4+ hour, 4+ min ago   (373+ words) Unionized musicians with the San Francisco Opera are going on strike after negotiations for a new contract failed to produce satisfactory results. The announcement was made via social media. In turn, the SF Opera cancelled a performance of Verdi's Simon…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (67+ words) Keep SFist in your news mix Over a decade of experience covering arts, culture, and news in the Bay Area and beyond. Bylines include Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, SFist, WaPo, Variety, SF Chronicle, and Alta Journal. Comments load automatically as…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (598+ words) In a new report discussing safety measures that have been taken by Anthropic when it detects that its models are being used for potentially malicious activity, the company says its AI was used to possibly begin developing new bio-weapons. The…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (422+ words) Being memorable to everyone is key to getting lucrative personal-injury cases, as the Barnes Firm, Sweet James, Walkup Law, the Law Brothers, and others have shown with their ubiquitous TV advertising. Now Anh Phoong wants in on the action. Phoong…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (334+ words) The new waterfront plaza, in the wharf space where Alioto's restaurant once stood, had its ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, with Mayor Daniel Lurie calling it "a new reason to return" to Fisherman's Wharf. Alioto's Plaza, as it is now called,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (135+ words) Cinderella Bakery opens their big new location in the Mission, Prelude calls it quits in the FiDi, and Mister Jiu's is relaunching their fancy coffee window, all in This Week in Food. Tablehopper has word about a new Japanese-Korean katsu…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (474+ words) Virginia-based startup Operation Bluebird is rolling out a new social media site under the Twitter name despite a pending legal fight with X over the brand. The startup’s website states that it picked up the name that X Corp abandoned…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (492+ words) Burglars broke into the new CardVault by Tom Brady in Palo Alto over the weekend, making off with roughly 60 collectible trading cards — just a week after the store’s grand opening. The break-in happened around 12:30 am Saturday, when one or more…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (706+ words) Iranian chef and master chocolatier Shekoh Moossavi, whose culinary career spans more than 30 years, is opening a culinary institute at her Dogpatch studio, with virtual and in-person classes beginning next month. Moossavi will launch the Shekoh Culinary Institute in September…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (335+ words) Security company Allied Universal warned Anthropic that its workers might go on strike, prompting the AI company to order its staff to work from home, but the security guards’ union said it knew nothing about the strike. The union reportedly…...