SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Car Crashes Into Parklet at Mission Bar, At Least One Person Injured A car plowed into a parklet outside the Napper Tandy pub on South Van Ness Avenue at 24th Street Monday, and it appears one person was injured in the accident.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Don't Forget 4/20 Is Cancelled Paul Flores pleaded not guilty to Kristin Smart's 1996 murder and is being held without bail, there's now of course a Texas variant of COVID that might be antibody-resistant, and there's an Apple event today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Font Emulates Blocky Old SF Street Sign Typeface Marin County may move to the "Yellow" tier Tuesday, Apple is allowing Parler back in the App Store, and Elon Musk is insisting that the Tesla that crashed in Texas was not using autopilot.
Arts & Entertainment SF Opens Applications for Grants to Music and Nightlife Venues As promised earlier this year, the first round of grants from SF's Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund is about to beginning taking applications.
SF News New Boutique Hotel The Alton Readies for Opening in Old Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf (With New Restaurant on the Way) Fisherman's Wharf is gaining a new boutique hotel managed by the Kimpton group, in one half of what was formerly a Holiday Inn at 495 Beach Street.
SF News One UCSF Doc Says Outdoor Mask Mandate Should Be Lifted; Another Says He Still Won't Dine Indoors It's getting to where infectious disease experts may start diverging in their levels of relative caution when it comes to public safety mandates. And while two UCSF doctors don't necessarily disagree in some recent statements, one is urging a lifting of SF's mandate on wearing masks outdoors.
SF News 4.2M Earthquake Near Sonoma/Lake County Border Felt In SF A small-ish earthquake that struck before noon on Monday was felt throughout Sonoma and Napa counties and as far as Solano County and San Francisco to the east and south.
SF Politics Second Group Emerges With Campaign to Recall SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin While one group has already been campaigning to recall San Francisco's progressive district attorney just over a year after his swearing in, a second committee has formed with perhaps different political leanings than the first, but the same end goal.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Vandals Target Former Bay Area Home of Derek Chauvin Trial Witness Oakland teachers are still unhappy about schools reopening with just over a month left in the school year, a skydiving mishap claims a life in Lodi, and Dr. Fauci says the J&J vaccine may be back in use Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Long Will It Be Before People Are Cool With Dining Indoors? The Bay Area is showing its trust in science and heeding the warnings of experts, and restaurant owners still say that indoor dining isn't as easy of a sell as outdoor dining is — even though all Bay Area counties but one are now allowing restaurants to operate at 50% capacity indoors.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Geographer's Stripped Down 'Verona' San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Mike Deni, a.k.a. Geographer, scored a hit with the synth-pop song "Verona" back in 2010, and this new version is more beautiful and haunting.
Arts & Entertainment Help the Roxie Choose What Movie to Screen For Its Reopening Weekend The Mission's beloved, historic Roxie Theater has weathered a pandemic and is getting ready to reopen for in-person screenings. And they're asking Bay Area cinephiles to vote on what movie they want to see grace their main screen when that happens.
SF News Muni Underground Returns May 15 With Full Service on K and N Lines Despite previous reports that we wouldn't see Muni's K, L, or M lines running in light-rail tunnels until early next year, the SFMTA has surprised us today with better-than-expected news — as opposed to the usual worse-than-expected updates they've become known for.
SF News You Can Now Pay Your Muni and BART Fares By Waving Your Apple Watch or iPhone Over a Clipper Reader At last, a couple years behind other cities, San Francisco now has added Apple Wallet and Apple Watch paying capability on mass transit, with Android capability on the way soon.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Levi's Stadium Breaks Single-Day Vaccine Record Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Mission to protest police shootings in Daly City and Minnesota, a bill to restrict use of the Ellis Act has been shelved, and there are lots of vaccine appointments in Contra Costa County and at Levi's Stadium.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No California County Is Left In the 'Purple' Tier Caltrain is halting service into San Francisco for two consecutive weekends, SF has a new chief medical examiner, and the last of California's 58 counties exited the "Purple" tier as of today.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queen Juanita MORE! Wants Your Vote for Empress of San Francisco Legendary San Francisco drag queen, activist, philanthropist, and mother hen Juanita MORE! is ready to try on a new role in the city: Empress.
SF News Pfizer CEO Suggests Third Vaccine Dose Likely Needed, Might Be Annual Thing Like Flu Shot It's looking more and more likely that ongoing immunization against the mutating coronavirus will be needed, and on Wednesday the CEO of Pfizer suggested that recipients of its vaccine will likely need a third booster dose next year.
SF News NorCal City Once Known as 'Hangtown' Votes to Remove Noose From Its Logo The town of Placerville in El Dorado County, a spot in the Sierra foothills that was at the center of Gold Rush madness (and crime) 170 years ago, is going to remove a conspicuous noose from its official logo.
SF News Woman Shot In Tenderloin In Altercation With Four Young Female Suspects A 46-year-old woman was shot and injured Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco following an altercation with four teenage girls.
SF News Well Known 86-Year-Old Cyclist Killed In East Bay Collision An 86-year-old man who was well known in the Lamorinda area for bicycling hundreds of miles every week and advocating for bike safety on the roads was hit by a car and killed on Tuesday less than a mile from his home.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: It's Open Season For Vaccines! One census tract in the Bayview had a COVID infection rate 10 times higher than the rest of SF, Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli makes an awkward Zoom appearance, and a trio of dine-and-dashers in the Richmond apologize.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Prosecutor Says Kristin Smart Was Killed During Attempted Rape A 26-year-old SF man was arrested for creating child porn at a local daycare, Antioch is re-establishing a Chinatown more than a century after burning it down, and SF's first H Mart opens next week with a new food court attached.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starting Thursday, SF Restaurants Can Stay Open Past 11 p.m., Music Venues Can Open at 35% Capacity While San Francisco awaits a promotion to the state's "Yellow" tier, the city is moving ahead with relaxing more restrictions on restaurants and performance venues starting on Thursday morning.
Arts & Entertainment Fox Theater and Bill Graham Hoping for August Shows, Symphony and Berkeley Rep Aim For September Bay Area performance venues are moving hesitantly but optimistically toward scheduling live shows later this year, after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that checking vaccination cards will allow venues to open without capacity limits starting in mid-June.
