Business & Tech Dreamforce Returns as Much Smaller, Mostly Outdoor Conference in SoMa This Week 170,000 people usually come to Dreamforce, which along with the now departed Oracle OpenWorld would typically clog up traffic all over downtown for several days as conventioneers descended on the city. This year will be much different.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Team to Open New Pasta Restaurant Penny Roma In Central Kitchen Space; Flour + Water to Close For Remodel The Flour + Water Hospitality Group (formerly known as Ne Timeas Restaurant Group) is debuting a new rustic Italian restaurant next month, and it will be taking over the space that's been occupied by Central Kitchen for the last nine years.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Giant Forest Mostly Safe as Other Sequoia Groves Threatened By Fire The sequoias of Giant Forest were successfully protected from flames over the weekend, a 22-year-old man was arrested at San Jose Airport after saying he'd swallowed an explosive device, and Pfizer says its vaccine works in kids 5-11.
SF News Developer Seeks to Build 75-Story Residential Tower Behind Old PG&E Building on Market Street Another very tall tower could be added to San Francisco's skyline in the coming years, if developer Hines gets what they're asking for on the downtown block that used to belong to PG&E.
SF Politics Oakland Businessman Becomes Second Contractor to Receive Jail Time In SF City Hall Corruption Probe A businessman who admitted to conspiring over multiple years to bribe former SF Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru in order to gain financial benefits for his company has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.
Bay Area Sports Oracle Park Concessions Workers Walk Off Job; Full-Fledged Strike Over Hazard Pay and COVID Safety Could Be Coming Just as the Giants clinch a spot in the playoffs — and in an odd year no less! — workers at Oracle Park are demanding improvements in workplace safety and a pay raise, and around 200 of them briefly walked off the job Friday morning in one of their first actions.
SF News If You Got the Moderna Vaccine, You're Less Likely to End Up Hospitalized With COVID Than Those Who Got Pfizer or J&J The Centers for Disease Control has just released results from a head-to-head study of all three COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S., and Moderna's comes out on top when it comes to effectiveness.
SF News Some Neighbors Bristle as Former McDonald's Site In Haight Goes From Tent Village to Homeless Drop-In Center The notorious former McDonald's property at 730 Stanyan hasn't exactly been less of nuisance to the neighborhood since the McDonald's was torn down last year.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mayor London Breed Seen Maskless At Club Mayor London Breed was out with friends at the Black Cat on Thursday night (maskless), Contra Costa County is likely to begin requiring vaccines for all school kids 12 and up, and VTA light rail service comes back in full in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Signs Housing Density Bills PG&E bills are likely to go up soon as the company struggles to pay for wildfires it's caused, Newsom signed a pair of housing density bills that came out of Wiener's SB50, and the former Holiday Inn on 8th Street in SoMa will get some micro-unit housing.
SF Politics Mayor and Board of Supervisors Compete to Punish SF Dept. of Building Inspection The San Francisco Board of Supervisors did some grilling of the acting head of the Department of Building Inspection (DBI) on Tuesday, and Mayor London Breed followed up on Monday with her own executive order demanding changes to the department and its permit tracking system.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica Doing 'Secret' Show at The Independent Thursday Night Bay Area legends Metallica are doing a "secret" show today at The Independent, and as of just before 3 p.m. the line was apparently not too bad.
SF Politics Defense Attorneys Press Biden Administration to Drop Gun Charges Against Jose Ines Garcia Zarate The undocumented man whose alleged "momentary possession" of a loaded firearm resulted in the 2015 death of Kate Steinle on a pier in San Francisco remains behind bars on federal gun charges, and two of the public defenders who represented him in court say it's about time he's let out.
SF News As the Colony Fire Approaches Giant Forest, Sequoias Are Wrapped In Foil The trunks of giant sequoia trees in Sequoia National Forest are being wrapped in aluminum foil insulation today to help protect them from the oncoming flames of the Colony Fire, which continues burning in the direction of Giant Forest.
SF News North Bay to See Much-Needed Rainfall This Weekend Fire season is far from over, but a sprinkling of rain Saturday night into Sunday will do a little good for the North Bay.
SF News Hundreds In South Lake Tahoe Give Heroes' Sendoff to Caldor Fire Firefighters With the Caldor Fire now 71% contained and the city of South Lake Tahoe deemed safe to return to, some firefighters were packing up to leave town in recent days, and a large group of city residents gathered to cheer for them on Tuesday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Water Main Break Floods Crocker-Amazon A water main break on Wednesday flooded part of the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood, an autopsy reveals that a death in Berkeley was from a hit-and-run, and the Chase Center hosted its first full-capacity event in 18 months: a Tame Impala show.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Men Swept Out to Sea In Santa Cruz In Past Three Days Two men have died after being swept out to sea from Santa Cruz beaches in the past three days, BART may step up enforcement on pets after Monday's tragic death, and Newsom continued his victory lap in Oakland today.
SF News Northern Sonoma County to Get Another Tribal Casino Members of the Koi Nation, a tribe now federally recognized as part of the southeastern Pomo people of Sonoma County, are planning to build a $600 million hotel and casino in an unincorporated part of the county north of Santa Rosa.
SF Politics Caitlyn Jenner's Celebrity Got Her 1% of the Vote, and She Says She 'Can't Believe' So Many People Voted Against the Recall It's worth noting that for all her wealth and fame, Caitlyn could only garner 1% of the vote in a statewide contest in which some 5 million people voted on replacements for Gavin Newsom.
SF News NXIVM Sex Cult Defendant Allison Mack Checks In For Three-Year Stay at Dublin Correctional Facility for Women Following on the heels of other celebrity inmates in recent years, former "Smallville" actress Allison Mack will be doing her jail time in the East Bay following her conviction in the creepy NXIVM sex cult case.
Arts & Entertainment More Single-Day and 3-Day Tickets for Outside Lands Go On Sale Thursday Organizers of Outside Lands are doing a limited ticket release on Thursday morning for all those of you who never bought tickets when you had the chance — and weren't holding 2020 tickets that you never got to use.
SF Politics 78% of Bay Area Voted 'No' In Recall A vast majority of Bay Area residents voted against the recall on Tuesday, and we cast 27% of the total "No" votes in the state, and counting.
SF Politics Right-Wing Loon Larry Elder Had Over 45% of Recall Vote, Which Means He'll Probably Run Against Newsom In 2022 Elder's wide lead in this election means the GOP will have a Trumpian mess on its hands when it tries to float some other more moderate candidate to run against Newsom next year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: How Many Points Did Newsom Prevail By? The CHP is seeking help finding a hit-and-run driver who killed a pedestrian on 101 in SF, two landlords in Oakland are being made to pay $3.9M to the city, and the recall election results were even better than expected for Newsom.
