SF News Tucker Carlson's College Yearbook Page Features Apparent Tribute to Harvey Milk/George Moscone Murderer Dan White Fox News host Tucker Carlson has already proven himself to be among the most hateful and cynical of the channel's prime-time blowhards, and of course he was the same little asshole when he was 22.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: More Bay Area Counties In 'Extreme' Drought Three more Bay Area counties are in 'extreme' drought conditions per the U.S. Drought Monitor, a suspicious death is being investigated in an empty SoMa building, and accused Kristin Smart murder accessory Ruben Flores has been freed on bail.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supes Debate Housing-for-All Proposal Video has been released in the Danville police shooting of a homeless man, SF supervisors were debating a housing-for-all proposal that would probably mean more tent "villages," and Dandelion Chocolate workers are split on unionizing.
Business & Tech Vallejo Woman Sues Lyft Over Alleged Kidnapping By Driver With Meth Pipe A Vallejo woman has filed suit against Lyft over an April 2019 ride gone wrong in which she had to climb out of the car's window to escape a creepy driver.
SF News Newsom Declares Drought Emergency In Sonoma and Mendocino Counties Governor Gavin Newsom went to Lake Mendocino on Wednesday to make an announcement on the state's first effort to address the current drought — and it's starting with a "targeted" drought emergency declaration for two NorCal counties.
Arts & Entertainment Sorry, Anti-Vaxx Burners: Burning Man May Require COVID Vaccine For Entry Very soon there are going to be a lot of disadvantages to not having a COVID-19 vaccine, besides the danger of getting and/or dying from COVID-19. The latest potential downside: You won't be allowed into Burning Man.
SF News A Record Number of Container Ships Are Anchored in SF Bay as U.S. Imports Boom We may not actually be out of this pandemic, but a late-pandemic buying boom is sweeping the country and it can be seen in dramatic form in San Francisco Bay right now.
Arts & Entertainment This Is a Kookaburra. His Name Is Koan. And You'll Soon Be Able to Feed Him at the SF Zoo The San Francisco Zoo is getting ready to introduce a new bird "ambassador" — a spunky one-year-old kookaburra born at the zoo last February who will be available to interact with guests.
SF News Marin Becomes First Bay Area County to Announce Drought Water-Use Restrictions We're in another drought, and likely within the next month or two we will be hearing about water-use rules and neighbors tattling on neighbors for washing their cars all over the Bay Area. But right now, the only county making mandatory restrictions official is Marin County.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Napa Suddenly Has More Vaccine Shots Than People Who Want Them A San Rafael man was arrested after allegedly attacking his roommate and her daughter with an axe, Newsom will address the drought today, and Napa suddenly sees a drop in vaccine demand with plenty of supply.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marin County Blames Missing Yellow Tier on Spring Breakers Prosecutors say that Kristin Smart's body was previously buried in Ruben Flores's backyard, a group of Wisconsin newspapers is suing Facebook and Google, and Marin County was denied the "Yellow" tier due to spring breakers with COVID.
SF Politics SF Mayor London Breed, Sen. Alex Padilla, Others React to Guilty Verdict In Chauvin Trial Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty Tuesday on three counts in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd: second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
Arts & Entertainment Sign Up For Entry Slots For SFMOMA's Upcoming Free Days SFMOMA has scheduled three upcoming days for free museum-going, and given the general public's ravenous hunger for in-person culture, you'd best sign up for a reserved entry slot or risk standing in a terrible line.
SF Politics Scott Wiener's Bills Expanding Outdoor Drinking Rules Pass Unanimously In Committee Two outdoor booze-related bills introduced in February in the California State House by Senator Scott Wiener have passed with unanimous, bipartisan support in the Senate Governmental Organization Committee.
SF News UCSF Doc Pushes Back on Vaccine Companies, Says Booster Shots May Not Be Necessary UCSF infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Gandhi, who already this week was advocating for nixing the outdoor mask mandate for cities, also pushed back on the commonly held assumption that vaccine booster shots are definitely going to be necessary.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Car Crashes Into Parklet at Mission Bar, At Least One Person Injured A car plowed into a parklet outside the Napper Tandy pub on South Van Ness Avenue at 24th Street Monday, and it appears one person was injured in the accident.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Don't Forget 4/20 Is Cancelled Paul Flores pleaded not guilty to Kristin Smart's 1996 murder and is being held without bail, there's now of course a Texas variant of COVID that might be antibody-resistant, and there's an Apple event today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Font Emulates Blocky Old SF Street Sign Typeface Marin County may move to the "Yellow" tier Tuesday, Apple is allowing Parler back in the App Store, and Elon Musk is insisting that the Tesla that crashed in Texas was not using autopilot.
Arts & Entertainment SF Opens Applications for Grants to Music and Nightlife Venues As promised earlier this year, the first round of grants from SF's Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund is about to beginning taking applications.
SF News New Boutique Hotel The Alton Readies for Opening in Old Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf (With New Restaurant on the Way) Fisherman's Wharf is gaining a new boutique hotel managed by the Kimpton group, in one half of what was formerly a Holiday Inn at 495 Beach Street.
SF News One UCSF Doc Says Outdoor Mask Mandate Should Be Lifted; Another Says He Still Won't Dine Indoors It's getting to where infectious disease experts may start diverging in their levels of relative caution when it comes to public safety mandates. And while two UCSF doctors don't necessarily disagree in some recent statements, one is urging a lifting of SF's mandate on wearing masks outdoors.
SF News 4.2M Earthquake Near Sonoma/Lake County Border Felt In SF A small-ish earthquake that struck before noon on Monday was felt throughout Sonoma and Napa counties and as far as Solano County and San Francisco to the east and south.
SF Politics Second Group Emerges With Campaign to Recall SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin While one group has already been campaigning to recall San Francisco's progressive district attorney just over a year after his swearing in, a second committee has formed with perhaps different political leanings than the first, but the same end goal.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Vandals Target Former Bay Area Home of Derek Chauvin Trial Witness Oakland teachers are still unhappy about schools reopening with just over a month left in the school year, a skydiving mishap claims a life in Lodi, and Dr. Fauci says the J&J vaccine may be back in use Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Long Will It Be Before People Are Cool With Dining Indoors? The Bay Area is showing its trust in science and heeding the warnings of experts, and restaurant owners still say that indoor dining isn't as easy of a sell as outdoor dining is — even though all Bay Area counties but one are now allowing restaurants to operate at 50% capacity indoors.
