooting Near SF's Holly Park A Friday morning shooting on Ellsworth Street, at the edge of SF's Bernal Heights and Holly Park neighborhoods, has left one man dead.
SF Politics San Jose Mayor Suggests Arresting Homeless Who Refuse Shelter; Legal Case In Vallejo Highlights Growing Backlash After nearly a year in which city and state leaders in California began swinging to the right on the issue of homeless encampments and the civil rights of homeless people, advocates say the tide may be turning again.
SF News Notorious Tenderloin Twitter Provocateur Accused of Tire-Slashing, Harassment, Making Online Threats The Twitter personality "jj smith" is suddenly hiding his tweets after making a series of pretty violent threats, and there is at least one tire-slashing incident in which he was allegedly somehow involved.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie's Office Makes Its First Staffing Change, Letting Go of Communications Director Less than two months in to the Lurie administration, the San Francisco Mayor's Office has let go of a key team member, Communications Director Nina Negusse.
Arts & Entertainment New Falcon Appears on Berkeley Campanile as Longtime Resident Falcons Remain Missing A new falcon made a brief appearance atop the Campanile tower on the UC Berkeley campus on Wednesday, and falcon watchers are hopeful this bird will make a return and perhaps adopt the now abandoned nest.
SF Politics Newsom Now Trying to Court Right-Wing Dudebros So He Can Run For President In his first episode of his transparently dudebro-courting podcast, Gavin Newsom has decided to jump over and join the conservative argument against trans athletes in sports.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Tesla Owners Increasingly Face Harassment Tesla owners in the Bay Area are loading up on anti-Elon bumper stickers to avoid harassment; VTA workers may be striking next week; and another new Costco opening draws whiskey lovers to line up for deals.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland First Fridays Makes Its Return This Weekend Gavin Newsom upset the trans community with some remarks on his podcast; Pittsburg Center’s BART station will be closed this weekend; and Oakland First Fridays returns from its winter hiatus Friday night.
SF News Judge Blasts Federal Prison For Providing Poor Medical Care, Lets SF Scandal Figure Nick Bovis Out on Home Release Nick Bovis, one of the first people involved in the San Francisco City Hall bribery scandal to be arrested alongside Mohammed Nuru as the scandal unfolded five years ago, is getting out of prison a couple months early.
SF News SFPD Makes Huge Deal Out of 16th & Mission Bust That Only Produced Four Arrests, Tiny Smattering of Drugs The Mayor, Sheriff, and Chief of Police thought it was worthy of a press conference that SFPD did a “saturation” bust at 16th and Mission Wednesday night, yet this operation resulted in just four arrests and the seizure of one measly ounce of drugs.
SF News Woman Grabbed Off Street In Apparent Kidnapping In East Oakland Oakland police put out an alert Thursday seeking the public's help with information about a brazen kidnapping seen on video that occurred on 98th Avenue in East Oakland.
Business & Tech AI Company Databricks Declares It Will ‘Invest Over $1 Billion’ in Downtown SF With Big Conference, New HQ Flush with their latest $10 billion fundraising round, the cloud-based AI platform firm Databricks recently signed a 150,000 square-foot lease at One Sansome, and is now committing to keeping their annual conference in SF for five more years.
SF News Castro Theatre Reopening Delayed Until Fall or Beyond; Longtime Coffeeshop Tenant Hints at Possible Eviction Due to a reported "holding pattern" with a PG&E power issue, the much anticipated reopening of the renovated Castro Theatre will not be happening in time for Pride Month as originally hoped.
SF Politics Oroville Declares Itself a ‘Non-Sanctuary City’ In Symbolic Political Move The mostly white Butte County city of Oroville has few if any undocumented immigrants, but declared itself a “non-sanctuary city” in a move that just seems intended to irk Gavin Newsom and please Donald Trump.
SF News New Plans Announced for Steph Curry’s Splashy New Offices In Dogpatch Warriors all-star Steph Curry is getting ready to say night-night to his playing career, and the new company he’s started just released their plans for a giant, fancy headquarters on 20th Street out at Pier 70.
