- Contra Costa County Health Department officials stopped Vic’s Martinez, a popular brunch touchstone in the East Bay, from reopening outdoor dining. Co-owner Roseanne Meyers notified customers on social media Friday that they could make reservations beginning Friday; instead, Meyers was served a notice of violation by Contra Costa County Health Department — telling her to cease and desist outdoor dining plans. [KRON4]
- Reem’s California on the corner of Mission and 25th streets — which opened just days before the pandemic — has created a GoFundMe page to help raise funds for a new main oven; their previous one randomly exploded back in December. [GoFundMe]
- Marin County school employees are likely next in line to receive COVID-19 vaccines. [ABC7]
- Richard Barnett, the 60-year-old man from Gravette, Arkansas who put his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk and took a piece of her mail, has been arrested. [NYT]
- Curative’s COVID-19 tests — which have been used extensively in both Berkeley and Oakland — have been producing false positives, potentially adding to the virus's prevalence in East Bay. [Oaklandside]
- From lofty panettones to a New Year’s osechi bento botox, here are the eats notable local foodies enjoyed during the first week of 2021. [Eater SF]
- An Indonesian jet (carrying 62 passengers) has gone missing; the last recorded communication between the pilot and air traffic control was less than ten minutes after takeoff. [Associated Press]
- Feast your eyes on this adorable, stumpy-legged Angolan giraffe — marking the first observed instance of dwarfism in the species. [Smithsonian]
Image: Courtesy of Getty Images via chinaface
