SF News Day Around the Bay: Kaiser San Jose Workers Infected Despite Wearing Masks, Getting Vaccines Marin County restaurant owners are appealing to supervisors to reopen outdoor dining, a fire near the BART tracks briefly interrupted service near Richmond, and a local advocacy group is blasting the SFUSD for its project to rename multiple schools.
Arts & Entertainment Marin Theatre Company to Digitally Premiere 'The Catastrophist,' a New Play About Pandemics Local playwright Lauren Gunderson has written a new one-man play about "virus hunter" Nathan Wolfe and his prognostications about the economic impact of a pandemic before this one began. And now it's set to premiere virtually via the Marin Theatre Company this month.
SF News Bay Area ICU Bed Availability Falls to 5.9%, While San Francisco's Stands at 35% SF Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax cautioned that it will be at least another week or two before we get a better picture of the impact of gatherings and holiday travel over Christmas and New Year's.
SF News San Francisco and Other Cities Seek to Cancel Homeless Census Due to Pandemic Surge The biennial "Point in Time Count" of the homeless, typically conducted in January of odd-numbered years in San Francisco, is likely to be canceled or postponed this year due to concerns about putting front-line census-takers and other at risk of contracted COVID-19.
Business & Tech Small Businesses in CA Now Have Until January 13 to Apply For COVID Relief Grants The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz) announced Monday that the deadline has been extended for small businesses to apply for economic relief grants of up to $25,000.
SF News After Freezer Fails, One NorCal Town Rushes to Give Out 830 Vaccine Doses Before They Go Bad Up in Mendocino County, there was a close call on Monday after an ultra-cold freezer storing hundreds of vaccine doses failed, and doctors went into emergency-distribution mode.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Almost No One Is Getting the Flu Two rare Northern California tornadoes touched down on Monday, a pair of South Bay doctors pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud in a case involving a faux COVID test, and Napa County wants to turn its fairgrounds into a mass vaccination site.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rents Down 27% in San Francisco A half-million-dollar donation to the Recall Newsom effort is the subject of a lawsuit, UCSF is planning to build over 1,200 units of housing in Parnassus Heights, and rents in SF ended the year down 27% from the year prior.
SF News DA Files Manslaughter and DUI Charges In Fatal New Year's Eve Hit-and-Run District Attorney Chesa Boudin formally filed multiple felony charges on Monday against the 45-year-old man accused in a hit-and-run collision last week in SoMa that killed two women.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uproar Over Grubhub's Kin Khao Debacle Leads to New Law Prohibiting 'Non-Consensual' Restaurant Listings A new law just took effect in California on January 1 that prohibits food delivery apps from listing restaurants among their offerings without expressly contracting with those restaurants first.
SF News SF Nurse Who Barely Survived COVID Sparks Online Anger for Allegedly Attending New Year's Circuit Party A nurse who posted photos of himself last May as a warning to others about how COVID-19 had ravaged his body over the course of six weeks in the hospital has attracted negative attention after apparently posting online about attending a gay circuit event in Mexico over the New Year's Eve holiday.
SF News Parolee Accused in Fatal Hit-and-Run Allegedly Stole Car In Daly City From Woman He Was on a Date With The suspect in the New Year's Eve hit-and-run collision in SF's SoMa neighborhood that left two women dead had allegedly stolen the car used in the incident two days earlier from a woman he met on a dating app.
SF News Father Drowned Trying to Save His Two Children From Rip Current on Sonoma Coast A father drowned and his two children, ages four and seven, remain missing following a riptide incident on a Sonoma County beach on Sunday.
SF News Holiday Hangover Headlines: San Jose ER Worker Dies Amid Outbreak Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected to be Speaker of the House, friends and family are in mourning for Hana Abe after her death in a hit-and-run collision in SoMa, and one of the emergency room workers has died amid a 44-person COVID outbreak at Kaiser San Jose.
SF News Two Women Killed In SoMa Hit-and-Run; Suspect Identified As Parolee With Rap Sheet A parolee with an arrest record for armed robbery and burglary allegedly stole a car on New Year's Eve that was then involved in a hit-and-run collision in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood that left two female pedestrians dead.
SF News New Year's Day Links: Fire Destroys Four Homes In Outer Mission California has some new laws taking effect today, the Bay Area added 6,000 new COVID cases on New Year's Eve and 91 deaths, and police in San Jose dispersed some sort of protest Thursday night that they say became unlawful.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cliff House Sign Comes Down In Dramatic End of an Era The Cliff House will surely always be The Cliff House, right? Well, maybe not exactly. With its indefinite closure and the departure of its longtime operators — who trademarked "The Cliff House" — the signage came down on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment SF Supervisor Hopes to Raise Funds From Local Billionaires to Save Nightlife Venues Supervisor Matt Haney hopes to create a nightlife fund that will attract private-sector donations so that the city doesn't lose one of its greatest cultural assets before the pandemic is through with us.
SF News San Francisco Extends Stay-at-Home Order Indefinitely Into January Predictably, especially given rising hospitalization numbers around the Bay, San Francisco has announced an extension of the stay-at-home order that took effect nearly one month ago, which was initially set to be lifted on January 4.
SF News Despite Violent Year Around the Bay and the Nation, SF Is Set to Record Similar Homicide Rate to 2018 San Francisco's homicide count stands at 48 as we enter the waning hours of 2020, marking a slight uptick from the record-low number of killings in the city in 2019, but nearly on par with the count from two years ago.
SF News New Outbreak at Laguna Honda Infects 50 and Counting, Kills 3 Elderly Residents A new outbreak of COVID-19 at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital — the first since a small outbreak was quickly contained in the spring and became a model for other long-term care facilities dealing with the pandemic — has infected more than 50 staff members and residents, and continues to grow.
SF News NYE Morning Links: Red Cross Puts Out Call For Blood From Former COVID Patients The holiday light displays in Golden Gate Park won't be turned on tonight, SF General is seeking help identifying an elderly patient found in the Mission on Christmas Eve, and the Red Cross in the Bay Area is pleading for more convalescent plasma.
SF News San Francisco Gets Jolted Awake By 3.6M Offshore Quake 2020 won't go quietly, at least for the Bay Area, with a smallish earthquake that woke many people up early Thursday morning, and may have even knocked a few things off your shelves.
Arts & Entertainment DJ Earworm Condenses 2020's 25 Top Pop Songs Into 3 Minutes It's time, in these last remaining hours of 2020, to take in DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" mashup — a yearly tradition, and one more way to nail shut the coffin on this abominable year.
Arts & Entertainment Six Things to Treat Yourself With This Quiet, Lonesome New Year's Eve in SF Did you manage to snag a keep a quarantine boyfriend or girlfriend? Yes? No? It doesn't matter. You can still treat yourself with an expensive virtual show ticket and some good booze, and/or food.
