Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac's 'Joy and Pandemic' Premiere Postponed at Magic Theatre; Berkeley Rep Delays Reopening Two Bay Area theaters announced surge-related postponements today, joining a parade of events and performers that are moving dates further into the future due to the ongoing pandemic.
SF News Active Shooter Drill In Sunset District Creates Misunderstanding, SFPD Descends on Treasure Island The San Francisco Fire Department apparently created confusion Wednesday for the San Francisco Police Department with an active shooter drill they were conducting.
SF News More Monsoonal Moisture Heads to NorCal, Possibility of Lightning Still Remote An area of high pressure over the southwestern U.S. will be sending warmer temperatures our way in the next few days, particularly in the inland parts of the Bay Area. And meteorologists are closely monitoring the situation as some more monsoonal moisture moves our way.
SF News SF Animal Care & Control Seeks Public's Help In Identifying Woman Who's Been Feeding Coyotes on Bernal Hill SF Animal Care & Control put out an APB of sorts on Wednesday morning, seeking the public's help in shaming and bringing to justice a woman who apparently thinks it's fun and helpful to feed wild coyotes.
SF News Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Top 1,000 For First Time Since February Hospitalizations from COVID-19 continue climbing across California, and in the Bay Area, the number of hospitalized patients with serious cases rose above 1,000 for the first time since mid-February.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Over 1 Million People Have Already Gotten Booster Shots A 35-year-old man was shot in Oakland while running from robbers, a Sonoma State lecturer has been arrested for a series of arson fires near the Dixie Fire, and the CDC says 1.1 million people have already gotten unauthorized booster shots of vaccines.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chevron Refinery Flaring Again A boy of unknown age was shot on Stockton Street in Union Square Tuesday afternoon, the Chevron refinery sent plumes of black smoke over the East Bay, and a new UCSF study connects COVID with preterm births in pregnant women.
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks Is Canceling Her BottleRock Appearance, Citing COVID Concerns Iconic singer and songwriter Stevie Nicks, whose upcoming appearance at BottleRock Napa Valley was likely a major draw for many ticket holders, announced Tuesday that she is bowing out of the festival and all of her remaining scheduled shows this year.
SF News Study: Moderna Vaccine Significantly Better Against Delta Than Pfizer If you're going to get a "supplemental" or "booster" shot in the coming weeks or months and you didn't originally get Moderna's mRNA vaccine, you may want to consider topping up with Moderna, according to a new study.
SF Politics Senate Passes Infrastructure Bill That Includes Money for Blackout Prevention, Lake Tahoe Restoration The Senate on Tuesday passed the $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill in a bipartisan 69-30 vote, handing President Biden a win. But how much of that money is going to funnel to Bay Area projects?
Arts & Entertainment You Can Now Find Fnnch Honey Bears On Williams-Sonoma Dishware, Aprons If you thought that street artist fnnch and his over-exposed honey bear art might fade away at some point, you can rest assured that the honey bears will in fact just keep multiplying and showing up where you least expected.
SF News San Jose Police Recover Two Stolen French Bulldogs Following Arrest of Suspected Gang Members Two French bulldogs — a mother and one of her puppies — have been recovered and reunited with their owner in San Jose following the arrest of three men suspected of a multitude of crimes.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Some SF Parents Now Demanding Distance Learning Amid Delta Surge COVID cases are popping up in an East Bay school district that opened for classes last week, some SF parents are now nervous to send kids back to school, and Aubrey Huff got kicked off of Twitter again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dixie Fire Smoke Blowing Into Denver and Elsewhere 200 SF city employees have sent conspiracy-filled letters to HR about the vaccine mandate, the Dixie Fire is sending noxious smoke very far away, and no foul play was found in an initial autopsy of Berkeley runner Philip Kreycik.
SF News Two Hit-and-Run Drivers Sought In East Bay Including One Felony Suspect Who Struck Deputy A hit-and-run driver who allegedly struck and injured a 29-year-old man in the Oakland hills on Sunday is being sought by police, and another suspect driver is being sought in a separate incident Monday involving an Alameda County sheriff's deputy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food News: Lord Stanley Pivots Into a Rotating Pop-Up Venue; Berkeley's Rivoli Closes Indefinitely Michelin-starred SF restaurant Lord Stanley has decided to close next month and its owners are pivoting the space to be a home for rotating pop-ups by visiting chefs. And over in Berkeley, beloved 27-year-old Rivoli has mysteriously gone dark.
SF News M-Ocean View Trains Return Aug. 14 Along With Six Restored Bus Routes One more Muni Metro route is returning to service on Saturday along with a half dozen restored Muni bus routes, a new bus route for Lake Merced, and a bunch of route extensions and changes.
SF News Skateboarding Brand HUF Missed the Memo That Sidewalk Stencil Ads Are Illegal Here HUF, the skateboarding and apparel brand, just opened a new store on Valencia Street, and they went around the Mission spray-stenciling their logo on neighborhood sidewalks — apparently unaware that SF has a law against this and others have been fined for this.
SF Politics SF Building Inspection Commissioner and Latino Task Force Co-Founder Steps Down Following Assault Allegation Prominent SF political figure Jon Jacobo, the co-founder of the Latino Task Force and a member of the Building Inspection Commission, was asked to step down from his role on the commission late last week following the revelation of a serious sexual assault allegation against him.
SF News Another Airbnb House Party Leads to Another Deadly Shooting, This Time In Sunnyvale Police were already present at a home in Sunnyvale Saturday night where a large underage party was going on when shots were fired and two partygoers were hit.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Schoolkids Return to Classrooms The Dixie Fire is approaching a half-million acres and is now the second-largest wildfire in state history, a driver outside his vehicle was killed on 101 in Rohnert Park, and Oakland Unified School District kicked off its schoolyear today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Many Essential Workers Died In California During the Pandemic? A full accounting of death demographics in the coronavirus pandemic won't likely be done for years. But we already know that a significant number of essential workers have been among the dead, and in California that is likely contributing to the much-discussed labor shortage.
SF News 87-Year-Old Woman Goes Missing In Sunset District, Later Found Stabbed An 87-year-old woman went for a walk in the Sunset District on Thursday evening and her family reported her missing after she did not return within a couple of hours. Then a few hours after that, she was found stabbed multiple times but still alive.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Richmond District Restaurant Created $72 Stunt Dish the Chef Referred to as 'Douchebag Fried Rice' — Guess How Many People Ordered It In our era of "Instagrammable" food, a chef at a Richmond District Vietnamese restaurant decided to create an over-the-top stunt dish around the holidays last year, figuring they might sell a few and get some free marketing and that'd be it. But instead, it took off.
SF News Woman Arrested In Mountain View For Murder of Newborn Infant A woman was arrested Wednesday in Mountain View after an autopsy revealed that an infant boy she claimed was stillborn was actually alive at birth and died from "significant injuries."
