datb day around the bay

The City gets about 20,000 311 calls a month for street and sidewalk cleaning requests, the F.D.A has officially authorized Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in children between the ages of 5 to 11 years old, and SF's average price for regular unleaded gasoline is now at $4.84 per gallon.

The National Weather Service has issued a Bay Area-wide Wind Advisory for Sunday, five NorCal counties are suing PG&E over the Dixie Fire, and no: Target isn't closing its Metreon location.

The body belonging to a 28-year-old SF man who went missing kayaking on Clear Lake has been found, there could be light rain coming our way Sunday, and Questlove is coming to the Castro in November for a screening of ‘Summer of Soul.'

Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park is set to get a much-needed restoration, Newsom signed State Bill 389 into law (which legalized to-go cocktails), and City Hall will glow orange Saturday night — Beat LA!

The Sue Bierman Park was damaged in a fire Thursday, there's a Spare the Air Alert scheduled for tomorrow, and more than 700,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 so far — making it the country’s deadliest pandemic in history.

More light rain is predicted to come our way again as early as Monday, here’s your reminder that the Folsom Street Fair (a.k.a. "Megahood2021”) is Sunday, and the Fremont Festival of the Arts has been canceled.

A “coyote awareness education" program has begun in Moraga, Flower Piano is underway at Golden Gate Park this weekend (and into early next week), and it's official: at least four giant sequoia groves — home to some of the largest trees on this planet — have started burning.

San Jose is expected to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for City employees, Apple continues its tug-of-war with neighbors of a homeless encampment in San Jose, and the CDC has new data showing that unvaccinated individuals are 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than those who've been vaccinated.

Market Daze is set to become Oakland’s first city-permitted cannabis festival over the long weekend, CA cyclists could soon have the option to treat stop signs at times as yield signs, and Santa Clara County will open in-person voting stations this weekend for the gubernatorial recall election.

Fairyland in Oakland turned 71 years old today, Situ at SFMOMA has permanently closed, and as firefighters continue battling the Caldor Fire, one new containment measure is being considered: to merge it with the Tamarack Fire.

A small team at SF's I.T. Bookman Community Center helped 1,500 individuals get to vaccine appointments, Dog Eared Books in the Castro will soon reopen as a different bookshop called Fabulosa Books, and there’s a brand-new campground on the SF Bay you can pitch a tent at now.

Outside Lands announced its food and drink partners today, at least 13 American soldiers died during Thursday’s attack outside the Kabul airport, and California could soon require anyone who wants to enter inside certain public areas to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

One person was hospitalized after a police shooting in Oakland, August is now Transgender History Month in San Francisco, and headway was made containing the Dixie Fire — California's largest single-source wildfire in history — with at least 45% of it now under control.

The man killed in a Portola District shooting last week was identified, new data from OpenTable indicates that dining in SF restaurants is down 16% compared to last month, and SF Unified School District is spending $2.9M on air purifiers.

The FDA is expected to give full authorization to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine next week, all of the San Francisco Public Library's branches have reopened for in-person services, and wildfire smoke continues creating "unhealthy" levels of airborne pollutants in the Bay Area.

The 2020 Census confirmed Oakland’s population growth is racing past its housing stock, the Dixie Fire continues to grow (now measuring over 678,369 acres), and OnlyFans announced today that it will soon ban pornographic videos on the platform.

Sisters Coffee Shop has officially opened in the Mission District, a new study published Friday shows that the West Coast wildfires may have caused thousands of COVID-19 infections, and the 2020 census proved that California is growing and diversifying — including the City of Berkeley.

An air quality advisory has been issued throughout the Bay Area until Saturday, President Biden extended the pause on student loan payments, and Jon Jacobo — the current health chair of the Latino Task Force, who also serves as a commissioner for San Francisco — has been accused of rape.

San Francisco police are looking for a box truck that struck a man in the Western Addition late Thursday night, Disney is requiring nonunion employees in the United States to be fully vaccinated, and at least 43 trees could be cut down in San Jose — just to make way for two digital billboards.

There's a small chance of dry lightning early next week, Monterey's beloved (and pun-filled) Artichoke Festival is slated to return this weekend, and all Stanford students enrolled in the fall semester must now show proof of vaccination before returning to class.

The National Weather Service put parts of the Bay Area under a Fire Weather Watch for this weekend, a small plane crash in Napa killed three people, and Uber was fined $59M last year — but could now get away virtually scot-free.

There’s a shortage of Bay Area therapists conducting in-person sessions, a fire on the seventh floor of the Boyd Hotel around 10:49 a.m. Friday left one person hospitalized, and California's $600 pandemic stimulus checks are finally coming to low-income families and individuals.

SF is set to close all its remaining mass vaccination sites by July 14, UC Berkeley intends to hold an in-person graduation ceremony for the class of 2020 at the Greek Theatre, and former police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.