An estimated 5,000 people are without power this morning care of PG&E. According to this map, four outages resulted in a major outage for many folks. Power should be restored... soon, hopefully. more ›

So says PG&E via their twitter feed just before 3 p.m. Friday afternoon. PG&E doesn't yet have an estimate for when the power will be back on, so if you were looking forward to heading home to the neighborhood, microwaving a hot pocket and firing up your TiVo, might we suggest alternate plans for the evening? No word yet on what is causing the outage, but we'll update when we know more. more ›

Tonight's storm brought several power outages to the Bay Area. Sunset, Richmond, South San Francisco, and Daly City have all been affected by sudden darkness. Most notably, according to Emergency_In_SF, "over 6k customers are without power in the West end of Taraval district." more ›

Following Out Magazine's 'Power 50' list, which failed to mention a single popular powerful San Francisco-based homosexual, The Advocate (the bookish bottom to Out's circuit party top) also came out with their annual 'Forty Under 40' issue this week. And, yet again, much to our dismay, no one on said list resides in Baghdad by the Bay. more ›

Out Magazine's annual 'Power 50' list came out, if you will, last week. Her Holiness Ellen DeGeneres rules the gays this year, taking the top spot. Politician Barney Frank, Anderson Cooper, butch on-air personality Rachel Maddow, and American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert round out the top 5. more ›

We're getting reports of a power outage in San Francisco this morning. On readers comments "Just came from Lyon & Grove. Apparently the power is out in the neighborhood because a Muni bus struck a power pole." more ›

Setting himself up for countless "hot air" punchlines, Gavin Newsom "is calling for windmills throughout the city," reports KCBS. An estimated 29 of them might pop up in SF sometime in the very near future. Or not. (Although he'd like to "streamline the permit process" to get them up ASAP.) Anyway, Newsom goes on to said that the wind turbines cold be put on historical landmarks. he also emotes, "wind is a rural or suburban phenomenon and not necessarily an urban phenomenon ... We believe wind needs to be part of the urban mix of renewables. Our goal is to have 50 megawatts of renewable energy being generated within the city and county of San Francisco over the next few decades." more ›

Last night in San Francisco's notoriously gay Castro neighborhood, 2,8000 were rewarded with forgiving, soft candlelight after a power outage hit the area for about an hour or so. The cause of the outage? A Mylar balloon. According to reports, "PG&E spokesman Andrew Souvall said the outage happened around 7:50 p.m. when a Mylar balloon hit electric wires." What's more, "[t]he incident caused a manhole cover to dislodge at Market Street and Duboce Avenue." [insert manhole/Castro joke here] Power was restored to the area around 9 p.m. more ›

Since we're reportedly under the breeziness of "hurricane"-like winds, can we name the storm? If so, can we name it "Mary-Kate," then? Great. more ›

We just received word that for the past two or three days (!?), 17th Street has been without power from at least Valencia up to Dolores. Anyone else have any word of this supposed outage? Seeing as how this is one attractive and expensive strip of real estate, right at the nexus of two neighborhoods, this is of the utmost importance. more ›