Arts & Entertainment ACT Offers Video Streams Of Two Productions; Berkeley Rep to Follow American Conservatory Theater, as promised, is offering theater fans a way to see the most recent two productions of its aborted season from the comfort of their own homes, and Berkeley Rep's two shows will follow.
SF Politics Newsom Issues Statewide Order Barring Residential Evictions During COVID-19 Crisis Governor Newsom has expanded on what was already becoming policy in some cities around California, issuing an executive order Friday that bans landlords from evicting residential tenants for non-payment of rent through May 31.
SF News City College Chancellor Mark Rocha Resigns After Being Placed on Administrative Leave City College of San Francisco is officially on the hunt for a new chancellor as the man in the role for the last three years, Mark Rocha, submits his resignation. He was placed on administrative leave by the college's board earlier this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Bar and Restaurant Owners Furious to Find Out Yelp Has Launched Fundraisers on Their Behalf Yelp has never exactly been seen as a friend to the Bay Area restaurant community so much as a necessary evil they've begrudgingly had to live with for a decade and a half, so a forced fundraiser effort isn't being taken too kindly by some.
Arts & Entertainment Sonoma Residents Sing Along to 'Sweet Caroline' Nightly; Mill Valley Howls As our shut-in lives settle into routines, the Bay Area has been responding in its own spirited ways — though not yet in quite as inspired ways as Italians and their balcony choral sessions.
SF Politics Texas Man Arrested For Making Death Threats Against Nancy Pelosi and Other Democrats on Facebook A 27-year-old man in Wichita Falls, Texas was taken into custody Wednesday after making multiple criminal threats on his Facebook page in response to the coronavirus stimulus package negotiations.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Laguna Honda Resident Tests Positive A 17-year-old Lancaster boy died of COVID-19 after being refused care for lack of insurance, Laguna Honda Hospital is bracing for a potential outbreak, and three new mobile testing sites are opening in SF next week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Barack Obama Joins Steph Curry's Q&A With Dr. Fauci A whistleblower filed a complaint with Cal-OSHA claiming SF General staff isn't being kept adequately safe during the coronavirus pandemic, thieves broke into a closed Half Moon Bay restaurant, and Berkeley is forcing its dispensaries to do delivery only.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Steps Up To Connect Wealthy San Franciscans With Those In Need of Free Meals Other restaurateurs around the country, facing a bleak outlook potentially lasting months and threatening their businesses, could take a page out of the playbook of chef David Nayfeld.
SF News COVID-19 Case Numbers Jump In San Francisco and Alameda Counties, Young People Disproportionately Infected We don't have demographic information, like ages, on the 223 confirmed COVID-19 in San Francisco, but a surge in cases appears to be happening here and in Alameda County where up until the last few days the daily counts were only modestly rising.
SF News Muni to Shut Down All Train Service Next Week, Operate Buses Only Due to the significant drop in ridership and reported weekly losses of $1 million, the SFMTA announced late Wednesday that Muni Metro train service will shut down indefinitely on March 30, with bus shuttles replacing those train routes.
Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco Man Sends Pal a Roll of Toilet Paper Via Drone Tech savvy and drone-loving San Franciscans were bound to resort to this contact-less delivery method, and one friend decided to help another out when there was no TP to be found.
SF News 54 Out of 207 People Tested Positive for COVID-19 In Hayward Drop-In Site's First Day About one in four of the people who were screened and tested for the coronavirus at the new drop-in testing center in Hayward on Monday had positive test results — a total of 54 cases in the center's first day of operation.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Gate Agent at Oakland Airport Tests Positive The largest number of unemployment claims in U.S. history was filed this week, a two-alarm fire broke out overnight in a building behind the Golden Gate Theater, and half the beds at Kaiser San Jose are filled with coronavirus patients now.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Will Get a Piece of Federal Stimulus Package Mayor Breed says SF needs 5,000 more hospital beds to handle a surge in COVID-19 cases, SF businesses refusing to take cash are breaking the law, and Steph Curry is hosting a live Q&A Thursday with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Locked Down After Five Staff Members Test Positive For COVID-19 Laguna Honda Hospital, the city-owned facility that is a permanent home to hundreds of elderly patients, is placing two units under quarantine and locking down the entire facility for residents as of 5 p.m. Wednesday in order to contain a possible coronavirus outbreak.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: David Byrne's Reasons to Be Cheerful We could all use some reasons to be cheerful this week, right? Singer and all around genius poet of American music David Byrne has a new journalism project that wants to give you some hope.
SF News Rogue Promoter Tries Throwing Underground Party In Design District, Gets Shut Down By City Attorney Don't get any ideas about throwing speakeasy-style parties during San Francisco's shelter-in-place order, party people! San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is making an example of one such party scheduled for Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Food Critic Notes Poor Reviews of Quarantine Food at Travis Air Force Base San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho is bound to be getting bored at work during this unfolding public health crisis, and so she's likely to keep being creative with the columns like this week's.
SF News Low-Income Seniors at Mission SRO Go Hungry After Food Pantry Stops Delivering Dozens of senior citizens who live at the Altamont Hotel at 3048 16th Street have reportedly resorted to begging on the street or scrounging for food after a food pantry that had delivered to them weekly stopped doing so for safety reasons several weeks ago.
Arts & Entertainment What Will Happen With Burning Man? Organizers Still Can't Be Sure Burning Man's theme camp symposium is going forward on March 28 as a virtual event, and in a statement, organizers say they are watching and waiting and hoping that Black Rock City can be built again come August.
SF News Wednesday Morning News: SFPD Sergeant Tests Positive UC Berkeley is postponing its commencement, Alameda County health officials say most of the county's COVID-19 cases are people aged 20-44, and Prince Charles has tested positive but Camilla has not.
SF News Man In His 40s Becomes San Francisco's First COVID-19 Death San Francisco crossed another milestone in this pandemic late Tuesday when officials announced the city's first death from the coronavirus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tenderloin Sees Uptick In Break-Ins, Vandalism During Lockdown Mayor Breed announces new tenant protections, Democrats may be nearing a deal with the White House for a stimulus package, and Kaiser Permanente has canceled plans for a huge new headquarters complex in Oakland in a blow to the local economy.
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Easter Sunday Hunky Jesus Contest To Be Held Online Assuming we will all still be primarily indoors and isolated come Easter — Donald Trump be damned — the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence has announced that the beloved annual tradition of the Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests will be moving online, like most other live events these days.
