SF News Predictably, SF's Infuriating Catholic Archbishop Is Not Vaccinated Color me unsurprised. San Francisco's homophobic gem of a Catholic Archbishop, who's more concerned with making abortion and gay marriage illegal again than with a silly pandemic, claims that his personal physician has told him he doesn't need a COVID vaccine.
SF News Bad News: Omicron Spreads Faster Than Delta; Good News: COVID Treatment Pills Should Arrive In Pharmacies By January The bad news coming out of South Africa Friday is that researchers are now able to say that Omicron appears to be quickly taking over as a dominant strain, and it appears to have an Rt that's 2.5 higher than the Delta variant.
SF News Report Details Evidence Of Harrowing Final Hours Of Former SF Couple Who Died From Heat In Mariposa County A newly obtained report from the investigation into the August deaths of two former Bay Area residents, their infant and their dog suggests a likely sequence of events. And it's beyond tragic.
Business & Tech Omicron Scare Likely to Push Back Bay Area Back-to-Office Timeline for Many Despite there being no immediate threat of an Omicron outbreak in the Bay Area and an overall lack of data on the new variant, the general uncertainty around it is very likely to cause big Bay Area tech companies and smaller offices alike to rethink their January return-to-the-office plans.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club's 18th Street Pop-Up Becomes Good Good Culture Club; Liholiho Returns to Sutter Street in 2022 The menu at Liholiho Yacht Club in its 18th Street "pop-up" iteration has evolved and changed a bit since the original Liholiho in the TenderNob, and it's evolving some more and morphing into a new restaurant as of today, with a new name.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rain May Come, But Later In December A planned CVS closure has Marin City residents upset, air quality has been kind of bad around SF due to a weather pattern, and it looks like rain may come in the long-range forecast later in the month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Concord Man With Nazi Fetish Convicted of Making Criminal Threats A 25-year-old man from Concord who talked online about shooting up a synagogue two years ago has been convicted, an Emeryville accountant is in trouble with the IRS, and five more Omicron cases have been found in NY.
SF News Sebastopol Woman Arrested For Trying to Snatch Toddlers In San Francisco A 42-year-old Sebastopol woman was arrested Wednesday after a strange and crazed-sounding incident in the Richmond District that likely terrified a caregiver caring for two small children.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Holiday Cocktail Spots In San Francisco For Your Yuletide Imbibing Pleasure It's that time of year again, and you may as well get drunk. San Francisco usually does it up nicely during the holiday season, and this year things should be extra festive given how dismal last year was.
SF News Matthew Muller, Man Charged In Bizarre 2015 'Gone Girl' Kidnapping and Rape, Now In State Mental Hospital It's been several years since we had an update on Matthew Daniel Muller, the Harvard-educated, mentally ill man who pleaded guilty in a federal case to kidnapping a Vallejo woman, Denise Huskins, in a case that received national attention in 2015.
SF News Second and Third US Omicron Cases Found; Theory Forms That Mutations Occurred In Single Immunocompromised Person A second and a third American patient have been confirmed to be infected with the Omicron variant: an adult male in Minnesota who recently traveled to New York for an anime convention, and an adult female in Colorado who recently returned from southern Africa.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Carlos Santana Recovering From Surprise Heart Surgery Carlos Santana had an "unscheduled heart procedure" over the weekend, a Palo Alto couple has pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal, and unemployment claims in CA are near pre-pandemic levels.
Business & Tech Square Is Changing Its Name to 'Block' In a Meta-Esque Move Like Facebook, Square has outgrown its original focus, dealing with payment-processing systems for sellers, and now the company is rebranding as Block, in a nod to its ambitions in the world of blockchain.
SF News Swift Sequencing of Omicron Sample at UCSF Highlights Challenges of Tracking Variant's Spread Perhaps the only reason the first U.S. case was found in SF is because of the caliber of the health system here, not because it isn't already in other places in the country.
SF News San Jose Police and Mayor Decry Release of Two Homicide Suspects Without Bail; Attorney Says It's a Self-Defense Case It's not just San Francisco where fingers are being pointed in multiple directions in the ongoing debate about criminal justice reform, accountability, and the efficacy of the justice system to combat crime.
SF Politics Trump Could Have Given Biden COVID At First Debate, Tested Positive Days Earlier According to New Account Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows details how Trump initially tested positive for COVID last fall days ahead of his first debate in Cleveland with Joe Biden, but went ahead with his schedule anyway.
SF News First U.S. Case of Omicron Variant Found In San Francisco Wouldn't you know it, the first known case of the Omicron variant of COVID to arrive in the U.S., via South Africa, is in San Francisco, and the patient is already reportedly recovering.
SF Politics Former Investigator Sues SF District Attorney In Whistleblower Complaint The embattled San Francisco District Attorney's Office has one more headache to add to the pile this week as a wrongful termination suit has arrived from a former investigator.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Tolls Go Up to $7 On 7 Bay Area Bridges Next Month Tolls on the Bay Bridge and six other bridges go up $1 on Jan. 1, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a pivotal abortion case today, and high demand for boosters is creating trouble for some local pharmacies.
SF News 9th Circuit Upholds CA Ban On High-Capacity Gun Magazines, Will Take Up Assault Weapon Ban Next Gun-law rulings by a controversial federal judge based in San Diego are likely both to be overturned by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, setting up the potential for more Second Amendment fights at the Supreme Court.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Automat Quietly Opens For Daytime Service In NoPa, Will Open Fully Next Week One of the most anticipated restaurant openings of this year has finally made it open, as former Lazy Bear chef Matthew Kirk's Automat has quietly debuted in the NoPa neighborhood.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Again Seen Partying Maskless at Nightclub, Again Says She Did Nothing Wrong Some finger-wagging is going on over at the Chronicle once more after a new video surfaced of SF Mayor London Breed dancing and cavorting with friends without a mask on at a nightclub on Thanksgiving night.
SF News 22-Year-Old Man Shot By Random Gunfire Near SF Civic Center A 22-year-old male was shot and wounded on Hyde Street in the Tenderloin Monday night, and it appears to have been the result of random gunfire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delfina and Pizzeria Delfina Closing 'Til March for Major Remodel, Takeout and Delivery Still Available Delfina and Pizzeria Delfina are going to be combining into a single restaurant on 18th Street in 2022, and both restaurants are closing for sit-down eating for the next three to four months while construction occurs.
SF News Thieves Throw Party In Nearly Open Downtown SF Ramen Restaurant, Leave Behind Bottles, Vomit Some burglars decided to throw a party in a soon-to-open restaurant in downtown San Francisco, and it appears they invited friends and hung around for a few hours, drinking whatever they could find and smoking weed.
