SF News Marin Becomes First Bay Area County to Announce Drought Water-Use Restrictions We're in another drought, and likely within the next month or two we will be hearing about water-use rules and neighbors tattling on neighbors for washing their cars all over the Bay Area. But right now, the only county making mandatory restrictions official is Marin County.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Napa Suddenly Has More Vaccine Shots Than People Who Want Them A San Rafael man was arrested after allegedly attacking his roommate and her daughter with an axe, Newsom will address the drought today, and Napa suddenly sees a drop in vaccine demand with plenty of supply.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marin County Blames Missing Yellow Tier on Spring Breakers Prosecutors say that Kristin Smart's body was previously buried in Ruben Flores's backyard, a group of Wisconsin newspapers is suing Facebook and Google, and Marin County was denied the "Yellow" tier due to spring breakers with COVID.
SF Politics SF Mayor London Breed, Sen. Alex Padilla, Others React to Guilty Verdict In Chauvin Trial Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty Tuesday on three counts in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd: second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
Arts & Entertainment Sign Up For Entry Slots For SFMOMA's Upcoming Free Days SFMOMA has scheduled three upcoming days for free museum-going, and given the general public's ravenous hunger for in-person culture, you'd best sign up for a reserved entry slot or risk standing in a terrible line.
SF Politics Scott Wiener's Bills Expanding Outdoor Drinking Rules Pass Unanimously In Committee Two outdoor booze-related bills introduced in February in the California State House by Senator Scott Wiener have passed with unanimous, bipartisan support in the Senate Governmental Organization Committee.
SF News UCSF Doc Pushes Back on Vaccine Companies, Says Booster Shots May Not Be Necessary UCSF infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Gandhi, who already this week was advocating for nixing the outdoor mask mandate for cities, also pushed back on the commonly held assumption that vaccine booster shots are definitely going to be necessary.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Car Crashes Into Parklet at Mission Bar, At Least One Person Injured A car plowed into a parklet outside the Napper Tandy pub on South Van Ness Avenue at 24th Street Monday, and it appears one person was injured in the accident.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Don't Forget 4/20 Is Cancelled Paul Flores pleaded not guilty to Kristin Smart's 1996 murder and is being held without bail, there's now of course a Texas variant of COVID that might be antibody-resistant, and there's an Apple event today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Font Emulates Blocky Old SF Street Sign Typeface Marin County may move to the "Yellow" tier Tuesday, Apple is allowing Parler back in the App Store, and Elon Musk is insisting that the Tesla that crashed in Texas was not using autopilot.
Arts & Entertainment SF Opens Applications for Grants to Music and Nightlife Venues As promised earlier this year, the first round of grants from SF's Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund is about to beginning taking applications.
SF News New Boutique Hotel The Alton Readies for Opening in Old Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf (With New Restaurant on the Way) Fisherman's Wharf is gaining a new boutique hotel managed by the Kimpton group, in one half of what was formerly a Holiday Inn at 495 Beach Street.
SF News One UCSF Doc Says Outdoor Mask Mandate Should Be Lifted; Another Says He Still Won't Dine Indoors It's getting to where infectious disease experts may start diverging in their levels of relative caution when it comes to public safety mandates. And while two UCSF doctors don't necessarily disagree in some recent statements, one is urging a lifting of SF's mandate on wearing masks outdoors.
SF News 4.2M Earthquake Near Sonoma/Lake County Border Felt In SF A small-ish earthquake that struck before noon on Monday was felt throughout Sonoma and Napa counties and as far as Solano County and San Francisco to the east and south.
SF Politics Second Group Emerges With Campaign to Recall SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin While one group has already been campaigning to recall San Francisco's progressive district attorney just over a year after his swearing in, a second committee has formed with perhaps different political leanings than the first, but the same end goal.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Vandals Target Former Bay Area Home of Derek Chauvin Trial Witness Oakland teachers are still unhappy about schools reopening with just over a month left in the school year, a skydiving mishap claims a life in Lodi, and Dr. Fauci says the J&J vaccine may be back in use Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Long Will It Be Before People Are Cool With Dining Indoors? The Bay Area is showing its trust in science and heeding the warnings of experts, and restaurant owners still say that indoor dining isn't as easy of a sell as outdoor dining is — even though all Bay Area counties but one are now allowing restaurants to operate at 50% capacity indoors.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Geographer's Stripped Down 'Verona' San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Mike Deni, a.k.a. Geographer, scored a hit with the synth-pop song "Verona" back in 2010, and this new version is more beautiful and haunting.
Arts & Entertainment Help the Roxie Choose What Movie to Screen For Its Reopening Weekend The Mission's beloved, historic Roxie Theater has weathered a pandemic and is getting ready to reopen for in-person screenings. And they're asking Bay Area cinephiles to vote on what movie they want to see grace their main screen when that happens.
SF News Muni Underground Returns May 15 With Full Service on K and N Lines Despite previous reports that we wouldn't see Muni's K, L, or M lines running in light-rail tunnels until early next year, the SFMTA has surprised us today with better-than-expected news — as opposed to the usual worse-than-expected updates they've become known for.
SF News You Can Now Pay Your Muni and BART Fares By Waving Your Apple Watch or iPhone Over a Clipper Reader At last, a couple years behind other cities, San Francisco now has added Apple Wallet and Apple Watch paying capability on mass transit, with Android capability on the way soon.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Levi's Stadium Breaks Single-Day Vaccine Record Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Mission to protest police shootings in Daly City and Minnesota, a bill to restrict use of the Ellis Act has been shelved, and there are lots of vaccine appointments in Contra Costa County and at Levi's Stadium.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No California County Is Left In the 'Purple' Tier Caltrain is halting service into San Francisco for two consecutive weekends, SF has a new chief medical examiner, and the last of California's 58 counties exited the "Purple" tier as of today.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queen Juanita MORE! Wants Your Vote for Empress of San Francisco Legendary San Francisco drag queen, activist, philanthropist, and mother hen Juanita MORE! is ready to try on a new role in the city: Empress.
SF News Pfizer CEO Suggests Third Vaccine Dose Likely Needed, Might Be Annual Thing Like Flu Shot It's looking more and more likely that ongoing immunization against the mutating coronavirus will be needed, and on Wednesday the CEO of Pfizer suggested that recipients of its vaccine will likely need a third booster dose next year.
