SF News SF to Receive 1,600 More Monkeypox Vaccine Units; Clinics Will Switch to Intradermal Injection Technique San Francisco is expected to get 1,600 more monkeypox vaccines in the next distribution from the federal supply. To get this allotment, clinics will be using a transdermal injection technique, which requires only a fifth of the vaccine dose used in the subcutaneous method.
SF News So... a Motorcycle Flew Off the Bay Bridge This Week The Bay Bridge has doubled as a stage for many odd scenes as of late, including a traffic jam caused by a detached mobile restroom that looked like one of SF's Painted Ladies. And this week, the 4.5-mile bridge saw a motorcycle fly off it, sinking somewhere in the SF Bay.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Temps to Remain Cool Over the Weekend Until Heating Up Monday Afternoon Grizzly bears in California have been locally extinct for now almost a century, the Castro's decades-old "The Hope For The World Cure" mural was recently restored, and enjoy this two-day spat of mild weather — because temperatures will grow hotter starting Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Plan for Bullet Train Line From Central Valley to SF Gets Green-Lit by California SF's largest Filipino night market will come back in October, East Oakland got a new Black-owned graphic design business, and an extension that would connect a bullet train link between SF and the Central Valley was approved by California’s High-Speed Rail Authority board Thursday.
SF News New Study Shows a Potential California Megaflood Could Be the Most Costly Natural Disaster In Human History Residents of California are conditioned to fear the "Big One." But as the climate crisis worsens, environmental experts believe that it's not an earthquake Californians should worry about most — but rather a megaflood that could engulf the entire state.
SF News Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Opens Its First Weekend Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic To vaccinate as many people against monkeypox as possible, the walk-in vaccine clinic at 1001 Potrero Avenue opened Saturday for its first weekend to immunize patients.
SF News Sunday Links: Warm Temperatures Expected to Heat Up Bay Area Next Week A fast-casual vegan spot will open tomorrow in Hayes Valley, this year's USA Masters Summer Diving Championship at College of Marin in Novato included a 94-year-old athlete from the East Bay, and many parts of the Bay Area will get uncomfortably hot next week.
SF News Saturday Links: Man Attacks Two Asian Women in SF's Richmond District, Leaves Neighbors 'More Afraid' A French bulldog was stolen from a boy in Oakland, a cohort of East Bay artists has successfully avoided displacement from live-work units, and surveillance footage shot Wednesday shows two Asian women — one of them 65 years old — being brutally assaulted by a man donning a black hoodie.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vice President Kamala Harris Returns to Oakland for College Fund Announcement The man killed in a shooting at a Brentwood 24 Hour Fitness has been identified, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Oakland Friday to support the launch of the Oakland Generation Fund, and classified documents were seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Outside Lands 2022 Wraps Up With Kim Petras Belting Sex Positivity, and Post Malone Coming off a sort of lackluster Saturday lineup, the final — extremely sunny — day of Outside Lands 2022 closed out the beloved Bay Area music festival with radiant performances from the likes of Amber Mark, Kim Petras, and Mitski, as well as a surprisingly decent set by Post Malone.
SF News Sunday Links: 2022 World Dog Surfing Championship Draws Hundreds to Linda Mar Beach for All the Canine Fun A more low-key version of Niku Steakhouse is expected to open at 1725 Alameda Street, today’s the final day of OSL 2022, and large crowds gathered at Pacifica's Linda Mar Beach yesterday morning for the World Dog Surfing Championship.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Green Day Brings Hometown Nostalgia to a Mostly Unmemorable Second Day of Outside Lands 2022 In a needed jolt of excitement (and display of actual talent) after Jack Harlow's mediocre, tepid set, East Bay music royalty Green Day gave a thunderous performance that included pop-punk homages to hit songs, as well as unapologetic stances on hot-button political issues.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Day One of Outside Lands 2022 Sees SZA Shine... and a Young-Skewing Crowd Descend on Golden Gate Park On the first day of Outside Lands 2022, a youngish crowd — made up of twentysomethings dressed in Coachella-appropriate regalia — convened at Golden Gate Park... where friendships were tested when choosing between the conflicting set times from SZA, Phoebe Bridgers, and Disclosure.
