SF News Marin, Alameda, and Contra Costa Counties Drop More Indoor Mask Rules Marin County on Monday becomes the first in the Bay Area to drop the broad indoor mask mandate that went back into effect across the region in early August, as case rates drop and the county's vaccination rate outpaces other counties.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Cow Hollow Shooting Leaves Man Gravely Injured A man suffered life-threatening injuries in a Cow Hollow shooting early Sunday, all city workers in SF have to be back in the office this week, and there was a protest at In-N-Out on Sunday that wasn't about vaccines.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2021 Kicks Off With Massive Crowds, Lines for Dance Tent, Great Sets by DRAMA, Tyler, the Creator It was truly strange and, at times, exhilarating Friday for those of us who haven't partaken in many concerts or festivals since they began happening again a few months back to be thrown back into a sea of humanity at Outside Lands.
Arts & Entertainment 'Golden Girls Live' Christmas Drag Show Returns to SF For 15th Year, Actually Live This Time It was way back in 2007 that the idea to reenact old Golden Girls episodes with SF drag queens took shape, with Heklina and some friends doing the first performances in someone's Victorian in the Western Addition.
SF News More Rain Is On Its Way Late Sunday and Maybe Mid-Week Next Week It looks like Outside Lands and Halloween shenanigans should be able to wrap up rain free, but but a few drops may fall before all is said and done Sunday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Coin-Op Game Bar/Orson Space Reopens As Thriller Social Club The former Orson space in SoMa, more recently Coin-Op Game Bar, reopens Friday as a new but similar arcade-bar concept called Thriller Social Club, with a new food and cocktail menu and some throwback games inspired by Playland at the Beach.
Arts & Entertainment Stream Outside Lands for Free on Twitch Starting at Noon Outside Lands kicks off in Golden Gate Park today at noon, and also at noon, many of the festival's performances are going to be streamed live on Twitch — kind of a second helping of last year's Inside Lands stream, only this time with actual live audiences there.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: East Bay High Schooler Dresses In KKK Costume for Halloween A student at Pittsburg High School in the East Bay showed up for a school costume contest in a KKK hood and robe, classes were suspended at two Sonoma County high schools due to a threat, and the Pleasant Hill In-N-Out is back open for takeout.
SF News New Luxury Senior Complex On Van Ness to Feature 'Michelin-Rated' Meals, Very Pricy Apartments It’s not enough that San Francisco has fairly abundant luxury housing and not a lot of affordable or middle-income housing, but now we’re going to have luxury senior housing for those well-off Boomers who want to live in the city and still go to the Symphony and such.
SF News Oakland Oral Surgeon Gets 16 Years For Child Sex Crimes, Blames Ecstasy For One Particularly Crazy Incident Former Oakland-based oral surgeon Cassidy Lavorini-Doyle, who's been in jail for nearly two years already after being arrested on charges of attempted child sex trafficking among others, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in federal prison.
Business & Tech Yep, Facebook Now Wants to Be Called 'Meta' Facebook's big rebranding reveal came on schedule today, during CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote address at the company's annual Connect conference, and the new name for Facebook is Meta.
SF News SFMTA Announces a Few Temporary Route Cutbacks Due to Unvaccinated Drivers on Leave As forewarned earlier this month, Muni is having to curtail some bus service due to a number of drivers who have refused to be vaccinated, or who will not be fully vaccinated by the November 1 deadline — but the route cutbacks are fairly minor.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rockslide Closes Piece of Highway 1 A rockslide south of Big Sur has closed Highway 1 for about a week, Oakland schools will require kids 12 and older to be fully vaccinated or go remote, and an inexpensive antidepressant has been shown to be effective as a COVID treatment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Chicken, Quesabirria Tacos, and More Things You Should Eat and Drink at Outside Lands It's always worth getting out to the park early just to partake in the amazing food and drink array before you get schwasted and before anyone you actually care about goes on stage.
SF News Most Muni Bus Routes Will Likely Be Restored By Spring; J-Church Riders Unhappy About Having to Transfer The SFMTA announced the next step in its process to restore Muni service to near pre-pandemic levels, with a proposed plan to restore five out of seven of the currently suspended bus routes by February or thereabouts.
Bay Area Sports Bay Area Putting In Bid to Host 2026 FIFA World Cup Matches (at Levi's Stadium) Bay Area business leaders, mayors, and the 49ers are lining up to woo a group of FIFA representatives who are coming to visit this weekend to scope out Levi's Stadium as a potential host arena for the 2026 World Cup.
SF News COVID Cases Level Off, Hospitalizations Depressingly Tick Upward In California The steady decline in COVID numbers in California has stopped, and state health officials are somewhat worried that people are tired of vigilance, and we could be headed for a winter surge that no one wants.
SF News Humpday Headlines: U.S. Issues Its First 'X' Gender Passport The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to support the new A's stadium, two former domestic workers for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have filed suit against them, and the U.S. has issued its first 'X' gender passport.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Is Reopening Some Restrooms Closed Since 9/11 BART just announced a February reopening for restrooms at Powell Street and 19th Street stations, SF DA Chesa Boudin's dad is officially getting paroled, and Lake Tahoe's water level rose five inches in one day during Sunday's rain, recovering to its normal rim.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now an East Bay In-N-Out Location Has Been Shut Down Over Vaccine Rules, With More to Come The In-N-Out restaurant in Pleasant Hill has now had its food-service permit revoked by the county, and at least two more East Bay locations may be next in line if the company continues openly defying local ordinances about checking for vaccines for indoor dining.
SF Politics Total Scope of California's Unemployment Check Fraud Was Around $20 Billion California state lawmakers held a hearing Monday with officials from the Employment Development Department (EDD), covering the agency's massive fraud problem in 2020, as well as the general dysfunction and bureaucracy in the department.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Will Have a Full-Time House Music Tent, No Comedy This Year Checking out the daily schedules for this year's pandemic-delayed Outside Lands, we now see that the fest has gone the way of Coachella and others and added a full tent venue (besides the cramped Heineken one) that will feature house music DJs all weekend.
SF News Four Suspects In Murder of Santa Cruz Tech/Cannabis Entrepreneur Face Pre-Trial Hearing The four young men arrested and charged almost a year and a half ago in the October 2019 murder of Santa Cruz resident Tushar Atre are now in the midst of a pre-trial hearing in which a judge will decide whether all four will face trial.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sierra Sees Over Two Feet of New Snow More than 12,600 PG&E customers in the Bay Area are still without power, lawmakers in Sacramento were grilling EDD officials on Monday, and over two feet of snow fell in the Sierra Monday evening leading to a shutdown of I-80.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Might Mandate Sick Leave for Domestic Workers The Board of Supes may seek to mandate paid sick leave for housecleaners and nannies, a man was shot and critically wounded in Hayes Valley/Lower Haight Saturday, and the estimated cost of BART's San Jose extension just shot up.
