SF News Humpday Headlines: Lombard Street Toll Turning Into A Reality A Lombard Street toll measure moves forward, 13 people were hospitalized for fentanyl exposure at County Jail, and a Giants prospect shows that minor league players are paid peanuts.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E To KIll Power for 800,000 Customers, And Their Website Has Crashed PG&E has announced that it's shutting off power for 800,000 customers at midnight, and the utility's website has gone kablooey for the last six hours so people cannot even check whether the outage will be hitting them.
SF News District 5 Race Capturing Little Attention, But Has Huge Implications Challenger Dean Preston came within 1,800 votes of beating then-Supervisor London Breed in 2016. His performance in November against Breed’s hand-picked successor will show whether she still has sway in the district.
SF Politics SF Judge Threatens Betsy DeVos With Jail For Violating Court Order Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ignored a court order to stop collecting certain student loan payments, and a San Francisco federal judge threatened to throw her in the slammer.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Still Undefeated After Monday Night Annihilation of Cleveland Browns The San Francisco 49ers blew out the Browns 31-3 in probably the most joyous game ever played at Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium.
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Large PG&E Outage Hits SF Nearly 2,000 people lost electricity Monday afternoon, the Supreme Court is hearing a major LGBTQ employment case today, and Sandra Lee Fewer says she's "90 percent" sure she's running for reelection.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Says Capitalism ‘Is Dead,’ Calls Facebook ‘The New Cigarettes’ The Salesforce CEO unloaded on his tech brethren at a TechCrunch Disrupt event last week, and said Facebook is “the new cigarettes.”
SF News Habitat For Humanity Spends Just $10 To Buy Pleasant Hill Parcel, Will Build Affordable Housing The good folks at Habitat for Humanity just bought this property for a mere ten bucks, and will build seven townhouses for the low-income population.
Three Hospitalized From Excelsior Blaze, Firefighter Injured, Dog Rescued Two homes on the Excelsior District’s Vienna Street went up in flames that are now contained, and the S.F. Fire Department saved three people and a dog.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: A Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Roundup of the 2019 Festival Joan Osborne had a heat stroke collapse onstage, Robert Plant busted out plenty of old Zep, and new security restrictions did not damper the delight of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Shutdown Complicates Post-Bluegrass Exodus BART stopped traffic through Powell Street station at a pretty awkward time Sunday night, we're in a risky wildfire period, and Fleet Week technically begins today.
Bay Area Sports MLB Vaguely Threatens To Move A’s To Las Vegas If Oakland Doesn’t Drop Lawsuit It’s kind of a troll move with the Raiders already heading for Las Vegas, but the commissioner of Major League Baseball says the same could happen to the A’s.
SF News 3.5M Quake Shakes Sleepy Saturday Morning Twitter was feeling it when an earthquake struck this morning, with an epicenter about four miles off the coast of Daly City’s Mussel Rock Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Washington High Alums Sue Over Contentious Mural An alumni group sues over the covering of a widely-seen-as-racist mural, the Castro’s Naan N Curry suffers a Health Department shutdown, and high-flying weed delivery service Eaze lays off 20 percent of its staff.
SF Politics DA Gascón Suddenly Resigns, Mayor Breed Shivs His Successor And Installs Suzy Loftus The District Attorney’s office looks like an episode of “Succession” — literally — as Gascón suddenly quits a month before the election, and Breed power-plays candidate Suzy Loftus into the job.
SF News ’Carmageddon’ Predicted To Snarl 101-Alemany Boulevard Area Much Of Next Summer When even Caltrans is referring to a construction event as “Carmageddon,” you can expect miles-long traffic jams, and this one’s scheduled to disrupt travel on the 101 around Portola next summer.
SF Politics Joe Biden Is In The Bay Area Today, And You Can See Him For Just $2,800 A $1,500 lunch with Biden is already underway in Palo Alto, but you can catch him at Feinstein’s mansion later today for the affordable price of $2,800.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Civic Center Burger King Permanently Closed After History Of Health Violations The Market Street Burger King abruptly closes following another recent health complaint, ending a 32-year run of giving San Francisco the runs.
SF Politics Supes Haney And Ronen Unveil Sweeping Mental Health Bill, Mayor Is Quick To Oppose It Mayor Breed comes out swinging against the scaled-down compromise bill, because people with health insurance could qualify for taxpayer-funded care.
Bay Area Sports A’s Latest Ballpark Plan Once Again Goes Foul As Oakland City Council Sues Alameda County A fight to prioritize affordable housing over a fancy new Major League Baseball stadium pits mayor Libby Schaaf against her own city council.
SF News Fatal Fentanyl Overdose Spike Prompts SROs To Train Residents to Revive People With an estimated 30 percent of fentanyl overdoses taking places in SROs, Mayor Breed sets aside a few hundred grand to train residential hotel staff and tenants to properly administer Narcan.
Arts & Entertainment Where To Find Cheap Theater Tickets Now That the Tix Bay Area Booth In Union Square Is Closing It’s curtains for the Tix Bay Area discount booth when they close Saturday, so we took a look at how to find cheap theater tickets (as low as $14!) in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Your Quick and Dirty Guide To The 2019 Folsom Street Fair The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence dispute has been resolved, the heat wave is expected to break, and we’ve got a package of tips to help you master Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair.
SF News Anti-Homeless Boulders Appear In the Mission, Residents Admit To Putting Them There Residents placed giant rocks along the sidewalks of Mission District street Clinton Park, in an apparent attempt to deter homeless people from sleeping on that street.
Arts & Entertainment Definitely Haunted Sunnyvale Toys ‘R’ Us Now A Spirit Halloween Store, Supernatural Activity Sure To Resume Suffering a gruesome demise in bankruptcy last year, an allegedly haunted South Bay Toys ‘R’ Us tempts fate by reopening as a Spirit store.
