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.
SF News Top UCSF Doctors Say ‘San Francisco has Clearly Turned the Corner’ on Delta Variant San Francisco case rates are down and hospitalizations have plateaued, meaning the Delta variant appears to be on the wane, but no one’s spiking the football lest we see another case spike
SF Politics Loon Recall Candidate Larry Elder Faces Gun and Abuse Charges from Ex-Fiancee Leading the polls among Republican recall candidates, AM radio talk show host Larry Elder faces allegations from his ex involving gun threats, exploitive kinks, and lots of marijuana.
SF News Orange, Hazy Skies Return, and It’s a Spare the Air Alert for the Rest of the Week The unholy trinity of the Dixie, Caldor, and Cash fires are smoking up Bay Area skies, and a Spare the Air alert is in effect for Thursday and Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Calls Off 2021 Festival, but Livestream Will Have Bob Mould, Ani DiFranco Delta has done in this year’s in-person Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, but there will be a three-day livestream with festival favorites Mavis Staples and Emmylou Harris.
SF News Former Alameda Deputies Sentenced in Ghoulish Inmate Abuse Scandal A pair of Alameda County deputy guards who orchestrated cruel feces-throwing behavior at Santa Rita jail will find themselves on the other side of the bars, getting sentenced to four years in state prison.
SF Politics Federal Lawsuit Hopes to Halt Newsom Recall Vote, Calls it Unconstitutional Two California voters could throw a huge monkey wrench into the entire recall circus, filing a federal lawsuit that aims to call off the recall, or add Gavin’s name to the replacement list.
SF News SF Plans to Buy Four More Hotels to Shelter Homeless Population Four hotels and a total of 368 units will be opened as permanent housing for the unsheltered population, as that sweet Prop. C “homeless tax” money starts rolling in.
Arts & Entertainment Three-Legged Dogs Once Again Take Over Duboce Park for ‘Tri-Pawed Dogs’ Picnic Amputee dogs had their day again in Duboce Park Sunday, and the 10th annual Three-Legged Dog picnic returned after a COVID hiatus to welcome dogs with three legs, cones, casts, one eye, one ear, wheelchairs, blindness, deafness, or toothlessness.
SF News James Hormel, First Ever Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador, Has Died A titan in the San Francisco philanthropy scene and a survivor of vicious homophobic Republican smears in the late 1990s, James Hormel leaves us a legacy that includes the AIDS Memorial Grove and the LGBTQIA center at the library.
SF News Hugely Popular Anti-Vaxx Misinformation Website Is Just Some Lady in Piedmont Vaccine misinformation hotbed OpenVAERS is one of the leading sources of bad info about COVID vaccines on the internet, and an investigation finds that it’s run by some woman in the Oakland-surrounded suburb of Piedmont with too much time on her hands.
SF Politics Original Recall Chesa Boudin Effort Fails To Get Enough Signatures Today is the signature deadline for the first Recall Chesa campaign, and they reportedly fell 1,700 signatures short of the number they needed.
SF News SF Unified Reverses Course, Will Now Require Vaccines for Teachers and Staff In a flip-flop likely to be celebrated with eyerolls by parents across the city, San Francisco Unified School District announced Tuesday that on second thought, they will be requiring mandatory vaccination for teachers and staff.
Business & Tech Apple Will Scan Your iPhone for Child Porn; Critics Wonder What Else They’ll Snoop On A coming iOS upgrade will scan users’ iPhones for any images of child sexual abuse, but one wonders how many livelihoods will be ruined whenever the bots make a mistake.
SF Politics SF Sheriffs’ Union Vows to Quit En Masse Over Vaccine Requirements in a Rambling Facebook Post The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs' Association says officers will be “retiring early and seeking employment elsewhere” over Breed’s vaccine mandate, and the public response to the statement has invoked doors, hitting, and their asses on the way out.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cars Allowed Back on the Great Highway, Starting Monday The Great Highway will allow cars again on weekdays only, people are pulling guns on firemen and refusing to evacuate in the River Fire, and Guy Fieri showed up at the Sonoma County Fair to drop $30,000 on live pigs.
SF News Beheaded Honey Bear On Guillotine Depicted In Valencia Street Window Display People are apparently still losing their heads over the whole fnnch controversy, as the Artists Television Access window display houses an installation of a ubiquitous honey bear getting guillotined.
SF News SF DPH Will Now Come to Your House and Vaccinate You for Free The SF Department of Public Health is now making house calls, and offering to come by your place and vaccinate you for free, provided you have a group of 5-12 people on hand for the shots.
SF News A ‘Renegade’ Burning Man is Planned, Despite Cancellation, COVID, and Lack of Waste Services A few large Facebook and Reddit groups are ignoring the cancellation of Burning Man and slapping together a large, unsanctioned event, but the Delta variant and lack of porta-potty service could turn this into Woodstock ‘99 on COVID.
Bay Area Sports 49er Nick Bosa’s Girlfriend Deletes Her Twitter After Racist, Homophobic Tweets Surface The 49ers’ Pro Bowler’s significant other has significant problems, as ugly tweets from five to eight years ago upend her promising career as a TokTok and Instagram star.
SF News Traffic Snarl Alert: Mission and South Van Ness Intersection Will Be Closed to All Traffic Next Week About seven blocks worth of streets will be closed to traffic this coming Wednesday, and continuing til Monday, August 9, in the latest BS from the Van Ness BRT.
SF News SF SPCA Offering Free Adoptions for Senior Pets, Large Dogs Through August 15 Adoption fees are being temporarily waived at the San Francisco SPCA for older dogs and cats, and doggos 30 pounds or heavier, through the middle of August.
SF News Supes Approve Vis Valley Dispensary That’s Just 68 Feet From Another Cannabis Dispensary A dispensary the Planning Commission rejected for being too close to another won an appeal before the Board of Supervisors, but some Vis Valley residents complained that it’s corporate weed in sheep’s clothing.
SF News SF Still Determined to Buy Local PG&E Grid, Demands an Appraisal PG&E rebuffed SF’s $2.5 billion offer for the city’s grid in 2019, but now the city is power-playing for an appraisal and gaming to force the utility to sell.
SF News More Vaxx Mandates: Newsom Requires All State Employees to be Vaccinated, Breed Expands Mandate California will be the first state to require all state employees to be vaccinated, while Mayor London Breed doubles down and expands the SF vaxx mandate, and you see where this is all going.