SF News San Francisco Woman Who Lost Trump-Supporting Dad to COVID Seeks to Establish National COVID Memorial Day Now that over a half-million Americans have been lost to this pandemic — and the number could easily top 600,000 or higher before the year is out — there is a movement to establish a new national holiday to remember and mourn the COVID dead.
SF News Chance of Light Rain Arrives Saturday, But Things Still Look Too Dry There's nothing resembling a serious soaking in the forecast — and even with a few soakings this rainy season is already looking like a failure by drought-relief standards. But there is a dash of rain possible this weekend, late Friday into Saturday, so it's something.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Berkeley Moms Catch Teachers' Union Head Taking Daughter to School SF is expected to move to the "Red" tier along with Napa and Santa Clara counties today, a group of Berkeley moms has posted video of the teachers' union president dropping his child off at a private preschool, and Specialty's has reopened... in Mountain View.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrest Made In Saturday SoMa Shooting Blue Shield takes over in directing CA's vaccine distribution starting this week, Santa Cruz anti-maskers continue to terrorize a Trader Joe's there, and SF's only Krispy Kreme has closed for good.
SF News Former SF Supervisor and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano Honored With Long-Overdue Varsity Letter His high school denied him a varsity letter for odd reasons that he chalks up to homophobia and his being effeminate. 63 years later they made it right.
SF News Seven People Injured In Outer Mission House Fire A one-alarm fire in the Outer Mission Monday morning has destroyed one home and displaced seven residents.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Suspends Four Contractors With Links to Nuru From Doing Future Business With the City As part of the ongoing corruption scandal that upended business as usual at San Francisco City Hall last year, City Attorney Dennis Herrera has officially suspended five executives representing four companies that previously had city contracts.
SF News Notorious Sacramento-Area Serial Killer Roger Kibbe, a.k.a. The I-5 Strangler, Is Killed In Prison Roger Reece Kibbe, who was serving multiple life sentences for the rape and murder of women he found on the freeways around Sacramento in the 1970 and 80s, was apparently killed in a homicide at Mule Creek State Prison on Sunday.
SF Politics Devin Nunes Misrepresents BART Funding During CPAC Speech as 'Tunnel From Silicon Valley to San Francisco' We're back to the Republicans' favorite game of using "San Francisco" as a stand-in for everything detestable about liberals.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Kimberly Guilfoyle Rumored to Want to Run for Office in California A body of a man found in a Marin County park is being treated as a suspicious death, San Jose police made a wave of gang arrests, and United Airlines is planning to furlough over 3,000 workers at SFO starting April 1.
SF News Op-Ed: San Francisco Needs to Follow Berkeley's Lead and Get Rid of Single-Family Zoning The largely racist legacy of single-family zoning took a blow this week when Berkeley's city council voted unanimously to make moves to change its general plan. In housing-starved San Francisco, we are decades late in facing the fact that we live in a city that was developed half as a suburb.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Total Meltdown, a Pop-Up Specializing in Grilled Cheese and Mac and Cheese, Opens at Mission Picnic A new evening pop-up has arrived at the Mission Picnic space (983 Valencia Street) specializing in grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese, and cheesy tots — all available for takeout or delivery.
SF News One in Six Gen Z Adults Identifies as LGBTQ, Raising the National Percentage By 1.1% According to a newly released Gallup poll, America is getting queerer every year, confirming what many educators around the country have been saying for a number of years.
Business & Tech Twitter Will Let Influencers and Adult Performers Charge to See 'Premium' Tweets Twitter just announced two big new features on Thursday, one that allows users to create a "Super Follower" status in which followers can pay for premium content, and one that creates Facebook-esque groups based on shared interests.
Arts & Entertainment The Chapel in the Mission Stages Socially Distant Mini-Concert With Singer Live Via Projection Live vocal performances still aren't permitted in SF under pandemic rules, even outdoors. But on Thursday night, Mission District venue The Chapel pulled off an experiment in COVID-safe live performance, with the singer live except not physically in the space with the band or the audience.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: New Oakland A's Stadium Moves Ahead A four-month-old Maltese puppy was stolen out of a car near Union Sq. and the suspect refuses to say where it is, the victim in a brazen Oakland shooting in front of a bunch of kids has been identified, and the highway repair in Big Sur is expected to be done by early summer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sinkhole Opens On Sixth Street 280 Off-Ramp In SF SFMTA employees are eligible for vaccines now, a sinkhole opened on the northbound Sixth Street off-ramp of 280, and Airbnb reported a $3.9 billion loss in its first financial reporting as a publicly traded company.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indoor Dining in SF Will Be Limited to Single-Household Tables of Four As discussed earlier this week, the timing for the restart of indoor dining in San Francisco is looking to be next week, and Mayor London Breed confirmed on Wednesday that it will start again as soon as SF is moved into the "Red" tier.
SF News One Medical Has Vaccines Revoked By SF, San Mateo, and Alameda Counties Over Allegations of Improper Distribution A day after NPR reported that SF-based healthcare startup One Medical had given COVID vaccines to ineligible patients and non-patient-facing staff, three Bay Area health departments are stopping vaccine allocations to the company.
SF Politics Breed to Out-of-Town Criminals: 'Don't Come to Our City With All That Bulls**t' SF Mayor London Breed had some words of warning to criminals, particularly violent ones, on Wednesday as she announced a change in how law enforcement communicates about repeat offenders.
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.
