Business & Tech Chappelle Controversy Continues Roiling Netflix as Black Trans Employee Gets Fired for Alleged Data Leak Dave Chappelle's exhausting, transphobic, grievance-filled rant of a comedy special continues to be a problem for Netflix as news came out late last week that the Los Gatos-based company had fired a Black trans employee who was helping the organize a walkout protest related to the special.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Colin Powell Dies of COVID-19 at Age 84 Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has died from COVID despite being vaccinated because he also had cancer, over 11,000 PG&E customers in the Bay Area were without power due to last night's rain, and parents and teachers who oppose vaccine mandates are staging school walkouts today.
SF News If It's Safe Taking Masks Off at the Gym, Why Are We Still Staying Masked at Restaurants? We've come to another one of those rule-change days in the pandemic, at least in San Francisco and Marin, and it's a change that again raises the question of how these specific public-health decisions are being made.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jesus Christ Superstar' In Its 50th Anniversary Tour Is a Brash and Unrelenting Take on the Rock Opera The latest touring production of the musical, celebrating the show's 50th anniversary, is a stripped-down version of the show with the band on stage that is akin to a concert production, but with a lot of costumes and kinetic dancing by the disciples.
SF News Formerly Los Gatos-Based 'Cool Mom' May Have Continued Throwing Teen Parties In Idaho The story of Shannon O'Connor, a.k.a. Shannon Bruga, that broke earlier this week, about the alleged streak of extremely boozy parties she threw over the last year for her teenage son and his friends, appears to have another chapter out of state.
SF News Santa Barbara Fire Smoke Expected to Move Over Bay Area Friday Smoke from the four-day-old Alisal Fire in Santa Barbara County is expected to drift over the Bay Area Friday and bring us some hazy skies on what is otherwise a beautiful sunny day.
Bay Area Sports Umpire Refuses to Say Whether He Made the Right Call to End the Giants' Historic Season A checked swing? An actual swing? Giants fans across the Bay Area were beyond angry/sad/bummed/rageful after first-base umpire Gabe Morales made a controversial call to end Thursday night's winner-take-all Game 5 in the National League Division Series against the Dodgers.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Masks Come Off In SF Offices and Gyms Today's the day masks come off in some indoor settings in SF and Marin, early tests look promising for the Millennium Tower fix resuming, and the SoCal oil spill seems to have been considerably smaller in oil volume than originally reported.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Parking Near Oracle Is Going For Over $100 Parking near the ballpark is going for $120 tonight, the family member in the Richmond Police chief story is her daughter, and activists in Oakland were protesting the media's bias toward reporting missing white women stories.
SF News Marin County Becomes First In California to Have 'Moderate' COVID Transmission In CDC Framework Marin County just became the first in the Bay Area and in the state to enter the yellow or "moderate" tier of COVID transmission, setting it up to potentially be the first county in the Bay Area to reach the new regional criteria for dropping the indoor mask mandate.
SF News BART Joins Other Transit Agencies In Requiring Employees to Be Vaccinated BART's board announced Thursday that the agency is instituting a vaccine mandate for all BART employees, saying they must be fully vaccinated by December 13 or risk losing their employment.
SF News Woman In Her 30s Killed In Late-Night Hit-and-Run Near City Hall A woman was killed early Thursday morning when she was struck by an SUV in the Civic Center area, and the suspect vehicle fled the scene.
SF News Second Consecutive La Niña Winter Looms — Still Anyone's Guess If It Will Be a Repeat Dryspell For NorCal Two La Niña winters in a row is probably not great for this drought we're in — when a really wet and relentless El Niño season is what we need right now. But let's just hope for average or slightly above average rainfall, unlike last winter.
SF News Rattlesnake Den Underneath North Bay Home Yields 92 Snakes, and Counting A Sonoma County snake-removal guy — whose nonprofit removes rattlesnakes from private property and releases them elsewhere in the wild or on properties where rodent control is needed — says he recently went under a house and found 92 snakes in a matter of hours.
SF News Richmond Police Chief Bisa French Goes On Leave Over Family Drama, Claims of Violence The chief of police in Richmond is on administrative leave, and so is her husband who's a sergeant in the Oakland Police Department, amid what the department is referring to as a "family situation."
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Says Embarcadero Car Burglars Shot At Him A man who shouted at and took pictures of some car burglars on the Embarcadero says they shot at him, London Breed pushes back on Walgreens, and Facebook says it's adding harassment protections to its policies for public figures and journalists.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Rains Could Finally Be Coming Next Week PG&E has downgraded the scope of its next round of power shutoffs, there was another backyard mountain lion sighting in San Mateo, and meteorologists are watching a big storm over the Pacific that could bring up to two inches of rain here starting next week.
SF News Sacramento Legislators Are Holding Up the High-Speed Rail Project... Again California's beleaguered high-speed rail project hasn't been abandoned yet, but its ballooning costs and ever-extending timeline are enough to make anyone wonder if any of us will be alive to see this thing up and running.
SF News East Bay Pedophile Says He Paid $55K For Encounter With 10-Year-Old; Authorities Have Not Charged Trafficker A two-year-old story involving an Oakland oral surgeon who pleaded guilty to child pornography and attempted child sex trafficking charges has an update, and it involves a group of Bay Area suspects with whom he allegedly negotiated the use of children for his sexual pleasure.
Business & Tech Why Are Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Constantly Hitting the Same Dead End On 15th Avenue? Neighbors on one street in San Francisco's Richmond District seem to be witnessing the training of robot cars in the art of the three-point turn — over, and over, and over again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Joe's Owners to Open New Location In the Marina, Plus a Mexican Restaurant In West Portal A new location of Little Original Joe's is headed for Chestnut Street in the Marina, and the family behind the local restaurant empire is expanding into Mexican cuisine with Elena's, a new restaurant in West Portal.
Bay Area Sports Dodgers Force Game 5 at Oracle Park — Thursday's Gonna Be Nuts In SF It's being called the biggest game in the history of the 120-year-old rivalry between the Giants and the Dodgers, and it will be happening in San Francisco, under the lights at Oracle Park, in the hopefully waning days of a pandemic on Thursday night.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wildfire Destroys Delta RV Park A wildfire tore through an RV park in Isleton Tuesday and destroyed 21 homes, three people were shot in the Tenderloin Tuesday night, and William Shatner just became the oldest person ever shot into space.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Five SF Walgreens Closing, Company Blames Shoplifting A vegetation fire in Hillsborough was quickly contained today, Walgreens announced it's closing five more SF stores due to ongoing "retail crime," and the water level at Lake Tahoe has gotten disturbingly low.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fancy Japanese-Inspired Cocktail Spot Iris Debuts Thursday on Upper Polk In the former La Folie Lounge space at 2310 Polk Street, the neighborhood is getting a new high-end cocktail spot this week — the sister bar to Nisei, the Japanese tasting-menu restaurant from chef David Yoshimura that debuted in the La Folie space in August.
