Arts & Entertainment Ferris Wheel Approved to Stay in Golden Gate Park Until 2025, But Two Supervisors Push Back, Call for Board Vote The goddamn drama continues over the Ferris wheel in Golden Gate Park, with two SF supervisors siding with a group of cranky residents who hate fun and joy and/or think that the attraction is going to bother the birds.
SF News Cheap Syringes at Oakland Coliseum Vaccination Site Lead to Wasted Vaccine, Accidental Under-dosing Over 4,000 people who received vaccines at the mass-vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum on Monday may have received the wrong dose amount, according to a new report. The under-dosing may not
SF News KPIX Reporter and Cameraman Robbed at Gunpoint at Twin Peaks A local TV news reporter was on a residential street near Twin Peaks Boulevard to report on brazen car break-ins in the area when he and his cameraman were robbed at gunpoint and their camera was stolen.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Small Quake Rattles Napa & Sonoma SF can't move to the "Orange" tier despite good numbers without being in the "Red" tier for three weeks, serial strangler Roger Kibbe was himself strangled, and burglars in SF are using blowtorches on security glass.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Supporters Are Still Protesting on an Overpass In Lafayette Petaluma has become the first city in the US to ban new gas stations, an elderly pedestrian was killed in the Outer Mission, and a group of Trump supporters continues to protest on a freeway overpass in the East Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Teachers and Restaurant Workers Now Vying for Vaccine Appointments, With Teachers Getting First Dibs Both educators and food-service workers gained eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines last week in San Francisco, alongside emergency services, transit, and grocery store workers. But getting an appointment still has been no easy feat for some.
Business & Tech Facebook Lifts Ban on Political Ads, Because Everything's Good Now? The indefinite ban that Facebook placed on political advertising right after the November election has been lifted, calling to question whether a) Facebook really needs this money, and b) the country is in the clear when it comes to the spread of misinformation about political figures.
Arts & Entertainment Circus-Themed Show By Pickle Family Circus Vet Reportedly Set to Take Over 'Beach Blanket Babylon' Venue Club Fugazi A well known circus creator has reportedly inked a deal to take over Club Fugazi in North Beach, the longtime home of Beach Blanket Babylon before its New Year's Eve 2019 closure.
SF Politics With FEMA Funding Assured, SF Supervisors Approve 400 More Hotel Rooms for Homeless The SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an expansion of the shelter-in-place hotel program for the homeless, adding 400 more hotel rooms to the 1,800 currently in use.
SF Politics $141 Million In BART Funding for San Jose Extension Gets Dropped From Stimulus Bill Days after two Republican congressmen from California took potshots at it, a $141 million federal gift to BART has been dropped from the $1.9 trillion stimulus package.
SF News Militia Members, QAnon Morons May Try to Storm the U.S. Capitol on Thursday Officials from the FBI and U.S. Capitol Police say they are taking "seriously" some intelligence that suggests there is a plot by a militia group and some QAnon believers to help bring Donald Trump back to power on March 4.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Walgreens Shutters in SF The CDC is warning places (like SF) that may be reopening too soon, the Recall Newsom effort is getting a lot of play on Fox News, and another SF Walgreens is closing permanently at Bush and Larkin.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Cable Cars Will Run Again By Fall One Medical is being called on by Congress to answer for allegations about its vaccine distribution, the SFPD has made an arrest in a quintuple shooting last June in the Tenderloin, and cable cars will run again by fall, says the SFMTA.
SF News SF Retail Was Hurting Before the Pandemic; Will Post-COVID SF Still Look Like a Ghost Town For Years? Union Square. Hayes Valley. The Castro. In these and other neighborhoods around the city, no amount of parklet dining and drinking can make up for the fact that, on some blocks, there are more empty storefronts than there are active ones.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Reopens This Weekend With Pandemic-Themed Exhibit; deYoung Reopens With 'Calder-Picasso' San Francisco's two biggest art museums reopen this weekend after three-month closures, as the city moves into the "Red" tier allowing for 25% capacity at museums.
SF News After Three Months Stuck In the 'Purple' Tier, SF Turns 'Red,' Allows Indoor Dining and Workouts to Resume As expected for several weeks though a week later than predicted, San Francisco has moved to state's "Red" tier for reopening businesses, as COVID case numbers have fallen back to levels not seen since before Thanksgiving. Also newly "Red" are Santa Clara and Napa.
SF News San Francisco Woman Who Lost Trump-Supporting Dad to COVID Seeks to Establish National COVID Memorial Day Now that over a half-million Americans have been lost to this pandemic — and the number could easily top 600,000 or higher before the year is out — there is a movement to establish a new national holiday to remember and mourn the COVID dead.
SF News Chance of Light Rain Arrives Saturday, But Things Still Look Too Dry There's nothing resembling a serious soaking in the forecast — and even with a few soakings this rainy season is already looking like a failure by drought-relief standards. But there is a dash of rain possible this weekend, late Friday into Saturday, so it's something.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Berkeley Moms Catch Teachers' Union Head Taking Daughter to School SF is expected to move to the "Red" tier along with Napa and Santa Clara counties today, a group of Berkeley moms has posted video of the teachers' union president dropping his child off at a private preschool, and Specialty's has reopened... in Mountain View.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrest Made In Saturday SoMa Shooting Blue Shield takes over in directing CA's vaccine distribution starting this week, Santa Cruz anti-maskers continue to terrorize a Trader Joe's there, and SF's only Krispy Kreme has closed for good.
SF News Former SF Supervisor and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano Honored With Long-Overdue Varsity Letter His high school denied him a varsity letter for odd reasons that he chalks up to homophobia and his being effeminate. 63 years later they made it right.
SF News Seven People Injured In Outer Mission House Fire A one-alarm fire in the Outer Mission Monday morning has destroyed one home and displaced seven residents.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Suspends Four Contractors With Links to Nuru From Doing Future Business With the City As part of the ongoing corruption scandal that upended business as usual at San Francisco City Hall last year, City Attorney Dennis Herrera has officially suspended five executives representing four companies that previously had city contracts.
SF News Notorious Sacramento-Area Serial Killer Roger Kibbe, a.k.a. The I-5 Strangler, Is Killed In Prison Roger Reece Kibbe, who was serving multiple life sentences for the rape and murder of women he found on the freeways around Sacramento in the 1970 and 80s, was apparently killed in a homicide at Mule Creek State Prison on Sunday.
SF Politics Devin Nunes Misrepresents BART Funding During CPAC Speech as 'Tunnel From Silicon Valley to San Francisco' We're back to the Republicans' favorite game of using "San Francisco" as a stand-in for everything detestable about liberals.
