SF News Study: Moderna Vaccine Significantly Better Against Delta Than Pfizer If you're going to get a "supplemental" or "booster" shot in the coming weeks or months and you didn't originally get Moderna's mRNA vaccine, you may want to consider topping up with Moderna, according to a new study.
SF Politics Senate Passes Infrastructure Bill That Includes Money for Blackout Prevention, Lake Tahoe Restoration The Senate on Tuesday passed the $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill in a bipartisan 69-30 vote, handing President Biden a win. But how much of that money is going to funnel to Bay Area projects?
Arts & Entertainment You Can Now Find Fnnch Honey Bears On Williams-Sonoma Dishware, Aprons If you thought that street artist fnnch and his over-exposed honey bear art might fade away at some point, you can rest assured that the honey bears will in fact just keep multiplying and showing up where you least expected.
SF News San Jose Police Recover Two Stolen French Bulldogs Following Arrest of Suspected Gang Members Two French bulldogs — a mother and one of her puppies — have been recovered and reunited with their owner in San Jose following the arrest of three men suspected of a multitude of crimes.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Some SF Parents Now Demanding Distance Learning Amid Delta Surge COVID cases are popping up in an East Bay school district that opened for classes last week, some SF parents are now nervous to send kids back to school, and Aubrey Huff got kicked off of Twitter again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dixie Fire Smoke Blowing Into Denver and Elsewhere 200 SF city employees have sent conspiracy-filled letters to HR about the vaccine mandate, the Dixie Fire is sending noxious smoke very far away, and no foul play was found in an initial autopsy of Berkeley runner Philip Kreycik.
SF News Two Hit-and-Run Drivers Sought In East Bay Including One Felony Suspect Who Struck Deputy A hit-and-run driver who allegedly struck and injured a 29-year-old man in the Oakland hills on Sunday is being sought by police, and another suspect driver is being sought in a separate incident Monday involving an Alameda County sheriff's deputy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food News: Lord Stanley Pivots Into a Rotating Pop-Up Venue; Berkeley's Rivoli Closes Indefinitely Michelin-starred SF restaurant Lord Stanley has decided to close next month and its owners are pivoting the space to be a home for rotating pop-ups by visiting chefs. And over in Berkeley, beloved 27-year-old Rivoli has mysteriously gone dark.
SF News M-Ocean View Trains Return Aug. 14 Along With Six Restored Bus Routes One more Muni Metro route is returning to service on Saturday along with a half dozen restored Muni bus routes, a new bus route for Lake Merced, and a bunch of route extensions and changes.
SF News Skateboarding Brand HUF Missed the Memo That Sidewalk Stencil Ads Are Illegal Here HUF, the skateboarding and apparel brand, just opened a new store on Valencia Street, and they went around the Mission spray-stenciling their logo on neighborhood sidewalks — apparently unaware that SF has a law against this and others have been fined for this.
SF Politics SF Building Inspection Commissioner and Latino Task Force Co-Founder Steps Down Following Assault Allegation Prominent SF political figure Jon Jacobo, the co-founder of the Latino Task Force and a member of the Building Inspection Commission, was asked to step down from his role on the commission late last week following the revelation of a serious sexual assault allegation against him.
SF News Another Airbnb House Party Leads to Another Deadly Shooting, This Time In Sunnyvale Police were already present at a home in Sunnyvale Saturday night where a large underage party was going on when shots were fired and two partygoers were hit.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Schoolkids Return to Classrooms The Dixie Fire is approaching a half-million acres and is now the second-largest wildfire in state history, a driver outside his vehicle was killed on 101 in Rohnert Park, and Oakland Unified School District kicked off its schoolyear today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Many Essential Workers Died In California During the Pandemic? A full accounting of death demographics in the coronavirus pandemic won't likely be done for years. But we already know that a significant number of essential workers have been among the dead, and in California that is likely contributing to the much-discussed labor shortage.
SF News 87-Year-Old Woman Goes Missing In Sunset District, Later Found Stabbed An 87-year-old woman went for a walk in the Sunset District on Thursday evening and her family reported her missing after she did not return within a couple of hours. Then a few hours after that, she was found stabbed multiple times but still alive.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Richmond District Restaurant Created $72 Stunt Dish the Chef Referred to as 'Douchebag Fried Rice' — Guess How Many People Ordered It In our era of "Instagrammable" food, a chef at a Richmond District Vietnamese restaurant decided to create an over-the-top stunt dish around the holidays last year, figuring they might sell a few and get some free marketing and that'd be it. But instead, it took off.
SF News Woman Arrested In Mountain View For Murder of Newborn Infant A woman was arrested Wednesday in Mountain View after an autopsy revealed that an infant boy she claimed was stillborn was actually alive at birth and died from "significant injuries."
SF News Orange Skies Return To Parts of Northern California From Dixie, River Fires The Dixie Fire exploded Thursday night on two fronts, and it's created eerie, orange-sky scenes all over as the smoke from it spreads.
Bay Area Sports Andre Iguodala Is Coming Back to the Warriors As the NBA's offseason player shuffles grind on, we got word Friday morning that Andre Iguodala plans to sign a one-year, minimum contract with the Golden State Warriors, returning after two seasons with the Miami Heat.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Dixie Fire Now Third-Largest In State History The "Delta Plus" variant is now in the Bay Area, Sonoma County is warning about toxic algae in the Russian River, and the Dixie Fire grew overnight by over 100 square miles to be the third-largest in state history.
SF News 16-Year-Old Girl Killed Friday In Bayview Had Just Moved to San Francisco; Family Pleads With Shooter to Come Forward A teenage girl and her aunt were shot Friday night in SF's Bayview District, and family members attended a press conference Thursday in which they issued an emotional plea for the killer to come forward.
SF News Wildfire Smoke Returns to the Bay; and That Wetness You Saw Outside This Morning Was Rain, Kind Of San Francisco saw, like, two one-hundredths of an inch of rain early Thursday, so does that count as rain?
SF News Longtime KTVU Anchor Frank Somerville Returns After Abrupt Departure With No Explanation After a strange May 30 newscast in which he slurred words and seemed to lose the ability to read from the teleprompter, longtime KTVU anchor disappeared from the air to "focus on his health," and he reappeared with no explanation of his absence on Wednesday night's "10 O'Clock News."
SF News Pandemic Updates: SF's Test-Positivity Rate Hits 15-Month High, Parties and Shows Start to Cancel Out of Caution SF is still wide open, along with the rest of the Bay Area, despite concerns over the Delta variant and its ability to spread among the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. But the surge does not seem to have peaked yet, and some parties and shows are starting to cancel out of caution.
SF News SFPD Seizes Cadillac Spotted During Sideshow With AK-47-Wielding Woman Hanging Out Window The SFPD's Traffic Safety division announced Wednesday that it had seized a vehicle believed to have been involved in "an illegal exhibition of speed event," a.k.a. a sideshow, last month.
