SF News Newsom Announces Vaccine Mandate for All California Schoolchildren (Starting Next Year) California just became the first state in the nation to make getting a COVID vaccine a requirement for all students ages 12 and up in both public and private schools, and this will take effect when full FDA approval happens for this age group.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Justice Kavanaugh Has COVID Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh tested positive for COVID-19, the Oakland branch of the NAACP is calling for Frank Somerville's reinstatement at KTVU, and drugmaker Merck says it has an effective antiviral pill for COVID that halves hospitalizations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Three Die Of ODs On BART In One Week Three men were found dead of overdoses on BART trains or in stations this week, SF's Lunar New Year Parade has announced its return in February, and we're in for an early October heatwave this weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Eagle Bar Likely Headed for Landmark Status After Committee Recommendation San Francisco's Eagle bar, one of the last remaining leather bars in the newly christened Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District in SoMa, is likely to become the third queer bar site in the city to be granted city landmark status.
Business & Tech The Crisis Around Chinese Developer Evergrande May Impact Oceanwide Development In SF The troubled Chinese-owned Oceanwide Center development at Mission and First, construction of which was fully halted a year ago, may face more troubles ahead as the Chinese economy faces a crisis that's pegged to real estate conglomerate Evergrande.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Chronicle Critic Michael Bauer Still Insists He Went Mostly Unrecognized at Restaurants, Says Dining Is More Fun Now Three years out from the end of his 32-year tenure as the San Francisco Chronicle's resident restaurant critic and de facto chief of the food department, Michael Bauer has given his first interview from semi-retirement.
Arts & Entertainment Former Transbay Temporary Terminal Transformed Into Temporary Community Space With Beer Garden, Soccer The full city block in SoMa that for much of the last decade served as a bus depot while the new Transbay Transit Center was being built has been "reactivated" with a community space dubbed The Crossing at East Cut.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Organizers Contend With Extra Logistics Challenges of Schoolkids, Halloween With the move to late October come the extra considerations of festival-goers potentially creating havoc in the Avenues as kids get out of school on a Friday, and the culture clash of rowdy music fans and trick-or-treaters out with their parents.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Vast Illegal Pot Grow Shut Down In East Bay Congress is expected to pass a series of short-term spending bills to avert a shutdown today, Alameda County deputies seized over 100,000 marijuana plants from an illegal indoor growing operation, and the Windy Fire has already killed at least 29 giant sequoias in the Sierra.
SF Politics Protest In Support of Citizenship For Immigrants Shuts Down Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Bridge traffic was halted Thursday morning as a group of about 25 vehicles stopped in the middle of the bridge, blocking traffic as demonstrators held signs and gave speeches from the bed of a pickup truck.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fleas Infest Two Oakland Schools Much of the Bay Area is now in the CDC's "moderate" tier for COVID transmission, Santa Cruz County has dropped its mask mandate, and an infestation of fleas has shut down two Oakland elementary schools.
SF News Central Subway Construction Is '98%' Done, But You Won't Be Allowed In Until Next Spring or Summer SF's longest-running current mess of a public project, the $1.6 billion Central Subway, is very close to completion, and test trains have been running through the tunnels for several months already now.
SF Politics Judge Blasts District Attorney's Office Over Discovery Issues In Court, Says Office Is Being Mismanaged The San Francisco DA's Office is calling it "disappointing" that a judge would choose to air grievances with prosecutors in open court, but this judge in particular says he's done with what he calls the poor management of the DA's Office as a whole.
SF Politics Feinstein Introduces Likely Doomed Bill Requiring Vaccinations or Negative COVID Tests for Domestic Air Travel Senator Dianne Feinstein today introduced a bill in the Senate that aims to prevent a new winter surge of COVID infections spurred by holiday travel. But between the airline industry and Senate Republicans, this seems doomed to fail out of the gate.
SF Politics It's Official: David Chiu Is SF's New City Attorney As has been widely expected for months, SF Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday that Assemblymember and former SF Supervisor David Chiu is her pick to be the next city attorney.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Could the El Farolito Debate Finally Move the Needle on SF's Formula Retail Rules? It might take San Francisco's boundless passion for burritos to finally force some changes to the city's rules around chain restaurants and retail — and when the retail landscape continues to look dismal in once thriving neighborhoods, maybe we should be rethinking this altogether.
SF News Kamala Harris's Team Reportedly Pissed About 'The View' Debacle Vice President Kamala Harris's Friday interview on The View was disrupted and cut short by a COVID scare that turned out to be based on false-positive test results for two of the show's co-hosts. And now her team is asking a lot of questions.
Bay Area Sports Oracle Park Concession Workers Reach Deal Over Hazard Pay and Benefits, Call Off Strike Threat Just before the San Francisco Giants enter another postseason, workers at Oracle Park have reached a deal with their employer, concessionaire Bon Appetit Management, after weeks of threatening to strike over COVID hazard pay and other issues.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Haney Says He's Running for Assembly SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera has officially been installed at the Public Utilities Commission, Sup. Matt Haney confirms he's running for State Assembly, and one of every eight acres in California has burned in the last 10 years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Mask Mandate Might Loosen Soon The SFPD made two arrests in a shooting and attempted robbery of a woman who wouldn't give up her camera, an SF sheriff's deputy is facing multiple charges from a drunken ramage last week, and SF's mask mandate might get a little less strict soon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Nightclub The Cafe Reopens This Weekend After Nearly 19-Month Closure, Sunday Tea and All Most — but not all — of San Francisco's nightlife scene has come back open in the last several months, now that people can be indoors without capacity limits so long as they're vaccinated. But among the Castro institutions that's stayed dark is The Cafe. That all changes this weekend.
SF News Mission Bay Sidewalks Are (Still) Sinking, Creating Tripping Hazards; Drought Might Be Making Things Worse Residents of San Francisco's newest neighborhood, in Mission Bay and around China Basin, say that building and sidewalk settlement has caused a lot of wonky walkways for years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tyler Florence Opens High-End Steakhouse at Chase Center, Designed By Ken Fulk Celebrity chef Tyler Florence's ultra-swanky steakhouse at the Chase Center arena — with design inspiration from Chasen's in L.A. — has been in the works for over two years, and is now making its grand debut.
SF News Serial Hate-Crime Robber Who Allegedly Targeted Asian Women Charged With Seven Felony Robberies A hate-crime and robbery suspect was arrested last week after he stole a woman's backpack containing her laptop — and laptop locator software helped authorities track him down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 2021 Michelin Guide Drops With New Two-Star Elevation for Birdsong, Snubs for Rich Table and Octavia We said the other day that it would be pretty mean-spirited of the Michelin inspectors to strip any restaurant of stars it earned in 2019, especially if it had been closed during the pandemic until recently, but they went there in the case of a couple of San Francisco favorites.
