SF News Dr. Wachter Is Going Back Inside Restaurants, Which Maybe Means the Pandemic Is Finally Over? Barring further, unforeseen variants, COVID-19 may finally be relegated to still-sometimes-deadly seasonal nuisance — now that President Biden proclaimed that "the pandemic is over," and now that our own UCSF soothsayer Dr. Bob Wachter is ready to go back to indoor dining.
SF News Kidnapping Hoaxster Sherri Papini Sentenced to 18 Months In Prison Over 2016 Fake Abduction The “Dateline”-y saga of Sherri Papini came to a close in a U.S. District Court Monday morning, as her 2016 kidnapping hoax netted her a year and a half behind bars, which is more than twice the sentence the prosecutors were seeking.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy GQ Looks Gorgeous In Glorious (But Unexpected) Return, as 49ers Spank Seahawks 27-7 We are officially back in the Jimmy Garoppolo era, as quarterback of the future Trey Lance is done for the year with a broken ankle, and Jimmy G was in playoff form as the Niners beat Seattle by 20 points.
SF News BART Broke Down In the Rain Sunday, Transbay Tunnel Shutdown Ensued There were massive delays and a fair bit of chaos in the BART system on Sunday, with some "equipment failures" that happened to coincide with the first rain storm to hit the Bay Area in months.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Rain's Not Over Yet A Sunday homicide in the East Bay was likely linked to road rage, President Biden declares the "pandemic is over," and rain is going to continue sporadically around the Bay Area the next couple of days.
SF News There Was a Food Worker Rally at SFO on Friday That Led to 41 Arrests Rallying together to advocate for better pay, a group of food workers at SFO convened outside Terminal 3 on Friday afternoon, where they were joined by SF and state politicians; many of them were arrested later for blocking traffic.
SF News Bay Area Rainstorm to Give Many Parts 'Double to Quadruple' Their September Rainfall Averages While downtown San Francisco probably won't beat its daily record for rainfall today — 2.01" of rain fell on September 18th in 1959 — many parts of the SF Bay Area will receive precipitation totals that far exceed their historical averages for this month.
SF News Sunday Links: Containment Around Mosquito Fire Increases Significantly Overnight Dog Eared Books' 30th birthday celebration is today, San Francisco has (again) struck down a plan to repurpose an empty parking lot into housing units, and the Mosquito Fire is now 34% contained — a massive improvement from yesterday.
SF News BART Confirms Motorcyclist Was Flung Onto Oakland Railroad Tracks, Died After Being Struck by Train BART acknowledged that the massive delays Friday in downtown Oakland were due to a person being struck on the railroad tracks. It was later confirmed a motorcyclist was involved in a crash and then fell onto the tracks — before being hit by an oncoming train.
SF News Saturday Links: Three People Rescued From Water at China Beach in Separate Incidents The Mosquito Fire in Placer County has burned over 71,000 acres as of Saturday morning, SF is getting 10,000 more monkeypox vaccines, and three people were rescued from the surf at China Beach Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro-Mission Health Center Reopens — With Upgrades A four-alarm vegetation fire caused home damage along I-580 this afternoon, someone was struck by a BART train today, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held yesterday at the reopened (and upgraded) Castro-Mission Health Center.
SF Politics Even if Dems Retain House Majority, They’re Privately Discussing Dumping Pelosi as Speaker Nancy Pelosi had agreed to step down as Speaker of the House in 2022, a promise she’s since backed off from. But some top Democrats say she doesn’t have the votes to stay on, even if Democrats manage to keep the House.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Kinky Boots’ at the Victoria Theatre Towers With Well-Heeled Sets, Costumes, and Performances Ray of Light Theatre’s new production of the Tony-winning “Kinky Boots” is one of the best shows the Victoria Theatre has had in years, with boot-strapped but ambitious sets that take that stage to new heights.
SF News Reminder: You’ve Got One More Week to Give Feedback on Those $20,000 Trash Can Prototypes You SF taxpayers paid big money for those sleek new stainless steel (and very pricey) trash can prototypes, so you might as well get your money’s worth and try ‘em all in these final seven days of the feedback period.
Arts & Entertainment New Circus Show Acrobatically Meld’s Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon' Into ‘The Wizard of Oz’ This weekend’s great gig in the sky is “The Dark Side of the Circus,” which mashes “The Wizard of Oz” into Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon,” but with juggling, acrobats, and pole dancing.
SF News Electrical Fire Investigation Into Central Subway Could Further Delay Its Opening A June electrical fire inside the long-delayed Central Subway system was a lot more dangerous than we’d realized at the time, and its aftermath may push the Central Subway’s opening out to 2023 — a full five years past its original opening date.
SF News 1983 Santa Cruz Murder Case Solved Thanks to New DNA Technology The body of 33-year-old chef and restaurant owner Joette Marie Smith was found floating, caught on a tree limb in the San Lorenzo River in Ben Lomond, in Santa Cruz County, on March 29, 1983.
SF News Parts of San Francisco and the North Bay Could See Over Two Inches of Rain By Monday Local meteorologists are getting very jazzed about this rare September rain system coming our way, thanks to Typhoon Merbok, and this won't be any mere sprinkling.
SF News Five People Injured When Car Plows Through Front Window of East Bay Trader Joe's An elderly driver likely hit the gas pedal instead of the brake and plowed their car into a Trader Joe's store in Castro Valley on Thursday, injuring five people including a small child.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: There Are More Pfizer Booster Shots Out There Than Moderna There were two shootings Thursday during impromptu Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Oakland, supplies of the updated Moderna booster appear delayed around the Bay, and a woman is suing Meta over her Instagram addiction.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Leather Week Is Nigh Upon Us, Starts Sunday With LeatherWalk Confused migrants were dropped at Kamala Harris’s home in a political stunt, Scott Wiener’s death-threat suspect was found guilty, and Sunday’s Leather Pride Fest means street closures, bus reroutes, and a few bare bottoms.
SF News Epic NY Times Feature On San Francisco Fog Makes Case That the Fog Is Slowly Disappearing Everyone’s talking about this new 5,000-word New York Times love letter and research piece about the San Francisco fog, but it describes our fair fog’s cloudy future, as evidence indicates the fog has decreased by a third over the last 50 years or so.
Arts & Entertainment Veteran San Francisco-Based Stage Actor Ken Ruta Dies at Age 89 of COVID Complications Ken Ruta, a highly skilled actor who was a fixture on Bay Area stages for more than five decades, died last month at the age of 89, and his death is only being confirmed by the Chronicle now. The cause was reportedly pneumonia brought on by a summer case of COVID-19.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bad Bunny Brought Party of 80 to San Rafael's Sol Food Restaurant Ahead of Oakland Concert The manager of Sol Food, the Puerto Rican restaurant mini-chain that originated in San Rafael, was very flattered to know that a superstar like PR-born Bad Bunny had found out about his restaurant and brought his entire entourage, dancers and all, in for dinner on Monday night.
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide to Flower Piano 2022, Happening This Weekend In Golden Gate Park The pianos descend on the SF Botanical Garden for five days beginning Friday, and here’s what to see, do, and bring so you can do Flower Piano like a maestro.
