SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Will Allow 50% Capacity At Restaurants In 'Orange' Tier Assuming San Francisco enters the "Orange" tier next week, bars will be able to serve outside without the mandatory food and restaurants can open indoors at 50% capacity; and SF is getting a new interim director of its homelessness department.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Commits $3 Million to Nightlife Recovery Fund A fund established by SF Supervisor Matt Haney to provide direct relief grants to music and entertainment venues that have been dark for the past year has gotten its first influx of public funds, thanks to the city's unexpected budget surplus.
SF News Injury Crash on Northbound 101 Near Sausalito Causes Major Bridge Backup The Golden Gate Bridge had standstill traffic Thursday afternoon after all northbound lanes were blocked following an injury crash near the vista point on the north end of the bridge.
Arts & Entertainment Church of 8 Wheels Roller Skating Venue Tried to Open as an Indoor Fitness Center, But Will Have to Wait Until 'Yellow' Tier The popular roller skating venue at an abandoned church on Fillmore Street called The Church of 8 Wheels has been thwarted in its efforts to reopen to the public at least three times since November.
SF News GoFundMe For Elderly Chinese Woman Who Pummelled Her Market Street Attacker Raises Over $300K A crowdfunding campaign set up just yesterday for the elderly Chinese woman assaulted on San Francisco's Market Street on Wednesday has already raised over $300,000 — due in no small part because she was seen fighting back, and she sent her attacker to the hospital.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Is Pregnant and Her Defense Has Won Her Another Delay In Her Criminal Trial Attorneys for disgraced Theranos founder and possible cyborg Elizabeth Holmes — who, believe it or not, still hasn't gone to trial in her fraud case — won yet another delay in the court case because their client is pregnant, and her due date is right around when her trial was set to begin in July.
SF News Amtrak Train Strikes Truck In Oakland, 111 Crew and Passengers Evacuated An Amtrak train carrying 111 passengers and crew, en route to Los Angeles, collided with a maintenance truck that was parked too close to the train tracks on Thursday morning. No injuries have been reported.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Switches to Second Shots Only Before Pivot to Johnson & Johnson Vaccine The mass vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum stopped taking appointments for first shots of the Pfizer vaccine last week as it prepares to switch over to administering only the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Steps Up Patrols After Attacks on Asians The family of a man killed by a sheriff's deputy in Danville last week is demanding answers, the SFPD says it will step up patrols in the wake of a spike in attacks on Asian residents, and FEMA will be reimbursing COVID funeral expenses.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Arrested Yet Again SF supervisors and the mayor have struck a deal on using the city's $125M surplus, a sink hole appears in the Mission, and the IRS says you can file your taxes through May 17 this year without penalty.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Outside Lands Dates Moved to October The organizers of Outside Lands teased some sort of big announcement on Monday, and now they've released the news as of Thursday. The festival is being postponed once more, but this time just for two extra months (and change).
Arts & Entertainment The Chronicle Launches Podcast on a Mostly Forgotten SF Serial Killer of Gay Men, 'The Doodler' The Chronicle is getting in on the zeitgeist of true crime podcasts and stories, and revisiting a horrific case that, in the Chronicle's trashier days in the 1970s, was mostly just tabloid headline fodder — and the SFPD never bothered to solve it.
SF News Oakland's Mills College Calls It Quits After Several Rough Years, Will Accept No Incoming First-Years After 2021 Historic East Bay women's college Mills, which was founded in 1852, is ending its run as a degree-granting institution and won't be taking on any new students after this fall.
SF News Elderly Asian Woman Attacked On Market Street Pummels Her Attacker With Stick A 70-year-old Asian woman, injured by a much younger man she said was "bullying" her, successfully beat up her attacker on San Francisco's Market Street Wednesday morning.
SF News Once Again, Lake Oroville and Other Reservoirs Are at Drought Emergency Levels We're likely headed for another summer of dried-up lawns, fires, and water restrictions if Mother Nature continues to withhold the rain and snow that we need to make up for a super-dry November, December, and February.
Arts & Entertainment Peregrine Falcon Update: Berkeley Pair Lays Third Egg, Fourth On the Way The SF falcons at the PG&E building are incubating a clutch of four eggs, and across the Bay, the falcon pair that nests in the Campanile tower on the UC Berkeley campus just produced their third egg of the season, with a fourth due today.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bridge Traffic Is Back Commuter traffic around the Bay is back to near pre-pandemic levels, three suspects in a fatal shooting apparently disappeared into Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood last night, and Solano Co. is allowing the 50+ set to get vaccines.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feinstein's Husband Said To Be Eyeing Ambassadorship SF likely will keep to stricter rules than the state allows when it advances to the "Orange" tier, a 59-year-old Asian man was assaulted on Market Street on Monday, and Feinstein's husband may be give her an out when it comes to leaving the Senate gracefully.
SF News Deplorable Teen Arrested In Attempted Carjacking and Assault on Senior Citizen at SF Safeway A 16-year-old San Leandro girl has been arrested and two other teen suspects are being sought in an attempted robbery and carjacking in San Francisco's Inner Richmond last week in which an elderly woman was injured and a good Samaritan intervened.
SF Politics SF Board of Supervisors Approves Four-Year Extension of Ferris Wheel, Rejecting Challenge Several supes expressed exasperation about the fact that they were spending so much time and energy on this. And in the end, they voted 6-5 to let the contract stand as-is, at four years, in what will be cast as a victory for fun.
SF News Mayor London Breed Gets Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Shot, Wants to Demonstrate That It's Safe SF Mayor London Breed went to a clinic in her home neighborhood, the Western Addition, to receive her COVID-19 vaccination today.
SF Politics Feinstein Says She's Not Retiring, But Newsom Says He'll Appoint a Black Woman to the Senate If She Does Senator Feinstein told the press Tuesday they were "making a mountain out of a molehill" after Newsom made some comments about replacing her with a Black woman if he had the chance.
SF News Bay Area Tenants and Landlords Can Now Apply for Grants to Cover Back Rent From 2020 A state application portal went live Monday for tenants and landlords seeking rental relief grants relating to pandemic hardship — part of a $2.6 billion federally funded aid program in California.
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In Oakland Robbery/Homicide of Elderly Asian Man A second man was arrested in connection with last week's robbery and death of 75-year-old Pak Ho in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Mateo Moving to 'Orange' Tier San Mateo County is likely to advance to the 'Orange' tier today, San Francisco has lowered the BMI threshold for vaccine eligibility, and fire crews put out a two-alarm blaze at a flooring store in San Leandro Monday night.
