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200+ Employees at Golden Gate Fields Test Positive for COVID
On Friday Berkeleyside reported that Golden Gate Fields, home of the legendary Dollar Day, has had a serious COVID-19 outbreak. Despite being closed to the public due to the pandemic, races are still happening onsite and the staff of roughly 500 people is still working. Of those people around 200

Orbit Room Launches ‘Lunar Lot’ for Cocktails and Pizza
This year alone, we’ve learned that the moon has water, the atmosphere of Venus contains a chemical so difficult to synthesize that it almost certainly comes from organic life, and the U.S. Navy believes in UFOs now. Only in 2020 would these things barely make a blip, but maybe Mercury

100 Best Cheap Eats in the Bay Area
This list of great places to eat in the Bay Area will leave you smiling and probably drooling. All these joints are incredibly well priced, locally owned, delicious, and serving takeout in 2020. Check their links for store hours, menus, and ordering info, because things are always changing these days,

Revive the Night: The Grassroots Effort Save SF’s Dancefloors
By Bailey Greenwood In the past 8 months, we’ve witnessed the crumbling of an industry that employed millions of people around the United States, and with no end in sight, an industry that will take years to rebuild. Revive the Night is a is a 3-day virtual festival taking place December

Newsom Orders New Curfew in 40+ California Counties
The thing that many people have been worried about, and not nearly enough people have done anything to try and stop, is happening. Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new “Stay-at-Home” order for the 40+ counties that are in the “purple” tier of California’s county risk level chart. This means that

Bay Area Voter Turnout above 80% in all 9 Counties
Bay Area Voter Turnout for the latest 2020 presidential election was above 80% in all 9 Counties. To put that in perspective, the projected voter turnout for all of the USA is around 68%. San Francisco County saw historic numbers with an 86.23% turnout, a number that has not been

How the Vallejo Police Department Became the Most Violent in the Bay Area
This statement may surprise you, but Vallejo was fucked up before the San Francisco Chronicle and The New Yorker told you it was. Before recent reporting began talking about the Vallejo Police Department’s ‘murder clique’, Vallejo suffered an insanely high rate of police misconduct and killings. While media attention and