Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Tells Camps To Start Planning for Possible 2021 Event It’s not an announcement or confirmation, but the Burning Man Project has sent a “gentle nudge” to the biggest camps to start planning, and giving deadlines for those wanting prime placement.
SF News SFPD Vows There Will Be DUI Checkpoints Galore For St. Patrick’s Day You’ll want to avoid the paddy wagon on this St. Paddy’s Day, and SFPD promises you’re courtin’ trouble if you drive drunk because they’ll be out in force at checkpoints.
SF News Humpback Whale Arrives in SF Bay in Early March, Believed To Be Earliest Feeding Here Yet The resurging humpback whale scene usually starts in late April or May, but a few whale spottings in the SF Bay last week indicate their calendars may be springing forward.
SF News Good Samaritan Thwarts Safeway Carjacking of 75-Year-Old Woman When three female suspects assaulted an elderly woman and tried to steal her car Thursday night, a fellow Safeway shopper literally jumped onto the car to stop the caper.
SF News More of SF Eligible for Vaccine Monday: People With Health Issues, in Homeless Shelters, Incarcerated People with a whole range of medical conditions will be eligible for their vaccine shot effective Monday, March 15, as will anyone in a congregate care facility like a homeless shelter or jail.
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Area Movie and TV Production Scene is Heating Back Up The TV version of “Blindspotting” just wrapped shooting in Oakland, and a slew of new Hollywood productions are slated to shoot in SF and the greater Bay Area.
SF News California Murder Suspect Remains at Large After Police Let Him Go By Accident US Route 101 was shut down for an hour Tuesday near Hollywood after a murder suspect was mistakenly released, but LA sheriff's deputies still couldn’t find the guy, and he could be anywhere at this point.
SF News Bill To Outlaw Gender-Based Toy Store Sections Introduced in CA Statehouse The CA state assembly is considering a bill to remove gender labels from department store toy sections, and Tucker Carlson will surely have his yo-yos in a bunch over this one.
SF Politics School Board Replacement Measure Introduced by Political Action Committee A ballot measure to make the school board appointed by City Hall, instead of elected, is in the works — but the political action committee behind the effort might not exactly be “grassroots.”
Business & Tech Dropbox Headquarters Sells for More Than $1 Billion, In SF’s Second Largest Ever Real Estate Deal In an encouraging sign for the office real estate amidst the ‘everyone's working from home forever’ craze, the four-building Mission Bay complex known as the Exchange has sold for $1.08 billion.
Arts & Entertainment Honey Bear Artist fnnch Releases ‘Movie Bear’ Prints to Benefit Roxie Theater In a “this weekend only” benefit to help the still-shuttered Roxie Theater, fnnch — who’s now raised nearly $300,000 for COVID-19 charitable efforts — is selling exclusive, limited-edition Movie Bear prints up until midnight PT Sunday night.
SF Politics Recology Must Reimburse SF Customers $100 Million For Alleged Mohammed Nuru Bribes SF households will be reimbursed an average of $190 by Recology, amidst charges of bribes to the disgraced former Public Works director that persuaded him to approve rate hikes.
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, But Hopes to Keep SF Location Open The boozy, boutique movie theater is actually a chain of 40 theaters nationwide that has declared bankruptcy, but for now, the Mission Street location is not on the chopping block.
SF Politics DA Boudin Faces Another Round of Outrage Over ‘Temper Tantrum’ Comment One out-of-context sentence from a New York Times interview is the latest fodder for right-wing media and the Recall Chesa crowd to throw, well, temper tantrums.
SF News Viral Fleetwood Mac Skateboarder Guy Visits SF, Promptly Has His Cars Broken Into The fellow who gained fame for a TikTok Fleetwood Mac video was in SF last week, and players didn’t love him but instead broke into his family’s two rental cars.
SF Politics New Senator Alex Padilla Introduces His First Bill, Citizenship for Essential Workers The handpicked junior senator from California is likely to make immigration reform his signature cause, and comes out of the gate with a bill that would grant citizenship to immigrants working essential jobs.
SF News Another Alleged ‘Kneeling on the Neck’ Police Killing in Antioch Draws Wrongful Death Lawsuit A 30-year-old Navy veteran died after Antioch police allegedly used the ‘George Floyd hold’ on him while he was suffering a mental health incident, and the family is suing the Antioch PD.
Business & Tech Guy Who Flew ‘Suck My Nuts Robinhood’ Banner Over SF Tells His Story The GameStop “meme stocks” sensation has blown over, but the fellow whose “Suck My Nuts Robinhood” banner provided an amusing epilogue to the tale explains the details of the stunt.
Business & Tech Despite Threats, Elon Musk Expanding Fremont Tesla Plant, Not Abandoning It The world’s no-longer-richest man was apparently bluffing when he threatened to move his East Bay Tesla plant out-of-state, as the plant has just submitted permit requests to expand.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Long-Lived Mission Bar El Rio Has Reopened for Food and To-Go Cocktails It’s only Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays right now, but you can now ‘dive’ back in to the special magic of an El Rio cocktail paired with their new food menu.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Announces They Still Have No Announcement on Fate of 2021 Event The promised mid-February update has been issued, but the Burning Man Project cannot say whether the 2021 event can happen in person, and the new announcement timeline is “no later than the end of May.”
SF News SF Catholic Churches Pulled in Huge PPP Loans While Flouting Public Health Restrictions The Archdiocese of SF’s nearly $2 million PPP loan is just one of many that have gone to churches across the state who have openly defied restrictions and hosted superspreader events.
SF News Alameda Coast Guard Nabs 9,000 Pounds of Cocaine in Separate Busts The regional US Coast Guard is tooting its own horn after busting three separate smuggling vessels carrying an estimated $156 million in cocaine.
Business & Tech Report Shows Facebook Rarely Tagged Trump’s Lies as ‘False,’ Showed Different Versions of Fact-Check Labels to Different Users An outside company has analyzed reams of Facebook data, and found that ‘false’ or ‘disputed’ tags were shown to some users, but not others, possibly based on geography, and almost never slapped on Trump posts.
Arts & Entertainment Meet The 2021 'Hearts in San Francisco,' Now On Display In Union Square The pandemic scaled back the number of Hearts in SF on the city’s streets, but this year’s hearts are inspiring interpretations of the heartbreaking year we’ve just lived through.