SF News Day Around the Bay: Turnout Shaping Up to be Pretty Dismal for Tuesday’s Recall Election A judge shot down a request to bring cars back to the Great Highway permanently, Salesforce has scooped up a new retreat center in Santa Cruz, and very few San Franciscans have returned ballots for Tuesday’s primary and school board recall election.
Arts & Entertainment Exploratorium’s New Executive Director is a Former PBS Exec Who Is Quite Buff A national search for the Exploratorium’s new chief has yielded the former CEO of PBS North Carolina Lindsay Bierman, who digs weightlifting and CBD.
SF Politics SF Recalls Largely Funded by ‘Neighbors for a Better San Francisco’ PAC, Which Is Based in San Rafael A full two-thirds of the Recall Chesa Boudin money, and 25% of Recall the School Board contributions, comes from a secretive PAC called “Neighbors for a Better San Francisco,” which lists its address as being in San Rafael.
Business & Tech State Agency Sues Tesla Over ‘Racially Segregated Workplace’ Where Racial Slurs Are Thrown Around Commonly A California employment agency brought a pretty disturbing lawsuit against Tesla Thursday, alleging not just racial segregation at the Fremont plant, but a workplace where racial slurs were commonly scrawled on walls and spoken out loud by management.
Business & Tech About 40 of Elon Musk’s New SpaceX Satellites Destroyed by Solar Storm A few dozen SpaceX satellites that launched last Thursday have already bit the dust in a solar storm, but thankfully, they’ll be reduced to dust upon reentering the atmosphere.
Business & Tech Robin Williams’ Estate Sues Pandora For $4.1 Million Over Alleged Copyright Violation The George Carlin estate and Andrew Dice Clay are also lodging copyright suits against the streaming service, saying they don’t actually have the copyrights to play these comedians’ works.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Creme Brûlée Cart Guy Throws Free Pancake Party, Bernal Heights Flips Out The proprietor of the renowned Creme Brûlée Cart drizzled the Precita Park area with a big ol’ free pancake party, and he’ll flap your jacks with a follow-up party this Saturday.
SF News That Market Street IKEA Is Now Officially Under Construction The COVID-delayed but still definitely happening San Francisco IKEA store on Market between Fifth and Sixth Streets has started building out, but it’s going to be more of an “IKEA-anchored meeting place” (mall) with other tenants too.
SF Politics Supervisors OK $700K Settlement for Police Beating Victim, In Case Where SFPD Is Basically at War With Boudin High drama unfolded Tuesday as the SF Board of Supervisors approved a settlement for a police beating victim, but the supervisors’ charged debate shows that major new battle lines are being drawn in the Recall Chesa Boudin campaign.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Great Highway Food Truck Program Just Got Canned The first-ever Black Panthers Party office could be demolished, wild turkeys are causing a turmoil at a Bay Area NASA facility, and a project that allowed food trucks on the Great Highway on weekends will end this Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Comes Barrelling Back, Kicks Off Friday With Series of Smaller Events Beer Week is back, but COVID precautions will structure it differently, and Friday’s San Francisco Kick Off event is at a Chase Center taproom you may not have heard of before.
SF News In the Wake of Three Highway Shootings, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Wants Cameras on I-80 There have been three fatal shootings in three months on Oakland highways, so Mayor Schaaf says it's time for cameras. The problem? It’s not her decision.
SF Politics An ‘Empty Homes Tax’ Could Be Coming to Your November Ballot Amidst a recent uproar that nearly 10% of San Francisco housing stock is just sitting vacant, supervisors Dean Preston kicked off a campaign to get a vacancy tax on this November’s ballot.
SF Politics Peter Thiel Stepping Down From Meta’s Board, Will Focus on Getting Trumpers Elected in the Midterms The billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir will no longer serve on the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta, where he had Zuckerberg’s ear for years (or held Zuckerberg’s leash, depending on who you ask).
SF News The Gap Is Opening Four New Retail Stores at Its Rincon Hill Headquarters It’s encouraging news for retail that Gap is opening four new storefronts downtown, but they’re all in office space that Gap Inc. already owns, so this won’t put a dent in any retail vacancies.
Business & Tech SF Joins Legal Inquiry Into Uber for Allegedly Discriminating Against Trans, Non-Binary Drivers San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego city attorneys are all digging into Uber’s alleged discriminatory practices with trans and non-binary people who try to sign up for the platform, because the bots feel their names and faces do not adequately match their driver's licenses.
SF News Now SF Has a Graffiti Flash Mob; More Than 100 Taggers Coated Mission and 18th Streets Friday Night It may be an isolated incident gone wrong, or could be yet another new form of emerging petty crime, that “more than 100 people" thoroughly tagged a Mission District corner’s storefronts and vacant buildings Friday night.
SF Politics State Watchdog Dismisses SF Democrats’ Complaint That Recall Chesa Boudin Ads Were ‘Unlawful and Misleading’ The California Fair Political Practices Commission has tossed out an ethics complaint from the SF Democratic Party, which alleged that the ads didn’t disclose how they featured a spokesperson being paid $16,000 a month.
SF News Couple Trapped Since December 6 at Snowed-In Sierra County Cabin Finally Gets Airlifted Out A couple — and their dog — spent 57 days snowed in at a remote Sierra County cabin, and didn’t make it out until a California Highway Patrol rescue copter came for them Tuesday.
SF News Billionaire Enclave Woodside Claims It Can’t Build More Housing Because It’s a Mountain Lion Habitat The fur is flying in the fashionable tech billionaire quarters of Woodside, where the mansion-dwellers argue they can’t comply with a new state housing law because it’s a mountain lion habitat.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Octagon House Price Reduced to ‘Just’ $6.5 Million A GoFundMe is set up for the 49ers fan attacked in L.A., SF Supervisors are again making noise about cutting all ties with PG&E, and the Russian Hill Octagon House has its asking price slashed by more than a million bucks.
SF News Now the Landmark Embarcadero Cinema is Closing, as COVID Continues to Ravage Movie Theaters Thursday night is your last chance to see a movie at the Landmark Theatres Embarcadero Center Cinema, as the place is closing permanently at the end of the night.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Chef and 49ers Fan Suffered Horrific Beatdown at Rams’ Stadium, Now in Medically Induced Coma A 49ers fan made the trip to L.A. only to be assaulted in the parking lot, and we now know that it was Daniel Luna, who owns a Peruvian restaurant in Oakland and is currently in a medically induced coma.
SF News BART Makes a Big To-Doo Over Finally Reopening the Bathrooms at Powell Street Station BART made a big stink over its new all-gender, shiny new bathrooms at Powell Street stations, in a grand opening celebration complete with a toilet paper-cutting ceremony.
SF News Activists Furious at Newsom for Granting PG&E a Safety Certification, Given All the Manslaughter Charges and Whatnot Critics did not mince words after the state gave PG&E a renewed safety certification Monday, saying that Gavin Newsom “handed a license to burn back to the most murderous corporation in history.”