SF News Stanford Study Tracks COVID Spread In Crowded Indoor Businesses, Confirms Use of Capacity Limits Stanford researchers used cellphone data to track behavior in 10 U.S. metropolitan areas between March and May, and provides convincing evidence that a large percentage of COVID-19 transmission was occurring in crowded indoor spaces including restaurants, bars, gyms, and grocery stores.
SF News In the First of Likely Many Lawsuits, Eight Sonoma County Agencies Sue PG&E For Negligence in Kincade Fire Before a final report on the fire has even been finalized by the state, eight agencies in Sonoma County including four city governments have sued PG&E in an effort to recoup damages for impacts on infrastructure and public property.
SF News San Francisco Woman Jailed and Fined for Not Properly Quarantining In Hawaii A San Francisco woman is currently in custody on the island of Maui after allegedly violating the state's mandatory quarantine requirement for visitors — and she's denying all wrongdoing and requesting a jury trial.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Musicals Ends Six-Year Run, Files For Bankruptcy Arts organizations of all sizes, all over the country are suffering due to pandemic lockdowns and eight straight months without live audiences. And the latest casualty in San Francisco is the scrappy theater company known as Bay Area Musicals.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg and Dorsey Return to Testify Before Congress About Misinformation, Liberal Bias Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were once again taking part in the political theater of a congressional hearing on Tuesday, this time testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Ted Cruz got a chance to yell and Dianne Feinstein got to frown at them both.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Supervisors To Vote On City's Eighth Whole Foods Rain showers will be passing through most of the day, Twitter is rolling out disappearing messages called "Fleets" today, and two local residents and a grocery workers' union are trying to block a Whole Foods from coming to Geary and Masonic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rain and Wind Return By Morning Airbnb announced plans for its long-anticipated IPO today, a fatal crash caused westbound traffic on the Bay Bridge, and the Bay Area will be waking up to more wind and rain on Tuesday morning.
SF News New Research Suggests COVID-19 Was Circulating in Italy in September 2019 Adding further evidence to theories that China kept the coronavirus and a spreading epidemic of flu-like symptoms hidden from the world for several months before disclosing what was happening, Italian researchers found COVID antibodies in study participants dating back to September of last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Cafe Reopens for Outdoor Dining (For Real) in North Beach, Under New Owners The saga of North Beach's landmark Tosca Cafe — which eight years ago appeared in danger of closing forever, only to be saved once, close again, and be saved yet again by a well known trio of new owners last year — is turning another page this week.
SF News 'We Must Triple-Down': San Francisco Officials Announce Closure of Offices, Reduction of Gym Capacity "We are going to proceed with caution to do everything we can to avoid a [more total] shutdown," Mayor London Breed said.
SF News San Francisco Reverts To 'Red' Tier; Five Bay Area Counties Slide Back to 'Purple' As COVID Cases Proliferate A day ahead of the usual Tuesday update, Gov. Newsom announced an "emergency brake" on reopenings as 40 California counties slide backwards in their COVID metrics.
SF News Grab-and-Run Thieves Wearing Ankle-Monitors Swipe $54K Worth of YSL Purses in Union Square Grab-and-run thievery is nothing new at the high-end shops around Union Square, but despite the best efforts of security guards and a network of cameras, the thieves keep coming back during the pandemic.
SF Politics Over 56,000 People in San Francisco Voted for Trump Liberal bubble though it may be, there are more Trump voters in our midst than we may think here in SF. And not everyone in this town is immune to the attraction to an authoritarian strongman who spends his days doing his own PR on Twitter.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Family Rescued After Boat Capsizes Near Alcatraz Moderna's vaccine may be even more effective than Pfizer's, Solano County is reportedly reverting back to the "Purple" tier this week, and a frat party at UC Davis may have been a super-spreading event.
SF News Elon Musk Likely Has COVID-19 as SpaceX Launch Gets Delayed Elon Musk, who has spent a good part of this year questioning the rationale behind lockdowns and the severity of COVID-19 on Twitter, may be about to find out for himself what the disease does to a person.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'We Should Have Modeled Better Behavior': Newsom Called Out for Attending French Laundry Dinner Governor Gavin Newsom is facing criticism that he and his wife attended a 12-person dinner at the French Laundry for the birthday of a political advisor last week at which members of at least three households were present.
SF News SFPD Makes Arrest In Violent Tenderloin Kidnapping and Robbery; Suspect Freed Pending Charges An arrest has been made in a case that made headlines from Halloween weekend, in which a 26-year-old man was kidnapped, beaten, shot, robbed, and dumped naked and bleeding by a roadside in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Sutter Health, Other Bay Area Healthcare Systems Purchase Special Freezers For Storing Pfizer's COVID Vaccine In preparation for what's going to be an unprecedented quick rollout of a vaccine that nearly everyone in the country will want, healthcare organizations around the Bay Area are purchasing low-temperature freezers that are capable of storing Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Explains Why Facebook Isn't Banning Steve Bannon, Says Employees Shouldn't Necessarily Fear New Regulation Under Biden In a meeting with Facebook employees this week, Mark Zuckerberg explained why, unlike Twitter, the company had not moved to permanently ban conservative blowhard and onetime White House advisor Steve Bannon from the platform, following those comments about beheading Dr. Fauci.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Contra Costa County Halts Indoor Dining, Closes Indoor Gyms; Santa Clara Also Stops Indoor Dining The latest county announcement about rolling back business openings due to rising COVID case metrics comes from Contra Costa County, which like San Francisco is shutting down all indoor dining indefinitely.
SF News Of Course the Central Subway Is Delayed Again, and Of Course the Pandemic Is to Blame The long-delayed, way over-budget Central Subway project connecting SoMa and Chinatown in San Francisco will not be finished construction before the end of the year, as was last promised. Not that any Muni Metro trains are running right now, but of course it won't.
SF News South Bay Woman Confesses to Embezzlement Scheme, and the Faked Assault and Fire She Set to Cover It Up It's a crime story straight out of a Coen Brothers' script. Authorities in Saratoga this week arrested a 74-year-old San Jose woman in a bizarre cover-up designed to throw them off the trail of an embezzlement scheme in which her employer was the victim.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rain! Golden Gate Bridge tolls may go up to $10 amid a fiscal crisis at the bridge district, two people were detained by the CHP in San Leandro following a road-rage freeway shooting, and the bodies found by a snowplow driver in Mono County have been ID'd.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around the Bay: House of Prime Rib Turns to Takeout SF General is seeking help identifying a patient, four people were stabbed within seven hours in San Francisco Tuesday night, and neighbors of a motel on Lombard Street that is housing the homeless say that there has been an uptick in attempted break-ins.
SF Politics San Francisco May Try to Ban Cigarette and Pot Smoking Inside Apartments A new nanny-state ordinance coming from the Board of Supervisors proposes banning all smoking — including vapes and cannabis smoking — in apartment buildings of more than three units.
