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.
Arts & Entertainment Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ Trailer Arrives, With a Muni Bus Martial Arts Battle The teaser trailer for SF-shot ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ dropped today, and a battle scene on the 1-California has local comic book fans in a delirious state of squee.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Offers $2,500 ‘Reservations’ to Buy Tickets, Tickets Not Included with Purchase Still not knowing whether they can even have an event this summer, the Burning Man Project announces a $2,500 “opportunity” to buy tickets (tickets not included) — and most of these reservations have already sold out.
SF Politics Feds Charge Second Recology Executive For Bribery as City Controller Calls to End Their Monopoly A former Recology VP gets charged for bribing and laundering money to Mohammed Nuru, and the City Controller is calling to just break up the whole Recology arrangement.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Cancelled Again, As Rec and Parks Vows Hippie Hill Will Be Fenced Off The calling off of this year’s 4/20 was a 4/gone conclusion, but Mayor Breed and Rec and Parks announced today that Hippie Hill will be thoroughly fenced and rangers will be ready to bust any crashers.
SF News Biden Picks Openly Gay Former Richmond PD Chief to Run Customs and Immigration Known for toting a “Black Lives Matter” sign and being an openly gay and married police chief, former Richmond chief of police Chris Magnus has been nominated as Biden’s commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.
SF News Public Defender Says Attack on Elderly Asian Woman Not Hate Crime, Suspect Himself Was Beaten Up A new wrinkle has arisen in the case that’s raised $1 million on GoFundMe, as surveillance video indicates the attacker himself had just been beaten pretty senseless.
Arts & Entertainment Live Indoor Events to Restart April 15 In SF, But With Lots of Precautions Mayor Breed announced guidelines for indoor events to return next week in SF, and the Warriors will let fans in the stands on April 23 for a Nuggets game.
