SF Politics Feds Charge Capitol Insurrection Rioter Who Said of Pelosi, 'We Want to Hang That F***ing B*tch' Just before Pelosi’s House approved a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection Wednesday, a woman who yelled “Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now. We want to hang that f***ing b*tch” was charged in a Pennsylvania court.
SF News New Shelter for Homeless and Mentally Ill Opens on Valencia Street Today They prefer to call it a “Behavioral Health Beds” facility, but a new shelter and drop-in site opened today at the former Salvation Army Community Center after a year of community pushback and pandemic delays.
SF News Engineers Furiously Trying to Fix Golden Gate Bridge’s Constant Humming Sound It’s a humdinger of a problem for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District that the bridge still “sings” during high winds, but the transit agency won’t say about who’s fixing it or how.
Business & Tech SF Tech Companies Losing Hundreds of Millions on Office Space They Can’t Rent Dropbox alone dropped more than $400 million on empty downtown office space, as tech companies all over the Bay Area are bleeding billions to rent office spaces that are just cold sitting totally empty.
SF News Detestable Tesla ‘Backseat Driver’ Makes Bail, Buys Another Tesla, Backseat-Drives Again Tesla troll Param Sharma clearly revels in being public enemy No. 1, as he just bought another new Tesla and drove it from the backseat again in front of TV cameras. Also, he would like us to know he is very rich.
Business & Tech [UPDATE] New Top Hire With History of Sexist Quotes Leaves Apple After Uproar A startup star who wrote in his memoir that “Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak” is Apple’s new ad executive, and Bay Area women who work at Apple would like a word.
SF News Levi’s Stadium Throwing Teen Vaccination Parties With DJs and Oodles of Goodies The vaccine machine that is Levi’s Stadium is offering teens a “Vaxstage Pass” — vaccine shots, with chasers of 49ers swag, locker room tours, and live DJs several nights this week.
SF News SF Pastor Elected Nation’s First Openly Trans Lutheran Bishop The Outer Sunset’s Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church pastor Rev. Megan Rohrer just became the first ever trans person elected bishop to a major U.S. Christian denomination.
SF Politics ‘Bear Guy’ Recall Candidate John Cox Leads All Challengers — With a Whopping 9% Only one candidate in the Recall Gavin circus has spent the money to advertise on TV, but you’d hardly call him a “credible” challenger.
Business & Tech Tesla Autopilot ‘Backseat Driver’ Scofflaw Spotted Multiple Times on Bay Area Roads What appears to be the same detestable Tesla owner was spotted in the highly illegal, incredibly dangerous, and massively stupid act of sitting in the backseat with the Tesla in autopilot mode.
SF News Piedmont School District Takes Heat For Scheduling ‘White Student Support Circle’ After Chauvin Verdict If you think the San Francisco Unified School District has produced some strange school drama lately, Piedmont Unified took it up a notch by scheduling a “white student support circle.”
Arts & Entertainment The ‘Nash Bridges’ Reboot No One Asked For Is On Its Way A new ‘Nash Bridges’ will indeed be filmed here in San Francisco, with Don Johnson and Cheech Marin reprising their late 90s roles.
Arts & Entertainment 10-Foot Floral Butterfly Sculptures Land Across SF In hopes of getting you to flutter about town for Small Business Week, the SF Flower Mart has installed giant butterfly sculptures made of flowers in key retail corridors all over town.
Arts & Entertainment Sunday’s ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ Is a Bay to Breakers Episode The SF-set musical TV show is doing a Bay to Breakers episode Sunday night, likely without much nudity or drunkenness. But Bernadette Peters is involved!
Bay Area Sports SF Giant Brandon Crawford Has An SF-Themed Fish Tank Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford’s tricked-out San Francisco-themed fish tank has created a splash hit on social media, after his Splash Hit on Wednesday night.
Arts & Entertainment New Nonprofit Vows To Pay Off Nightclubs‘ Unpaid Bills The Independent Venue Preservation Initiative says it will pay venues’ unpaid bills going back to last February, but will depend on “community-driven micro-donations” to do so.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2021 Is Cancelled The Burning Man Project just announced “We have decided to set our sights on Black Rock City 2022,” which is another way of saying that they are canceling their 2021 event.
SF Politics The Gavin Newsom Recall Has Qualified for the Ballot We don’t know when there will be a recall election, but we now know there will indeed be a recall election, as the pro-recall crowd has validated 1.6 million of the necessary 1.4 million signatures.
SF News It’s Official — California Is Losing A Congressional Seat Thanks to Latest Census Numbers The state will still have the largest House of Representatives delegation by far, but as expected, California will lose one seat under the new U.S. Census numbers.
SF News SF Doctor Indicted in Alleged Counterfeit Botox Scheme A Bay Area dermatologist allegedly skimmed a nearly million bucks by buying fake Botox from online pharmacies, and selling it to patients as the real thing.
SF Politics SF Is Getting Its Supervisor Districts Redrawn Next Year Your supervisorial district gets changed slightly every ten years after the Census is completed, and that process is getting underway for next year.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Rap Legend Shock G (née Humpty Hump) Has Died Stop what you’re doin, ‘cause we’re about to ruin your day with the news that Oakland rapper and Digital Underground frontman Shock G passed away Thursday.
Business & Tech Leaked Internal Facebook Memo Shows They Knew They Enabled Insurrection Planning A company memo tells a different story than Mark Zuckerberg told Congress, as Facebook knew that “super-inviters” found ways to promote false election nonsense after the main "Stop the Steal" group was deplatformed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink These Novelty, Faux-Vaccine Cocktails Will Make You Drink ‘To Your Health’ Cocktail service Rye on the Road takes a jab at the various vaccines, with novelty craft cocktail packs of “doses” like Pfizzr and Gentian & Gentian.
SF News Huge 4/20 Lines at Some SF Pot Dispensaries, Others Have No Lines At All Long wait times at some large dispensaries, no wait at others, but all shops are breathing a sigh of relief over the Chauvin verdict.