SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mayor London Breed Lunches At One Market, Restaurant Wants To Encourage People To Keep Eating Out Mayor London Breed on Thursday had lunch at One Market, in part symbolically to encourage San Franciscans to support the local economy and keep patronizing businesses, even as they practice varying degrees of social distancing.
Arts & Entertainment ACT and Berkeley Rep Cancel Shows, With Both Planning to Offer Video-Streaming Alternative The local theater community is being roiled by measures to stem the coronavirus pandemic, and today we learn that both American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre have canceled their current and upcoming shows for the next month. But video-streaming alternatives are on the way.
Arts & Entertainment Broadway Theaters, Disneyland Shut Down; SF Giants Delay Opening Day Social distancing measures hit the American entertainment and sports industries hard this week. And this is a very good thing, even though we are in uncharted territory both economically and societally.
SF News San Francisco Reports 4 New COVID-19 Cases, 3 From Community Spread After one day with no new cases, the San Francisco Department of Public Health says that it has four more confirmed cases in the city — and it will now be updating the tally daily at 10 a.m. instead of noon.
SF News San Mateo Health Officer Says Society Would Need to 'Grind to a Halt' to Stop COVID-19 Dr. Scott Morrow, the chief health officer for San Mateo County, is emerging as our local Angela Merkel — a no-nonsense, no-spin alarm-ringer about the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News SF's Lakeshore Elementary School Closes Due To Possible Coronavirus Exposure Four students at San Francisco's Lakeshore Elementary School and "several" of their adult family members have shown signs of respiratory illness, which has led to a 14-day closure for the school — which sits directly beside the high school that was shut down last week.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Newsom Enacts Statewide Ban On Large Events Salesforce is donating $1.5 million to the coronavirus fight, Nancy Pelosi says even elbow bumps might be unwise, and a Grand Princess passenger describes a very disorganized disembarkation process.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kaiser Begins Drive-Thru Testing For Coronavirus All performances of 'Hamilton' and 'The Last Ship' have been canceled for two weeks, California nurses are protesting the CDC's recommendations, and a major crash blocked eastbound lanes of I-80 in Berkeley today.
Arts & Entertainment Woman Documenting Grand Princess Cruise on Twitter Tweets Videos of Grandmother Dancing, Singing in Quarantine A 23-year-old Bay Area woman and her grandparents have finally, happily, arrived back on land, and they're doing a lot of singing and dancing about it on Twitter.
SF News Berkeley Officials Claim No Community Spread Yet, But Virus Leaves Cal Campus Deserted UC Berkeley this week called off all in-person classes until the end of spring break on March 29, meaning that professors were lecturing in empty lecture halls in front of web chat screens Tuesday and Wednesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Union Vote Looms With Staff Reportedly Divided The staff at Tartine's four main Bay Area locations are taking a vote this week on whether to join the ILWU, and both some local restaurateurs and some on the staff are wondering aloud whether the operation can survive unionization.
SF News No New COVID-19 Cases In SF As WHO Declares It a Pandemic Noon came and went on Wednesday without a change in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases from the San Francisco Department of Public Health. This should cautiously be seen as good news?
SF Politics Supervisors and Mayor Breed Work On Mitigating Economic Impacts From Virus San Francisco's Board of Supervisors have proposed a package of legislation that is aimed at helping workers, renters, and small businesses who may be affected by the economic downturn linked to the coronavirus epidemic.
SF News SF Bans All Large Gatherings and Warriors Games; Cruise Crew With Coronavirus Have No More Symptoms Mayor London Breed is said to be issuing an order today that will ban all large gatherings of 1,000 people or more in San Francisco for at least the next two weeks — including Warriors games.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Ridership Drops 25 Percent Amazon just canceled a big Web Services conference in SF, a 3.8M earthquake shook Truckee last night, and Alaska Airlines is talking about curtailing flights and exiting some markets after a major drop in bookings.
SF Politics Day Around the Bay: Building Inspection Director Placed On Leave In Corruption Probe Coachella has definitely been postponed until October and the lineup is unconfirmed, another COVID-19 case in Alameda County is connected to the Grand Princess, and SF's Public Defender is pushing to release all pre-trial inmates who might be vulnerable to the coronavirus.
SF News John Lee Cowell Convicted of First-Degree Murder of Nia Wilson The verdict is in after very brief deliberations in the Nia Wilson murder trial in Oakland, and it's guilty on all counts for 29-year-old John Lee Cowell.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink South Park Cafe Closed After Employee Tests Positive for Coronavirus South Park Cafe, the popular techie hub and South Park lunch spot that just reopened last summer thanks to credit card startup Brex, has closed following a positive COVID-19 test in an employee.
Arts & Entertainment 'Moulin Rouge,' 'Hadestown,' and 'Oklahoma!' Announced for Broadway SF 2020-2021 Season The upcoming season at BroadwaySF features a bunch of big tours coming to us from the last season of Broadway, and there's more of them now that 'Hamilton' is closing at the end of May and freeing up the Orpheum Theatre again.
SF News San Francisco Confirms One New Virus Case; UCSF and Stanford To Boost Testing After 11 new cases were reported in just two days, it's a relief that the SF Department of Public Health only added a single new confirmed case of COVID-19 on Tuesday. The total number of cases in city residents stands at 14 as of noon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sadly, AL's Deli Has Closed After Just 8 Months After stopping dinner service in January, it seemed possible that chef Aaron London's casual counter-service spot AL's Deli was going to return with a new nighttime concept. But now it's gone for good.
Bay Area Sports Santa Clara County Bans Events Over 1,000 People, Including Sharks Games After the county marked its first death from the coronavirus on Monday, Santa Clara health officials announced that all "mass gatherings" of 1,000 or more people would be banned for the next three weeks, at a minimum.
Business & Tech United Is Now Disinfecting All Tray Tables, Not Letting Passengers Reach For Their Own Water Cup United Airlines announced in a note to frequent travelers Monday that it is ramping up and changing its cleaning and inflight service procedures to address the coronavirus outbreak — and encourage more people to get on planes, which, good luck.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Apple Says Clorox Wipes Are Now OK for iPhones That rain that ABC 7 said was coming isn't actually coming, Lowell High School remains closed through Tuesday, Monterey is banning cruise ships, and today's Michigan primary is make-or-break for Bernie.
Arts & Entertainment Update: Coachella Postponed Until October Over Virus Worries The high-probability guess that Coachella might get cancelled this year goes back more than a week, and after the cancellation of South by Southwest it became more of a screaming rumor.
