SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Well Known Local Surfer and Pacifica Pie Maker Dies Following Accident at Fort Point A San Francisco native who loved surfing the coast up and down the Peninsula has died following what's being described as a freak accident beneath the Golden Gate Bridge on a day of extreme waves last week.
SF News Christmas Eve-Eve Headlines: Emergency Repairs Needed to Pacifica Seawall Local tamale businesses see a dip in Xmas sales, San Jose State's football team is traveling all over and not quarantining, and emergency repairs are underway on the Pacifica seawall where it meets the municipal pier following King Tides and rough surf.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Nominates Shirley Weber as Secretary of State Newsom is making up for not appointing a woman of color to the Senate by nominating Assemblywoman Shirley Weber to be secretary of state, The Alley bar in Oakland is in danger of closing, and the Presidio wants to bring back quail.
SF News Mayor Breed Says Stay-at-Home Orders Are Reducing Daily Case Counts in SF Mayor London Breed and Dr. Grant Colfax took to Zoom again on Tuesday to give a press briefing on where things stand with the pandemic in San Francisco. And for a change — for the first time in two months really — the news was fairly good.
SF News Port of Oakland to Receive Three Giant New Container Cranes As Tall As 40-Story Buildings Three giant new container cranes, among the largest ever installed at a U.S. port, are on their way across the ocean from China, and they are set make the Port of Oakland home by late December.
SF Politics As Predicted, Alex Padilla Will Replace Kamala Harris in Senate Governor Gavin Newsom has put an end to all the palace intrigue and any backroom wrangling that may have been going on and he's tapped California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to be the next senator from California, to take Senator Kamala Harris's seat.
SF News Human Impulses, Pandemic Fatigue Driving People to Ignore Health Warnings and Gather for Holidays "For every cold statistic there is an equally human justification [for traveling]," the LA Times writes.
SF News Convicted Killer Charged In 32-Year-Old Cold-Case Kidnapping and Murder of 9-Year-Old in the East Bay The disappearance of nine-year-old Michaela Garecht, who was grabbed in a supermarket parking lot in Hayward a few days before Thanksgiving in 1988, made national headlines. And only now have investigators charged a man who was already in prison for another murder.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fatal Freeway Shooting on 101 Near Cesar Chavez One man was fatally shot and another was wounded on 101 near Cesar Chavez Monday night, the SF Board of Supervisors is holding a special hearing today on reopening schools, and San Mateo County may file criminal charges against a gym owner for refusing to stop indoor workouts.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Music Venues and Theaters Can Apply For Lifesaving Grants Under New Stimulus Bill Owners and operators of cultural venues, from Broadway theaters on down to dive bars that host rock shows, will be able to fight over a new pool of grant money from the federal government as part of the new $900 billion stimulus package that Congress was finalizing Monday.
SF News Newsom Suggests Regional Stay-at-Home Orders May Get Extended Into January The three-week stay-at-home orders issued at the state level for the vast majority of Californians since early December are not likely to expire as planned, and are mostly likely getting extended — but how this will work for the Bay Area remains to be seen.
Business & Tech Airbnb Removes 65 Listings for Scofflaw 'Party Houses' In SF, Oakland, and San Jose Airbnb is again cracking down on "party houses" that seem to have incurred violations around the Bay Area, but why is this coming up now when technically no vacation rentals are even permitted here?
SF News Covidiot Files: Trump-y Pacifica Yoga Studio Owner Continues Flouting Health Orders, Hosting Mask-Free Classes A yoga studio in Pacifica that has apparently been holding in-person classes without masks since the spring or summer — and whose owner fills social media pages with pro-Trump and anti-Biden memes — continues to do so, and serves as an example of how poorly enforcement efforts are working.
SF News Dude Dressed as Santa in Powered Parachute Contraption Crashes Into Power Lines Near Sacramento A guy dressed as Santa Claus made a wrong turn in his flying "sled" north of Sacramento on Sunday morning and ended up snagged in some power lines and in need of rescue.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFO Saw Double Its Usual Pandemic Traffic Over the Weekend The newly passed stimulus bill leaves out direct aid for state and local governments, Governor Gavin Newsom is quarantining again after a possible COVID exposure, and tens of thousands passed through SFO over the weekend despite public health warnings about travel.
SF News California-Bound Passengers On United Flight Being Informed of Possible COVID Exposure After Man Dies Onboard A man who denied having symptoms of COVID-19 boarded a United Airlines flight in Orlando on Monday bound for Los Angeles. Shortly into the flight he suffered a medical emergency and died onboard, and his wife was heard telling medical personnel that he had COVID symptoms.
SF News Stanford Medical Residents Revolt After Doctors Who Don't Treat COVID Patients Get Priority for Vaccine Before Them Residents working at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto staged a protest Friday to demand that they be given priority in the line for healthcare workers getting the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
SF News NorCal Woman Has Allegedly Been Collecting Unemployment Benefits In Dianne Feinstein's Name In one of many cases of EDD fraud being investigated, a Sacramento area woman who used to work for the EDD apparently cashed in $21,000 in fraudulent claims using the name and social security number of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
SF News Oakland and San Francisco Police Arrest Pair of Rape Suspects Two men were arrested this week on sexual assault and other charges in unrelated cases, with witnesses on a San Francisco Muni helping to identify one of the suspects.
SF Politics Rest Easy, Everyone: Nancy Pelosi Has Been Vaccinated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is trucking along and corralling her caucus like a pro at age 80, is in a high-risk category for COVID both because of her age and being an "essential worker." But as of Friday, she has received her first shot of the vaccine.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Feds Short-Change CA In Next Vaccine Shipment Businesses in SF's Chinatown are asking the mayor for more financial relief, a drone operator helped rescue a woman in high surf in Pacifica, and the federal government is giving California less of the Pfizer vaccine than promised in its next shipment.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queens Premiere New 'Golden Girls Live' Christmas Episodes on Streaming Video The pandemic threatened to cancel it, but "The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes" is happening on a recreated set at Oasis for a live, multi-cam telecast experience instead, starting Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Rec & Parks Seeks to Keep Ferris Wheel In Golden Gate Park For Longer; Activists Complain of Impacts On Birds San Franciscans barely got to enjoy the 150-foot tall "observation wheel" in its 5.5 weeks of operation this fall, and parks officials now want to get its permit extended through next year.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hot Cop of the Castro' Resurfaces For Weird Interview, Is No Longer a Cop Kohrs, who works in construction now, did a short stint in jail for a 2015 hit-and-run in North Beach. And while he still won't talk about that, he wants to talk about why exactly the Police Commission decided to fire him.
SF News San Francisco Gets Dragged In National Media Over Committee's Push to Rename Lincoln High School It remains just a list of recommendations that hasn't been formalized, but a SF school district committee's push to strip Abraham Lincoln's name from a school is drawing national outrage and laughter.
