SF News The ‘Linkage Center’ at the Heart of Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration Has Opened An office building at U.N. Plaza is now the treatment services headquarters of Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration, which opened today with hopes of addressing the opioid and overdose situation in the TL.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Arguello Space In Presidio to Become New Mexican Restaurant From Colibri Restaurateur The restaurateur behind the former Colibri Mexican Bistro near Union Square, as well as Zazil Cocina Mexicana and El Jardin at San Jose's Santana Row, has signed a deal to take over two spaces at the Presidio, including the former Arguello space at the Presidio Officers' Club.
SF News Vigil Tonight at Portsmouth Square For Bay Area Woman Pushed In Front of New York Subway A candlelight vigil is planned for Tuesday evening in San Francisco's Chinatown to mourn the death of 40-year-old Michelle Go, a native of the East Bay who was killed Saturday when she was pushed in front of an oncoming subway train in New York's Times Square.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Mateo County Leaves PPE Out In the Rain San Mateo County left $7 million in PPE out to get soaked in the rain, Kaiser workers protest the fact that they don't get MLK Day as a paid holiday, and a video has gone viral of a FedEx package being hurled at a door in SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Shoved In Front of NY Subway Was East Bay Native A woman who was fatally pushed in front of a NY subway grew up in Fremont, some high school students in Oakland are planning to boycott school over COVID safety concerns, and Warriors minority owner Chamath Palihapitiya once again proved himself a charmer saying "nobody cares" about the Uyghurs.
Business & Tech Tesla Self-Driving Called Out in Full-Page NYT Ad, Which Claims ‘Millions Would Die Every Day’ if Universally Adopted A full-page ad in Sunday’s New York Times declares “We did not sign up our families to be crash test dummies for thousands of Tesla cars,” but the ad is affiliated with a rival self-driving software company.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge Lines Mark Opening Weekend at Chef Matt Horn’s New Chicken Spot Kowbird People lined up as early as 7 a.m. on opening day and the lines continued through the weekend at chef Matt Horn’s ballyhooed new chicken sandwich spot Kowbird.
SF News Donate Food and Supplies For Tongan Relief By 4PM Tuesday; Local Ship Sets Sail For Tonga This Week It has been a tense two days in the aftermath of the volcanic eruption near Tonga on Saturday, because an undersea cable that provides the island with all of its phone and internet service was severed, and communications with islanders have been slim to none.
Arts & Entertainment Google Marks Betty White's 100th With Easter Egg; Fans Donate to Animal Shelters Google has a little Easter egg in the search engine today to honor Betty White on what would have been her 100th birthday — had she not been taken from us *too soon* on New Year's Eve.
SF News Latest French Bulldog Theft Adds Insult to Injury, as Suspects Return to Steal Victim’s Car A grandmother attempted to battle off armed suspects with her cane, but they stole a purse and a French bulldog anyway, and then found her daughter's house and stole her Mercedes-Benz.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Stiff-Arm Cowboys for 23-17 Playoff Win, Face Packers Saturday Night Mission Street revelry returned to SF Sunday night, after the 49ers survived a bizarre ending to upset the Dallas Cowboys and position themselves for another possible Super Bowl run.
SF News We May Be Masking Up Indoors Again Next Winter, and the Next As signs point to the Omicron peak already having passed in San Francisco — with case counts falling, as predicted, after a post-holiday surge — we look to the endemic phase of COVID with some trepidation about future variants.
SF News Minnelusa, the Cat Stolen In a Car Break-In Last Month In Cow Hollow, Has Been Found Safe and Returned Home One Southern California couple's beloved pet, who joined their house during the pandemic, has been found safe and returned to her family.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Remembering MLK's Last Bay Area Speech There's a car caravan marking MLK Day in Oakland, a suspected DUI driver was arrested in Sonoma after a crash that killed a 16-year-old boy, and the Chronicle has a photo essay about Dr. King's last big Bay Area speech at UC Berkeley.
SF News San Francisco Landmarks Light Up Red and Gold Ahead of 49ers Playoff Game Before today's game against the Dallas Cowboys, various San Francisco structures glowed red and gold last night to show the city’s collective support of the 49ers going into Sunday's playoff game.
SF News Sunday Links: San Francisco Fire Department Rescues Surfer at Kelly's Cove SF firefighters were deployed to Kelly's Cove after a group of surfers was spotted in distress, there's a startup that will pay Bay Area residents in cryptocurrency to monitor air quality readings, and a growing number of local companies are requiring employees to receive booster shots.
SF News Photos: Tongan Tsunami Floods Social Media With Videos, Pictures As It Made Landfall Across Bay Area After an explosion at Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano triggered a global tsunami warning — the blast likely the most violent eruption ever captured by satellite — deep waves of displaced water began traveling toward the Bay Area in what was the region's most threatening tsunamic event in a decade.
SF News Financial District Sees Estimated 20% Drop in Foot Traffic Since Omicron Was First Recorded in SF Just when things were looking up for local commerce, Omicron made its way into San Francisco — taking the city more than a few steps back in its financial recovery from the pandemic. Fast forward over a month later, and car and foot traffic in downtown SF are still anemic.
SF News Tsunami From Tongan Volcano Produces Flooding At Santa Cruz Harbor; More Surges Expected The impacts of a tsunami stemming from the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on Saturday morning are expected to go on for several hours around the Bay Area, with some of the first harbor flooding seen in Santa Cruz.
SF News Saturday Links: Tsunami Advisory Issued for San Francisco The National Weather Service issued a Tsunami Advisory for various parts of NorCal Saturday morning, SF Symphony’s performance schedule next week is TBD after members of the orchestra tested positive for COVID-19, and… the world’s oceans are hotter than they’ve ever been in recent history.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Whack Vallejo Councilmember Firing Off Profanity-Laced Emails to Constituents “Weird Al” is coming to SF in June, the Prop I high-end real estate tax hike is expected to bring in an extra $170 million a year, and a dispensary-owning Vallejo city councilmember has been blazing off profane emails to constituents.
SF News Friday Morning’s ‘Bike Bus’ Drew More Than 100 Kids and Parents, and May Start a New Monthly Cycle One dad’s vision has turned into a pedal-powered Critical Mass for kids, as the second iteration drew more than triple the number than last month’s morning bike meetup.
Arts & Entertainment In Its History, SF's Conservatory of Flowers Has Burned Down Twice, and Was Nearly Destroyed By a Windstorm In 1995 The history of the grand Victorian greenhouse in Golden Gate Park that has served as the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers since 1879 is kind of crazy, and it's had to be rebuilt three times already.
Arts & Entertainment Edwardian Ball Postponed and ‘Twelfth Night’ Cancels Remaining Shows, as Omicron Upends Bay Area Activities It’s beginning to feel a lot like 2020 again, as more shows cancel and postpone, and several MLK Day celebrations Monday are cancelled too.
SF News You Can Now Be Sent a Text Warning That Your Car Is About to Be Towed In SF San Francisco has just launched a first-of-its kind program that allows car owners — in certain illegal parking situations — to avoid costly tows via a text warning. But some warnings might only come a few minutes before the car gets towed.
