SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sadly, AL's Deli Has Closed After Just 8 Months After stopping dinner service in January, it seemed possible that chef Aaron London's casual counter-service spot AL's Deli was going to return with a new nighttime concept. But now it's gone for good.
Bay Area Sports Santa Clara County Bans Events Over 1,000 People, Including Sharks Games After the county marked its first death from the coronavirus on Monday, Santa Clara health officials announced that all "mass gatherings" of 1,000 or more people would be banned for the next three weeks, at a minimum.
Business & Tech United Is Now Disinfecting All Tray Tables, Not Letting Passengers Reach For Their Own Water Cup United Airlines announced in a note to frequent travelers Monday that it is ramping up and changing its cleaning and inflight service procedures to address the coronavirus outbreak — and encourage more people to get on planes, which, good luck.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Apple Says Clorox Wipes Are Now OK for iPhones That rain that ABC 7 said was coming isn't actually coming, Lowell High School remains closed through Tuesday, Monterey is banning cruise ships, and today's Michigan primary is make-or-break for Bernie.
Arts & Entertainment Update: Coachella Postponed Until October Over Virus Worries The high-probability guess that Coachella might get cancelled this year goes back more than a week, and after the cancellation of South by Southwest it became more of a screaming rumor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF To Fund Shelter Cleaning to Protect Homeless From Coronavirus Closing arguments in the Nia Wilson murder trial, the city of SF is pledging $5M to help protect the homeless from coronavirus, Grand Princess passengers begin being evacuated into quarantine, Washington State has to somehow turn up for a primary tomorrow.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Steakhouse Ittoryu Gozu To Reopen In April Following New Year's Fire Ittoryu Gozu (201 Spear Street) is taking a bit longer than expected to reemerge following a New Year's Eve fire that damaged its all-important hearth.
SF Politics City Could Consider Freezing Or Curtailing New Cannabis Permits Following Report On Declining Sales A new report by SF's Controller's Office shows that individual cannabis retailers are seeing declining sales in the two years since full recreational legalization — and that's due both to there being more permitted stores, and the still flourishing illegal market.
SF News Suspect Arrested in 2016 Cold-Case Murder at Sonoma State A suspect has been taken into custody in Sonoma County in connection with the October 2016 murder of Sonoma State University student Kirk Kimberly.
SF News San Francisco's COVID-19 Case Total Hits 13; Will SF Get Locked Down? Federal, state, and local officials have been avoiding talking about lockdowns in any American city, and a lockdown here is likely not going to look like the lockdown in Wuhan, but what could it look like?
SF News Here's What Muni Looked Like at 8:30 AM Monday Morning As coronavirus panic truly takes hold in San Francisco this week and tens of thousands of downtown office workers are telecommuting, the Muni Metro was near empty during the prime time of 8:30 this morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Jose Andres's Nonprofit to Provide Meals For Docked Cruise Ship Andres is cementing his reputation for responding to national disasters, tweeting that his nonprofit World Central Kitchen arrived Sunday evening to prepare and deliver food to the passengers on board the Grand Princess cruise ship after it docks at the Port of Oakland today.
SF News Dolores Street Building Burns With Airbnb Guests Still Inside (They Got Out) SF firefighters successfully put out a one-alarm fire in Dolores Heights on Sunday evening, but it wasn't without some drama according to some neighbors.
Arts & Entertainment Over 200 Gray Whales Passed By Point Reyes Over the Weekend The annual northern migration of gray whales is happening in significant numbers off the Northern California coast, and park rangers at the Point Reyes National Seashore counted 209 sightings between Friday and Sunday.
SF News Monday Morning Updates: Cruise Ship to Dock In Oakland Around Noon The U.S. State Department issued a broad warning against cruise travel, a 5.8M earthquake strikes off the coast near Eureka, and an Oakland-based dog trainer was just convicted of animal cruelty.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Prepares For Covid-19 Uptick With Triage Tents More cruise-related virus cases appear in Placer and Contra Costa counties, Marin County is monitoring 11 recent cruise passengers, and UCSF Parnassus is preparing for 'Contagion'-style triage of new patients.
SF News Atmospheric River to Bring Three Days Of Rain Next Week It was apparently too soon to tell Thursday if more rain would come to end this parched streak we've had in the Bay Area, but now it looks like a huge storm system headed to Southern California will bring us several more days of rain as well.
SF News 19 Grand Princess Crew Members, 2 Passengers Test Positive For Coronavirus Vice President Mike Pence was the one to announce the cruise ship cases, saying one test remained inconclusive — and the ship is now headed to an unnamed "non-commercial port."
Arts & Entertainment Coronavirus Fears Shut Down Beloved Bay Area Treasure, the Exploratorium's Tactile Dome Museums around the Bay Area are either temporarily closing or curtailing some exhibits as fears of the novel coronavirus spreading widely take hold.
Arts & Entertainment South By Southwest Canceled — Could Coachella Be Next? In case you were one of the many who had a ticket to Austin next week and were planning to go to South By Southwest, you're not now.
SF News Cruise Ship Passengers May Not All Get Quarantined; Three New Virus Cases In East Bay Health officials in Contra Costa County say that there are three new cases of covid-19 there, two of which were passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship when it sailed to Mexico last month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mad Dog in the Fog Closes, Popular Quiz Night Moves to Kezar Pub Mad Dog in the Fog is closing after more than 30 years in its home at 530 Haight Street, and the owner promises that the popular sports bar will be relocating.
SF News You Can Now Sign Up To Get Coronavirus Panic Text Alerts From the City of SF The City of San Francisco on Thursday launched a new text alert system specifically for updates on the spread of covid-19, now that SF has claimed its first two confirmed cases.
SF News Two Inmates Escape While On Day Pass to Delancey Street Foundation In SF A pair of inmates from San Joaquin County Jail escaped from custody Thursday morning in San Francisco and they remain on the loose.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 45 Now Sick On Cruise Ship A Sunnyvale man who had been on the same cruise ship suddenly died Thursday, Prop E is set to severely curtail office development, and BART and Muni are doing a lot of scrubbing and disinfecting.
