Some kind remembrances for A.C.T.'s "gentle, persistent, calm, avid Mark Rucker." [American Theatre] After a 9 hour Planning meeting full of protests, the massive 5M project gets to move forward.

Sometime Monday night, burglars broke into St. Anthony's Church at Folsom and Cesar Chavez and stole a bunch of relics. [Mission Local] Along with pushing its new, mandatory News app, Apple is suddenly

Supervisor Wiener plans to introduce legislation to exempt all 100% affordable housing projects from conditional use authorizations. [Chron] [Ex] Twitter’s getting a “buy” button so now you can buy tweets and such

Augusta Lee Collins, a legendary jazz/blues musician, was killed in an Alemeda traffic accident. [CBS SF] The SFMTA photo lab is super chill — literally, in order to protect old negatives. [SFMTA] Housing

Ben Carson, the man who wants to perform brain surgery on America, just visited the Bay Area. Presumably the man said things beyond his seeming dismissal of climate change, but frankly, I stopped

A Redditor spotted Airbnb's logo in a book of trademarked corporate logos from 1988, and it turns out it was once used as the logo for a Japanese drive-in called Azuma. Just further

Mission Chinese Food in New York has a cocktail that changes color. We want a cocktail that changes color! [Bon Appetit] Is Just Mayo the victim of an egg-industry conspiracy? You decide. [Business

At 17th and Treat a homeless couple started a couch fire, with some guessing it could have been part of their lovers' quarrel. [Mission Local] One tech "thought leader" says the only bubble

A new law could change who gets affordable SF housing, and has some strong support from the likes of London Breed. It gets reviewed in three weeks time. [Socketsite] "Monster in the Mission”

Vanity Fair is hosting a 'New Establishment Summit' in SF on October 1 featuring some "tech titans," and tickets are $5,500. Yes, $5,500. [RachelSchafer/Twitter] Judge rejects Shrimp Boy’s bid

Following the theft of the UC Berkeley Police chief’s gun, another law enforcement officer has their gun stolen, this time in Oakland. [KRON 4] [CBS SF] It’s coyote pupping season, so

Home Depot and other corporations, like Walmart, now count on seasonal upticks in sales from Burning Man. [Quartz] Uber launches SmartRoutes to compete with Lyft’s similar service which gives $1 discount if

Tech stocks got killed today, like bad. [Business Times] Here is a tweetstorm prophecy regarding bubble-popping. [Re/code] Hackers menace tourists’ cell phones. [KRON 4] Cab drivers are not allowed to use medical

Caltrans wants to blow up the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, please. [KRON4] [CBS SF] First Republic Bank says they won’t offer mortgage financing to Ellis Act evictors. [Business Times]

Is California having an earthquake "swarm"? (Probably not.) [Wired] Yesterday’s quake damaged water mains across the East Bay. [SF Appeal] San Jose police have issued a message to the third suspect in

The IRS is inching closer to possibly taxing workers for free meals provided, on-site, by their companies, just as they’ve been threatening to do for a while. [Business Times] More on the

Comcast, one of the most hatable companies in the world, is about to "launch a major video platform called Watchable to rival Facebook and Google." Good luck with that. [Business Insider] Here's a

Apple has removed racist ringtones after the Chronicle contacted them about this weird loophole. [Chron] Get ready for mammoth Twitter DMs: They have arrived. [Wired] This $6,500 one bedroom Duboce Park “penthouse”