Business & Tech Watch a Timelapse Video of Those Three New Giant Cranes Go Up at the Port of Oakland Those three giant container cranes that arrived from China at the Port of Oakland in December were just finally raised in place Thursday morning, and there's video.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Nightclub Called Lion's Den Opens Friday in Chinatown I bet you didn't think you'd be reading this news this week: A new nightclub is having its soft opening (in the midst of the pandemic) on Friday in Chinatown, and it's attempting to harken back to the glitz of 1950s-era nightlife in the neighborhood.
SF News [Update] Uber Assault Suspect Arrested in Las Vegas The woman who yelled at, insulted, coughed on, and assaulted an Uber driver on Sunday because he told her to put on a mask, as seen in widely publicized video of the incident, has been arrested in Las Vegas.
SF News Roof-Leaping Burglary Suspect Dies After Being Trapped Between Two Buildings In Russian Hill A suspect in a residential burglary in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood died Tuesday night following a brief pursuit in which he was reportedly jumping from roof to roof between multiple buildings.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Driver Jumps Off Bay Bridge Following Major Crash A Coast Guard search was underway Wednesday night following a multi-car crash on the Bay Bridge and a driver who reportedly jumped into the water, more CVS stores get the COVID vaccine, and poll finds 1 in 5 Americans lost someone to the pandemic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bush Man From Fisherman's Wharf Turns Up In Key West "World Famous Bush Man" David Johnson turns up in Key West, Santa Clara County stops taking first-dose vaccine appointments due to supply, and an Oakland neighborhood is outraged over another assault on an elderly Asian American.
Arts & Entertainment Blanche the Swan Returns to Palace of Fine Arts; Swallowing Pennies Blamed For Zinc Poisoning The surviving swan from the Palace of Fine Arts lagoon, Blanche, was returned to her home on Tuesday after being treated at the San Francisco Zoo for several weeks for lead and zinc poisoning.
Arts & Entertainment SF Comedian Alexis Gay Brings Us the Tech Version of 'Shit San Franciscans Say' Remember the innocent days of 2011 when a YouTube meme took off and spawned a hundred iterations covering most U.S. cities and a variety of cultures and subcultures, even baristas?
Arts & Entertainment Video: Peregrine Falcons In Downtown SF and Berkeley Lay Multiple Eggs In Hopeful Beginning to Nesting Season Most of you probably remember when the peregrine falcons that live on the top of the PG&E building in downtown San Francisco provided an apt contribution to the horror show of 2020 — but it's a new year with a new clutch of eggs!
SF News Early Morning Shooting on Bay Bridge Leaves One Man Critically Injured A man was shot in the chest on the right shoulder of the eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge just past Treasure Island Wednesday morning, and he is in critical condition.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Independent Bay Area Restaurants May Get Relief From $28.6B Piece of Stimulus Package Under the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that the House was taking a final vote on today, a new fund will provide relief money — up to $5M each — to independent restaurants that won't need to be put toward payroll.
SF News Shower of Hail in Santa Rosa Leads to Six-Car Collision A hail shower Wednesday morning in Santa Rosa reportedy led to a six-car crash in the western part of the city, and possibly to a big-rig crash involving three vehicles on 101.
SF Politics Peskin and Chan Appear Likely to Thwart Ferris Wheel Extension, Shorten It To One Year At Tuesday's SF Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan maneuvered to get their way and keep Rec & Parks from extending the contract for the 150-foot-tall observation wheel in Golden Gate Park for another four years.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Lightning Explodes Redwood Tree In San Jose A man and his two dogs had to be rescued from a Fort Funston cliff on Tuesday evening, a Twitter account will tell you when Moscone appointments open up, and a lightning strike blew apart a redwood tree and shattered windows in a San Jose neighborhood.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Expected to Hit 'Orange' Tier March 23 The Oakland homeless man who was set on fire last week has died from his injuries, SF approves hazard pay for grocery workers, and SF is expected to reach "Orange" status in two weeks.
SF Politics Former Nuru Girlfriend and 'Fix-It Team' Head Sandra Zuniga Pleads Guilty In Federal Corruption Probe Sandra Zuniga, formerly the head of San Francisco's Office of Neighborhood Services (a.k.a. the Fix-It Team), has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, and will cooperate with federal investigators' ongoing corruption probe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland and Berkeley Restaurants Prepare to Have Indoor Dining Again as Alameda County Turns 'Red' After only having limited-capacity indoor dining for three short weeks since the pandemic began, restaurants in Alameda County are preparing to once again allow patrons indoors starting on Wednesday.
SF News Arrest Made In Armed Robbery of KPIX Reporter's Camera at Twin Peaks The San Francisco Police Department on Tuesday released a few more details about last week's armed robbery of a KPIX crew's camera at Twin Peaks — which, ironically, was stolen while the reporter was there to report on all the theft going on in the area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Japanese Curry Spot Forced to Close Right After Opening In Marina District Because of SF's Formula Retail Rules In yet another argument for why SF neighborhoods can not afford to be too picky about what kinds of retail and restaurants they get in the midst of a retail apocalypse, the first U.S. location of Hinoya Curry was forced to close just weeks after opening in order to go through a permitting process.
SF News [Update] Awful Woman Coughs on SF Uber Driver, Tries to Steal His Phone After Being Told to Wear a Mask An Uber driver picked up a classy trio of young women during the brunch hours of Sunday in San Francisco, only to have one of them swear at him and cough on him after being told she needed to wear a mask.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Clara Won't Use Blue Shield's Vaccine Help Santa Clara County is refusing to sign an agreement with Blue Shield for vaccine coordination and other counties may follow, the Johnson & Johnson one-dose vaccine arrives in the Bay, and the NYT has controversially declared California's bagels superior to New York's.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stimulus Package Solves SF's $650M Budget Problem Ghost Ship fire defendant Derick Almena was sentenced today to further house confinement and restitution, SF hit a new four-month low in COVID cases, and the city's budget deficit is getting wiped away by the federal stimulus bill.
SF News Golden Gate Fields Physician Featured On '60 Minutes' Story About New Drug For COVID Patients Dr. David Seftel, the physician for the 500 employees and their families at the East Bay racetrack Golden Gate Fields, recently played a role in the early study of a common psychiatric drug, fluvoxamine, to treat COVID.
SF News Blue Boy, One of the Two Swans at the Palace of Fine Arts Lagoon, Has Died From Zinc and Lead Poisoning A 17-year-old male mute swan, one of two who have ruled over the lagoon at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, died last week of apparent zinc and lead poisoning — which his mate was also being treated for in recent weeks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Maven Is Closing After Nine Good Years In the Lower Haight Chalk up another pandemic casualty in the bar and restaurant scene, and this one is going to hurt for denizens of the Lower Haight — Maven is closing on March 29.
