SF News Day Around the Bay: Netflix Employees Walk Out Over Chappelle, CEO Admits ‘I Screwed Up’ David Chiu’s first task as city attorney will be to take on DoorDash, SF just reversed a policy on asking city employees’ sexual orientation, and the CEO of Netflix admits he could have maybe handled this whole Chappelle thing better.
SF News Breed Announces Cash Rewards of Up to $100,000 for Info on Car Break-In Rings In a new take on trying to get rid of SF's reputation as a car break-in hot spot, business groups are offering six-figure sums for information leading to arrests of a suspected smash-and-grab syndicate.
SF Politics The SF GOP is Bringing Marjorie Taylor Greene to Town The San Francisco Republican party welcomes the crackpot QAnon Georgia congressional rep for their Saturday, November 6 dinner, but her unknown vaccination status may be forcing them to hold the event outside city limits.
SF Politics Real Estate Magnate Victor Makras the Latest Indicted by Feds in SF Public Corruption Probe Another fraud charge has arrived for ex-PUC chief Harlan Kelly, but the shocking shoe to drop here is a federal indictment of politically connected real estate investor Victor Makras.
SF Politics Yes, SFUSD is Running a Huge Deficit — But So Are Other Districts All Over the State The ‘Recall the School Board’ crowd points to the school district’s $116 million deficit, but a little perspective comes from realizing that pretty much every other district in the state also has a huge deficit.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Season Preview: A Return to Elite-Level NBA Dominance (We Think?) With Klay Thompson’s return expected next month and the rest of the old gang healthy (plus Iggy’s back!), your Golden State Warriors are eyeing their seventh NBA championship and tipping off against LeBron and the Lakers tonight.
SF Politics SF’s Nutty Archbishop Takes On Pelosi in National Advertising Campaign Our own COVID superspreader Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is trying to build up his profile with a national anti-abortion ad campaign targeting Nancy Pelosi, but thus far the campaign is all bishop’s-hat and no cattle.
SF Politics Sup. Peskin Opens Up About Sobriety, Colleagues Say He’s Behaving More Diplomatically Four months into the supervisor’s recovery, he spoke to the Chronicle about his “whole new chapter,” and even his political enemies say he’s more pleasant to be around these days.
Arts & Entertainment Stanford Assault Survivor Chanel Miller Has Gallery Display at Asian Art Museum It’s unusual for an art museum show to be fully visible from the street so passersby can see it for free, but that’s part of the point of Chanel Miller’s “I was, I am, I will be” at the Asian Art Museum.
SF News Two Separate Falls at Chase Center Phish Concert Leave One Dead, Two Others Injured Social media has been speculating about two falls at the Chase Center Sunday night, one of which was fatal, but the venue had probably better make some safety improvements to the 200 level of seats.
SF News Yet Another Party Decides to Call Itself ‘Ghost Ship,’ Faces Entirely Predictable Backlash An Alameda Halloween techno dance cruise promoter claims they were unaware of the 2016 tragedy that took 36 lives, and initially refused to change the event’s name, but eventually budged after a torrent of outrage.
SF News SF Just Quietly Overhauled Its Cannabis Laws, Hoping to Help Small Local Operators The city tweaked the rules for cannabis business permits, in hopes of helping smaller businesses get licensed more easily, but also added a loophole that could hasten Big Marijuana buying up smaller shops.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Dear San Francisco’ Is 90 Minutes of Kinetic Adrenaline, and a Worthy Successor to ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’ Club Fugazi’s new show literally jumps through hoops to amaze and astound, as ‘Dear San Francisco’ takes the acrobatic circus genre to dizzying new heights.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Breed Shows Up for Premiere of ‘Dear San Francisco,’ Cracks Jokes About Going Maskless The new show in the former ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’ venue opened at long last Tuesday night, with cameos from Breed and Sup. Aaron Peskin, both of whom brought their senses of humor.
Arts & Entertainment Alleged ‘Screen Test’ for Robin Williams Biopic Has Internet Abuzz Over Amazing Performance The whole thing appears to be a publicity stunt to generate interest (or investors) in a Robin Williams movie, but actor Jamie Costa’s performance will indeed give you the chills.
Bay Area Sports Giants and Dodgers Face Off Tonight for Game 3, Announcers Likely to Overuse the Term ‘Pivotal’ It’s Max Scherzer night (and Jon Miller’s birthday!) as the Giants resume the series in Los Angeles, and while Game 3 often predicts the NLDS outcome, these Giants have a winning record at Dodger Stadium this season.
SF News OK Boomer: C.W. Nevius Is Back, Now at the Examiner The new Clint Reilly Examiner continues to add fresh, new voices from the 1990s, as the Chronicle’s former get-off-my-lawn shooer C.W. Nevius has a weekly column in that paper.
Arts & Entertainment ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ at Oasis Is Even More Queer Than the Original 'Rocky Horror Picture Show’ A rebooted ‘Rocky Horror’ is playing onstage at Oasis, to time warp you back to the old midnight movie experience with an added meaty loaf of dirty drag humor.
Arts & Entertainment Bjork Bringing a Very Bjork-Sounding Flute and Choir Extravaganza to Chase Center In February Tickets go on sale next week for “Cornucopia,” Bjork’s elaborate stage show featuring an Icelandic choir, a flute ensemble, and projections of Greta Thunberg.
Business & Tech Video Streaming Service Twitch Got Breached Hard, Site’s Entire Source Code Posted Online SF-based gaming site Twitch pretty much had the keys to their kingdom snatched and posted on 4Chan, and since it’s owned by Amazon… is anything safe anymore?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach’s Historic Comstock Saloon Reopening ‘In a Few Weeks’ The vintage 1907 throwback bar will be pouring their famed Barkeep’s Whimsy again soon, though an initially reported reopening date of October 19 may no longer be operable.
Business & Tech Facebook Employee ID Badges Weren’t Working Today, So They Couldn’t Get In to Fix the Outage Facebook is coming back online, but new details from today's massive worldwide outage are emerging, including the fact that employees couldn’t fix server hardware because their ID badges wouldn’t even let them enter company buildings.
SF News City Scoops Up More Houses for Use as Residential Mental Health Treatment Centers Two homes on Florida Street and Dore Street are the latest pieces to Mayor Breed’s plan to add 400 treatment beds, in the form of “cooperative housing.”
SF News SFMTA Says They Need $625 Million to Fix the Cable Cars While the SFMTA did receive $1 billion in federal stimulus money, spending more than half of it on just cable cars seems foolish, so expect the agency to put a tax measure on the 2022 ballot.
SF News As Sideshows Spike Across NorCal, Santa Rosa Considers Sanctioning and Legalizing Them A Santa Rosa city councilperson aspires to “make lemonade out of lemons” by permitting sideshows at the county fairgrounds, complete with vending booths and safety barricades.
