Arts & Entertainment ‘The Matrix: Resurrections’ Will Have a Red Carpet Premiere In San Francisco Mark your calendars for December 18, an event you will not be invited to, as Keanu and the gang will return to San Francisco for the red carpet theatrical premiere of ‘The Matrix: Resurrections.’
Bay Area Sports Welp, the Warriors Have an Anti-Vaxxer, and This Is Officially a Problem Starting forward Andrew Wiggins has still refused to get vaccinated, and cannot play home games unless he does, leaving your Golden State Warriors in a real pickle less than a month from the season’s start.
Arts & Entertainment Trevor Noah Goes Off on Mayor Breed and Her Maskless Club Appearance ‘The Daily Show’ did a bit on Breed’s maskless Nicki Minaj turn to rejecting public health guidelines, and her preference for defensive ass-covering over face coverings.
SF News NorCal Schools Preparing to Take On Influx of Afghan Refugee Students Nearly half of Afghan refugees end up in northern California, and here in the Bay Area, Fremont Unified is preparing for what could be thousands of new refugee students.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Denies Secret Deal With Jared Kushner to Never Censor Trump’s Posts Maybe this explains Facebook’s kid-gloves approach to right-wing propaganda — a new book claims Zuckerberg agreed to a “hands-off approach to conservative sites” in exchange for lax regulations.
SF News SF Resumed Peak-Hour Towing Enforcement Today Another local law that was temporarily tossed out during COVID went back into effect Monday, and your car could now again be towed if parked in restricted peak-hour areas.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Gaymes Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary Sunday Empress Juanita MORE! and Emperor Glamamore of the Imperial Court of San Francisco will preside over the 25th Annual Golden Gate Gaymes & Picnic Sunday, and you can still sign up to compete in events like Wheel of Misfortune and Lip-Sync or Swim.
SF Politics California Secretary of State Has Had It With All This Recall Nonsense After spending $276 million on a recall attempt that accomplished nothing, the state's top elections official, Shirley Weber, is on a rhetorical warpath urging the legislature to change the lopsided rules.
Business & Tech After Suing Uber, Google’s Waymo Is Now Subleasing Office Space from Uber The COVID-era corporate subleasing craze has paired some strange bedfellows, as the self-driving car company Waymo is leasing empty office space from Uber, whom they had previously tried to sue into oblivion.
SF News Dandelion Chocolate Union Vote Wins By One Vote, But Many Union Voters Since Laid Off The artisan chocolatier’s unionization vote passed in a 20-19 squeaker, but does it matter, since half of the ‘Yes’ voters have since been shown the door?
SF News Video: Huge San Jose Sideshow Results in 205 Citations, a Mere One Arrest San Jose continues to draw more and larger sideshows than even SF or Oakland, and a five-minute video has emerged from this weekend’s dangerous, donut-skidmark affair.
SF News SF Weekly Taking an ‘Indefinite Hiatus,’ Draw Your Own Conclusions About Its Future Just months from the paper’s 40th anniversary, SF Weekly is being put “on hold,” and the continued existence of the city’s last alt-weekly is a questionable proposition at best.
SF News Preston Calls to Halt Japantown Hotel Conversion to Homeless Housing, Proposes Other Hotel Sites Many Japantown residents want no part of seeing a luxury hotel there converted to supportive housing. Their supervisor Dean Preston takes up their cause, earning him grief from across the housing discourse spectrum.
SF News Data Shows SF Schools Have Avoided COVID Outbreaks So Far, Unlike Rest of Nation A mere five cases of in-school COVID transmission have been recorded since San Francisco schools reopened last month, and as of now, SF schools are avoiding the Delta variant nightmare being seen elsewhere across the country.
SF News $10 Parking Could Be Coming to Baker Beach, Other Park Service-Managed Parks You might be shelling out $10 to park at Baker Beach, Land’s End, and a host of other SF and Marin County parks under a new proposal from the National Park Service.
SF News Nutty Local Archbishop Given Another Op-Ed to Whine About Biden and Pelosi Serial COVID-19 safety protocol violator Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone insists he is more pro-life than you, despite all the preventable outbreaks in his diocese, and uses the new Texas abortion law to argue that both Biden and Pelosi cannot be good Catholics and support abortion rights.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Renegade’ Burning Man Angers Sheriffs, But Draws 20,000, Including Paris Hilton and Diplo Post-Burning Man photos are flooding social media as they do after every Labor Day, and this year’s ‘Rogue’ burn drew larger crowds than expected — but also appears to have pissed off a number of Nevada locals.
Bay Area Sports Giants Snap Four-Game Losing Streak to Tie Dodgers, Setting Up Intense Series at Oracle It's going to feel like playoff baseball, as the Giants and Dodgers head in this weekend's three-game series tied for the best record in baseball, for their last series of the regular season.
SF News Black Bear Euthanized for Burns Suffered in Caldor Fire California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials had to make a tough call, with a bear they could not transport to safety, and would have burned alive in the fire as it could no longer walk.
SF News SF’s ‘Cruelest Landlord’ Back in News, Tenants Win $2.7 Million Harassment Appeal Notorious landlord Anne Kihagi lost all of her SF properties a couple years ago, but her long-suffering tenants are still in the courts with her, and she just lost an appeal of a seven-year-old harassment case.
Arts & Entertainment Review: ‘Shang-Chi’ an Epic SF Car Chase, Followed by Two Hours of Sporadically Good Comic Book Movie The Muni-kung fu-swordfight-car chase scene on SF hills is well worth the price of admission, but the rest of ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ is, well, up and down.
SF News BART’s New Evasion-Proof (Yeah, Right) Fare Gates Begin to Appear in the Wild So-called “Next Generation Fare Gates” are plexiglass doors and are now installed at Rockridge station, so we’ll see if this latest invention makes a dent in the system’s $25 million-a-year fare evasion problem.
SF Politics Good News for Gavin? Dems Crushing GOP 2-to-1 in Returning Mail-In Ballots A couple new polls show Newsom back up by double-digits in the Sept. 14 recall election, but more importantly, Democrats have an overwhelming advantage among the 23% of Californians who’ve already voted by mail.
SF News Horse Deworming Drug Ivermectin Flying Off Shelves at Bay Area Tack and Feed Stores Joe Rogan’s wholly unqualified endorsement will likely only increase demand for the roundworm medication for horses that has become the Covidiots’ latest perceived miracle drug.
Business & Tech Reddit Moderators Revolt Over Company’s Lax Misinformation Policy Some of the most popular subreddits on Reddit have “gone dark” this week in protest of the company’s hand-off policy with misinformation and anti-vaxxer online bullying, and Wednesday, Reddit did at least ban one of the worst offenders.