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.
SF Politics Feinstein’s Approval Rating Hits an All-Time Low of Just 35% Can we recall her instead? Senator Dianne Feinstein just registered the lowest approval rating in her 29 years in the Senate, as barely a third of Californians think she’s doing a good job.
Business & Tech Twitter Insists Trump Is Permanently Banned, Even If He Runs Again Trump cannot ever return to Twitter again and his deleted tweets are truly gone forever, but those very tweets are haunting him bigly at today’s impeachment trial proceedings.
SF News SFMOMA Director Steps Down Amid Race Scandals and Financial Turmoil, Insists it Has Nothing To Do With That SFMOMA director Neal Benezra had 18 good years, and one pretty bad one, but will stick around long enough to pick his successor.
SF News Court Clears Way for Condo Conversion on Property Where 100-Year-Old Woman was Evicted Iris Canada died at age 100 a month after her eviction in 2017, and the case that galvanized tenant activists just ended with a whimper of ‘Sure, build the condos.’
SF News SF Teachers Union Says They’ll Return To Classes with Vaccine Shots, Less Restrictive Tier The union says they’re ready to resume in-person classes if they’re vaccinated and the city is in the red tier, or even unvaccinated if it’s in the orange tier.
Bay Area Sports Steph and Ayesha Curry Have Quietly Served Up 15 Million Meals During the Pandemic We need to be talking more about how the Bay Area’s premier basketball glam couple have teamed up with chef José Andrés to serve more than 15 million free meals to families in need since COVID-19 hit.
SF News Oakland Developer Evicting People Like Mad During Eviction Moratorium The owner of Vulcan Lofts and nearly two dozen other East Bay apartment complexes is singularly responsible for nearly a third of all Oakland eviction notices filed during the eviction moratorium.
