SF News Day Around the Bay: City Hall Aglow With Animated ‘Winter Lights’ Show Through January 2 Sutter Health is continuing to provide gender-affirming care to minors despite federal pressure; last weekend’s viral incident has gained Hazie’s in Hayes Valley a lot of new customers; and City Hall honors its history and celebrates the holidays with a new animated light show.
SF News Sunday Links: CalRx, California’s Affordable $55-a-Month Insulin, to Hit the Market in January The Bay Area is about to get wet after a dry first half of the month; at least two students who escaped Saturday’s Brown University shooting had been involved in previous school shootings; and California’s generic insulin brand will be available as soon as next month.
SF News Saturday Links: Caltrain Launches Electric Holiday Train, Wins ‘Fastest Growing Transit Agency’ Congressional candidates Connie Chan, Saikat Chakrabarti, and Scott Wiener attended a youth climate justice talk; last-minute shoppers can rejoice in this hyperlocal gift guide; and Caltrain’s popular Holiday Train sold out very quickly but spectators can still watch it go by Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Drag Queen Pattie Gonia Raises $1 Million for Nonprofits on 100-Mile Hike to SF Regulators from the European Union fined Elon Musk’s X $140 million for violating transparency rules; Governor Newsom had a public spat with actress Halley Berry; and drag queen and environmentalist Patty Gonia raised $1 million for nonprofits prior to her show at the Warfield Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Australian Bank Fires, Rehires Staff After Chatbot Fails Spectacularly The Pickett Fire in Napa County was at 7% containment on Friday afternoon; the vermin-infested Cupertino Whole Foods that shut down in April is still closed; and an Australian bank had to hire back the employees it fired when its new chatbot bombed.
SF News Australian Man Gets Two Months in Jail for San Mateo County Wrong-Way Crash That Killed Two A September 2023 head-on crash that killed two elderly people in San Mateo County has been attributed to an Australian motorist driving on the wrong side of the road, which would have been the correct side in Australia, so that motorist got a plea deal for just two months in jail.
SF News Uber Stymied In Australian State, Protests With 15,000 Printed Emails Delivered By Horse And Buggy After the Australian state of Queensland passed legislation to stamp out Uber last month with punishing fines to drivers using the app, the $50 billion valued company did what any imperious, overvalued child
Arts & Entertainment Prince Pays Tribute To Denise 'Vanity' Matthews Following Her Death In Bay Area Hospital Just moments after musician/actor/beautiful person Prince learned that his one-time protégé Denise "Vanity" Matthews had died at a Bay Area hospital, he had to take the stage in Melbourne, Australia. According
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Glow-In-The-Dark Night Surfing Like a clash between Tron and Endless Summer, these surfers zipped up electroluminescent wetsuits and hit some tasty waves in Bondi Beach in Australia this past November. According to Laughing Squid, the night
SF News Armistead Maupin Denied Restroom in Australia for Not Being a "Real" Man San Francisco-based writer Armistead Maupin, creator of the iconic Tales of the City series, was in Australia last week for a book tour when he visited Alice Springs with his husband Chris Turner.
misc Meanwhile, Down Under: Australian AG Backs a Law Allowing for Sexual Orientation-Based Expulsions We're not going to claim to know how Australia works, it being the land of theives and tax evaders and all, but their Attorney General is supporting a law that, "exempts private schools
SF News Australians, Hong Kong-ians Panic About Incoming Swine Flu From San Francisco The insane worldwide panic preceding a potential (though unlikely?) worldwide pandemic of swine flu reached new heights today, with Australian flights from California being screened before deplaning and a woman in Hong Kong
SF News Muni Feels Pretty Either you are the kind of person who feel giddy whenever a train passes, or you aren't. If you aren't, then there's simply no explaining the glee with which transit enthusiasts will receive
SF News RIP: Heath Ledger Found Dead Australia-born actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his NYC apartment today. It is reported that he allegedly died of either a drug overdose or hanging at Mary-Kate Olsen's apartment. More details as
