SF Politics Meet Amy Coney Barrett, the Scalia Acolyte Trump Intends to Nominate to Replace RBG ACB doesn't really have the same ring to it as RBG. But it looks like the Senate will be grilling Amy Coney Barrett any week now.
Arts & Entertainment Daveed Diggs and 'Blindspotting' Costar Rafael Casal Hosting Saturday Fundraiser For Oakland's Fairyland Children's Fairyland, on the shore of Lake Merritt, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this weekend with the launch of a digital library called "Celebrity Storytime."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed X-Rated Cake Shop In SoMa Has Closed After 38 Years Sorry to bring you more sad closure news, but The Cake Gallery — the small but scrappy 9th Street cake bakery known for X- and R-rated custom decorations as well as photo-reproduction cakes of all kinds — has permanently shuttered after 38 years in business.
SF News Federal Judge In San Jose Rules Census Count Must Continue A U.S. district judge issued a nationwide injunction Thursday night that requires the Census Bureau to return to its original schedule of enumeration of the population through October 31.
SF News Possibly Smoky Air, High Surf, High Winds, and High Heat On the Way What happens to the air quality in various parts of the Bay is still anyone's guess as winds are expected to shift and wildfire smoke from either Mendocino County or the southern Central Valley could move our way.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Likely to Be Spared From Power Shutoffs A small vegetation fire in a Santa Rosa neighborhood where the Tubbs Fire struck three years ago freaked everyone out on Thursday, and SF Mayor London Breed is pledging $28.5 million to the city's Latinx community for pandemic relief and testing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Chronicle Publishes a Top... 88? Muni fare inspectors are coming back, PG&E is warning about power shutoffs during this weekend's wind event, and the Chronicle published a Top 88 Bay Area Restaurants, acknowledging 12 that are currently closed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved SoMa Restaurant Don Ramon's In Financial Trouble After 'Ghost Ship'-Like Tenants Cause Major Damage 38-year-old 12th Street Mexican restaurant Don Ramon's is facing possible foreclosure following a three-year ordeal involving upstairs tenants, major damage to the building, and a $5 million loan that the owners are now having trouble making payments on.
SF News ‘Go Slow’ Protests For Breonna Taylor to Possibly Block Bay Bridge and Golden Gate as Word Spreads On Social Media Protesters were being encouraged to “pick a bridge” on Thursday and “go slow” in order to bring further attention to the lack of justice in the police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville — and the Dumbarton Bridge is being targeted as well.
SF News Bay Area Crosses 100,000 Mark With COVID Cases As Hospitalizations, New Cases Stabilize This can't be said for the Bay Area families who are mourning the loss of loved ones from the COVID-19 pandemic, but for the region at large September has been a good month when it comes to the numbers.
Arts & Entertainment Marauding Gang of Raccoons Spotted In Golden Gate Park, Also a Coyote Recently a father and son on a stroll through Golden Gate Park came upon a gang of 14 raccoons, many of them juveniles, along a paved walking path near the ocean, and they shot a video.
SF News Breonna Taylor Protests Remained Peaceful, Relatively Small In the Bay Area Wednesday Night A massive protest like the ones we saw in late May in the wake of the killing of George Floyd failed to materialize in Oakland Wednesday night following news out of Louisville that no police officers are being charged with her death.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF City Attorney Sues 28 Drug Dealers to Keep Them Out of the Tenderloin United Airlines is offering rapid COVID tests for passengers flying from SFO to Hawaii, mail theft is on the rise in Oakland, and SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera is seeking civil injunctions against 28 known drug dealers to deter them from entering the Tenderloin.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Napa Businesses Upset About Homeless Quarantine In Church Trump's DOJ is aiming to announce antitrust action against Google before the election, cannabis may or may not help with COVID infection symptoms, and some protesters staged a die-in over the government's COVID response at 16th and Mission today.
SF News Cal/OSHA Fines CPMC Davies, Santa Rosa PD, Several Bay Area Nursing Homes Over COVID Violations California's employee safety watchdog, Cal/OSHA, has issued fines to multiple employers in the Bay Area, including the Santa Rosa PD where 43-year-old detective Marylou Armer contracted COVID-19 from a fellow employee.
SF News Teen Mobs Have Been Doing Battle at Emeryville's Bay Street For Two Weekends Running There's been a weird mob-scene eruption two Saturdays in a row at Emeryville's Bay Street shopping center involving hundreds of teenagers, and it's unclear if this was somehow planned, or what.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... City Council Passes Ordinance Requiring Healthy Snacks In Grocery Checkout Lanes There may be a pandemic, a looming election nightmare like no other, a worsening climate crisis that made air in the Bay Area unhealthy for weeks on end, and seething tensions over violence by police against Black people, but over at the Berkeley City Council it's business as usual some weeks.
SF Politics California to Ban Sale of Gas-Only Cars By 2035... If We All Make It That Long On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new initiative to end the sale of gas-powered automobiles in the state by 2035 — a 15-year timeline that will make this state of 40 million people the first in the nation to phase out gas-only vehicles completely.
SF News Red Flag Warning Looking Likely For Parts of the Bay Area Saturday Night as More Dangerous Winds Take Shape Residents of the hill country in Sonoma and Napa counties and out in the East Bay should brace themselves for more fire weather and possible power shutoffs this weekend as another heatwave shapes up and more Diablo winds are being forecast.
SF News Three Major Bay Wildfires Now At or Near Full Containment, Five and a Half Weeks Later The destructive CZU Lightning Complex fire in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties was declared fully, 100-percent contained on Wednesday, five and a half weeks after it was sparked and 86,000 scorched acres later.
SF News Humpday Headlines: One-Shot Vaccine Begins Large Final Trial Johnson & Johnson has begun a final-stage trial of its one-shot COVID vaccine in 60,000 volunteers, Newsom is making a big climate announcement today, and the Giants hold on to a wild-card spot.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area To Hit 100,000 COVID Cases A City Hall employee has resigned in a weird case involving emails and a discrimination suit, SF officials thought the city would enter "orange" tier status today, and Santa Clara County just became the first in CA to make Juneteenth a paid holiday.
SF Politics Bill Graham Civic Auditorium To Become Voting Center With Outdoor Booths, Ballot Drop Boxes The city's Department of Elections is making plans for socially distanced voting booths, and how to process a surfeit of absentee and mail-in ballots. And if you still haven't registered on Election Day, you can still do it outside Bill Graham and vote!
SF News Party House Rental In Sonoma Became Scene of 4 a.m. Shooting That Damaged Homes A vacation rental just outside the city limits of Sonoma played host to a Friday night party with dozens of guests from outside the county, and the party ended with at least 30 shots fired.
SF News Bay Area Now 78% 'Red' On State's COVID-19 Reopening Map As of Tuesday, three more Bay Area counties joined the four already in the second or "red" tier of the state's pandemic monitoring map, meaning that they're eligible to reopen indoor dining, churches, and gyms at limited capacity, and more.
