SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's What We Know That's Open in SF For Your Essential and Takeout Needs The more you spend into the local economy via takeout and delivery (as opposed to just shopping at Safeway and Whole Foods), the more chance there is that San Francisco will emerge recognizable from all this, and not with a city full of vacant businesses.
Arts & Entertainment Moment of Zen: Watch the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Live Jellyfish Cam When this all gets more real for people, you may need a little more relaxing distraction to watch from home like the Monterey Bay Aquarium's live feeds.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Suspend Pool Options for Social Distancing; Uber Expands Paid Sick Leave for Drivers We're going to be hearing a lot of stories in the coming weeks about how industries are facing the COVID-19 pandemic and feeling its vast, unknowable economic impacts.
Business & Tech Coronavirus Vaccine Begins Testing On Volunteers In Seattle An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by a Massachusetts-based biotech company along with the National Institutes for Health has officially begun being tested in humans.
SF News UCSF Doctor With COVID-19: 'I Felt Just a Little Sick' An emergency room physician at UCSF tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Saturday, and he's now opening up about his symptoms, anxieties, and general state of mind on Medium.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: The DMV Is Still Open All federal courthouses in Northern California are closing until May, wineries and breweries in Sonoma County are hoping for more online sales, and Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been discharged from an Australian hospital.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Announces Sick-Leave Fund For Minimum-Wage Workers People in SF are panic-shopping and they shouldn't be, Safeway is hiring 2,000 new employees in the face of all this shopping, a young girl was gravely wounded by a car in the Tenderloin, and the Census Bureau has a new task force to make sure the virus doesn't lead to an under-count.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Most Farmers' Markets to Remain Open as Essential Services During Lockdown Period During the upcoming shelter-in-place period, it appears that, like grocery stores, most or all the Bay Area's farmers' markets will keep running on their usual schedules in San Francisco and elsewhere, albeit with some extra protocols in place.
SF News BART Will Keep Running During Shelter-In-Place Period As of today, BART is committing to keeping its trains running during the three-week mandatory shelter-in-place order in the Bay Area in order to help residents to do essential travel.
Arts & Entertainment Mel Brooks and Son Max Offer Up Some Levity In PSA About Social Distancing This is another turning-point day in the unfolding pandemic crisis in the U.S., but hopefully there will be more of this in the coming weeks to help keep us sane.
SF News Judge Issues Directed Verdict In Oakland Murder Trial, Declares Cowell Sane After convicting John Lee Cowell in the 2018 murder of Nia Wilson, an Alameda County jury had returned to deliberations in the "sanity phase" of the trial.
SF News California to Use Hotels and Motels to Shelter Homeless During Pandemic Without offering many specifics about the plan, Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday said that private hotels and motels were being "procured" in order to provide emergency shelter and isolation space for the homeless amid the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Sonoma County and Others Begin Imagining Fire Season With Coronavirus Given that we do not know how long the coronavirus pandemic will remain a threat in the Bay Area — or if it may decelerate and resurge later in the year the way influenzas do — cities and counties have to begin planning for fire season in an entirely new way.
SF News Monday Morning Coronavirus Headlines: Nancy Pelosi Is Still on the Hill The CDC is now saying all gatherings of 50+ people should be canceled for 8 weeks, longshoremen in Oakland are nervous about the Grand Princess's trash, and Nancy Pelosi is saying that her half of Congress is staying open and will be the "last to leave."
SF News Inbound SFO Passengers Not Facing Any Special Screening After stories Sunday of extremely long lines at a number of U.S. airports as international travelers waited for special Customs screenings, Customs at SFO was apparently business as usual today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Governor Newsom Orders All Bars and Nightclubs in CA to Close, Restaurants Can Operate at 50 Percent Capacity In an unprecedented statewide move, Governor Gavin Newsom announced in a press conference Sunday that he's ordering all bars, breweries, and wineries in the state to close, regardless of their size, in order to create "deep social distancing."
SF News Alaska Airlines Gate Agent at SFO Tests Positive For Coronavirus An employee of Alaska Airlines, reportedly a ticketing or gate agent for the airline at San Francisco International Airport, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
SF News Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts Shutting Down Sunday The next shoe to drop in the coronavirus pandemic is the early end to ski season in the Sierra — though the resorts say they will reassess the situation in a week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bars With Capacity Over 100 Ordered to Close For Seven Weeks; Restaurants Told To Limit Capacity An order went out late Friday from San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragon that forces the closure of bars and nightclubs with official maximum occupant loads of 100 people or more, and this led to the immediate closure of at least two Castro nightclubs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: All the Bay Area Coronavirus Updates for Friday the 13th Mayor London Breed has banned events of 100 or more people in SF, there are now six firefighters in San Jose who have tested positive, and Breed also announced a moratorium on all evictions stemming from the pandemic.
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.
