SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Nightclub Called YOLO Is Slated to Replace the Legendary Slim's A nightclub called YOLO, from a pair of San Jose club owners, is applying for a permit from the SF Entertainment Commission to open in the former Slim's space — you know, whenever such things get to safely reopen.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oasis Reopens In SoMa For Dinner, Drinks, Drag Shows The first SoMa nightclub to emerge from pandemic lockdown looks to be Oasis, the LGBTQ club well known for its cabaret and drag shows — but it's only opening its rooftop.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Calls Out Trump's Talent For Running Things Into The Ground In First Public Appearance As VP Candidate Senator Kamala Harris appeared with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for a pair of speeches Wednesday afternoon in Delaware, introducing Harris as the VP on this year's ticket. And neither minced words in characterizing President Trump as an incompetent fool.
SF News Don't Go to the Dentist Just Yet, Warns the World Health Organization The World Health Organization has issued a new recommendation regarding dental offices, and it doesn't bode well for the dental profession this year.
SF News Arrest Made In Homicide At UCSF Parnassus A physical altercation between two men inside the Ambulatory Care Center at UCSF Tuesday morning ended with one man collapsing dead on the street outside the hospital. Now, UCSF Police say they have arrested a suspect.
Business & Tech As California Labor Case Heads For Appeal, Uber Says It May Halt Operations In State Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi gave an interview on MSNBC Wednesday morning saying that the company would likely have to shut down operations in California for at least several months if it is forced to make all its drivers employees.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Documented Cases of Restaurant Transmission of Coronavirus Could Further Delay Indoor Dining Data is beginning to emerge from contact tracing in states where indoor dining and drinking has resumed that proves that restaurants and bars can become vectors for spreading COVID-19, spelling bad news for the hospitality industry as a whole.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Supes Approve 1,100-Unit Development at Balboa Reservoir A driver has been arrested on manslaughter charges after the death of a pedestrian on SF's Cathedral Hill, a 3.9M quake hit northern Sonoma, and a 17-acre site in the Sunset is finally getting developed into housing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homicides Investigated In Sunnydale and Sunset Everyone's talking about Kamala, UCSF police are seeking a suspect in an altercation that turned into a possible homicide this morning, and SF is losing lots of hot dog stands.
SF News Two Out Of Five COVID-Positive People May Be Asymptomatic Due to Other Coronaviruses In the Past The estimates have changed over time, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now saying that some 40 percent of COVID-infected people will be asymptomatic or only mildly symptomatic. This is up from a CDC estimate of 25 percent back in April.
SF News A Legacy Of LGBTQ Activism and Medical Smarts Helped Spare San Francisco From the Worst of COVID A look back at the last 45 years of San Francisco's history yields several key moments that can be traced directly forward to the city's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SF News London Breed Says She's Celebrating Her Birthday On Zoom As SF Remains In COVID 'Red Zone' Family and friend gatherings, and birthday parties, remain some of the main points of COVID transmission according to San Francisco contact tracers. And thus Mayor London Breed says she'll be celebrating her birthday today in a socially distanced fashion.
SF Politics Former SF District Attorney Turned Senator Kamala Harris Picked As Biden's Running Mate Biden has announced Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, putting a Bay Area native daughter in the national spotlight once again. And she is the first Black woman ever to join a major-party ticket — in addition to being the first person of Indian descent to join such a ticket in our country.
SF News Two Dead in Triple Stabbing/Suicide In Redwood City Three people were stabbed at a home in unincorporated Redwood City early Tuesday morning, with one of the victims dead, and the person suspected in the stabbing was found dead at the scene.
SF News That Neck Gaiter/Bandana Is Not Protecting Anyone From Your Droplets People wearing neck gaiters or bandanas as face coverings may be doing more harm than good if they are infected with the coronavirus, according to a new study on mask effectiveness.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Collision and Car Fire Leads To Bay Bridge Backup A list of speakers for the DNC is leading to new Biden VP speculation, small gym owners continue pleading with the city to reopen, and New Zealand's 102-streak of no new COVID cases has just ended.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Tests Two-Drug COVID Therapy They Hope Will Be 'Golden Ticket' Santa Clara County just added 740 COVID cases likely as a result of the state backlog, two Stanislaus County residents were arrested for an April murder in SF, and UCSF hopes that remdesivir and the anti-inflammatory interferon will be the "golden ticket" in treating COVID patients.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belinda Leong and Manresa Alum John Paul Carmona Open Pac Heights French Spot Routier — for Takeout One of the city's most celebrated pastry chefs, Belinda Leong, has teamed up with a former coworker and fellow alum of the Manresa kitchen to open Routier, a full-service French restaurant nearly two years in the making.
Bay Area Sports Recent Berkeley Grad Collin Morikawa Takes PGA Championship Trophy In Surprise Win 23-year-old Collin Morikawa quickly took the lead on Sunday in the final round of the PGA Championship at San Francisco's Harding Park, just when it seemed like a crowded leaderboard was heading for a playoff.
SF News 75-Year-Old Man Receives Life-Threatening Injuries From Metal Bar Attack In Tenderloin A 75-year-old man was assaulted Friday morning in San Francisco and left with life-threatening injuries, and police say they have arrested a 34-year-old Oakland man in the attack.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Has-Beens Smash Mouth Perform at South Dakota Motorcycle Rally/Likely Super-Spreading Event You may have heard over the weekend that the South Dakota town of Sturgis was hosting its annual motorcycle rally and summer music festival despite a pandemic raging across the country. And San Jose-based Smash Mouth was there!
SF News San Quentin COVID Outbreak Claims the Life of 55-Year-Old Prison Guard The outbreak at San Quentin State Prison has claimed its first life among the prison staff, and it's San Jose native Sgt. Gilbert Polanco.
SF News Nextdoor Founder High-Tails It Out Of SF Putting Pac Heights Manse Up For $25M A co-founder of Nextdoor, the social platform that brought out the racism and pettiness you always knew was likely surrounding you among neighbors but now have proof of, has decided to leave San Francisco with his family to spend some time in Italy.
SF News Young Adults Now Represent Nearly Half Of All COVID Cases In SF, Over One-Third Of Cases In California Young adults in California between the ages of 18 and 40 appear to be the primary carriers and spreaders of the virus. And while they may require hospitalization in fewer numbers than older adults, they are far from immune from the serious symptoms.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: CA Public Health Official Resigns After Data Glitch State officials said someone would be held "accountable" for the major COVID data glitch, the school year begins today for kids in Oakland, and the SF Fire Department has very few COVID cases despite employees likely exposure to infected people.
