SF News Last Year’s PG&E Blackouts Attributed to Staff Being Mostly Untrained A “staggering failure of common sense” blamed for the October 2019 PG&E blackouts that caused more than two million northern Californians to lose electricity, many for days.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Marvel Kung Fu Flick ‘Shang-Chi’ (Starring Awkwafina!) Now Shooting in SF We’ve got some kick-ass car chase videos from the long-delayed shooting of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” which is back on track and filming all week in Russian Hill.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Pole Dancers Mount A Get-Out-the-Vote Effort with ‘Poling for the Polls’ ‘Poling for the Polls’ puts a new spin on voter turnout efforts with a sexy Sunday livestream of buff boys and gripping girls working you to the polls.
Business & Tech Twitter Suspends Trump Campaign Account for Three Hours, as Trump-Twitter Battle Escalates Trump is threatening a “big lawsuit” after his campaign account was given a three-hour timeout on Twitter, and Senate Republicans have subpoena'd Jack Dorsey because they think this is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor.
SF Politics Kamala Harris’ Lawyer Husband Won Taco Bell Chihuahua Lawsuit With Dogged Pursuit Journalists tried to dig up some poop on Sen. Harris’ husband, but instead found he successfully handed Taco Bell a big chalupa $42 million legal bill in 2009.
SF Politics Feinstein Corners Amy Coney Barrett Into Non-Answers, But Lands No Punches; Harris Grills Her on ACA Sen. Feinstein needled the Supreme Court nominee on the two issues for which she was picked — to overturn Roe v. Wade and to hand Trump re-election — but DiFi didn’t really manage to swat any flies.
SF News Covidiot Files: Trumper Yoga Studio in Pacifica Advertising ‘Mask Free’ Classes The MAGA-yoga connection apparently exists, and a hot yoga studio could be in hot water for “mask free” classes flouting health restrictions.
SF Politics California GOP Putting Out Bogus Ballot Boxes In At Least Three Counties Republican party operations in Fresno, Los Angeles, and Orange County get busted for bamboozling voters with phony ballot drop boxes, which is totally a felony.
Business & Tech Waymo Unleashes ‘Fully Driverless’ Taxis (In Phoenix Only), Elon Musk Stews With Jealous Tweets The Google-Alphabet-Waymo dream of fully autonomous taxicabs is a reality as of today, but only in a small patch of the Phoenix, Arizona area.
Arts & Entertainment Artist Rigo 23 To Unveil Leonard Peltier Statue in SF, Ceremony to be Livestreamed Rigo 23’s large-scale homage to long-jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier will be unveiled Friday for a six-month display in SF, after the FBI had the statue kicked out of Washington, DC.
SF News Vallejo Declares State of Emergency Over Pandemic Crime Wave and Police Misconduct Vallejo City Council thinks gangs are engaged in a turf war, but their emergency declaration sets off a turf war between the city’s police and its police officer’s association.
SF Politics Uber and Lyft’s Prop 22 Only Up By 3 Points in Poll, Despite $186 Million War Chest An all-time California record of campaign cash has not yet sealed the deal for Lyft and Uber in their campaign to ensure their drivers are not classified as employees.
SF News Entire West Coast Marijuana Crop Threatened By Fire, Smoke, and Ash In not just California, but Oregon and Washington too, where even cannabis plants that are hundreds of miles from the fires suffer smoke damage that renders the pot unsmokable.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Nominates Controversial Owner of Manny's to SFMTA Board Cafe owner, activist, and lightning-rod for leftie quarrelling Manny Yekutiel is London Breed’s new nominee for one of two empty spots on the SFMTA board.
SF Politics Dialysis AGAIN? Why There Is Yet Another Dialysis Measure on the California Ballot California's healthcare unions are taking another shot at “Big Dialysis” after a failed 2018 measure, and get ready for TV ads, as the franchise clinics are outspending the unions 16-1.
SF Politics Meet Your 13 SF Ballot Measures, Nearly Half of Which Are More Taxes on Rich People Five of the 13 San Francisco ballot measures are tax hikes, but there are also a few measures that will surely draw Fox News ridicule, like allowing 16-year-olds to vote.
SF News Major BART Delays Hit East Bay as Power Line Gets Knocked Onto Tracks, Service Now Back This afternoon was not a good time to take BART in the East Bay, as service was disrupted when a semi truck knocked a power line onto the tracks.
SF News Missing Berkeley Woman’s Car Found in Humboldt County, But She’s Still Missing 75-year-old Betty Baxter Simmons hasn’t been seen since September 5, but her car was found with a note saying “Tow to Berkeley.”
SF News Western Addition Metal Bar Attack Leaves 30-Year-Old With Life-Threatening Injuries A yet-unidentified 30-year-old man clings to life after a Monday night attack at Fillmore and Geary.
SF News Local Man Allegedly Flies to Nashville With 87 Pounds of Marijuana, Predictable Result Ensues Who’s a good boy? That drug-sniffing dog from Nashville, Tennessee, who fetched 87 pounds of weed from luggage from an SFO inbound flight and didn’t smoke any of it.
Business & Tech Google Cracking Down On Apps That Don’t Pay Them a 30% Cut The Fortnite legal kerfuffle has Apple and now also Google digging in their heels that they should get a 30% cut of any purchase made within apps on their respective platforms.
SF News PG&E Power Outages Hitting NorCal Hard, Nearly 100,000 Homes May Be Without Power as Utility's Share Price Drops It’s that time of year, as the Napa and Sonoma fires have knocked out some 37,000 homes’ power, planned outages hit another 65,000 homes in the Sierras, and even Oakland and SF have a few areas without power.
Arts & Entertainment Your Folsom Street Fair Schedule and Lineup for Live Music, DJs, Performers, and Parties Folsom is all online this year, but if you ‘like to watch,’ here’s Sunday's full, detailed, all-day schedule of live performers, DJs, scenes, and after-parties that you just can’t beat.
Business & Tech Facebook Employee Raises Powered by ‘Really Dangerous’ Algorithm That Favors Angry Posts Employee raises at Facebook depend on engagement, and newly leaked private Zuckerberg recordings show the Groups algorithm prioritizes enragement.
SF Politics Supervisors Pass Budget That Will Supposedly Eliminate $1.5 Billion Deficit The supes pretty much gave Mayor Breed what she wanted in a near-unanimous vote, the only difference being that the Board dips into the rainy day fund to give city employees raises.
