Arts & Entertainment Muttville Encourages San Franciscans to Adopt a Senior Dog While In Isolation Muttville Senior Dog Rescue has had to put 84 dogs into foster homes this week as it temporarily shuts down its adoption events and Alabama Street headquarters, and founder Sherri Franklin is foster 12 dogs at her own home.
SF News Thursday Morning Headlines: Virus Infects Three at Burlingame Nursing Home The State Department is about to tell all Americans abroad to come home, Tesla has cut its workforce in Fremont by 75 percent, and Tulsi Gabbard has finally dropped out of the presidential race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: London Breed Tells CNN 'People Are Making Adjustments' Golden Gate Bridge tolls plummet and bridge officials now want emergency funding, Newsom offers $150M in emergency funding to protect the homeless, and London Breed pushed back on Jake Tapper's calling out of San Francisco for not isolating ourselves enough.
SF News SF Queer Nightlife Fund Launches to Bring Financial Relief to the Community Two days into San Francisco's shelter-in-place order, it’s as clear as ever that our local nightlife community needs our help. Yesterday, some respected SF LGTBQ figures rallied together to launch the city's Queer Nightlife Fund (QNF), which will offer monetary aid to that affected cohort.
SF News Which SF Cannabis Dispensaries are Open, Closed, and Which Ones Deliver The dispensaries are back open! At least, most of them are — here’s a complete list of which marijuana dispensaries are open, closed, and who will deliver to your doorstep.
SF News Why Is Solano County Not Sheltering In Place? The County Health Officer Says It's Not Necessary The one holdout after eight Bay Area counties have issued similar orders, the Solano County health officer, Dr. Bela Matyas, is taking a less prescriptive approach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Locanda Likely Closing For Good, Delfina Hopes to Reopen While Pizzerias Pivot to Delivery In the first of what could be many eulogies for Bay Area restaurants, the owners of the Delfina Restaurant Group say they have laid off many of their 300 employees and they've likely shuttered Locanda for good.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Rescheduled For October; Napa County Issues Shelter-In-Place Order Napa County has issued its own shelter-in-place order for residents, despite there not yet being a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the county. And as of Wednesday, we're learning that BottleRock is being rescheduled to October, to the week before Coachella.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Safeway, Target, and Whole Foods Offering 'Senior Hours' For Older Shoppers Bay Area grocery stores and others are beginning to do their part in allowing senior citizens to shop free and clear of younger people who could be infected with the coronavirus.
SF News Let the Attacks Begin: Right-Wing Radio Host Says SF Is Locked Down Because of 'All the Gay Guys' The Fox News contributor who's filling in on Rush Limbaugh's radio show just did his predictable best to begin the disparagement of San Francisco regarding the coronavirus and our current shelter-in-place order, blaming it all on gay people.
SF News San Franciscans Are Going to Dog Parks and Jogging on the Embarcadero and CNN Is Pissed CNN's Jake Tapper took aim at SF on the broadcast last night, showing a live feed of people strolling and jogging on the Embarcadero as if it were a normal day, and asking Dr. Sanjay Gupta if this was at all acceptable.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's What We Know That's Open in SF For Your Essential and Takeout Needs The more you spend into the local economy via takeout and delivery (as opposed to just shopping at Safeway and Whole Foods), the more chance there is that San Francisco will emerge recognizable from all this, and not with a city full of vacant businesses.
SF Politics SF Supe Wants to Turn Vacant Building at Center of Scandal Into Homeless Shelter; Newsom Leases Two Oakland Hotels for Shelters Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing more than 900 hotels statewide to house the homeless and halt the spread of coronavirus, while Supervisor Dean Preston has a similar plan for the scandal-plagued 555 Fulton development.
SF News Photos: The Mission District on the Eve of Sheltering in Place Hours before San Francisco's shelter-in-place order was enacted, a nonchalant stroll through the Mission District proved eerily quiet, void of heavy foot traffic, and peppered with signs explaining why various restaurants or businesses were closed amid city-wide coronavirus concerns.
Business & Tech Coronavirus Vaccine Begins Testing On Volunteers In Seattle An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by a Massachusetts-based biotech company along with the National Institutes for Health has officially begun being tested in humans.
SF News UCSF Doctor With COVID-19: 'I Felt Just a Little Sick' An emergency room physician at UCSF tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Saturday, and he's now opening up about his symptoms, anxieties, and general state of mind on Medium.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Announces Sick-Leave Fund For Minimum-Wage Workers People in SF are panic-shopping and they shouldn't be, Safeway is hiring 2,000 new employees in the face of all this shopping, a young girl was gravely wounded by a car in the Tenderloin, and the Census Bureau has a new task force to make sure the virus doesn't lead to an under-count.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Most Farmers' Markets to Remain Open as Essential Services During Lockdown Period During the upcoming shelter-in-place period, it appears that, like grocery stores, most or all the Bay Area's farmers' markets will keep running on their usual schedules in San Francisco and elsewhere, albeit with some extra protocols in place.
SF News BART Will Keep Running During Shelter-In-Place Period As of today, BART is committing to keeping its trains running during the three-week mandatory shelter-in-place order in the Bay Area in order to help residents to do essential travel.
Arts & Entertainment Mel Brooks and Son Max Offer Up Some Levity In PSA About Social Distancing This is another turning-point day in the unfolding pandemic crisis in the U.S., but hopefully there will be more of this in the coming weeks to help keep us sane.
SF News Lockdown is Here: Bay Areawide ‘Shelter in Place’ Orders Go Into Effect at Midnight Bay Area residents are officially being urged not to leave their homes, with very few exceptions “for essential outings,” in San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, and San Mateo Counties, starting at midnight tonight.
SF News California to Use Hotels and Motels to Shelter Homeless During Pandemic Without offering many specifics about the plan, Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday said that private hotels and motels were being "procured" in order to provide emergency shelter and isolation space for the homeless amid the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Sonoma County and Others Begin Imagining Fire Season With Coronavirus Given that we do not know how long the coronavirus pandemic will remain a threat in the Bay Area — or if it may decelerate and resurge later in the year the way influenzas do — cities and counties have to begin planning for fire season in an entirely new way.
SF News Inbound SFO Passengers Not Facing Any Special Screening After stories Sunday of extremely long lines at a number of U.S. airports as international travelers waited for special Customs screenings, Customs at SFO was apparently business as usual today.
SF News Grand Princess Cruise Ship Expected to Leave Port of Oakland Tonight, Will Temporarily Anchor in SF Bay After docking for nearly a week at Port of Oakland's Outer Harbor Terminal, the coronavirus-stricken cruise ship is set to leave the boatyard tonight and temporarily anchor in the San Francisco Bay.
