SF News Contra Costa Becomes First Bay Area County to Roll Back Reopening Rules As It Faces Backward Slide to 'Red' Tier Contra Costa County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county would be ratcheting back its rules on some higher risk business activities, decreasing capacity for restaurants and movie theaters as it faces a possible move back to "Red" tier status next week.
Arts & Entertainment RIP O'Farrell Theatre, the Mitchell Brothers' Infamous Tenderloin Strip Club What began as one of many seedy adult-movie houses in the Tenderloin in 1969, the O'Farrell Theatre soon grew to prominence as its owners launched a booming porn production business and spruced up the theater into what Hunter S. Thompson famously dubbed "the Carnegie Hall of sex in America."
SF Politics Preston, Peskin, Ronen, & Safai Poised to Keep Supervisor Seats; Wiener Wins Second Term in State Senate The ranked-choice tallying is ongoing on Wednesday for SF's six Board of Supervisors races, but there are several that can probably be called at this point. And former supervisor Scott Wiener handily won reelection to the state Senate with 60% of the vote as of last count.
SF Politics SF Ballot Measure Results: Yeses Lead For Most Local Props, But 16-Year-Olds Not Likely to Get the Vote With results still being tallied for San Francisco's local ballot measures, the writing seems to be on the wall for most of them. SF residents largely voted yes down the ballot — just not for letting 16-year-olds vote.
SF News Oakland Sees Night Of Chaos With Multiple Shootings, Pot Burglaries Rumors and fears of potential unrest gave way to at least two burglaries at marijuana businesses in Oakland, one of which led to an officer-involved shooting. Other shootings elsewhere in Oakland resulted in six people being injured.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire in Noe Valley Damages Three Homes, Displaces Six A fire that broke out overnight in Noe Valley spread to three homes and rose to three alarms before being contained around 3:30 a.m.
SF News Election Limbo Headlines: Uber and Lyft Get Their Wish, Prop 22 Passes The dialysis regulation measure Prop 23 appears to be going down, Mark Kelly beat Martha McSally for the Arizona Senate seat, and as promised Facebook and Twitter flagged Trump's false claims about winning the election and the Democrats trying to "steal" it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supes Approve Healthcare Ordinance for SFO Workers Bayfair Mall in San Leandro closed over election night looting fears, Marin County had more polling place volunteers than they knew what to do with, and a QAnon crazy has won a Georgia House seat.
Arts & Entertainment Previously Selected Maya Angelou Monument Reinstated, Planned For Civic Center Installation A tedious battle at City Hall over the selection of an appropriate monument to poet, author, and onetime San Francisco resident Maya Angelou has seemingly been resolved, and a monument that was selected by committee over a year ago and then rejected has been reinstated.
Business & Tech Waymo Has Taken Its Self-Driving Fleet Off SF Streets Out of Concern For Post-Election Chaos Safety drivers who are piloting Waymo's self-driving cars around San Francisco as part of a testing program that has been ongoing for several years were instructed on Monday to bring the vehicles back to Mountain View.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Local Turtle Self-Soothes With Mango and Worm Salad Our beloved "Officer Edith" at Animal Care & Control has posted a video that you can enjoy as a moment of Zen today — so long as worms don't make you squeamish.
SF News Gas Leak Prompts Shelter-in-Place Order In Upper Haight A gas leak that is now said to be under control caused a brief scare in Haight-Ashbury on Tuesday, perhaps disrupting some residents' plans to get to their polling place.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Coca-Cola Billboard, RIP As we reported last week, the iconic, 83-year-old, two-sided electronic Coca-Cola billboard next to I-80 in SoMa reached the end of its life in SF. And it's now fully gone.
SF News Election Morning Links: Deep Breaths Twitter once again slapped Trump over mail-in voting fear/violence mongering, CBS News spoke to militia groups in Michigan prepping for war, and the New York Times print team is prepping for an uncertain election night and a likely non-decisive front page for Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chevron Refinery Flaring Again A San Francisco firefighter was critically injured in an accident on the job, CHP is seeking help investigating a freeway shooting in the North Bay, and SF is on pace for the biggest election turnout in a century.
SF News After Record-Hot, Record-Dry October, Fall Temperatures Arrive With a Chill This Weekend Enjoy this extended Indian Summer while you can, and in spite of election tension and anxiety. It's all going to change later this week.
SF Politics You Can Vote Right Now, Tonight, Or Anytime on Election Day in Spacious Civic Center Voting Tents Friendly reminder for all those who haven't gotten ballots in the mail yet or don't want to deal with their polling place: You can go to the citywide voting center in front of Bill Graham and it is super convenient and easy.
SF News Young Man Kidnapped, Beaten, Shot, and Robbed Near Civic Center Saturday Morning The SFPD is seeking two suspects in an SUV who allegedly kidnapped a man in his 20s near Civic Center on Saturday morning, and later dropped him on the street, badly injured and partially naked.
Arts & Entertainment Bay to Breakers Officially Pushed Off to August 2021, Registration Now Open Bay to Breakers, which had optimistically been rescheduled from May to September this year, has now been conservatively pushed well past its usual spring running time to next August. But you can register for the race now, should you want to lock that down.
SF Politics Trumpist Caravan Terrorizes Marin County, Targets Black Community In Marin City for Intimidation A pro-Trump car and pickup truck caravan that seems to have originated in Santa Rosa traveled south to Marin County on Sunday, following a spate of similar caravans around the country that looked unsettlingly like those ISIS caravans from a few years back with their large flags flapping.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Dia de Los Muertos In a Pandemic Dia de los Muertos takes on greater significance for the Latinx community hit hardest by the pandemic, meteorologists issue a sneaker wave warning for local beaches, and businesses are boarding up anticipating election unrest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How to Make Cecilia Chiang's Beggar's Chicken (RIP, Cecilia) Remember the beggar's chicken at Betelnut? Or at Cecilia Chiang's The Mandarin? Here's how to make your own at home.
SF News Massive New Development Announced In Fillmore District on Site of 70s-Era Affordable Project A huge, 2,515-unit residential project — one of the largest ever to be proposed or built in San Francisco — may be on its way to the Fillmore/Western Addition, and it's being driven by the same church group that built 382 units on the same site 47 years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noting Very Small Growth In COVID Cases, San Francisco Hits Pause On Further Reopenings Any hopes that restaurants had of increasing indoor capacity to 50 percent next week are now dashed, but it may still happen in a few weeks if cases go down.
SF Politics 'Better Market Street' Plan Being Dubbed 'Bummer Market Street' After Budget Concerns Nix Raised Bike Lane The dedicated bike lane is one of the elements that's been jettisoned in a revised Phase 1 design plan that was recently unveiled, reflecting the city's pandemic-year budget woes, and the Bicycle Coalition is especially livid.
