SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Introduces Legislation to Make SF Parklets Permanent SF Mayor London Breed announced proposed legislation Friday that will extend indefinitely the popular Shared Spaces program, allowing bars and restaurants across the city the keep the outdoor parklet spaces they've built and for new ones to be permitted as well.
SF News Entire Bay Area Enters Red Tier As State Announces New Status For Sonoma and Contra Costa County The last two local counties to leave the "Purple" tier for the "Red" one in the state's metrics for reopening, Contra Costa and Sonoma counties, were promoted on Friday, several days ahead of the weekly Tuesday schedule.
SF News UCSF Docs Discuss SF's Remarkably Low COVID Mortality Rate, and Whether the Vaccinated Should Fear Variants A panel of doctors at UCSF have been broadcasting their "Grand Rounds" since early in the pandemic, and looking back on the past year they say San Francisco has been a great success story.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested for Assaulting Asian Woman At San Jose Caltrain Station A San Francisco man was arrested Wednesday for a hate crime and sexual assault, following an incident in which he allegedly hurled racial slurs at a young Asian woman and assaulted her in a pedestrian tunnel at San Jose's Diridon Station.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: City College Site Begins Giving Johnson & Johnson Shots The coyote that attacked multiple people (and children) in the Lamorinda area has been killed, there was a small fire at Tesla's Fremont factory Thursday, and the first Johnson & Johnson shots are being given in SF today at the City College site.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Don Ramon's Is Saved, For Now The woman implicated in that assault on an Uber driver last Sunday has been arrested in Las Vegas, Supervisor Ahsha Safai had his car broken into outside City Hall, and Cowgirl Creamery is closing its Ferry Building store after 18 years.
SF News 26-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Murder After Elderly Asian Victim Dies From Injuries Sustained In Assault An assault and robbery in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood has become a murder case, after the 75-year-old Asian man who was attacked died from his injuries on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Nightclub Oasis Surpasses Fundraising Goal at Telethon With $270K Raised Oasis appears to be saved, after a 12-hour telethon last weekend that brought an entire community of drag queens to its SoMa stage, and raised over $268,000 in the process.
Business & Tech Watch a Timelapse Video of Those Three New Giant Cranes Go Up at the Port of Oakland Those three giant container cranes that arrived from China at the Port of Oakland in December were just finally raised in place Thursday morning, and there's video.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Nightclub Called Lion's Den Opens Friday in Chinatown I bet you didn't think you'd be reading this news this week: A new nightclub is having its soft opening (in the midst of the pandemic) on Friday in Chinatown, and it's attempting to harken back to the glitz of 1950s-era nightlife in the neighborhood.
SF News [Update] Uber Assault Suspect Arrested in Las Vegas The woman who yelled at, insulted, coughed on, and assaulted an Uber driver on Sunday because he told her to put on a mask, as seen in widely publicized video of the incident, has been arrested in Las Vegas.
SF News Roof-Leaping Burglary Suspect Dies After Being Trapped Between Two Buildings In Russian Hill A suspect in a residential burglary in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood died Tuesday night following a brief pursuit in which he was reportedly jumping from roof to roof between multiple buildings.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Driver Jumps Off Bay Bridge Following Major Crash A Coast Guard search was underway Wednesday night following a multi-car crash on the Bay Bridge and a driver who reportedly jumped into the water, more CVS stores get the COVID vaccine, and poll finds 1 in 5 Americans lost someone to the pandemic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bush Man From Fisherman's Wharf Turns Up In Key West "World Famous Bush Man" David Johnson turns up in Key West, Santa Clara County stops taking first-dose vaccine appointments due to supply, and an Oakland neighborhood is outraged over another assault on an elderly Asian American.
Arts & Entertainment Blanche the Swan Returns to Palace of Fine Arts; Swallowing Pennies Blamed For Zinc Poisoning The surviving swan from the Palace of Fine Arts lagoon, Blanche, was returned to her home on Tuesday after being treated at the San Francisco Zoo for several weeks for lead and zinc poisoning.
Arts & Entertainment SF Comedian Alexis Gay Brings Us the Tech Version of 'Shit San Franciscans Say' Remember the innocent days of 2011 when a YouTube meme took off and spawned a hundred iterations covering most U.S. cities and a variety of cultures and subcultures, even baristas?
Arts & Entertainment Video: Peregrine Falcons In Downtown SF and Berkeley Lay Multiple Eggs In Hopeful Beginning to Nesting Season Most of you probably remember when the peregrine falcons that live on the top of the PG&E building in downtown San Francisco provided an apt contribution to the horror show of 2020 — but it's a new year with a new clutch of eggs!
SF News Early Morning Shooting on Bay Bridge Leaves One Man Critically Injured A man was shot in the chest on the right shoulder of the eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge just past Treasure Island Wednesday morning, and he is in critical condition.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Independent Bay Area Restaurants May Get Relief From $28.6B Piece of Stimulus Package Under the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that the House was taking a final vote on today, a new fund will provide relief money — up to $5M each — to independent restaurants that won't need to be put toward payroll.
SF News Shower of Hail in Santa Rosa Leads to Six-Car Collision A hail shower Wednesday morning in Santa Rosa reportedy led to a six-car crash in the western part of the city, and possibly to a big-rig crash involving three vehicles on 101.
SF Politics Peskin and Chan Appear Likely to Thwart Ferris Wheel Extension, Shorten It To One Year At Tuesday's SF Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan maneuvered to get their way and keep Rec & Parks from extending the contract for the 150-foot-tall observation wheel in Golden Gate Park for another four years.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Lightning Explodes Redwood Tree In San Jose A man and his two dogs had to be rescued from a Fort Funston cliff on Tuesday evening, a Twitter account will tell you when Moscone appointments open up, and a lightning strike blew apart a redwood tree and shattered windows in a San Jose neighborhood.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Expected to Hit 'Orange' Tier March 23 The Oakland homeless man who was set on fire last week has died from his injuries, SF approves hazard pay for grocery workers, and SF is expected to reach "Orange" status in two weeks.
SF Politics Former Nuru Girlfriend and 'Fix-It Team' Head Sandra Zuniga Pleads Guilty In Federal Corruption Probe Sandra Zuniga, formerly the head of San Francisco's Office of Neighborhood Services (a.k.a. the Fix-It Team), has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, and will cooperate with federal investigators' ongoing corruption probe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland and Berkeley Restaurants Prepare to Have Indoor Dining Again as Alameda County Turns 'Red' After only having limited-capacity indoor dining for three short weeks since the pandemic began, restaurants in Alameda County are preparing to once again allow patrons indoors starting on Wednesday.
