SF News Dancing Grandma From Grand Princess COVID Debacle Looks Back One Year Later We can now mark the one-year anniversary of the Grand Princess cruise ship COVID outbreak and the ensuing, weeks-long, nationally televised drama that was a precursor to the global pandemic. Two surviving elderly passengers say they have two more cruises planned after their vaccines.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Door-to-Door Vaccine Sign-ups Begin in the Mission Volunteers are going door to door to get soon-to-be eligible people to sign up for vaccines in the Mission District, gyms and restaurants in at least three Bay Area counties are readying to potentially reopen indoor spaces, and many parts of the Bay Area will be windy today and tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: What Killed a Rare Pygmy Sperm Whale Found on a Sonoma Beach? Santa Clara County is going to start allowing more recreational outdoor stuff, a Sunday night drive-by shooting in the Mission injured one man, and Dead Kennedys frontman and SF resident Jello Biafra has written a Rush Limbaugh eulogy song.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pacific Cocktail Haven, Two Other Lower Nob Hill Businesses Suffer Damage In Electrical Fire When it rains it pours sometimes, and now a popular cocktail spot near Union Square has been forced to close again not by the pandemic, but because of a recent electrical fire.
SF News More Wind Is In the Forecast This Week, But No Rain Gusty winds and dangerous marine conditions are being predicted starting early Tuesday in the Bay Area, with 55-mph gusts at some higher elevations and a gale warning at the coast. But otherwise we have a couple of days of warm sunshine ahead.
SF News Studies In Mission District Find California Virus Variant Is More Infectious — But Not As Infectious as UK Variant Two recent studies based on COVID testing in San Francisco's Mission District offer some insight into the so-called California variant of the coronavirus, which appears to be becoming more prevalent locally with each week.
SF News SF School Board Says It Will Wait to Rename Schools, Get More Community Input After months of criticism from San Francisco politicians, parents of children in the school district, and Fox News, the San Francisco Board of Education has relented in its push to rename 44 schools for reasons of historical racism associated with their namesakes.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Three Bay Area Counties Poised to Move to 'Red' Tier The mass-vaccination site at the Moscone Center won't reopen until Thursday, Contra Costa County is ahead of the rest of the Bay Area in vaccinating residents, and the Supreme Court ruled that Trump has to hand over his taxes.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Introduces Bill to Legalize Psychedelics Statewide The bill would decriminalize the use and possession of psilocybin (mushrooms), molly, LSD, ketamine, DMT, and mescaline, among other things.
SF News Remains of 37-Year-Old Walnut Creek Woman Missing Since June Found In Desert Near Twentynine Palms San Bernardino County authorities have identified skeletal remains they discovered in the desert outside Twentynine as those of 37-year-old Erika Ashley Lloyd. The remains were found by hikers on January 31, and Lloyd had been missing since June 16, 2020.
SF News Retired SF Police Officer Allegedly Threatened to Kill 11-Year-Old Over Ding-Dong-Ditch Pranks A retired San Francisco cop now living in Marin County is being accused of threatening to "put a bullet" in an 11-year-old boy after the boy and his friends were reportedly ringing doorbells in the neighborhood and running away — i.e. playing ding-dong ditch.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Two Waves of Rain Moving Through SF parents stage "Zoom-in" protests outside closed public schools, Dropbox posted a big loss after seeking to sublease a lot of its office space, and new studies suggest people who've had COVID should get just one vaccine dose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Police Commission Rejects SFPD Layoff Proposal A Victorian house is getting moved (just like in olden times) from Franklin to Fulton Street this weekend, the SF Zoo is helping save sea turtles from the Texas freeze, and there's still more CA Craft Beer Week stuff happening.
Arts & Entertainment ACT Announces Three Filmed Play Readings to Be Streamed This Spring As San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater prepares to try to reopen for in-person performances this summer (or fall), the company has announced a series of play readings that will continue its streaming programs that began in the fall.
SF News Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Fall Below 1,000 For the First Time Since November On the same day that California's number of hospitalized COVID patients fell back to late-November levels this week, the Bay Area's number has also fallen to nearly the same number as were hospitalized on November 30.
SF Politics Brace Yourselves For a Rogues' Gallery of Candidates If Newsom Recall Election Happens Anyone who was around California in 2003 will remember the circus sideshow that the whole nation watched when Governor Gray Davis was put up for a recall vote, with 135 candidates qualifying for the ballot including former child star Gary Coleman (RIP) and porn star Mary Carey.
Arts & Entertainment Decision Delayed for Extension of Golden Gate Park Ferris Wheel At the request of several SF supervisors, the Historic Preservation Commission held off on a final decision about whether to grant a four-year extension for the 150-foot-tall observation wheel in Golden Gate Park
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In Carjack-Kidnapping of DoorDash Driver's Kids San Francisco police located and arrested the second suspect in the carjacking and kidnapping of a DoorDash driver's minivan with two small children inside.
SF News Foul Play Not Suspected In Mission District Man's Death; Body Found In Crawl Space The mysterious death of a San Francisco man last month is coming a bit more into focus as we learn a couple of new details from the SFPD.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Moscone Center Resumes Vaccinations Monday COVID has decreased U.S. life expectancy by a full year, the Moscone Center vaccination site resumes operations on Monday with a backlog of appointments, and Airbnb is opening a "technical hub" in Atlanta.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Seach Continues For Richmond Teen Who Disappeared Berkeley is considering doing away with all single-family zoning, Kaiser says it's been slower to vaccinate seniors than other networks because it isn't getting a fair vaccine allocation, and DNA shows an East Bay coyote has been responsible for multiple attacks on people.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Restaurants Remain Impatient to Return to Indoor Dining While 99% of the state remains in the "Purple" tier this week, restaurant owners in the Bay Area are looking for signs that they should be prepping their dining rooms again for low-capacity indoor service.
SF News Liquor Store Owner In Oakland Chinatown Arrested for Vigilante Firearm Action During Street Robbery On Monday evening, one business owner in Oakland's Chinatown who tried to take matters into his own hands — by way of shooting a weapon while intervening in a robbery that was occurring outside his store — was arrested for his actions.
SF News Halleloo: BART and Muni Riders Will Soon Be Able to Pay Fares With Mobile Phones Two years behind New York's transit system — a.k.a. right on schedule — Clipper cards are going mobile, enabling riders to stop fumbling with wallets at BART and Muni stations and pay using Apple Pay or Google Pay on their mobile phones.
SF News Catholic Priest at SF's Saints Peter and Paul Church Dies From COVID-19 The saga of the Catholic Church in San Francisco during this pandemic has led to a high-profile tragedy this week as we learn of the death of one of the priests at Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach.
