SF News Day Around the Bay: Stormy Weather Halts Mass Vaccinations at City College The extreme weather this week is forcing SF's newly set-up mass-vaccination site to close til Friday, a gay Black firefighter is suing the SFFD for discrimination, and Marin conservatives rally in support of the MyPillow guy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed SF Leather Bar Powerhouse Temporarily Became a Food Pantry For LGBTQ People and Others In Need For the past six weeks, a SoMa queer bar that's better known for raunchy theme nights and its storied past in the leather community temporarily turned into a food pantry serving LGBTQ seniors and a group of unemployed nightlife workers around the city who found themselves running out of money.
SF Politics Bay Area Man Arrested After He Allegedly Went Nuts Threatening Democratic Congressman and His Family on Jan. 6 In yet another story of a conspiracy-addled right-wing Trump fanboy unraveling in the waning days before the inauguration and allegedly turning to criminal threats and other craziness, we bring you the case of 35-year-old Bay Point resident Robert Lemke.
SF News Atmospheric Rivers, Explained It doesn't seem as though the term "atmospheric river" has been in common use for more than a decade or so by TV weather people. But lately it comes up nearly every winter in California.
SF News California EDD Confirmed to Be a Bloody Mess In New Auditor's Report A state auditor's report released Monday suggests that not only did the California Employment Development Department (EDD) mishandle hundreds of thousands of claims and leave legitimate unemployed claimants going hungry last year, but that possibly $30 billion was paid out to fraudsters.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Hurricane Hunters Fly Into Our Coming Storm Twitter has permanently banned MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for "repeated violations," the I-5 is shut down at the Grapevine due to heavy snow, and Rep. Barbara Lee is the new chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter Launches Crowdsourced Fact-Checking Program Twitter is going the Wikipedia route with a new fact-checking program, California's new My Turn vaccine app was developed by Salesforce, and outdoor dining resumed without hesitation at some Bay Area restaurants today.
Business & Tech UCSF Team Finds Cancer Drug That Is 30 Times More Effective At Fighting COVID Than Remdesivir A research team at UCSF has landed on a potential game-changing treatment for COVID-19, though it is a cancer drug made by a Spanish firm that is not yet approved for any uses in the United States.
SF News Coming Deluge of Rain Prompts Evacuations, Landslide, Flood, and Wind Warnings Around the Bay The next round of rain heading toward the Bay this week will be the heaviest we've seen in a while. And in addition to warnings of high winds coming with the next band of storms, areas that saw significant burning during last year's wildfires are facing the threat of landslides.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Dining, Personal Services To Resume In San Francisco Outdoor dining can resume in San Francisco starting Thursday, now that COVID case numbers are decreasing the state has lifted the regional stay-at-home orders that began over a month ago.
SF News Stubborn Scofflaw Yoga Studio Owner In Pacifica Makes Apparent Threats Against County Supervisor's Family As the Trumpists continue their wails of false fury about an election that they lost, a local battle that epitomizes the idiocy of politicizing the pandemic and denying basic science rages on just south of San Francisco.
SF News Newsom Lifts Regional Stay-at-Home Orders as Bed Capacities Rise Governor Gavin Newsom has lifted the remaining regional stay-at-home orders across California, returning to the county-by-county, color-coded system for reopening, and San Francisco will be allowing outdoor dining to resume in short order.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Placer County Man's Post-Vaccine Death Being Investigated Bay Area teachers remain in a vaccine limbo, three people were wounded in a shooting outside a Burlingame hotel, and Sacramento is getting more aggressive with building housing than San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Landmark Castro Bar Twin Peaks Gets Second Reprieve From Patron Donations The landmark bar at the corner of Market and Castro, Twin Peaks, put out a call for crowdfunding donations in December following a similar effort last spring, and once again fans and patrons of the bar stepped up and gave over $100,000.
SF News Russian Man In Sunnyvale Confesses to Killing Wife and Daughter A tragic case is unfolding in the South Bay after a software engineer walked in to a police station on Wednesday and confessed to killing his wife. His 11-year-old daughter was found dead as well.
SF News Derick Almena Pleads Guilty In Ghost Ship Fire Case, Will Likely Not Serve Any More Time Behind Bars Families of the victims of the tragic December 2016 Ghost Ship fire are not all pleased with a plea agreement that was offered recently to the remaining criminal defendant in the case, Derick Almena. But on Friday, he pleaded guilty to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter.
SF News Bay Area Sees Another Spike In COVID Deaths, With 250 More Dead in 3 Days Adhering to a grim schedule that was predicted by public health experts, the holiday-season surge in COVID cases is now showing its spike in deaths, both locally and elsewhere.
SF News Santa Rosa Man Defends Himself Against Home-Invaders, One Fatally Stabbed The only thing worse than getting catfished by someone chatting you up online is getting assaulted and robbed by them. And that sounds like what happened to a Santa Rosa man early Thursday.
SF News Mass-Vaccination Site Soft-Opens at City College — No Walk-Ups Allowed The drive-through mass-vaccination site at City College "softly" opened Friday morning at a five-acre parking lot, with a plan to administer 500 doses today to healthcare workers and people over the age of 65.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pelosi Will Send Impeachment Article to Senate Monday Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate may begin next week or after, a Napa couple is being re-sentenced in the 2014 torture death of a three-year-old, and Oakland has already seen 11 homicides just 22 days into the new year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Amazon Doesn't Have to Reinstate Parler, Judge Says A suspect remains at large in a hit-and-run that killed a seven-year-old in Milpitas, inmates at the Santa Clara County main jail are on hunger strike over lax COVID protocols, and a judge declined to force Amazon Web Services to reinstate Parler.
Arts & Entertainment Support Local Theater By Watching a One-Night-Only Video Performance of the Lizzie Borden Musical Way back in 2015, local musical theater company Ray of Light Theatre put on a well received production of 'Lizzie: The Musical,' a rock opera based on the story of notorious family-murderer Lizzie Borden.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chevy's Restaurants In Santa Rosa, Fairfield, and Vallejo All Apparently Defying State Orders A district manager the Chevy's Fresh Mex chain, who's based in Seattle and apparently responsible for the whole West Coast, is being blamed for keeping California Chevy's locations open for dining despite public health orders keeping all other restaurants closed.
SF News Set of Three Storms Move Into Bay Area Beginning Early Friday "The storm door is about to open," says ABC 7 meteorologist Mike Nicco, as we look toward the weekend and into next week with storm activity moving our way.
Business & Tech Facebook Oversight Panel Deciding Fate of Trump's Account Is Taking Public Comment Facebook's long promised but still barely operational Oversight Board — the so-called "Supreme Court" of content moderation — is taking on the case of Trump's locked account. And they want to hear from you.
