Arts & Entertainment Dore Alley Preview: Top Leather Parties Return, But Hard Limits Will Apply The Dore Alley scene will switch to a “Mask mandatory, pants optional” Folsom Street Market (where you can get vaccinated!), but plenty of other leather parties are bearing down this weekend, too.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Some Muni Lines May Not Return After Pandemic Mayor Breed’s comments have some Muni riders suspicious that certain bus lines might never return, the 49ers add an Antioch native to the roster, and the Castro Street Fair is back on for 2021.
SF Politics Breakthrough COVID-19 Cases Hit Pelosi’s Office, White House Staff A current total of two Washington staffers, one of Pelosi’s and one of Biden’s, have been infected with COVID after being fully vaccinated, but the President and Speaker themselves were reportedly not exposed.
SF News Sunday Night Sideshow In SF Blocks Bay Bridge, Spawns Numerous Smartphone Videos A Rincon Hill sideshow briefly blocked the entrance and exit to the Bay Bridge Sunday night, and Twitter Karen-dom is furious at the lack of arrests.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dovre Club Fights to Survive, Starts a GoFundMe to Secure Location 54-year-old Mission District Irish bar Dovre Club is hanging on by a thread, but a GoFundMe campaign could help secure its longtime spot at Valencia and 26th Streets.
SF News SF COVID-19 Infections Rising Again, Breed Pleads for Vaccinations in Bayview San Francisco has been the ‘poster city’ for vaccination rates, but since the June 15 reopening, we’ve gone from 10 new cases a day to around 40.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Restaurant Throwing ‘Shark Week Party’ Thursday Night Just when you thought it was safe to go back to North Beach, the Detroit and Chicago-style pizzeria Capo’s is setting off a frenzy with a Discovery Channel meetup Shark Week Party.
SF Politics The Recology Portal To Sign Up For Your ‘Mohammed Nuru Rebate’ Is Now Open That $100 million in settlement dollars from allegedly mistaken over-charges is now going out to Recology customers over an online portal, though the company claims they’ll send you a check if you do nothing before July 30.
SF News [Update] Small Plane Crashes Straight Into House In Monterey; Two Dead A twin-engine Cessna plowed right into a house near the Monterey Airport Tuesday morning, and while the house was empty, the pilot, a passenger, and a dog all did in the crash.
SF News Diary Belonging to Husband of Betsy Ross Found In Marin County Garage In another reminder to always go through your deceased relatives’ possessions lest you lose an amazing artifact, Betsy Ross’s third husband’s diary has been gathering dust in a Marin County garage until it was recently found.
SF News Cannabis Company Caused Mendocino Wildfire That Burned 80 Acres Well-funded legal marijuana darling Flow Kana admits one of their lawnmowers sparked last week’s Broiler Fire, which forced 250 evacuations while burning 80 acres and three homes.
SF News Sup. Gordon Mar Calls for Cars to be Allowed Back on Great Highway, But in a ‘Hybrid’ Compromise In a new op-ed, the supervisor whose district contains the whole stretch of the Great Highway currently closed off to cars calls for a “compromise” deal on reopening the thoroughfare for automobiles.
SF News Extremely Funny SF Gay Men’s Chorus Video Unleashes Torrent of Right-Wing Threats, Vitriol The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus released a magnificently funny video last week, but a barrage of threats and doxxing has forced them to change their key.
SF Politics New Book Says Kim Guilfoyle Grossed Out GOP Donors with Tales of Don Jr.’s Costume Fetish The forthcoming Trump campaign tell-all from a Wall Street Journal reporter delves into Kim Guilfoyle’s TMI revelations about Don Jr’s turn-ons, “including how he liked it when she wore a cheerleading outfit.”
SF Politics Scandal-Plagued Ex-SF Employees Still Making More Money Than You On Their Pensions Mohammed Nuru, Harlan Kelly, and Tom Hui are still pulling pensions as high as $21,000 a month, despite leaving their jobs in disgrace amidst federal corruption probes.
Bay Area Sports Giants’ New ‘Fog’ Uniforms Drawing Karl-loads of Criticism A creamsicle-orange makeover and a fog gradient are supposed to make fans want the new Giants uniforms that no one asked for, but critics say Nike 'mist' the point with these new alternate home-game outfits.
SF Politics Expanded Check Fraud Charges Drop For Former SF Building Inspection Commissioner The ‘RoDBIgo Santos’ check fraud scandal nearly doubles in scope, as the FBI says he cashed almost twice as many forged checks as they stated in their first indictment.
SF News BART is Bringing Back Late-Night Service On August 2! Four weeks earlier than scheduled, BART trains will roll 'til midnight starting August 2, and a few “limited” weekend routes will run 'til 11:30 p.m. starting in just two weeks.
SF News Mendocino Anti-Mask Cafe Booted by New Landlords, Who Cite ‘Threatening’ Messages The cafe that gained wingnut fame for a $5 fee for orders placed while wearing a mask won’t be charging that fee anymore, as a new landlord refuses to renew the cafe's lease unless the owner stops proselytizing.
SF News Sausalito Police Bulldoze Tent Encampment at Formerly Ritzy Park Dunphy Park had typically been home to kayakers and an outdoor art festival, but the 35 unsheltered people who'd set up an encampment there were very unceremoniously given the boot early Tuesday morning.
SF News Scathing New Report Details Why Van Ness Construction Went Years Past Deadline, Way Over Budget Now three years beyond its original deadline and nearly $40 million over budget, the so-called Van Ness Improvement Project apparently went off the rails because we started digging without knowing what was underneath.
SF News Disgraced Ex-Building Inspector Allegedly Approved Shady, Ridiculously Unsafe Permits All Over San Francisco A San Francisco building inspector resigned last week over fishy permits he granted at two properties and an inappropriate loan from a developer, but now the dam is bursting with a school of his fishy permits that span all across the city.
SF Politics Recall Chesa Boudin Campaign Tried to Advertise on Nextdoor, Ads Were Quickly Removed One faction of the Recall Chesa Boudin movement bought roughly $2,000 in ads on Nextdoor, but the neighborhood-centric social network removed the ads and returned the payments.
SF Politics Gubernatorial Candidate John Cox's Campaign Funded Almost Entirely by John Cox Republican John Cox has raised an impressive $7.7 million to replace Governor Gavin Newsom, but $7.2 million of it came from Republican John Cox himself.
Business & Tech Due to Those Batteries, Tesla Car Fires Require Outlandish Volumes of Water to Extinguish All types of electric vehicles pose problems for firefighters when they crash and their lithium ion batteries go ablaze, but Teslas have routinely required more than 20,000 gallons of water. That does not bode well for wildfire season!\
