SF News Grand Princess Coronavirus Cases Likely Linked To Seattle Cases Through genetic analysis of virus samples, infectious disease detectives said Friday that the coronavirus cases that appeared on the Grand Princess cruise ship are very likely traceable back to the original Seattle case that spurred the hot spot to our north.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zero Zero, Mourad and Other Downtown Restaurant to Offer Meal Delivery Many restaurants around the country are confronting the possibly devastating effects of social distancing recommendations, and restaurants in downtown San Francisco are already feeling the pain only a week into this mess.
SF News Instagram Account That Posts Pretty Photos Of SF Posts Trump Video On Coronavirus Whoever is running the Instagram account @sanfrancisco.city, which has otherwise been a fairly innocuous account that sticks to pretty photos of San Francisco, just revealed that they reside somewhere far from San Francisco and in a land that is still listening to Donald Trump. Or maybe Russia.
Business & Tech Complaints About Illegal Airbnbs in SF Quadrupled Last Year You may have thought that talk of illegal Airbnb units was a thing of the past, but new data from SF's Office of Short-Term Rentals (OSTR) suggests that scofflaws are back at in our fair city.
SF News Virus Updates: Five New SF Cases, Museums Shutter, Oakland Schools Close The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in San Francisco went up by five on Friday, to 23, while the total count in Santa Clara County stands at 66. And the outlook for the entire country is looking increasingly dire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Union Vote In Dispute, Might Require Litigation Workers at Tartine Bakery and Tartine Manufactory voted on unionization Thursday, and the vote was a tight one — and currently the union is challenging 22 votes while Tartine management is challenging two.
SF News Weather Report: Settle In For a Wet Weekend Even though we were promised rain earlier this week that never came, the meteorologists seem to agree that we will most definitely be seeing a wet weekend around the Bay beginning Saturday, and a snowy one up in the Sierra.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Caterers and Others Begin Laying Off Workers The Grand Princess cruise ship is almost empty of passengers, international travelers are scrambling to get home before the European travel ban takes effect tonight, and PG&E is suspending service disconnections due to the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mayor London Breed Lunches At One Market, Restaurant Wants To Encourage People To Keep Eating Out Mayor London Breed on Thursday had lunch at One Market, in part symbolically to encourage San Franciscans to support the local economy and keep patronizing businesses, even as they practice varying degrees of social distancing.
Arts & Entertainment ACT and Berkeley Rep Cancel Shows, With Both Planning to Offer Video-Streaming Alternative The local theater community is being roiled by measures to stem the coronavirus pandemic, and today we learn that both American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre have canceled their current and upcoming shows for the next month. But video-streaming alternatives are on the way.
Arts & Entertainment Broadway Theaters, Disneyland Shut Down; SF Giants Delay Opening Day Social distancing measures hit the American entertainment and sports industries hard this week. And this is a very good thing, even though we are in uncharted territory both economically and societally.
SF News San Francisco Reports 4 New COVID-19 Cases, 3 From Community Spread After one day with no new cases, the San Francisco Department of Public Health says that it has four more confirmed cases in the city — and it will now be updating the tally daily at 10 a.m. instead of noon.
SF News San Mateo Health Officer Says Society Would Need to 'Grind to a Halt' to Stop COVID-19 Dr. Scott Morrow, the chief health officer for San Mateo County, is emerging as our local Angela Merkel — a no-nonsense, no-spin alarm-ringer about the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News SF's Lakeshore Elementary School Closes Due To Possible Coronavirus Exposure Four students at San Francisco's Lakeshore Elementary School and "several" of their adult family members have shown signs of respiratory illness, which has led to a 14-day closure for the school — which sits directly beside the high school that was shut down last week.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Newsom Enacts Statewide Ban On Large Events Salesforce is donating $1.5 million to the coronavirus fight, Nancy Pelosi says even elbow bumps might be unwise, and a Grand Princess passenger describes a very disorganized disembarkation process.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kaiser Begins Drive-Thru Testing For Coronavirus All performances of 'Hamilton' and 'The Last Ship' have been canceled for two weeks, California nurses are protesting the CDC's recommendations, and a major crash blocked eastbound lanes of I-80 in Berkeley today.
Arts & Entertainment Woman Documenting Grand Princess Cruise on Twitter Tweets Videos of Grandmother Dancing, Singing in Quarantine A 23-year-old Bay Area woman and her grandparents have finally, happily, arrived back on land, and they're doing a lot of singing and dancing about it on Twitter.
SF News Berkeley Officials Claim No Community Spread Yet, But Virus Leaves Cal Campus Deserted UC Berkeley this week called off all in-person classes until the end of spring break on March 29, meaning that professors were lecturing in empty lecture halls in front of web chat screens Tuesday and Wednesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Union Vote Looms With Staff Reportedly Divided The staff at Tartine's four main Bay Area locations are taking a vote this week on whether to join the ILWU, and both some local restaurateurs and some on the staff are wondering aloud whether the operation can survive unionization.
SF News No New COVID-19 Cases In SF As WHO Declares It a Pandemic Noon came and went on Wednesday without a change in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases from the San Francisco Department of Public Health. This should cautiously be seen as good news?
SF Politics Supervisors and Mayor Breed Work On Mitigating Economic Impacts From Virus San Francisco's Board of Supervisors have proposed a package of legislation that is aimed at helping workers, renters, and small businesses who may be affected by the economic downturn linked to the coronavirus epidemic.
SF News SF Bans All Large Gatherings and Warriors Games; Cruise Crew With Coronavirus Have No More Symptoms Mayor London Breed is said to be issuing an order today that will ban all large gatherings of 1,000 people or more in San Francisco for at least the next two weeks — including Warriors games.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Ridership Drops 25 Percent Amazon just canceled a big Web Services conference in SF, a 3.8M earthquake shook Truckee last night, and Alaska Airlines is talking about curtailing flights and exiting some markets after a major drop in bookings.
SF Politics Day Around the Bay: Building Inspection Director Placed On Leave In Corruption Probe Coachella has definitely been postponed until October and the lineup is unconfirmed, another COVID-19 case in Alameda County is connected to the Grand Princess, and SF's Public Defender is pushing to release all pre-trial inmates who might be vulnerable to the coronavirus.
SF News John Lee Cowell Convicted of First-Degree Murder of Nia Wilson The verdict is in after very brief deliberations in the Nia Wilson murder trial in Oakland, and it's guilty on all counts for 29-year-old John Lee Cowell.
