Business & Tech Juul Knowingly Sold More Than a Million Contaminated Vape Pods, Fired Exec Claims A new lawsuit claims that former Juul CEO Kevin Burns dismissed concerns about contaminated and expired vaping pods, saying that half the company's customers are "drunk."
SF News Celebrity Chefs Cook Up Thousands of Meals For Sonoma Firefighters and Evacuees Traci Des Jardins joins Tyler Florence, Guy Fieri, Chris Cosentino to serve hot gourmet meals with José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds.
SF News New BART General Manager Goes on ‘Listening Tour,’ Encounters What We See Every Day New BART GM Robert Powers is going station to station every Wednesday, allowing you the opportunity to give him heck in person.
Bay Area Sports Affluent Crowd Quiet, Leaves Early as Warriors Get Waxed in Chase Center Debut The Warriors left their home court advantage in Oakland, as the roars of ‘Roaracle Arena’ quickly quieted in a 141-122 blowout loss to begin their tenure at the Chase Center.
Business & Tech Stripe Is Leaving Its San Francisco Headquarters for South San Francisco South San Francisco as the new tech hub? Stripe just made the first move, heading for the biotech office park land where they’ll pay no payroll or gross receipts taxes.
SF News A Meth Sobering Center Is Coming to SF in the Next Few Months The San Francisco Methamphetamine Task Force recommends a slew of actions, and Mayor Breed has immediately OK’d a city-run meth sobering center along the lines of the alcohol sobering center it already has.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best San Francisco Bars for Watching the World Series Game One of the World Series is tonight, so SFist is stepping up to the plate with a postseason roster of our favorite sports bars where you can watch the Fall Classic -- following the schadenfreude that came with the Dodgers already having melted down.
SF Politics Fringe Mayoral Candidate Attacks London Breed With Pretty Obviously Racist Billboard Ellen Lee Zhou’s bonkers billboard depicts the mayor in outrageously offensive fashion, and the spelling errors are the least problematic thing about this campaign ad.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Oldest Black-Owned Bar Sam Jordan’s To Close After 60-Year Run in Bayview The Bayview bar and restaurant has legacy status and spawned a street name for the 1940s-era prizefighter, but his kids are hanging up the gloves.
SF News Low-Budget Version of Clinton Park Rocks Roils Ingleside, Wall Gets Removed A plywood wall blocking a pedestrian walkway in Ingleside hs been taken down for now, but exasperated neighbors vow to replace it with a gate or some other manner of barrier.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's Cafe Flore Gets Approval for Cannabis Dispensary Across Noe Street The Flore Store dispensary will bring another marijuana buying option to the Castro, as the Planning Commission gave approval to a Noe and Market Street pot shop.
SF Politics Supervisors and Mayor at Odds Over Dueling Mental Health Plans After Supervisors Haney and Ronen introduced their sweeping Mental Health SF initiative, Mayor Breed counters with her own Urgent Care SF plan, which is ironically the less urgent of the two.
SF Politics Danny Glover, Michael Franti, Other Somewhat Famous People Take Sides in San Francisco DA Race Chesa Boudin and Suzy Loftus are pulling in endorsements in the DA race, while Friday looms as George Gascón’s last day on the job.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sup. Vallie Brown Hounded By Eviction Charge Sup. Vallie Brown has an owner move-in eviction skeleton in the closet, Visa and Mastercard dump Facebook's crypto product, and it sure looks like an SFPD officer lied under oath about a severe beating.
SF News SF Offered to Buy PG&E’s Local Power Lines for $2.5 Billion, Beleaguered Utility Turned It Down As news breaks that PG&E executives threw a ritzy Sonoma winery bash on the eve of the blackouts, we also learn the company rejected a multibillion-dollar offer from City Hall to buy their local lines.
SF Politics Another Giuliani Associate Arrested in SF Over Alleged Marijuana Scheme The Ukraine scandal comes to San Francisco (and Livermore!), as Giuliani associate Andrey Kukushkin was arrested by the FBI for his alleged role in a marijuana bribery scheme.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Steve Kerr Responds to Trump Calling Him a ‘Scared Little Boy’ Steve Kerr gets philosophical over Trump's tirade at him, 'Moulin Rouge' will be replacing 'Hamilton' at the Orpheum, and Github employees are furious that the company is working with ICE.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grass Fire Hits San Bruno Mountain A fire on the mountain in Brisbane, a school shooting scare in San Jose, and Trader Joe’s keeps pushing for a Hayes Valley location.
SF News The PG&E Shut-Offs Are Done, But It Could Be Five Days Until Power is Restored There will be no more new outages, PG&E declares, though it may take until Tuesday for the utility to turn everyone’s electricity back on.
SF News PG&E’s Phase Two Outages Underway, as Many as Two Million Are Without Power Swaths of Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo Counties lost power last night, but a Moraga wildfire reminds us that the threat of fires is indeed real.
SF News Thursday Morning What’s Up: The Blue Angels Will Roar Loudly, Starting Today Fleet Week’s practice flights start today, Juul lobbyists are getting blacklisted, and an SF mansion on sale is asking the most expensive price the city’s ever seen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Building Gets Security Barricades The San Francisco PG&E Building got barricades, its Oroville branch got egged, and the Mezzanine has declared bankruptcy.
Business & Tech Apple’s AirPods Die Within Two Years, Can’t Be Fixed, Cause Environmental Damage There’s another reason to loathe those $159 AirPods — a Washington Post investigation finds they have a very temporary shelf life, and are likely to end up as environmental waste.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whoa! El Rio Almost Closed This Summer, but Was Saved by a Housing Nonprofit The nightlife scene dodged a bullet as El Rio was at serious risk of shutting down in recent months, but thanks to a city program, Carmen Miranda’s huge head is not going anywhere.
SF News [Update] PG&E Blackouts Hit 500,000 Customers So Far, With More To Come Marin and Napa customers got their power cut last night, while Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties will lose power today, as the PG&E power outage disaster is mushrooming by the minute.
