SF News Another Smash-and-Grab Caught On Video, This Time in Golden Gate Park, and Victim Chased Down Thief If you want a sense of the sheer volume of petty crime going on in San Francisco, you need only look at Twitter or Reddit, basically, because there's so much that some of it is getting caught on video in broad daylight.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Arrest Made In Cliff House Burglary Firefighters put out a small structure fire on Nob Hill Thursday morning, Rite-Aid stores in the Bay Area are now taking vaccine appointments, and Lady Gaga's dog walker was shot and two of her dogs were stolen in Hollywood last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Johnson & Johnson One-Dose Vaccine Likely On Its Way Soon SF rents are still the highest in the nation despite last year's slide, the recall effort against Gavin Newsom is part of a wave of rage against governors across the country, and the FDA may approve Johnson & Johnson's one-dose vaccine as early as Saturday, with shipments starting this week.
SF News New CDC Studies Say Group Fitness Classes, Heavy Breathing at Indoor Gyms Led to COVID Outbreaks Two new case studies by the CDC have found that indoor group fitness classes in Honolulu and Chicago led directly to COVID outbreaks that infected dozens of people.
Arts & Entertainment With Back Rent Due, SoMa LGBTQ Nightclub Oasis Turns to Crowdfunding, Telethon to Prevent Permanent Closure Among the nightclubs and music venues that have suffered deeply in San Francisco over the last year, one of the relative newest, Oasis, could face permanent closure without some immediate help from patrons, or the federal or local government.
Business & Tech Fry's Electronics Officially Calls It Quits After several years in which its once vibrant, quirky stores were filled with rows of empty shelves, and following several store closures around the Bay Area, Fry's Electronics has officially announced it's shutting down for good.
Business & Tech SF-Based One Medical Reportedly Allowed Ineligible Patients and Work-From-Home Staff to Get Vaccines SF-based healthcare startup One Medical is the latest organization being called out for unethical practices in the distribution of still very limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccine — allegedly including giving vaccine shots to friends and family of company leadership, and patients in their 20s.
SF News SF Opens Up Vaccinations to Teachers, Grocery Store and Restaurant Workers — But How Soon Will They Get Them? While vaccine supplies remain inconsistent and insufficient, San Francisco officially moved into Phase 1B of vaccine eligibility on Wednesday, allowing grocery store and food service workers to be next in line alongside educators, childcare workers, and emergency services personnel.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Supes Call For Investigation of Ferris Wheel Deal Vaccine access codes for underserved populations are being shared by the privileged by text, a coyote in Lamorinda has attacked a fifth person, and two SF supervisors want to look into a revenue-sharing deal involving that Ferris wheel and the nonprofit Parks Alliance.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vigil At City Lights For Ferlinghetti Four thieves reportedly stole a 60-year-old man's electric wheelchair in SoMa last week and made him crawl home, a Peninsula woman reported missing yesterday was found dead in the Grand Canyon today, and Alameda County's Deputy DA is running for the DA's seat.
SF News 24-Year-Old Man Fatally Stabbed at SoMa Skate Park, 19-Year-Old Suspect Arrested The SoMa West Skatepark on Duboce Avenue was the site of a homicide Monday evening, following an altercation between two young men.
SF News Castro Store Owners Say They've Paid $120,000 to Repair Windows Smashed By Vandals In the Last Year The Castro is hardly the only neighborhood dealing with rampant crime in recent months, but merchants in the neighborhood hope the city will reimburse them for what has largely been out-of-pocket expenses incurred because of petty vandalism and theft.
SF News SF Waits Out Another Week In 'Purple' Tier As San Mateo and Marin Counties Turn 'Red' Even though San Francisco's COVID case numbers have looked about as good as those in neighboring counties San Mateo and Marin, the latter two have advanced to the "Red" tier for reopening as of Tuesday afternoon, while SF is left behind with the majority of California counties in the "Purple" tier.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Poet and City Lights Founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet laureate of San Francisco and one of the last surviving figures Beat Generation, has died just shy of his 102nd birthday. His son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti confirmed his passing, saying that he died at his home in North Beach on Monday evening.
SF News Dancing Grandma From Grand Princess COVID Debacle Looks Back One Year Later We can now mark the one-year anniversary of the Grand Princess cruise ship COVID outbreak and the ensuing, weeks-long, nationally televised drama that was a precursor to the global pandemic. Two surviving elderly passengers say they have two more cruises planned after their vaccines.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Door-to-Door Vaccine Sign-ups Begin in the Mission Volunteers are going door to door to get soon-to-be eligible people to sign up for vaccines in the Mission District, gyms and restaurants in at least three Bay Area counties are readying to potentially reopen indoor spaces, and many parts of the Bay Area will be windy today and tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: What Killed a Rare Pygmy Sperm Whale Found on a Sonoma Beach? Santa Clara County is going to start allowing more recreational outdoor stuff, a Sunday night drive-by shooting in the Mission injured one man, and Dead Kennedys frontman and SF resident Jello Biafra has written a Rush Limbaugh eulogy song.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pacific Cocktail Haven, Two Other Lower Nob Hill Businesses Suffer Damage In Electrical Fire When it rains it pours sometimes, and now a popular cocktail spot near Union Square has been forced to close again not by the pandemic, but because of a recent electrical fire.
SF News More Wind Is In the Forecast This Week, But No Rain Gusty winds and dangerous marine conditions are being predicted starting early Tuesday in the Bay Area, with 55-mph gusts at some higher elevations and a gale warning at the coast. But otherwise we have a couple of days of warm sunshine ahead.
SF News Studies In Mission District Find California Virus Variant Is More Infectious — But Not As Infectious as UK Variant Two recent studies based on COVID testing in San Francisco's Mission District offer some insight into the so-called California variant of the coronavirus, which appears to be becoming more prevalent locally with each week.
SF News SF School Board Says It Will Wait to Rename Schools, Get More Community Input After months of criticism from San Francisco politicians, parents of children in the school district, and Fox News, the San Francisco Board of Education has relented in its push to rename 44 schools for reasons of historical racism associated with their namesakes.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Three Bay Area Counties Poised to Move to 'Red' Tier The mass-vaccination site at the Moscone Center won't reopen until Thursday, Contra Costa County is ahead of the rest of the Bay Area in vaccinating residents, and the Supreme Court ruled that Trump has to hand over his taxes.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Introduces Bill to Legalize Psychedelics Statewide The bill would decriminalize the use and possession of psilocybin (mushrooms), molly, LSD, ketamine, DMT, and mescaline, among other things.
SF News Remains of 37-Year-Old Walnut Creek Woman Missing Since June Found In Desert Near Twentynine Palms San Bernardino County authorities have identified skeletal remains they discovered in the desert outside Twentynine as those of 37-year-old Erika Ashley Lloyd. The remains were found by hikers on January 31, and Lloyd had been missing since June 16, 2020.
SF News Retired SF Police Officer Allegedly Threatened to Kill 11-Year-Old Over Ding-Dong-Ditch Pranks A retired San Francisco cop now living in Marin County is being accused of threatening to "put a bullet" in an 11-year-old boy after the boy and his friends were reportedly ringing doorbells in the neighborhood and running away — i.e. playing ding-dong ditch.
