SF News CDC: You Can Stop With the 'Deep Cleaning' and Hygiene Theater The Centers for Disease Control confirmed today what epidemiologists have been saying for at least eight months, which is you don't need to keep disinfecting surfaces and decontaminating your groceries because the coronavirus doesn't spread by surface contact.
Arts & Entertainment The Legion of Honor Readies for May 7 Reopening San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum is set to reopen next month, on May 7, with two new exhibits — one of which celebrates the culture of food and drink in Pompeii, which the museum's director says was “kind of the Sonoma Valley of ancient Rome.”
SF Politics Mayor Breed Taps New Director of Department of Homelessness As Crisis Continues Spiraling Breed announced Thursday that she had appointed Shireen McSpadden, the current executive director of the Department of Disability and Aging Services, to be the next head of the city's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
Bay Area Sports Former 49er Phillip Adams Kills 5, Then Himself, In South Carolina Onetime cornerback for the 49ers, Phillip Adams, is the sole suspect in a mass shooting on Wednesday in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Adams is believed to have shot six people, killing five of them, and then turning the gun on himself.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: North Beach Standoff With Barricaded Suspect Ends Peacefully A carjacking victim is critically injured near Union Square, a domestic incident near Fisherman's Wharf turned into a six-hour standoff, and Alameda County is expanding vaccine eligibility in 12 zip codes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: KPIX Reporter Nearly Robbed Of Camera for Second Time In SF KPIX reporter Don Ford was robbed *again* in San Francisco — but the thief dropped the news camera while fleeing from his security guard; the SFMTA has approved four more Slow Streets; and a shooting in South Lake Tahoe leaves one dead.
SF News New Vaccination Clinic Opens In SF's Excelsior District, Serving Neighborhood Residents A new vaccination clinic with phone appointments and some drop-in availability has opened to serve the hard-hit Excelsior District, much like neighborhood clinics that have opened in the Mission, Tenderloin, and Bayview.
Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco Peregrine Falcon Pair Has Three Hatchlings and Counting Success! In addition to other good news this week, we have an egg-cellent development to share over at the falcon's nest on top of PG&E's Beale Street headquarters: Not one but two of the eggs that Val laid in March have hatched.
SF News If You're Not Vaccinated, Stay Home, Order In, Be F**king Patient If you haven't yet received at least one vaccine shot and waited the appropriate two weeks after to resume more normal activities, you should not be resuming those activities as if we're totally out of the woods and you have nothing to fear — I don't care how young or invincible you think you are.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Retired Boxer Gets Misdemeanor Citation In Alleged Attack on Filipino Teen Outside Gino & Carlo Bar In North Beach A story broke over the weekend that was initially characterized as another anti-Asian attack, this time outside a famed North Beach bar, with a victim who was 18 years old, but it appears to have been more of an interpersonal conflict.
SF News East Bay Couple Charged With Severely Abusing 11-Year-Old Daughter Who Died Last Month A couple in the East Bay town of Rodeo has been charged with torturing and abusing an 11-year-old girl over a period of four months, and they may soon be charged with her murder.
SF News DUI Suspect Killed By San Mateo Deputy's Car While Fleeing From Traffic Stop on 101 A man was killed in a freeway collision Tuesday night after attempting to flee from a traffic stop on 101 in Burlingame.
SF News Humpday Headlines: School Board Indefinitely Suspends Renaming Debate A 48-year-old man has pleaded guilty to gun charges in a random shooting on Market Street, the SF school board just reversed itself on renaming 44 schools, and is Justice Stephen Breyer going to retire this year?
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tennis Club No Longer a Part of 88 Bluxome Project Developers of the 88 Bluxome project in SoMa say they can no longer afford to replace the tennis club, the family of a Danville homeless man shot by police is suing, and two UK variant cases have been confirmed in Marin.
SF Politics Caitlyn Jenner Might Run For Governor In Recall Election Republican trans woman and generally bored rich person Caitlyn Jenner is reportedly mulling a run for governor in the likely event that we have a recall election for Gavin Newsom this year.
SF News Brace Yourselves For Vaccine Card Fakes, Which the FBI Considers a Federal Crime Next up in our Great American Pandemic Story we are likely to see a wave of stories about vaccination card forgeries — given how easy they are to fake, how many dumb Americans are still avoiding getting vaccinated, and you'll seen need one to go to a concert.
SF News Eight of Nine Bay Area Counties Now In 'Orange' Tier The future is looking cautiously brighter as of Tuesday in the Bay Area, now that Sonoma, Napa, and Contra Costa counties have all graduated to "Orange" tier status, and people can go back to drinking at outdoor bars without ordering food in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
SF News Newsom Wants All Businesses, Concerts, Conventions, and Schools Fully Open June 15, With Masks Newsom announced during a visit to San Francisco Tuesday that he expects, if COVID infection rates hold steady and keep declining in the state, that California will be able to toss out the color-coded tier system by June 15.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More Ghost Kitchen Insanity: That Blowfish Sushi On DoorDash Isn't the Real Blowfish Sushi, Which Closed Last Year The former owner of Blowfish Sushi to Die For is preparing legal action after a ghost kitchen opened in the former Blowfish space at 2193 Mission Street, using the Blowfish name and logo and fulfilling delivery orders on DoorDash and Seamless.
SF News SF School Board Does About-Face On School Renaming; Superintendent Delays Retirement Until 2022 Amid calls on social media for all of them to be recalled, San Francisco's embattled Board of Education is saying that it will reverse its decision on renaming 44 schools in the district in favor of a different, "more deliberative" process at a later date.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Biden Moves Up Vaccine Eligibility Timeline to April 19 President Biden is saying states should open vaccine eligibility to everyone by April 19, the SFMTA is still adding more Slow Streets, and Sonoma County is expected to move to the "Orange" tier for the first time today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Coliseum Vaccines To Continue Past Sunday California now has the lowest COVID test-positivity rate of any state in the country, a new cannabis dispensary is headed to Cow Hollow, and Kamala Harris used her Oakland visit to announce that FEMA will keep the Coliseum vaccination site open past Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Moves Ahead, But Won't Open Until Late 2022 At Earliest The Trader Joe's that nearly everyone in the Hayes Valley environs is jonesing to shop at will not become a reality until late next year or even possibly early 2023, according to a newly released timeline from the company.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Moves Temporarily to Dear Inga Space In the Mission Popular TenderNob Hawaiian restaurant Liholiho Yacht Club is undergoing a renovation, and the owners are relocating the operation temporarily this month to their other restaurant space at 3560 18th Street — which is home to Dear Inga.
SF News Pleasanton Schoolteacher and Her Mother Die After Driving Off Bodega Bay Cliff While Onlookers Watch A bizarre incident happened in front of multiple onlookers at a popular vista point in Bodega Bay on Saturday, and it ended the lives of a 41-year-old teacher from the East Bay and her 64-year-old mother.
