SF News San Francisco to Go Full Steam Ahead With Second Monkeypox Shots The San Francisco Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that everyone who got their first monkeypox shots more than 28 days prior can start getting their second doses next week.
SF Politics Assembly Passes Newsom’s ‘CARE Court’ Proposal to Let Judges Determine Mental Health Plans San Francisco would be one of the first counties under the jurisdiction of Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court bill, which is cruising through the state legislature with big momentum, despite questions whether it’s just ineffective and hostile bureaucracy.
SF News Activists Still Occupying Shuttered Oakland Elementary School, District Vows to Crack Down An East Oakland elementary school that was closed down in June has drawn a months-long sit-in protest and occupation, but the school district insists they've had enough of all this, claiming one occupier was carrying “what appears to be a firearm.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Many SF Restaurant and Bar Parklets Could Be Gone By Spring With new rules, mandated alterations, and fees looming, you can expect to see some of San Francisco's plethora of pandemic parklets disappear in the next six to eight months.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire In Bret Harte Neighborhood Leaves One Firefighter Injured, Three Displaced A fire broke out at a home in the Bret Harte neighborhood, south of the Bayview District early Wednesday, and it has caused damage to at least two homes and left one firefighter injured.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Updated Boosters From Pfizer & Moderna Cleared By FDA The FDA has cleared both Pfizer's and Moderna's updated COVID vaccines targeting new variants, a mechanical bridge into the Delta in Solano County is stuck in the "up" position, and asking rents in SF are up 11% since last August.
SF News Day Around the Bay: We Appear to Have the First U.S. Monkeypox Death A missing Solano Community College grad has been found, people are still choosing to swim in algae-infested waters, and it appears we have the first confirmed monkeypox death in the United States.
Arts & Entertainment A New Bushman Has Arrived to Terrify Unsuspecting Fisherman’s Wharf Tourists Again There’s a new Bushman in town — with a far better costume and a powerful Youtube presence — resurrecting a legendary SF street performance act that dates back more than 40 years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outta Sight Pizza Preps Slice Shop Opening, Will Remain at Fig & Thistle Wine Bar as Evening Pop-Up A big update for pizza fans in general and fans of Outta Sight Pizza in particular: The promised slice shop on Larkin Street near Civic Center is set to open any day now, but the Hayes Valley wine bar pop-up you've come to love isn't shutting down.
SF News King and Queen of the Netherlands Heading to the Castro Next Week On Educational Tour Symbolic monarchs King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands will pop into the Castro on Tuesday (Twin Peaks Tavern, even!), so expect a little more security than usual that morning.
SF News Wheelchair on BART Tracks In SF Leads to Major, Systemwide Delays A wheelchair that ended up on the tracks at Civic Center Station in San Francisco led to single-tracking of trains through the city on Monday starting just before noon.
SF News Hate Crime Charges for Homeless Mountain View Woman Who Allegedly Attacked Teen Wearing Headscarf A July 1 incident where an unsheltered woman allegedly strangled a teen in a hijab and called her a “terrorist” will be heard as a hate crime in a Santa Clara County courthouse today.
SF Politics Not Going Down Without a Fight, Supe Candidate Leanna Louie Is Now Suing the City Would-be District 4 supervisorial candidate Leanna Louie held herself a rally/press conference Tuesday morning to announce that she is suing the city over being struck from the November ballot over residency issues.
SF News Feds Issue Warning About 'Rainbow Fentanyl' Hitting the Streets There's some candy-colored, "rainbow fentanyl" now circulating out there, and federal authorities issued a warning that the deadly drug may be being marketed more to kids.
Bay Area Sports Lights Go Down At Giants Game, Journey Sing-Along Ensues A lighting malfunction at Monday night’s Giants-Padres game delayed play for about 40 minutes, but a spontaneous mass-karaoke version of Journey’s “When the Lights Go Down in the City” broke out.
SF News Elderly Woman Dies, Two Hospitalized After Nursing Home Serves Them Dishwashing Detergent A 93-year-old woman is dead and two residents of a San Mateo assisted living facility are in the hospital after all three were mistakenly served dishwashing liquid to drink.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Monkeypox Case Turns Up at North Bay High School A pedestrian was killed on 101 in Sausalito this morning leading to lane closures, a student at a Rohnert Park high school was found to have monkeypox, and a Walnut Creek man has been charged after alleged hidden camera installations at a Starbucks.
Business & Tech 15 Best Interior Design Companies in SF Known for our architecture, San Francisco has been named among the world's 50 prettiest cities (Flight Network) and in fact as the #1 most beautiful city in the USA (Gogobot). From Victorians to
SF News Day Around the Bay: This Could Be the Hottest Labor Day Weekend Since 2017 A 13-year-old was shot and wounded by a 12-year-old today at an Oakland school, a truck crash on I-80 in Vacaville dumped a whole lot of tomatoes, and we could be in for a very hot Labor Day Weekend in SF and around the Bay.
Arts & Entertainment 10 Best Burning Man 2022 Art Projects and Curiosities (So Far), as the Event is Now Underway It’s already Day Two of Burning Man 2022, and thanks to a bunch of Burners taking their beloved Starlink satellite internet kits with them, they’re online and we can see what’s been built in Black Rock City this year.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Will Not Be Traded, Staying With 49ers One More Year Instead of being traded, 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo will be the highest-paid backup QB in the NFL, albeit with a nearly $18 million pay cut.
SF News Another 'Straight Pride' Event Terrorizes Modesto, Met With Larger Counter-Protest It's 2016 all over again in the Central Valley, where a group of entrenched bigots continue to want to hold annual "Straight Pride" events in Modesto to rile up the libs and get media attention.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao Reopening at Last, In Mid-September It's been two and a half years without Kin Khao in Union Square — though Dogpatch residents had a brief pop-up to enjoy that ended last summer — but now the Michelin-starred Thai restaurant is returning at last.
SF News SF Paramedics Describe Attack By Crazed Man In SoMa Who Chased Them With Their Own Ambulance Two San Francisco Fire Department paramedics say they were attacked this morning by a crazed individual at the edge of the Mission District near Division Street, first with the man smashing the windshield of the ambulance with a wooden stake.
Arts & Entertainment Transgender District Celebrates Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Anniversary With ’Riot Party’ Part party, part riot, part gala, Sunday night’s second annual Riot Party helped close out Transgender History Month, and commemorated the 56th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, an early turning point in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.
