Arts & Entertainment
Oakland Rap Legend Shock G (née Humpty Hump) Has Died
Stop what you’re doin, ‘cause we’re about to ruin your day with the news that Oakland rapper and Digital Underground frontman Shock G passed away Thursday.
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Two-Thirds of San Franciscans Now Have At Least One COVID Vaccine Shot In Them
As of Thursday, a full two-thirds of the city (67%) has received at least one shot in the arm of a two-dose vaccine, and 40% are fully vaccinated. Appointments at the Moscone Center are also readily available right now for next week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
SF Restaurants Are Scaling Back Takeout Offerings As Demand Slips
The great takeout boom of 2020 and early 2021 looks to be headed for a bust as more SF restaurants restart indoor dining and prepare to eventually get back to something like normal.
SF News
Stinson Beach Residents Are Being Told They'll Need to Sacrifice Their Property to Rising Seas — And They're Not Happy
Some homeowners in the lower-lying areas of Stinson Beach could be the target of what the California Coastal Commission refers to as "managed retreat," which means they're in a zone where they will either need to move or abandon their homes as sea levels rise.
SF News
Tenderloin Police Seized Four Times as Much Fentanyl From the Streets In 2020 As In 2019
You may have heard this grim statistic already: 713 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2020, mostly from fentanyl, and that's nearly triple the number of people who died from COVID here last year.
SF Politics
Caitlyn Jenner Makes Run For Governor Official Even Though Newsom Isn't Getting Recalled
Once again proving that bored rich people who are used to being on TV don't like not being on TV for too long and will do anything to get back on TV, Caitlyn Jenner has officially declared her candidacy for California Governor.
SF News
Urban Carpool Lanes Coming to Lombard, Park Presidio In SFMTA Pilot Program
San Francisco is getting the first ever urban carpool lanes in California on two busy stretches of roadway that lead to and from the Golden Gate Bridge.
SF News
Friday Morning Constitutional: Rise In 'Ghost Guns' Seen On SF Streets
6,500 PG&E customers lost power in SF last night, Danville police officer Andrew Hall turned himself in to face charges in a 2018 shooting, and the Oakland Coliseum vaccination site is temporarily switching to drive-up only.
SF News
Day Around the Bay: UC and CSU Planning to Require Vaccines
Embattled school board member Alison Collins gets called out about apartment merger, a father and son were gravely injured by a possible DUI driver in Novato, and the Warriors are reopening the Chase Center in a "new normal" of protocols.
Business & Tech
Leaked Internal Facebook Memo Shows They Knew They Enabled Insurrection Planning
A company memo tells a different story than Mark Zuckerberg told Congress, as Facebook knew that “super-inviters” found ways to promote false election nonsense after the main "Stop the Steal" group was deplatformed.
SF News
Multiple 30-Story Towers In SoMa Are Set to Bring Almost 1,400 New Residential Units to the Neighborhood
Several tall residential towers are in planning and pre-construction stages in central SoMa, and together they'll be bringing almost 1,400 new residential units to San Francisco — because contrary to many headlines of the past year, developers still think people are going to want to live here.
SF News
Shots Fired at 18th and Castro Following Gathering
An altercation in the Castro Wednesday night led to a gunshot ringing out, alarming neighbors and people out on the otherwise quiet night.
SF News
Lombard Street Sucks Right Now Because of Caltrans Paving Work — Don't Use It
Getting to or coming from the Golden Gate Bridge became a royal pain in the ass during daytime hours this week as Caltrans started its paving work on the section of Lombard Street between 101 and Van Ness. You should avoid this route at all costs.
SF News
No Charges Filed In Oakland Liquor Store Shooting That Led to Deadly Arson
A fatal shooting in East Oakland on April 10 led to a cascade of retaliatory events, including an arson fire that killed a man and his baby daughter. And now, the man who turned himself in for the shooting is not being charged.
SF News
Tucker Carlson's College Yearbook Page Features Apparent Tribute to Harvey Milk/George Moscone Murderer Dan White
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has already proven himself to be among the most hateful and cynical of the channel's prime-time blowhards, and of course he was the same little asshole when he was 22.
SF News
Thursday Morning What's Up: More Bay Area Counties In 'Extreme' Drought
Three more Bay Area counties are in 'extreme' drought conditions per the U.S. Drought Monitor, a suspicious death is being investigated in an empty SoMa building, and accused Kristin Smart murder accessory Ruben Flores has been freed on bail.
SF News
Day Around the Bay: SF Supes Debate Housing-for-All Proposal
Video has been released in the Danville police shooting of a homeless man, SF supervisors were debating a housing-for-all proposal that would probably mean more tent "villages," and Dandelion Chocolate workers are split on unionizing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
These Novelty, Faux-Vaccine Cocktails Will Make You Drink ‘To Your Health’
Cocktail service Rye on the Road takes a jab at the various vaccines, with novelty craft cocktail packs of “doses” like Pfizzr and Gentian & Gentian.
Business & Tech
Vallejo Woman Sues Lyft Over Alleged Kidnapping By Driver With Meth Pipe
A Vallejo woman has filed suit against Lyft over an April 2019 ride gone wrong in which she had to climb out of the car's window to escape a creepy driver.
SF News
Newsom Declares Drought Emergency In Sonoma and Mendocino Counties
Governor Gavin Newsom went to Lake Mendocino on Wednesday to make an announcement on the state's first effort to address the current drought — and it's starting with a "targeted" drought emergency declaration for two NorCal counties.
Arts & Entertainment
Sorry, Anti-Vaxx Burners: Burning Man May Require COVID Vaccine For Entry
Very soon there are going to be a lot of disadvantages to not having a COVID-19 vaccine, besides the danger of getting and/or dying from COVID-19. The latest potential downside: You won't be allowed into Burning Man.
SF News
A Record Number of Container Ships Are Anchored in SF Bay as U.S. Imports Boom
We may not actually be out of this pandemic, but a late-pandemic buying boom is sweeping the country and it can be seen in dramatic form in San Francisco Bay right now.
Arts & Entertainment
This Is a Kookaburra. His Name Is Koan. And You'll Soon Be Able to Feed Him at the SF Zoo
The San Francisco Zoo is getting ready to introduce a new bird "ambassador" — a spunky one-year-old kookaburra born at the zoo last February who will be available to interact with guests.
SF News
Marin Becomes First Bay Area County to Announce Drought Water-Use Restrictions
We're in another drought, and likely within the next month or two we will be hearing about water-use rules and neighbors tattling on neighbors for washing their cars all over the Bay Area. But right now, the only county making mandatory restrictions official is Marin County.
SF News
Humpday Headlines: Napa Suddenly Has More Vaccine Shots Than People Who Want Them
A San Rafael man was arrested after allegedly attacking his roommate and her daughter with an axe, Newsom will address the drought today, and Napa suddenly sees a drop in vaccine demand with plenty of supply.