SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Buses Get Crowded After Trains Go Offline Sierra snowpack is at 53 percent of average after a very dry winter, Antioch police arrested an Arizona man after a three-city chase, and Muni buses and shuttles are looking too crowded for social distancing after the Metro trains were shut down.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Dolly Parton Reading to Children As the entire country is on varying degrees of lockdown, the great Dolly Parton has decided to do weekly live readings of bedtime stories for children — so there's a reason to look forward to Thursday.
SF News Poll: Americans Less Likely To Approve of Trump If They Know Someone Infected With Coronavirus A new Change Research poll suggests that as the virus spreads, and as more people's lives are directly impacted, their feelings about the President's responses to the crisis may change as well.
SF News Construction Halted On Office Buildings, Housing Without Affordable Units Among the construction that's been deemed "non-essential" under new public health orders are new office buildings, and any residential projects in SF where developers chose to pay into the city's affordable housing fund rather than build affordable units onsite.
SF News Somehow, People Still Got on Cruise Ships Last Month and Now They're Stuck at Sea Several extraordinary stories have come out in the last couple of days, made all the more extraordinary amid extraordinary times, about cruise ships that are still sailing the seas despite everything everyone should have learned well over 30 days ago about cruise ships being coronavirus vectors.
SF News CDC Director: 25 Percent of Infected People May Be Asymptomatic Experts are increasingly acknowledging that the rapid global spread of the coronavirus is due to how easily it's transmitted by those who show no symptoms — and yes it could be through exhaling.
SF News CHP Tells Bay Area Drivers to Slow Down Amid Uptick in 100-mph Speeders On Empty Highways Set aside those dreams of joyriding on an empty highway and testing the limits of your car without consequence during shelter-in-place orders. The CHP wants you to know they're writing a lot of tickets.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Should All Rent Be 'Canceled' This Month? A man had to be rescued from a cliff near the Point Bonita Lighthouse, the SF Board of Supervisors approved a $369K settlement for journalist Bryan Carmody, and Wimbledon has been canceled for the first time since WWII.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Violent Crime Drops and Property Crime Plummets Amtrak's 'California Zephyr' service suspended after an employee tests positive for the coronavirus, a local food bank is starting pop-up pantries to address need, and a Santa Rosa police detective has died from COVID-19.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Ticket Sales Put On Hold As Event Remains In Limbo Still unsure whether Burning Man will even happen in 2020, given everything, organizers announced Tuesday that the original scheduled dates for registration and ticket-buying are being postponed to an as-yet-undetermined future date.
SF News Under New Public Health Orders, Funerals in SF Are Limited to 10 People Under newly released orders from the San Francisco Department of Public Health and five other Bay Area counties, the current stay-at-home guidelines are extended through May 3, and there are some new restrictions as well, including no funerals with more than ten attendees.
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.
