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.
SF News Guy Climbs and Damages Castro Theatre Sign, Creates Bizarre 90-Minute Standoff An unidentified man climbed the Castro Theatre sign Tuesday night, and according to eyewitnesses, threw cinder blocks to the street, got naked, and masturbated on the roof.
SF News California Has Quietly Paid $4.4 Million to Settle COVID-19 Shutdown Lawsuits An oddball assortment of churches, strip clubs, and tattoo parlors have squeezed $4.4 million out of the state to settle their lawsuits related to COVID closures, and the state spent $9.5 million on attorneys to defend the shutdowns.
SF News Recall School Board Crowd Claims They Have More Than Enough Signatures to Make Ballot Looks like SF voters will see a recall election for three school board members, as that effort claims they have well exceeded the number of signatures required to trigger an election.
SF News SF Will Begin Paying People to Not Shoot Other People The program will be called the Dream Keeper Fellowship, though likely to be dubbed “Cash for Criminals” in the media, and will pay select people $300 a month to avoid gun incidents.
Arts & Entertainment Parades are Back, as Italian Heritage Parade Returns to North Beach in October The nation’s “oldest continuously running Italian heritage parade” returns October 10, the first major parade to float the idea since COVID hit.
SF News Video: Li’l Coyote Pup Rescued After Falling Into Bay at Fisherman’s Wharf Animal Care & Control successfully rescued a coyote pup who fell into the ice cold water of the bay, and the little nipper received medical treatment and has returned to the wild.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Movie ‘Shit & Champagne’ Has SF Premiere Saturday, Gets Deal to Stream on AppleTV, Amazon Prime Oasis owner D’Arcy Drollinger tells us about ‘Shit and Champagne,’ her cult-hit play-turned-movie with a Castro Theatre premiere Saturday, and new streaming deals with Amazon Prime and AppleTV.
SF News Video: Woman Sets Police Truck on Fire in the Tenderloin, Remains at Large After a woman successfully managed to torch an SFPD pickup truck Wednesday afternoon, police have a description of her, but don't know her name or have her in custody.
SF News 12,500 Gallons of Raw Sewage Spills in Martinez It is not a good time to visit the Contra Costa County city of Martinez, as a burst sewer pipe has spewed more than 12,000 gallons of unpleasantness that’s bubbling up through the city’s storm drains.
SF News Moderna is Set to Begin Clinical Trials for an HIV Vaccine The elusive HIV vaccine could be on the way, as Moderna is set to begin jabbing 56 adults in the first ever mRNA HIV vaccine clinical trial in humans.
Business & Tech Facebook Seemingly Still Monkeying With Algorithm to Limit Right-Wing Agitprop K-Pop stans and dog advice posts are the early benefactors of some possible Facebook algorithm and reporting changes, but the Dinesh D'Souzas and Ben Shapiros of the world are sharp at adapting to game the system.
SF Politics Meet the Nine Democrats Listed on the Gavin Newsom Recall Ballot From Youtube stars to cannabis lobbyists to anti-mask Marin County yoga instructors, here are your nine options to vote for a Democrat in the upcoming California recall election — even though Newsom and many others are saying you should just leave that side of the ballot blank.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Will Require Proof of Vaccination for Entry The big Lizzo and Tame Impala party will also accept proof of a negative COVID-19 test, but the test has to be taken on certain, specific days leading up to the Halloween weekend event.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Manages to Ram $3.5 Trillion Budget Bill Through House Nancy Pelosi herded the cats she needed on the spending and infrastructure bill, Swan Oyster Depot is getting Yelp-mobbed over what a customer felt was a racist incident, and a court shot down a lawsuit against the feds from Kate Steinle’s parents.
SF Politics Team Newsom Soiling Themselves Over Low Turnout Fears in Recall Election The polls show Newsom surviving the recall, but a bizarrely timed mid-September election and an unmotivated Democratic base could easily swing this thing to some nobody Republican with miniscule support.
SF Politics Whistleblower Sues City, Claims Calling Out an Alleged DBI Cover-Up Got Her Fired The curious case of a former Planning Commissioner’s alleged house-flipping scheme is back in the news, after accusations of secret back-channeling between the Board of Appeals and Department of Building Inspection.
SF News Fire at Abandoned Van Ness Parklet Deemed ‘Suspicious’ by SFFD The parklet outside the shuttered August 1 Five restaurant was ablaze early Saturday morning, and the fire department says the incident is "suspicious in nature."
Business & Tech Cal Takes a Cryptocurrency Naming Rights Deal for Memorial Stadium The Goldens Bears’ stadium will now be called ‘FTX Field at Memorial Stadium,’ in a crypto deal that is either a trailblazing innovation, or a slush fund for future ransomware attacks.
SF Politics Recall Candidate Larry Elder Faces Probe Over Unreported Income It’s odd that Republican recall character Larry Elder allegedly thought he could hide one of his sources of income, considering that source of income is called “Laurence A. Elder and Associates Inc.”
SF News Capitol Police Will Open an SF Office, Fearing Further Insurrection Antics Outside Washington, D.C. Citing a need for “enhanced security for Members of Congress outside” of the nation’s capitol, the U.S. Capitol Police are opening two new field offices, one in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Chorus Director Refuses Vaccine, Chooses to Resign Instead Grammy award-winning choral director Ragnar Bohlin would rather quit than comply with the SF Symphony’s vaccine mandate, and his Facebook posts are striking a pretty strange note.
SF News Video: Check Out These 80-Foot Blue Whales Swimming in the Monterey Bay The largest animals on the planet have been popping up visibly in Monterey Bay this week, as the crustaceans are making for good eatin’, and whale watching season is hitting its peak.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An El Farolito is Coming to North Beach The famed “Mission burrito” of El Farolito is making its way to North Beach, a super culinary development that expands the taqueria’s bright yellow SF footprint beyond the Mission District.