Arts & Entertainment Life-Sized Ox Statues Arrive All Over Town to Celebrate Lunar New Year There’s no Chinese New Year parade, but the Year of the Ox still rocks with 11 life-size ox statues painted by the artists who normally make the parade’s fantastic floats.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Camps Already Backing Out of 2021 Over COVID-19 Concerns, Despite No Official Call Well-known Burning Man camps are already chiming in with a big old “Nope” on attending the 2021 event, even as Black Rock City organizers have not officially decided whether to proceed this year.
SF News UC Berkeley Sees COVID-19 Surge, as Frat House Parties Are Becoming A Problem More than 7% of all positive UC Berkeley student body cases in the last six months came in just this past weekend, and school officials are scolding kids for letting their guards down.
SF News One of SF’s Biggest Cannabis Dispensaries is Poised to Hit Valencia Street The Planning Commission gave the green light for a sprawling dispensary with an on-site smoking lounge, over neighborhood concerns that it would be too big and upscale.
SF Politics Congress’ Resident QAnon Loon Claimed 2018 Camp Fire was Started by Space Lasers A recent dump of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old social media posts includes a 2018 screed that a cabal of Jewish bankers used space lasers to start the deadliest fire in California history, as part of a high-speed rail scheme.
Arts & Entertainment One-Night Virtual Sketchfest Draws ‘Mr. Show’ Reunion, Peaches Christ, Weird Al SF Sketchfest has been whittled down to just a one-night livestream this Saturday, but still has dozens of the biggest names in comedy.
Business & Tech Uber Lays Off 15% of Postmates Staff, Just Two Months After Buying the Company Nearly 200 Postmates employees got pink slips Monday in the wake of being acquired by Uber, but top Postmates executives will get “multimillion dollar exit packages.”
SF News SF Archbishop Flouts COVID-19 Restrictions Again, Hosts Hundreds for Indoor Mass The nutty archbishop rises again in opposition to COVID-19 precautions, this time holding mass indoors for hundreds of congregants, and saying some combination of Proud Boys and Antifa forced him to do so.
SF Politics Fox News Apoplectic That FEMA Will Fund SF Homeless Hotels, Unaware This Started Under Trump The right-wing news network’s outrage that “Biden may force American taxpayers to foot bill” for shelter-in-place hotel rooms fails to acknowledge that Trump forced taxpayers to foot the same bill.
Arts & Entertainment SF Art Institute Cleans House After Controversial Attempt to Sell Diego Rivera Mural The chair of the board and two vice-chairs have resigned after the city shot down their attempt to sell a Diego Rivera mural, and enrollment has dwindled to a measly 27 students.
SF News Ex-Boxing Champ Opens New Potrero Hill Dispensary Saturday The former North American Boxing Organization junior welterweight champion is now boxing up eighths, prerolls, and your favorite cannabis goodies at Potrero Hill’s first dispensary.
SF News Lowell High Rocked By Yet Another Wildly Racist Incident, This Time In an Online Class SFUSD is blaming hackers, but Black Lowell students believe it was their fellow students, as an online anti-racism class erupts in n-words and pornography.
SF News SF’s Trailblazing Sex Worker Activist Margo St. James Has Died A sex work advocate before they called it “sex work,” Margo St. James was the namesake of the St. James Infirmary and founded the old Hooker’s Ball. She also spearheaded a movement to legalize prostitution, and very nearly won a seat on the SF Board of Supervisors in 1996.
SF Politics Feinstein Says She’s Totally Cool With Senators Who Helped Incite Capitol Riot Former SF mayor and 87-year-old senator with a $94 million net worth Dianne Feinstein is finding ever new ways to infuriate her constituents, this time sticking up for the bogus Electoral College challenges from Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.
SF News SF Will Email or Text You When You’re Eligible for the COVID-19 Vaccine Starting Tuesday, you can sign up to receive an automatic notification when you are eligible to receive your vaccine shot. Trouble is, you probably won’t receive that notification for several months.
SF News SF Proud Boy the Latest Charged by FBI for Storming the Capitol A “self-proclaimed member of the Proud Boys” who’s popped up at SF pro-Trump events was charged by the FBI Friday for his role in the US Capitol violence, mostly because he was hilariously incompetent at covering his tracks.
SF News SF Saw Triple the Number of Overdose Deaths Than COVID-19 Deaths in 2020 Fentanyl is killing far more San Franciscans than coronavirus, according to a new report from the city’s Chief Medical Examiner.
Business & Tech Feds Allege Elizabeth Holmes Destroyed a SQL Database That Proved Her Theranos Product was Garbage Prosecutors subpoenaed an internal Theranos database they say proved executives knew their blood test product was a sham. That database was promptly destroyed, according to a new filing.
SF News Massive Unemployment Scam Four Times Worse Than Thought, Victims Frozen Out of Their Own Accounts Scammers have racked up an estimated $8 billion in benefits, taken from the pockets of a million and a half genuinely unemployed people, who then find themselves locked out of their accounts, as California’s unemployment fraud spirals out of control.
SF News Mayor Breed Offers Up $62 Million More in Small Business Grants and Loans London Breed shook the tree at City Hall, and produced $50 million in loans and $12 million in grants for a very substantial small business COVID-19 economic relief package.
SF News McMansion Plans Unveiled for Wildly Expensive Dolores Heights Teardown A long-vacant Dolores Heights fixer-upper two blocks from Zuckerberg’s house, and one block from the celebrated Tom and Jerry House, has submitted plans to tear the place down and erect an ultramodern mansion.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Semi-NSFW: SoMa’s X-Rated Cake Gallery Has Reopened in Dogpatch They're taking cake glory to a whole new level again, as the sexually explicit cake art experts at Cake Gallery, who shut down in September, have reopened in Dogpatch with the whole staff back on the payroll.
Business & Tech Boom — President Trump Has Been Permanently Banned From Twitter With only 12 days left in his presidency, the sitting American president has been permanently removed from his favorite late night, all-caps messaging platform.
Arts & Entertainment Two Bay Area Contestants Are On Alex Trebek’s Final Episode of ‘Jeopardy!’ Tonight An SF State professor and an executive assistant from Colma will compete tonight on Alex Trebek’s final episode of ‘Jeopardy!,’ airing at 7 p.m. local time.
SF Politics Onetime SF Mayoral Candidate Ellen Lee Zhou Was at the Trump Rally-Slash-Insurrection Social media posts show how former fringe mayoral candidate Ellen Lee Zhou was in attendance at Wednesday's disturbing DC madness, and we watched her videos so you don’t have to.
