SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Brazilian' COVID Variant Confirmed in California The Board of Supervisors will be voting on whether to extend the Golden Gate Park Ferris wheel one year or four years, a suspect was arrested for fatally stabbing a dog in the Upper Haight, and Newsom is launching a campaign against the recall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Barbecue Chef Matt Horn Announces Pop-Up Preview of Burger Concept 'Matty's Old-Fashioned' Just six months after opening his highly anticipated, much-delayed West Oakland barbecue restaurant Horn Barbecue, chef Matt Horn is teasing a second restaurant concept focused on burgers.
SF News Someone Drove Their Car Into the Bay Near Marina Green San Francisco firefighters came to the rescue of an unfortunate driver Sunday night who drove their car off the seawall near Marina Green. It's unclear whether drugs or alcohol may have been involved in the incident, but luckily the water was pretty shallow right there.
SF News Uber Assault Suspect Malaysia King Was Arrested In Vegas for Bank Fraud; Uber Driver Thankful for GoFundMe Donations One of the two women now in police custody in connection with the highly publicized March 7 assault on an Uber driver in San Francisco was actually arrested for an alleged bank fraud scheme in Nevada in the days following the Uber incident.
Arts & Entertainment Alcatraz Reopens For Tours After Three-Month Closure Alcatraz Island reopened Monday morning for limited tours by reservation, after being closed since the statewide lockdown began in December, and after only being open for about three months in total since the pandemic began.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Native Ryan Coogler Makes History With Oscar Nomination for 'Judas and the Black Messiah' This year's Oscar nominations were announced early Monday morning, and after years of criticism over the awards' lack of diversity — and the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag campaign that began with the 2015 awards — the 2021 slate of nominees is more diverse than ever.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: More Rain and Hail On the Way The second suspect in the assault on an Uber driver last week has turned herself in, today is the day of expanded vaccine eligibility across CA, and more wintry weather is on the way.
SF News A Year Ago This Weekend, SF Bars Were Ordered Closed and Pandemic Panic-Shopping Began The first two weeks of March 2020 were very weird for just about everyone. And this weekend marks one year since SF shut down large bars and clubs, a few days before the whole city would shut down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Introduces Legislation to Make SF Parklets Permanent SF Mayor London Breed announced proposed legislation Friday that will extend indefinitely the popular Shared Spaces program, allowing bars and restaurants across the city the keep the outdoor parklet spaces they've built and for new ones to be permitted as well.
SF News Entire Bay Area Enters Red Tier As State Announces New Status For Sonoma and Contra Costa County The last two local counties to leave the "Purple" tier for the "Red" one in the state's metrics for reopening, Contra Costa and Sonoma counties, were promoted on Friday, several days ahead of the weekly Tuesday schedule.
SF News UCSF Docs Discuss SF's Remarkably Low COVID Mortality Rate, and Whether the Vaccinated Should Fear Variants A panel of doctors at UCSF have been broadcasting their "Grand Rounds" since early in the pandemic, and looking back on the past year they say San Francisco has been a great success story.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested for Assaulting Asian Woman At San Jose Caltrain Station A San Francisco man was arrested Wednesday for a hate crime and sexual assault, following an incident in which he allegedly hurled racial slurs at a young Asian woman and assaulted her in a pedestrian tunnel at San Jose's Diridon Station.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: City College Site Begins Giving Johnson & Johnson Shots The coyote that attacked multiple people (and children) in the Lamorinda area has been killed, there was a small fire at Tesla's Fremont factory Thursday, and the first Johnson & Johnson shots are being given in SF today at the City College site.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Don Ramon's Is Saved, For Now The woman implicated in that assault on an Uber driver last Sunday has been arrested in Las Vegas, Supervisor Ahsha Safai had his car broken into outside City Hall, and Cowgirl Creamery is closing its Ferry Building store after 18 years.
SF News 26-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Murder After Elderly Asian Victim Dies From Injuries Sustained In Assault An assault and robbery in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood has become a murder case, after the 75-year-old Asian man who was attacked died from his injuries on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Nightclub Oasis Surpasses Fundraising Goal at Telethon With $270K Raised Oasis appears to be saved, after a 12-hour telethon last weekend that brought an entire community of drag queens to its SoMa stage, and raised over $268,000 in the process.
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!
