“We know that smoking is linked to heart disease, respiratory disease, all types of illnesses like asthma,” said Dr. John Maa, a member of the San Francisco Marin Medical Society. His organization supports Melgar's proposal and says tobacco is the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States.
Rogers says she was leaning against the wall near the bathroom, with the back of her foot propped back against it. Her knee was jutted out at about a 45-degree angle, she says. That was when she alleges that Carta's chief revenue officer, Jeff Perry, walked by, slapped his hand on her leg, squeezed it, then kept walking. "It wasn't something normal-definitely not professional," Rogers says in an interview with Fortune, recounting the claims she made in a lawsuit against her former employer, Carta, and Perry in August.
A rollover crash on Potrero Hill that may have only involved one vehicle led to an emergency alert, a fallen tree in the roadway, and disrupted Muni service Monday near Zuckerberg SF General Hospital. The crash occurred around 11:20 am at Potrero Avenue and 23rd Street, as the Chronicle reports, and involved a vehicle rolling over and a street tree being knocked down into the roadway. The circumstances and number of vehicles involved has not been reported.
In the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the LGBTQ+ charity behind San Francisco's annual Hunky Jesus competition, decades of activism and raucous performances, members of the order dress in drag as nuns, taking names like "Sister Flatulina Grande" and donning robes and white face paint. Among a flock of nuns, Gordon, who joined in 1987, was designated the lone pope.
Lad, 29, who lives in the Lower Haight, will represent San Francisco on Season 4 of "The Great American Baking Show," which premieres May 11 on the Roku Channel. Like its British counterpart, the popular show pits highly skilled home bakers against each other as they race against the clock to craft extravagant cakes in a tent setting. The cakes are then judged by celebrity chef Paul Hollywood, as well as restaurateur, chef and writer Prue Leith; each week, a different baker is sent home.
Located in SF's Castro District, the GLBT Historical Society Museum is the first full-scale, stand-alone museum of its kind in the United States. The museum celebrates 100 years of the city's vast queer past through dynamic exhibitions and programming.
During torch-cutting activity, debris inside the tubes ignited. The team responded by continuously spraying water to control and quickly extinguish the fire. There was no major damage. The spokesperson added that the fountain's welded steel tubes are being cut by torches and, "as expected, this process produces sparks".
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The closure is in effect between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard and is scheduled to last through the weekend. It marks the second time the roadway has been shut down so crews can complete repaving work. One southbound lane will remain open for public transit and emergency vehicles.
It is also, crucially, a night built less on sequence than on accumulation. Musicians move through poems, poets move through sound, and the boundaries between forms begin to dissolve in real time.
