SF News Day Around the Bay: Hot Weather This Weekend Could Bring More Scary Winds The CDC was once again dicking around regarding COVID transmission guidance, there's a vigil tonight for a 16-year-old Oakland girl killed last week, and a WWII bomber crash-landed in Stockton on Saturday on its way back from Hawaii.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bars Mixing Up Their Cocktail Delivery Methods to Avoid App Platforms’ Highball Fees The arguably exploitative business model of companies like Postmates and DoorDash has inspired some spirited innovations from bars and booze businesses, and some are turning to old-fashioned methods.
Arts & Entertainment Insanely, Cruise Companies Are Looking at Sailing Again as Soon as November San Francisco isn't likely to see cruise ships in the Bay anytime before next spring at the very earliest, but cruise companies are already talking about October 31 being a possible restart date for an industry that just five months ago was synonymous with contagion.
SF News Two Days After the City Pledged a Crackdown, Sideshow With 100 Cars Goes Down In Bayview Another illegal sideshow happened around 1 a.m. Sunday in the Bayview District, during which some shots were fired — possibly just into the air. The SFPD apparently didn't make it there fast enough to shut it down right away, even though they established a new unit for this last week.
SF News Video: Mountain Lion Seen Stalking Little Kids In Broad Daylight In Pacifica Over the weekend, a Pacifica resident captured video of a mountain lion — possibly a juvenile — crouched in his yard apparently watching children playing on their bikes outside.
Bay Area Sports 49ers' Depleted Roster Sustains More Injuries in 31-13 Win Against Jets The San Francisco 49ers will be less concerned with going through game film Monday as they are with what doctors have to say about newly sustained injuries to even more essential Niners players.
SF News Rash of Home Burglaries Rattles North Beach, Other SF Neighborhoods San Francisco residents in multiple neighborhoods report signs and stories of multiple burglaries, as thieves may be trying to take advantage of a large percentage of residents who have temporarily fled the city.
SF News SF, North Bay Air Quality to Improve By Monday Afternoon as Marine Air Kicks Up Cool air will prevail for most of this week, as the marine layer off the San Francisco coast gathers some strength after remaining pretty weak for two days. But then more hot weather may be on its way.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF Catholics Protest Ban on Indoor Worship Pelosi says "we would win it all" if the election were tomorrow, damages are being assessed in the North Complex fire, and hospitals in the Bay Area say they are starting to see their first flu cases of the season.
SF News Federal Judge Blocks Executive Order Banning WeChat After Rare Saturday Hearing in San Francisco After an unusual Saturday afternoon hearing in SF, a federal judge entered an order that temporarily blocked a Trump Administration mandate banning "downloads" of the Chinese-owned global messaging app WeChat — keeping it in popular app stores for at least a little while longer.
SF News 'Karen'-Inspired Billboard Pops Up in SF To Call Out Rude Online Restaurant Reviewers Bay Area eateries have been plagued by a recent onslaught of piss-poor reviews on sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor — not related to food, mind you... but in regards to enforcing mandated COVID-19 safety measures and issues with third-party delivery drivers.
SF News Sunday Links: Father and Son Rescued Off Cliff at Fort Funston A father and son were rescued off a cliff at Fort Funston Saturday after attempting to climb down it to the water below, a string of sexual battery cases has shaken the otherwise sleepy Sea Cliff neighborhood, and a huge crowd of generally unmasked people gathered at Fort Mason yesterday afternoon.
SF News 'Shifting' Wind Conditions Bring Smoke and Poor Air Quality Back to Bay Area Skies Get your last inhales of cool, crisp, breathable air this afternoon — because smokey horizons and worsening air conditions are likely to be over our heads again later this evening.
SF News Photos: SF Mourns the Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg With Impromptu Candlelight Vigil and March Friday night around 7 p.m., hundreds gathered at The Castro's Harvey Milk Plaza — hearts heavy, tears in their eyes, covering lit wicks from modest breezes — to both mourn and celebrate the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
SF News Saturday Links: City Health Inspectors Help Ready for SF School Reopenings SFDPH health inspectors have started assessing schools in the city ahead of in-class teaching, Oakland's youths are rallying to save the planet, and a woman was hospitalized this week after a coyote bit her on the leg at a remote Marin County beach.
SF Politics Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Dead. We're All Doomed. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at the age of 87 of complications from the recurrence of metastatic pancreatic cancer that she first revealed in July.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Some Dude Tried to Carjack an Ambulance in the Tenderloin Don't expect all small restaurants (like Frances) to rush open if they're allowed to at 25% capacity, a suspect is in custody after a mid-day stabbing on BART, and a male suspect tried to carjack an ambulance in the Tenderloin early Friday morning.
SF News A Company Called 'Snowflake' Projected Its Name On City Hall, and the City is Now Mad A San Mateo-based "cloud-based data-warehousing startup" found a vendor that claimed they could project the company's name on the SF City Hall dome on Wednesday night in celebration of their IPO, and city officials don't understand how this happened.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District LGBTQ Bar El Rio Wins Grant to Stay Afloat From HRC and Showtime Some good news for the world of SF queer bars for a change! El Rio has just won a grant from the Human Rights Commission and Showtime's "Queer to Stay: An LGBTQ+ Business Preservation Initiative," which will hopefully help the bar stay afloat as it continues to remain closed.
SF News What Are the California November Ballot Initiatives, and How Are They Polling? A Review There are 12 California ballot initiatives lost in the noise of the 2020 pandemic presidential election, but here are the state measures whose ads will soon clog your mailbox and television airwaves.
SF Politics Following Op-Ed Pushing to Reopen Churches, Pelosi Tells SF Archbishop to Settle Down and Listen to Science San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone continues doing his level best to prove his conservative credentials and alienate the majority of people in the city he represents.
SF News Air Quality Will Not Hold As Temperatures Rise With High-Pressure System This Weekend Air quality in San Francisco and the Bay Area is predicted to slide into potentially unhealthy territory by Sunday, as an area of high pressure puts an end to the nice marine breeze we've been having for a couple of days that's pushed wildfire smoke away to the north and east.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mayor and Health Director Say Indoor Dining May Be Allowed Within Two Weeks Restaurant owners have been waiting on pins and needles — and a pile of debt — to be told when San Francisco would allow indoor dining spaces to reopen to the public again. And it sounds like end of September/early October is it.
SF Politics Pair of Businessmen Who Sought Contract For Asphalt Recycling Plant Charged In SF City Hall Corruption Probe The number of individuals facing federal charges in the ongoing San Francisco City Hall corruption scandal rose to eight this week, as two local businessmen were charged with bribing former Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Census Counting Cut Short TikTok is leaving the Apple and Google app stores under Trump's orders, the North Complex fire is now the fifth largest in state history as well as the fifth deadliest, and Census enumerators in SF say they were told there was no more work in August.
