Business & Tech Protesters to Project Messages About Disinformation On Facebook's SF Offices A protest action is planned for Tuesday evening that will bring projected messages onto 181 Fremont Street, the tower that is home to Facebook and Instagram's SF offices.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Sees Spike In Homes For Sale East Bay Congressman Mark DeSaulnier reveals he spent four weeks on a ventilator during his recent bout with pneumonia, and a fight is escalating over the Prop. 13-related ballot measure to raise business property taxes.
Arts & Entertainment California Air National Guard Doing More Flyovers Over Bay Area for Memorial Day In honor of healthcare workers, the California Air National Guard is again going to be buzzing over the Bay Area — this time, though, they will be flying over San Francisco.
SF News Memorial Day Morning Links: Santa Cruz Outbreaks Linked to Family Gatherings See's Candies is reopening and ramping up production, SF parks and beaches were relatively busy but mostly socially distanced on Sunday, and the U.S. is now banning flights from Brazil due to the pandemic situation there.
SF News Massive Fire Engulfs Pier 45 Warehouse, Threatens Historic WWII Ship The holiday weekend kicked off with a four-alarm fire at a fish processing facility on Pier 45 near Fisherman's Wharf. While now under control, the fire spread to the pier below the building and at one point threatened the SS Jeremiah O'Brien.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Poll Finds People Reluctant to Return to Restaurants It's going to be HOT this weekend, the feds have reversed a decision to allow a homeless Navigation Center under a freeway in the Bayview, and a new poll found Americans are reluctant to head back to concert and restaurants right now.
Arts & Entertainment Stud Stories: Remembering a Bar That Epitomized Everything Great and Weird About San Francisco As gay bars around the city have closed their doors here and there over the last ten years, I've always said that I wouldn't throw myself on any coffin unless or until The Stud had to close. Let the wailing begin.
Arts & Entertainment SF to Allow Summer Day Camps Starting June 15 San Francisco and five other counties around the Bay are planning to loosen restrictions for childcare and summer day camps, giving parents some much needed relief in the coming few months.
Arts & Entertainment Aggressive Wild Turkey Terrorizes Visitors at Oakland Rose Garden Wild animals all over the Bay Area have been feeling emboldened and entitled as humans have retreated more and more indoors. And one wild turkey named Gerald is making life hell for anyone who tries to picnic at Morcom Rose Garden.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat Shutter in the Mission, Bringing an End to a Dive Bar Mini-Empire Today in bar casualties from the pandemic we have Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat, the last two dive-y spots in what was once a four-bar empire owned and operated by Paul Bavaro.
SF News SF Adds 122 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In Biggest Single-Day Jump Yet As testing has become more widespread, we have expected to see jumps in the number of new cases. But apart from a one-day, 6-percent jump on May 5 when 104 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed, the numbers of new cases found have not jumped so significantly day to day.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Crime Ring Defrauds the EDD Santa Clara County is beginning curbside retail today and entering Phase 2 behind the rest of the Bay Area, a new study looks at deceased COVID-19 patients' lungs, and a missing Rohnert Park teen has been found unharmed in Salinas.
SF News Exploded Minivan Causes Major Backup on Westbound Bay Bridge A vehicle on fire caused one of the first major traffic jams of the pandemic on the Bay Bridge Friday morning, with SF-bound congestion backed up all the way to Emeryville.
SF News Day Around the Bay: East Bay Doctors Say Suicides Are Spiking Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they're seeing an unprecedented rise in suicides linked to lockdown orders, SF restaurateur Nick Bovis enters his guilty pleas, and artists take over SFMOMA's website.
SF News Four Young Men Identified As Suspects Charged In Santa Cruz Kidnapping and Murder The Santa Cruz Sheriff's Office on Thursday held a press conference identifying a a trio of young twentysomething men from Lancaster, in LA County, as well as a fourth man as suspects in the October 1 kidnapping and murder of Tushar Atre.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Lil Uzi Vert's Deep-Faked Video For 'Wassup' Featuring Elon Musk and Donald Trump The theme of the new video from Lil Uzi Vert is deep-fake technology, and poking fun at fake news on social media.
SF News At Least Two Shootings Involving High-Powered Rifles Appear to Point to Rising Gang Tensions in SF SFPD Chief Bill Scott on Wednesday announced that two shootings in recent weeks — one in the Bayview on April 28 and one in Ingleside on May 12 — may be connected and both appear to be gang-related.
SF News San Francisco Man Reunites With Family After 61 Days In UCSF's COVID Unit Ron Temko says he was "one breath away from death" at more than one point during his two-month stay at UCSF Parnassus, suffering a severe and nearly fatal case of COVID-19.
SF News SFMTA Unveils Plan For More 'Slow Streets'; Muni Chief Discusses the Future of Public Transit on NPR The SFMTA has just published its amended plan for temporarily closing more city streets to vehicle traffic in order to allow more freedom for pedestrians, runners, and cyclists to occupy the roadway.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sonoma County May Open Outdoor Restaurants Sonoma County's health officer is making a case to the state about reopening outdoor restaurants and wineries this weekend, Napa has already reopened restaurants for indoor dining, and 40 CA counties have the green light to do this as well.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: The Stud to Close Its Doors at 9th & Harrison, Hold Drag Funeral Online The Stud Collective announced late Wednesday that iconic SF gay bar The Stud — currently holding the title of the longest continually operating gay bar in town, though not in the same location — will shut its doors at its current location as of Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Turtle Tower Robbed During Lunch Service Don't be alarmed by helicopters doing mock safety drills at Ocean Beach Thursday, SF Mayor London Breed has ordered 15 percent budget cuts across all city departments, and Contra Costa County is doing virtual wedding services on Zoom.
SF News USC Study Finds Even Greater Coronavirus Antibody Prevalence In LA Than Santa Clara Study A study that tested 863 Los Angeles County residents last month found that 4 percent of them carried antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 — and 60 percent of those who had been exposed to the virus were entirely asymptomatic.
SF News Video: Toyota Camry Clocked Going 130mph After Evading Traffic Stop In Rohnert Park, Two Arrested Two men in a Toyota Camry led CPH officers on a high-speed chase through three counties early Tuesday morning, reaching speeds of up to 130 miles per hour before ultimately being apprehended.
SF News Dolores Park Gets Dotted With Social-Distance Guidance Circles For all those looking to squeeze in to an already crowded Dolores Park this spring and summer, Rec & Parks has done us the solid of painting circles on the grass to show people how far apart they need to be to maintain pandemic-resilient social distance.
