SF News Longshoreman Dies In Oakland After Fall From Container Ship An early morning accident Tuesday at the Port of Oakland has left one 59-year-old dockworker dead.
Arts & Entertainment Moment of Zen: The Peregrine Falcon Cam Atop the PG&E Building The livestream is back for nesting season at the peregrine falcon nest atop PG&E's downtown SF headquarters at 77 Beale Street, and four eggs are getting ready to hatch!
SF News SFPD Investigates Murder-Suicide Involving Young Couple at Parc 55 Hotel What was being called a double shooting last week was actually a murder-suicide involving a young San Francisco couple at a Union Square hotel, as we now learn from the SFPD.
SF News SoMa Tennis Club To Be Used as Temporary Homeless Shelter While Las Vegas forces its homeless to sleep six feet apart in a parking lot while 150,000 hotel rooms sit empty, SF is so far doing slightly better and providing a roof over the heads of some unsheltered people, courtesy of the swanky Bay Club location at Fifth and Brannan.
SF News Hundreds Gathered In Oakland For Illegal Sideshows On Sunday Defying stay-at-home orders and clearly unconcerned about spreading the coronavirus, around 400 to 450 people gathered in East Oakland Saturday to watch an illegal sideshow in an intersection.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: ICU Patient Population Triples In California The city is inspecting 500 residential hotels for public health compliance, the San Mateo County Event Center is being converted into an emergency hospital, and President Trump continues to attack women who challenge him.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 202 New COVID-19 Cases Reported In Santa Clara County Santa Clara County just saw its biggest single-day rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases so far, attorneys for Ghost Ship defendant Derrick Almena are trying to get him released due to the virus threat, and federal and state officials are bracing for a Laguna Honda hospital outbreak.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Fantastic Negrito's New Coronavirus Anthem Grammy Award-winning Bay Area artist Fantastic Negrito has just put out a music video for this song "Chocolate Samurai," which is dedicated to those of us in isolation, and has the timely refrain, "Have you lost your mind yet?!"
SF News Likely Infected NY Congresswoman Stood Near Nancy Pelosi at Stimulus Package Bill Signing Friday I'm sure we're not alone here at SFist among Bay Area residents hoping and praying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who just turned 80 last week — hasn't been exposed to the coronavirus. But now it sounds like she might have been on Friday.
SF News San Francisco Schools Are Lending Computers to Students In Need As San Francisco Unified School District tries to navigate the statewide shutdown of schools, it's now going to provide computers to students who don't have their own devices at home to aid in online learning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Restaurant Prairie Pivots Into General Store Selling Staples, Meal Kits, Cocktails — and Yes — Toilet Paper I had a strong feeling that inventive chef Anthony Strong was going to go his own way during this pandemic, under the same takeout- and delivery-only orders as the rest of the city's restaurants. And he has.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whole Foods Workers May Stage Sickout Tuesday To Demand Hazard Pay Following in the footsteps of Instacart gig-workers who are staging a virtual strike today and refusing to accept new orders, some Whole Foods workers are calling for their cohort to call in sick on Tuesday, March 31 amid a pandemic that has left them on the frontlines of essential businesses.
SF News Super-Spreading Event In Washington Suggests Coronavirus Is Airborne Without Coughs or Sneezes A choir practice that took place in Washington three weeks ago turned out to be a super-spreading event in which 45 out of 60 people became infected with the coronavirus, even though no one was showing symptoms and no one touched each other.
SF News Monday Morning Wake-Up: Sheltering Orders To Extend Until May Grocery store employees turning up positive for COVID-19 in SoCal, Trump and Bay Area leaders are telling people to stay home through May 1, and Instacart shoppers are staging a virtual strike today for hazard pay and other protections.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Double Homicide Near Powell Street Instacart workers are threatening to strike, SFMOMA is laying off or furloughing 300 workers, and there was a double-homicide yesterday on Cyril Magnin near Powell Street BART.
Arts & Entertainment ACT Offers Video Streams Of Two Productions; Berkeley Rep to Follow American Conservatory Theater, as promised, is offering theater fans a way to see the most recent two productions of its aborted season from the comfort of their own homes, and Berkeley Rep's two shows will follow.
SF Politics Newsom Issues Statewide Order Barring Residential Evictions During COVID-19 Crisis Governor Newsom has expanded on what was already becoming policy in some cities around California, issuing an executive order Friday that bans landlords from evicting residential tenants for non-payment of rent through May 31.
SF News City College Chancellor Mark Rocha Resigns After Being Placed on Administrative Leave City College of San Francisco is officially on the hunt for a new chancellor as the man in the role for the last three years, Mark Rocha, submits his resignation. He was placed on administrative leave by the college's board earlier this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Bar and Restaurant Owners Furious to Find Out Yelp Has Launched Fundraisers on Their Behalf Yelp has never exactly been seen as a friend to the Bay Area restaurant community so much as a necessary evil they've begrudgingly had to live with for a decade and a half, so a forced fundraiser effort isn't being taken too kindly by some.
Arts & Entertainment Sonoma Residents Sing Along to 'Sweet Caroline' Nightly; Mill Valley Howls As our shut-in lives settle into routines, the Bay Area has been responding in its own spirited ways — though not yet in quite as inspired ways as Italians and their balcony choral sessions.
SF Politics Texas Man Arrested For Making Death Threats Against Nancy Pelosi and Other Democrats on Facebook A 27-year-old man in Wichita Falls, Texas was taken into custody Wednesday after making multiple criminal threats on his Facebook page in response to the coronavirus stimulus package negotiations.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Laguna Honda Resident Tests Positive A 17-year-old Lancaster boy died of COVID-19 after being refused care for lack of insurance, Laguna Honda Hospital is bracing for a potential outbreak, and three new mobile testing sites are opening in SF next week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Barack Obama Joins Steph Curry's Q&A With Dr. Fauci A whistleblower filed a complaint with Cal-OSHA claiming SF General staff isn't being kept adequately safe during the coronavirus pandemic, thieves broke into a closed Half Moon Bay restaurant, and Berkeley is forcing its dispensaries to do delivery only.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Steps Up To Connect Wealthy San Franciscans With Those In Need of Free Meals Other restaurateurs around the country, facing a bleak outlook potentially lasting months and threatening their businesses, could take a page out of the playbook of chef David Nayfeld.
SF News COVID-19 Case Numbers Jump In San Francisco and Alameda Counties, Young People Disproportionately Infected We don't have demographic information, like ages, on the 223 confirmed COVID-19 in San Francisco, but a surge in cases appears to be happening here and in Alameda County where up until the last few days the daily counts were only modestly rising.
