SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan Spot Baia Opens In Jardiniere Space, Roma's Opens On Third Street While most of the restaurant news of the last four months has been about closings and pivots to takeout, there have been a few new restaurant projects proceeding hopefully through this pandemic storm, cautiously optimistic that they will emerge out the other side of it. And all of them are Italian.
SF News Active COVID-19 Cases At San Quentin Fall to 145, With 21 Deaths After nearly 2,200 inmates at San Quentin State Prison contracted the coronavirus beginning in early June, the number of active cases in custody on Monday fell to 145, while two more deaths have been recorded.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Modoc County Confirms Its First COVID Cases A big-rig crash clogs up I-580 eastbound near Livermore, San Mateo County hair and nail salon owners lament having to close again, and the PGA Championship lands in SF on Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Records First Teen Death From COVID-19 A Larkspur man says he was assaulted for telling a jogger to wear a mask, a San Jose police officer is accused of laundering $18 million, and employees across California are being asked to sign COVID liability waivers.
SF News Richmond Doctor On Non-Mask Wearers: 'Our Rights Are Going to Kill Us' At a news conference with the Contra Costa County Department of Public Health on Friday, a Richmond doctor minced no words in condemning people who won't wear masks in public spaces, and in saying he was "embarrassed" by fellow doctors who had not stepped up to treat COVID patients.
Arts & Entertainment Better Falcon News: Nesting Pair Has Two Chicks on Alcatraz, Famed Berkeley Pair Has Three Fledglings Out of the Nest Hopes were dashed for the falcon nest atop the PG&E building in downtown San Francisco, but other Bay Area falcon pairs are faring better.
Business & Tech Feds Announce Charges Against Three People In Twitter Hack, Including Florida Man and Juvenile The major hacking and data breach at Twitter two weeks ago has already produced three alleged culprits, and federal authorities on Friday announced charges against the three, as well as the online moniker of a hacker still at large who is believed to have been the mastermind.
Business & Tech While National Economy Tanked Last Quarter, Apple, Alphabet, and Facebook Made Bank Despite a historic economic downturn in which the American economy contracted more than it ever has in one quarter, four big tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook — saw huge profits and extremely healthy second quarters.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Person and Dog Rescued In Fire Near Wharf Berkeley police are investigating an officer-involved shooting at a CVS, CA's prison population just dipped below 100,000 for the first time in 30 years, and will Kamala Harris be Joe Biden's VP pick?
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Officer Stabbed In Face While Making Arrest COVID-19 clusters have been reported at four South Bay Costcos, a Berkeley church was the target of an attempted arson after putting up a BLM banner, and Vinyl is moving from Divisadero to the Haight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Like Chez Panisse, The Cliff House Is Suing Its Insurance Company Insurers are trying to deny claims being made by restaurants on their business-interruption policies — claims they are making because the coronavirus pandemic has clearly interrupted their business.
SF News Vallejo Police Chief Investigating Claim That Officers Bent Badges To Celebrate Fatal Shootings Once again we get a shockingly disgusting report about the Vallejo PD, and once again there will be an "investigation" into whether the department's officers are just awful human beings.
SF News SF To Open New Non-COVID Hospital Site In Presidio As Surge In Hospitalizations Looms Saying that a "huge surge" in COVID-19 hospitalizations is around the corner, SF Director of Public Health Dr. Grant Colfax announced Thursday that the city is opening up a new in-patient hospital facility in the Presidio in order to accommodate COVID-negative patients in need of acute care.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Storied Castro Nightclub Badlands Closes Permanently After 45 Years Badlands, a nightclub whose dancefloor was a last stop for many partiers in the Castro going back four decades, is closing for good according to a Facebook post published Thursday morning.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: U.S. Economy Shrank 33 Percent Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is back in the hospital, a boy who was fatally struck by an Amazon truck in Lafayette has been identified, and Mayor London Breed pushes back on pay raises for city employees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Outpaces Nation, Adds 1260 New Cases The laptops Jack Dorsey paid for are heading for 25,000 Oakland students, San Mateo County has landed on the state's watch list, and Contra Costa County just added 410 new COVID cases in one day.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Reopens To Sold-Out Crowds After pleading with public officials as its money reserves ran out, the Oakland Zoo has reopened to the public with many safety precautions in place — and it sold out its opening day tickets, and tickets for Thursday as well.
SF News SF Doctor With 25 Years Experience In the ER Says Volunteering At Texas Hospital Was 'Overwhelming' A San Francisco ER doctor has spent a week volunteering in makeshift intensive-care units at a hospital in Brownsville, Texas, and in an interview with ABC7, he says it's been the hardest week of his career.
SF News Workout Studios and Boutique Gyms In San Francisco Push Back On Reopening Delay A group of small boutique gyms with personalized fitness training are demanding to see scientific evidence supporting San Francisco officials' reasoning for keeping their doors closed during the ongoing public health orders.
SF News SF Catholic Priest Implores Congregants to Come to Mass, Says COVID News Reports Are 'Largely Unreal' While evangelical churches and multiple denominations have been called out around the country and in California for encouraging people to gather for worship in spite of public health orders, it's the Catholic Church in San Francisco that appears to be the biggest problem.
Arts & Entertainment Humpback Whales — and Lots of Calves — Seen Feeding in Monterey Bay It's time for the southward migration of humpback whales down the Pacific coast, and these huge marine mammals need to feed as much as possible as they swim to pack on blubber before reaching warmer waters in Mexico with little to eat for months.
Arts & Entertainment Sir Francis Drake Statue Removed From Larkspur Ferry Landing In Marin Ahead of planned protests in Larkspur this week, the city manager ordered the removal of a controversial statue of explorer and slave trader Sir Francis Drake from an area near the ferry terminal.
SF News Sonoma County Records Seven New COVID Deaths In Nursing Homes Sonoma County had its single biggest one-day leap in its COVID death count late Tuesday when it recorded seven new deaths from the coronavirus, all in skilled nursing facilities.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Warehouse Fire Hot Spots Still Burning On 14th Street Doctors say the "worried well" are slowing down COVID test results, Newsom is withholding aid from two Central Valley towns for defying health orders, and San Quentin's outbreak could still be a huge problem for the region.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Public Asked For Help In Case Of Gilroy Man Set on Fire SF supervisors just approved an "overpaid CEO tax" for the Nov. ballot, Oracle Park and the Chase Center are laying off thousands of food-service workers, and the public is being asked for help in the case of a Gilroy man found on fire by Highway 101 last weekend.
