SF News California Mulls Bringing Back Extended COVID Sick Pay, But Feds Won’t Reimburse A law allowing employees up to 80 hours of paid leave for COVID-19 expired at the end of September, but with unprecedented numbers out sick, California lawmakers may bring it back.
Arts & Entertainment Sketchfest Cancels 2022 Entirely, Postpones the Whole Deal to 2023 Just two weeks after postponing Sketchfest 2022 indefinitely, the two-week comedy festival announced Friday morning that they’re not trying this again until next year, and waiting it out for 2023.
SF Politics London Breed Goes on Kara Swisher’s NYT Podcast, Slams Boudin and Supervisors: ‘They Are Not Black People’ The mayor defended her Tenderloin emergency plan on a popular national podcast, but her joke that she "would remove the Board of Supervisors" and critique that they’re mostly white will surely stoke hostilities.
SF News Many Bay Area Counties Delay Homeless Count Because of Omicron, SF Poised to Do the Same The odd-numbered-year “homeless census” did not happen at all in 2021, and its delayed return has been pushed out a month in pretty much every Bay Area county, with SF likely making that call Friday.
SF Politics SFPD Predictably Furious After Boudin Drops Charges In Alleged Assault of Police The police union and SFPD Chief Bill Scott are up in arms that charges were dropped in an alleged stabbing of an officer, but the suspect certainly took more of the beating, and details may have been too flimsy for a guilty verdict.
SF News Hunter Pence Joins Volunteer Group Cleaning Up Trash in North Beach and Chinatown Four-time all-star and two-time world champ Hunter Pence came out of right field to help with a community trash pick, for a group that does this three or four times a week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Matt Horn’s New Fried Chicken Joint Kowbird Opens Friday in West Oakland Barbecue superstar chef Matt Horn adds a fried chicken-focused addition to his emerging Oakland comfort food kingdom, with Friday’s opening of Kowbird at the former Pretty Lady diner space.
SF News ‘Sickouts’ Spreading Across Bay Area Schools, as Teachers and Students Decry Lack of Masks and Testing Last week’s SF Unified and Oakland Unified School District sickouts were the shape of things to come at Bay Area schools, as Oakland teachers are pulling another one, as are many other East Bay schools.
SF News Another COVID Outbreak Hits San Quentin, Despite High Vaccination Rate Among Inmates A somewhat low vaccination rate among prison guards has produced a predictable result, as San Quentin State Prison, and all California state prisons, are in full lockdown.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tú Lan Gets Added to SF Legacy Business Registry The Millennium Tower is apparently tilting another three inches every year, Recology might owe you more Nuru bribe refund money, and Julia Child’s favorite SF Vietnamese restaurant Tú Lan has received a Legacy Business designation.
Bay Area Sports Casinos Took a Bath Over Draymond’s Seven-Second Performance, as Clever Betters Took the Under in Prop Bets Turns out the house doesn’t always win, as a few bettors with quick fingers bilked online sportsbooks for a sum reportedly in the millions Sunday, when the Warriors announced Draymond Green would only play for a few seconds.
SF News Suspicious, Unpermitted COVID-19 Testing Sites Pop Up in SF, Draw Legal Scrutiny The SF City Attorney’s Office says that "unlawful, fly-by-night facilities" hawking COVID tests were allegedly operating at Dolores Park, Golden Gate Park, and elsewhere in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Soul Food Destination Brown Sugar Kitchen Has Permanently Closed A nearly 15-year ride that made chef Tanya Holland a soul food celebrity has come to an end, as Brown Sugar Kitchen announces it will not be reopening its doors after its holiday hiatus.
SF News U.S. Mint Now Rolling Out Quarters That Have Maya Angelou On Them Change is coming, as Maya Angelou is now officially the first Black woman to be featured on a U.S. quarter, and the first batch of her 25-cent pieces rolled out of the U.S. Mint Monday.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Announces 2022 Lineup With Metallica and Pink for Memorial Day Weekend, Tickets On Sale Tuesday It’s back to Memorial Day Weekend for the Napa Valley music festival BottleRock, and tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday, with Metallica, Pink, and Twenty One Pilots headlining.
SF News Very Good Dog Lost In Caldor Fire Turns Up Alive In the Snow, More Than Four Months After Disappearing Meet Russ, the pit bull-terrier mix who somehow fended for himself in South Lake Tahoe for several months after being separated from his family in the Caldor fire, but was found alive and is now reunited with his humans.
SF News [Update] SF COVID Testing Melts Down Even More, Testing Sites Cut Back Hours Amidst Staffing Shortage San Francisco COVID-19 testing sites are cutting back their hours at the worst possible time, as the Department of Public Health announces reduced hours at four of the city's largest mass-testing sites.
Arts & Entertainment Rare, Full Johnny Cash San Francisco Concert From 1968 Digitally Restored and Free Online An SF Johnny Cash concert from 1968, recorded just one week before the release of his landmark Folsom Prison album, has been digitally restored and released online by the son of famed Grateful Dead roadie “Bear” Stanley.
SF News Alameda Sheriff's Association Offers $10,000 Reward for Info on Shooting of Recruit Near Bay Bridge After 28-year-old Alameda County Sheriff's deputy-in-training David Nguyen was fatally shot near the Bay Bridge Tuesday, that county’s sheriff’s association is now offering a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest.
Business & Tech Crypto Bro War of Words (and Memes) Breaks Out Between Jack Dorsey and Top Silicon Valley VCs There are no good guys, and certainly no women at all, in the latest Silicon Valley high school drama that pits Jack Dorsey and the bigwigs at Andreessen Horowitz arguing over the true meaning of crypto.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Part of Great Highway Might Go Car-Free No Matter What SFUSD was drastically understaffed today amidst a ‘sickout,’ turns out someone tried to pipe-bomb Kamala Harris last January 6, and an obscure environmental measure might automatically render part of the Great Highway car-free permanently.
Business & Tech Sister of Federal Officer Killed by Boogaloo Extremists Sues Facebook for Letting Them Organize Online The feds say that far-right “Boogaloo” militia types killed federal officer David Patrick Underwood, while trying to pose as Antifa. Underwood’s sister says Facebook gave them the tools to do it, and is suing the company.
SF Politics Kim Guilfoyle Claims She Raised $3 Million for January 6 Insurrection, Leaked Texts Show While Pelosi gets dragged for bringing Dick Cheney and the ‘Hamilton’ cast for a Jan. 6 remembrance, new evidence emerges that Kimberly Guilfoyle says she raised $3 million to finance the Trump rally that day, and angled to get Alex Jones and Steve Bannon speaking slots.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Taco Bell Launches a ‘Taco Subscription Service’ That Purports to Give You 30 Tacos for $10 A $10 monthly “taco subscription” entitles you to one taco every day for 30 days, but you have to go pick it up yourself, and “prices may vary by location.”
SF News A Princess Cruise Ship Docked in SF Thursday Morning After a COVID Outbreak Onboard The Ruby Princess cruise ship is now docked in SF with a number of confirmed COVID-19 cases onboard, and one passenger says “We’re not getting tested, so the Bay Area is getting us as is.”
