SF News Alamo Square Gas Leak and Fire Prompt Fulton Street Evacuation The gas leak did catch fire and blazed the Fulton Street sidewalk, and PG&E has cut the gas lines in the neighborhood.
SF News Dublin Teen Harassed Online by Gun Dealer For Organizing Black Lives Matter Event The gun dealer has since apologized for and taken down his posts with a picture of the teen, with messages like “bring your vests and helmets” and “get ready for a fun couple hours.”
SF News Contra Costa County is Getting an ‘Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice’ Contra Costa County supervisors argue that systemic racism is a COVID-19 superspreader too, and approved a new social justice office that will not initially involve taxpayer dollars.
Arts & Entertainment Restored Video Brings 1930s Market Street to Life, In Full HD and Color Another one of those “Trip Down Market Street” videos, this one from the 1930s, pops with color and is upscaled to very realistic high definition.
SF Politics Kim Guilfoyle Reportedly Offered Trump Donors Lap Dances, Hot Tub Parties How big is Kimberly Guilfoyle’s unfolding sex-and-unprofessionalism scandal? GOP donors were apparently offered lap dances and Kimmy G hot tub parties for campaign contributions.
Business & Tech Uber Eats' Business Up 190%, Company Has Still Lost Nearly $6 Billion This Year Shelter-in-place has been a windfall for Uber Eats, but the rideshare giant has still managed to lose $5.8 billion thus far in 2020.
SF News After Annoying Judge, Ghost Ship Defendant Derick Almena Gets Permission for Dental Work Defendant Derick Almena is awaiting trial from home in an ankle bracelet, but a judge has approved a repeatedly botched motion allowing him to go to the dentist.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Delayed Until After Thanksgiving, For Yet Another Year Fresh-caught Dungeness crab will not be on your Thanksgiving menu, as all commercial fishing is delayed in our region until December 1.
SF Politics California Ballot Measures: Rent Control Effort Fails, Property Tax Too Close to Call Results are still coming in, but the attempted revision of Prop 13 for commercial property is running slightly behind, and the reinstatement of affirmative action has likely failed.
SF News Quirky, Selfie-Perfect SF Polling Places Include Museum of Ice Cream, The Eagle Leather bar The Eagle, the Museum of Ice Cream, the Balboa Theater and Almanac Beer Co. are filling in as temporary polling places this as San Francisco is set to break turnout records in this bizarre pandemic election.
SF Politics Trump Rallies Caused 30,000 COVID-19 Cases, 700 Deaths, Stanford Study Finds Stanford researchers ran the numbers and linked Trump rallies to 700 deaths, with the depressing kicker that these were “not necessarily among attendees.”
SF News Asian Art Museum Hit with Lawsuit Over Allegedly Stolen Artifacts Look at these 1,000-year-old sculptures, because they’re unlikely to be on display at the Asian Art Museum any longer amidst a troubling lawsuit from the US government.
SF News Solano County Patient Has COVID-19/Flu Co-Infection, ‘Twin-demic’ Fears Grow A handful of people in the country have contracted coronavirus and the flu simultaneously, one here in the Bay Area, and the double-whammy co-infection threat is real.
Business & Tech Reddit’s Super Generous Work From Home Policy Sparks Bay Area Exodus Fears With people already bolting from the Bay in droves, Reddit is among the first tech companies to pay workers the same salary if they move somewhere cheaper.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Vote to Pay Up to 65% of Unpaid Back Rent to Landlords Back rent is piling up under the eviction moratorium, so the Board voted Tuesday that the city would pay between 50-65% of it for qualifying tenants and landlords.
SF Politics Mad Mud is Flying as Six Supervisor Seats Are Up for Grabs in November Election Some odd (and vaguely racist) political ads are shaking up the races, as all six odd-numbered supervisor districts are on the November ballot.
SF News SF Giving $2.5 Million in Tax Waivers to Nightlife and Entertainment Venues Some 300 San Francisco music venues, bars, and nightclubs will get their local taxes and fees waived in hopes of helping them survive the pandemic.
Bay Area Sports 49ers' Jed York Makes Lavish Donations In Attempt to Unseat Unfriendly Santa Clara City Councilmembers The 49ers CEO has dropped $3 million ($100 per registered voter!) to elect a new Santa Clara city council that would be far friendlier to billionaire NFL owner interests.
SF Politics Karens Beware as CAREN Act Unanimously Passes Board of Supervisors, Turning Some Karening Into a Civil Offense Under the Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN) Act, racially motivated 911 calls could now land you in legal trouble.
SF News Raccoons Break Into Redwood City Bank, Make Themselves Completely at Home Two loutish raccoons took it upon themselves to occupy a Redwood City bank, and both suspects remain at large after their raccoon party free-for-all.
SF News Last Year’s PG&E Blackouts Attributed to Staff Being Mostly Untrained A “staggering failure of common sense” blamed for the October 2019 PG&E blackouts that caused more than two million northern Californians to lose electricity, many for days.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Marvel Kung Fu Flick ‘Shang-Chi’ (Starring Awkwafina!) Now Shooting in SF We’ve got some kick-ass car chase videos from the long-delayed shooting of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” which is back on track and filming all week in Russian Hill.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Pole Dancers Mount A Get-Out-the-Vote Effort with ‘Poling for the Polls’ ‘Poling for the Polls’ puts a new spin on voter turnout efforts with a sexy Sunday livestream of buff boys and gripping girls working you to the polls.
Business & Tech Twitter Suspends Trump Campaign Account for Three Hours, as Trump-Twitter Battle Escalates Trump is threatening a “big lawsuit” after his campaign account was given a three-hour timeout on Twitter, and Senate Republicans have subpoena'd Jack Dorsey because they think this is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor.
SF Politics Kamala Harris’ Lawyer Husband Won Taco Bell Chihuahua Lawsuit With Dogged Pursuit Journalists tried to dig up some poop on Sen. Harris’ husband, but instead found he successfully handed Taco Bell a big chalupa $42 million legal bill in 2009.