Arts & Entertainment Haunting Drone Footage Shows the Ghost Town Of San Francisco on Sunday One week in to a shelter-in-place order and a growing global pandemic, San Francisco was its beautiful self on Sunday — just nearly devoid of people. Check out this gorgeous but chilling drone footage shot all over town.
SF News San Francisco Hotels Offer Up 8500 Rooms And Counting for Homeless, Healthcare Workers A total of 31 hotels in San Francisco have stepped up to offer 8,500 vacant rooms for lease by the city, and more may be getting under contract soon.
SF News As Bay Area Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Tops 1000, Santa Clara County Remains Epicenter The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the nine-county Bay Area stands at 990 as of noon on Tuesday, and we are more than likely going to cross the 1,000 threshold by evening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Order From Your Favorite Restaurant Today For the 'Great American Takeout' Many restaurants have been forced to shut their doors indefinitely in San Francisco. For those restaurants that have stayed open to weather this storm as delivery- and takeout-only, today is a day to show solidarity and order from them.
SF News Collision Involving Wrong-Way Driver On 10th Street Leaves Three People Injured A car collided with two others Tuesday morning in SoMa, gravely injuring two people and also injuring a third.
SF News Tuesday Morning Headlines: Instacart To Hire 300,000 More Delivery People Hayward's drop-in testing site for COVID-19 was overwhelmed Monday, a Solano County judge finally suspended what was probably the state's last active trial, and San Francisco is closing its playgrounds amid virus concerns.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco Art Institute To Lay Off Staff, Close Permanently Mayor Breed chastised San Franciscans for not maintaining proper distances when outside, one of the elderly patients at a Burlingame nursing home has died of COVID-19, and the San Francisco Art Institute says it likely is closing its doors for good after this year's graduation.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Drag Queens and Musical Theater Artists Performing From Their Living Rooms One obvious way our current shelter-in-place, pandemic crisis differs from those in other eras is how wildly connected we already were in virtual space before all this began.
Business & Tech Inundated With Requests For Experimental Coronavirus Drug, Gilead Halts Individual-Case Program As predicted several weeks ago, Bay Area-based Gilead is at the center of the international conversation — and domestic desperation — about potential treatments for the novel coronavirus.
SF News Asian Americans In SF and Elsewhere See New Wave Of Racist Attacks Stemming From Pandemic Many of us who lived through the post-9/11 months of 2001 were bracing for the inevitable ugliness of American racism to rear its head during the coronavirus crisis, and it has, only not just in America this time.
SF News San Francisco Offers Free 12-Hour Child Care For Healthcare Workers at 35 Rec & Parks Sites In a move that will hopefully make you love our fair city and its response to the coronavirus crisis, San Francisco is providing free child care for local healthcare workers in 12-hour shifts that reflect the shifts that nurses and doctors tend to work.
Business & Tech PG&E Pleads Guilty In Camp Fire Manslaughter Case Brought By Butte County The latest development in the painfully slow bankruptcy clownshow of Pacific Gas & Electric is a proposed settlement in a case brought by the Butte County district attorney and county officials.
SF News Hayward Opens Bay Area's First Free Drop-In Testing Site for COVID-19 While testing sites have been getting established across the Bay Area over the last ten days, the city of Hayward has just opened what we believe is the first fully open, no-referral-required testing site that is free to the public.
SF News Monday Morning Updates: Napa County Records Its First Two Cases The Grand Princess passengers are starting to leave their quarantine at Travis AFB today, UCSF is accepting donations of N95 masks, and a healthy 26-year-old in New York describes her severe case of the coronavirus and hospitalization.
SF News Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In San Francisco Rise to 105 San Francisco crossed the 100-person mark in the count of coronavirus patients between Saturday and Sunday, marking the biggest single-day jump in this crisis to date in the city.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SoMa Nightclub Slim's To Close Permanently The first of what could be many nightclub deaths during this pandemic is Slim's on 11th Street, PG&E has agreed to potentially sell itself to the state, and Newsom has pulled all toll-takers off of Bay Area bridges.
SF News Don't Hoard N95 Masks, But Surgical and Homemade Masks May Help If Your Roommate Is Coughing A pair of ER doctors on the front lines in Boston have been answering questions on Reddit and they say that while healthcare workers certainly need the masks more, regular people can protect themselves in other ways from the aerosolized virus.
SF News A Police Chase-Related Crash Blocks Three Eastbound Lanes of the Bay Bridge A police chase following an apparent carjacking and a subsequent crash has led to three lanes being blocked on the Bay Bridge. And yes, there are actually quite a few people still trying to go back and forth across the Bay.
Arts & Entertainment Pixar's 'Onward' to Stream on Disney+ April 3, Download for Purchase Tonight The latest Disney-Pixar animated release, Onward, is one of dozens of scheduled Hollywood releases this spring that are getting impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. And in this case, Disney's decided to let it go straight to streaming.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Site Launches To Make It Easier To Support Local Restaurants Through Gift Cards; Nightclubs Look To Crowdfunding Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and his wife Kaitlyn just launched a site that lets you see all the local restaurants that are selling gift cards to help them survive the current social-distancing lockdown.
Business & Tech San Francisco To Press Hotels Into Service For Healthcare Workers and Homeless The city of San Francisco is preparing for a surge in coronavirus cases, and is trying to protect both the homeless population and the families of healthcare workers through the use of currently empty hotel rooms.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Student Loan Payment Requirements Suspended President Trump announced that you can stop paying your student loans for now, Congress passed legislation making coronavirus testing free, and London Breed slammed Trump for his "Chinese virus" comments.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Prepares for Surge In New COVID-19 Cases Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statement saying 56 percent of California could be infected in 8 weeks without isolation measures, and he's seeking $1 billion in emergency aid to prepare for a surge in cases.
SF News Santa Rita Jail in East Bay Releases 300 Inmates to Protect Against Virus Spread These are extraordinary times, and calls are going out nationwide to release low-level offenders from jails so that they are not unnecessarily exposed to the coronavirus.
SF News 568 Grand Princess Passengers Refused COVID-19 Tests, at Government's Urging Now it looks like Mike Pence's promise to get every passenger from the Grand Princess cruise ship tested for the novel coronavirus has not been kept.