SF News Saturday Links: Senior Bald Eagle at SF Zoo Dies at 40 Years Old Over $60 rideshares are back for Outside Lands weekend, Santa Clara receives over 2,000 monkeypox vaccine units, and the San Francisco Zoo's resident female bald eagle, Sureshot, passed away earlier this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Might Get Food Hall That Focuses on Black and Brown Vendors Stubhub will close its SF headquarters, don’t forget that SZA will grace the Lands End stage at Outside Lands tonight at 8:45 p.m., and the proposed Liberation Park Market Hall might come to East Oakland in the coming years — and include mostly Black and Brown businesses.
SF News Photos: Dore Alley 2022 Returns to Its Kinky Roots 37 years after the first Up Your Alley Fair — now more commonly known simply as “Dore Alley” — was held in SoMa, thousands of people again descended on the intersection of Folsom and Dore streets this past Sunday for the event’s famously sex-positive and kink-friendly atmosphere.
Bay Area Sports Bay Area Sports Legend and Civil Rights Icon Bill Russell Has Passed Away One of the most decorated athletes in American sports history and a key player in the civil rights movement, Bill Russell, passed away over the weekend. He was 88 years old.
SF News McKinney Fire Becomes California's Largest Blaze This Wildfire Season — in Less Than Two Days Around 2 p.m. Friday, a wildfire was reported to have started near Highway 96 and McKinney Creek Road, southwest of Klamath River in Siskiyou County. Now burning more than 51,000 acres — with 0% of the wildfire contained — the McKinney Fire is the largest fire to burn in CA this year.
SF News Sunday Links: Person Injured by Caltrain in Santa Clara, Taken to Local Hospital A person was injured after being struck by a Caltrain train in Santa Clara Saturday afternoon, one of the most popular “Little Miss” meme accounts is based in SF, and President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 — again.
SF News Asana to Expand SF Footprint by 71,000 Square Feet in SoMa While most tech companies are downsizing — or outright eliminating — their corporate headquarters in San Francisco, the work management platform Asana is actually increasing its physical presence in the city by leasing a new office space near its South of Market headquarters.
SF News Saturday Links: Happy Dore Alley Weekend, Kinksters! Noe Valley's shuttered Mahila eatery will be reimagined as Azalina's in the TL this fall, CA's inflation relief checks are expected to start hitting bank accounts in October, and it’s officially Up Your Alley street fair weekend — though anxieties around monkeypox hover.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Judge Strikes Down Law Allowing Noncitizen Parents to Vote in School Board Elections A young boy was arrested for starting a fire in Pacifica this week, another Bay Area resident was pistol-whipped and robbed of their watch, and a San Francisco law that allowed noncitizen parents to cast their votes in local school board elections was overturned by a judge.
SF News New Data Shows Monkeypox Outbreak Disproportionately Impacts Latinx Communities in SF There are currently 197 recorded or suspected cases of monkeypox in San Francisco. And the most recent data about the spread of monkeypox shows that even though members of Latinx communities make up some 15% of SF's population, over 30% of all current monkeypox cases are within this group.
SF News Smoke From Oak Fire Expected to Bring Haze, Bad Air to Bay Area This Week Starting as early as Monday morning, smoke from the still-growing Oak Fire in Mariposa County — a blaze that now measures well over 14,000 acres in size with no containment recorded — will make its way into the Bay Area. Get ready to don those wildfire-approved face masks (like N95s) again.
SF News So... Air Canada Sent Two Cats Without Their Owner to SFO — and Basically Told Him to Figure It Out Abbas Zoeb checked in for his flight with Air Canada from Toronto to San Francisco on July 6 — but his travel plans were scrapped after he was denied boarding due to visa issues. And it was a situation only made worse when he learned his cats, Mimi and Bubba, were sent to SFO anyways.
