SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Widow of COVID-Infected Safeway Worker Sues Fire crews are battling a wildfire that appeared intentionally set in the San Jose hills, protests remained peaceful around the Bay last night, and a man was stabbed on a Richmond-bound BART train.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zero New COVID Deaths in the Bay Area The Bay Area saw no new COVID-19 deaths today for the first time in three weeks, a local bartender and spirits maker was arrested on child porn charges, and the Richmond man found eating his dead grandmother has been charged with her murder.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Celebrates Michael Tilson Thomas' Retirement Online, and on the Radio It was supposed to be a big June blowout celebration in honor of the acclaimed 25-year tenure of Michael Tilson Thomas as musical director of the San Francisco Symphony. But as with everything else this season, plans have been curtailed and moved online.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Flore To Rise From the Dead Again, Offer Outdoor Dining in the Castro Seeing that outdoor dining will be the name of the game in the local restaurant world for months to come, the owner of Cafe Flore has decided to reopen six months after shutting the place down.
SF News Photo: Is This What SF Office Life In a Pandemic Is Going to Look Like? Two people per elevator, each facing a corner, and one at a time in all restrooms — these are just two of the things downtown office workers are likely looking forward to as San Francisco companies begin to reopen office spaces.
SF News UCSF Doctor 'Persistently Positive' For COVID-19 After Three Months 66-year-old UCSF medical director Dr. Coleen Kivlahan is one of 60 UCSF medical professionals who have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, but she's the only one who has not recovered and who continues to test positive for the virus nearly 90 days after she believes she caught it.
SF News Photos From Wednesday's Peaceful Youth March in SF's Mission District A youth march in support of Black Lives Matter, organized by a small group of Mission District teens on Instagram, drew an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people on Wednesday.
SF News 22-Year-Old Latinx Man Was Kneeling With No Weapon In His Hand When He Was Fatally Shot By Vallejo PD The case of the police shooting of 22-year-old San Francisco man Sean Monterrosa is certain to reverberate around the Bay Area in the coming days and months, as demonstrations continue and tensions remain high over police killings nationwide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Current and Former Burma Superstar Employees Win $1.3M In Class Action A four-year-old case of alleged wage theft and worker mistreatment at the Burma Superstar restaurant chain has come to an end, with the owners of the chain settling with current and former kitchen workers for $1.3 million.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Wildfire Grows in Suisun City A wildfire in Suisun City has grown to 300 acres and destroyed seven homes, Vallejo residents say they are outraged that police are only now listening about use of force, and a small group of protesters were detained in San Francisco following an otherwise peaceful march in the Mission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Man Holding Hammer Was Killed By Vallejo PD Over Alleged Looting A man firing a rifle from an East Oakland home was allegedly holding two children hostage, Pelosi joins protesters in DC, and the Vallejo PD will now have to answer for the shooting death of an alleged looter holding a hammer.
SF News Mission District Protest Draws Thousands, Muni Rerouted A police brutality protest that began outside Mission High School on 18th Street drew possibly 10,000 people or more on Wednesday, most everyone masked but clearly not socially distant in any way.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Organizers Stay Mum As Coachella Is Rumored to Be Skipping 2020 Altogether There's been no official update from Another Planet Entertainment, the promoters behind the annual Outside Lands music festival in Golden Gate Park. But at this point it seems clear that August is off the table, and a postponement to fall might not be in the cards either.
Arts & Entertainment Most of Broadway SF's Theater Season Moved to 2021, Including 'Oklahoma!' and 'Moulin Rouge!' They're still calling it the 2020-21 season, but all of the slated BroadwaySF shows will run in 2021, with some sticking to their originally scheduled slots and others postponed to slightly later runs.
Bay Area Sports Steph and Ayesha Curry, Klay Thompson Join Peaceful Oakland Protest Chanting the name of George Floyd as they marched around Lake Merritt in Oakland, Warriors star players Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, along with Ayesha Curry and Damion Lee joined a peaceful demonstration Wednesday afternoon organized by fellow Warrior Juan Toscano-Anderson.
SF Politics San Francisco Will Lift Its Curfew Thursday The unprecedented 8 p.m. curfew imposed by Mayor London Breed on Sunday will come to an end after four consecutive nights, lifting at 5 a.m. on Thursday, June 4.
Arts & Entertainment AMC Theatres In Danger of Complete Financial Collapse In a regulatory filing today, AMC Theatres says that it has "substantial doubt" it will be able to continue operations this year even after sheltering restrictions are lifted and cinemas are allowed to reopen.
Bay Area Sports Warriors' Season Officially Over As NBA Moves Forward With 22-Team Format for Orlando-Based Season Closer In a surprise to no one, the Golden Gate Warriors' season has effectively ended as word arrives that the NBA will be resuming the 2019-20 season without them in Orlando.
SF News National Guard Moves In After Another Night of Looting In Vallejo; Band Of 40 Cars Surrounds Police Station While protests and acts of looting were smaller and fewer on Tuesday night elsewhere in the Bay Area, tensions remained high in the city of Vallejo, where dozens of reports of looting, shots fired, and vandalism came in to the police.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Officer-Involved Shooting In San Jose May Have Involved Protesters The SF Board of Supervisors may let the city's curfew expire on Sunday, the Defense Secretary has broken with Trump on the use of military force against protesters, and demonstrations in Oakland calmed down on their sixth consecutive night, with no arrests.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vallejo City Hall Uninhabitable After Fire The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduling an emergency hearing on police reform, SF and Peninsula see "unprecedented" drop in rents, and a tech-focused civil rights group is suing over Trump's order last week.
SF News Thousands Gather in Peaceful Protest at SF's Ocean Beach A demonstration billed as a Sunset Solidarity March for Black Lives Matter took place Tuesday afternoon along the Great Highway by Ocean Beach, and images appeared to show at least 1,000 people in attendance.
SF News Looters Stole At Least 73 Cars From a Dodge Dealership In San Leandro It turns out the looting situation in San Leandro on Sunday night was even more extensive and egregious than already reported, as we're now learning about a car dealership that lost between 70 and 100 vehicles to looters.
SF News Three Dead, Two Wounded In Multiple Shootings in East Oakland Three people including a 15-year-old boy were killed Monday night in a string of shootings in different parts of East Oakland.
SF News Health Experts, Governors Fear Mid-June Spike In COVID-19 Cases From Protests Four consecutive days of nationwide protests, with protesters numbering in the tens of thousands in some cities — some masked, some not — have health experts and state and city leaders worried about a spike in new COVID-19 cases in the next two weeks.
