SF News Day Around the Bay: Tú Lan Gets Added to SF Legacy Business Registry The Millennium Tower is apparently tilting another three inches every year, Recology might owe you more Nuru bribe refund money, and Julia Child’s favorite SF Vietnamese restaurant Tú Lan has received a Legacy Business designation.
Bay Area Sports Casinos Took a Bath Over Draymond’s Seven-Second Performance, as Clever Betters Took the Under in Prop Bets Turns out the house doesn’t always win, as a few bettors with quick fingers bilked online sportsbooks for a sum reportedly in the millions Sunday, when the Warriors announced Draymond Green would only play for a few seconds.
SF News Real-World Study By UCSF Finds BinaxNOW Rapid Test Picks Up 95% of Highly Infectious Omicron Cases A fresh study by UCSF researchers based on data from a walk-up test site in San Francisco found that Abbott's popular BinaxNOW rapid antigen test picked up nearly all of the most highly infectious cases of the Omicron variant, indicating it is a highly useful test for preventing spread of the virus.
SF News Chronicle Republishes Outdated, Unreliable Chart On How Long Different Masks Work The SF Chronicle today published what attempts to be the umpteenth definitive guide on different mask types. But the information is based on earlier variants and should not be taken as gospel.
SF News Suspicious, Unpermitted COVID-19 Testing Sites Pop Up in SF, Draw Legal Scrutiny The SF City Attorney’s Office says that "unlawful, fly-by-night facilities" hawking COVID tests were allegedly operating at Dolores Park, Golden Gate Park, and elsewhere in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Soul Food Destination Brown Sugar Kitchen Has Permanently Closed A nearly 15-year ride that made chef Tanya Holland a soul food celebrity has come to an end, as Brown Sugar Kitchen announces it will not be reopening its doors after its holiday hiatus.
SF News SF City Officials Won't Order Any New COVID Restrictions; Private Healthcare Networks Need to Do More Testing A morning press briefing by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and other city officials didn't bode well given the massive surge in new COVID cases. But in a reversal from earlier, less-dramatic case surges, no new restrictions on business activities are being ordered.
SF News Bay Area Cases See Huge Spike After NYE; Poll Finds 9 in 10 Americans Know Someone Who's Had COVID The numbers of new recorded COVID cases are now reflecting New Year's Eve celebrations, and across the Bay Area, cases took a huge vertical jump on Monday, with significant new totals coming from the East Bay and South Bay.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sonoma County Issues Ban on Large Gatherings Sonoma County just became the first local county to issue new lockdown orders, Newsom is proposing a gas tax "holiday," and a San Jose NYE party has been identified as a likely super-spreader event.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Coho Salmon Return to Marin Watershed The SF Film Critics Circle gave out its awards on Sunday, Hayward Unified could be in trouble for going all remote, and wild coho salmon have returned in big numbers this season to West Marin to spawn in the Lagunitas watershed.
SF News U.S. Mint Now Rolling Out Quarters That Have Maya Angelou On Them Change is coming, as Maya Angelou is now officially the first Black woman to be featured on a U.S. quarter, and the first batch of her 25-cent pieces rolled out of the U.S. Mint Monday.
SF News CA's COVID Test Positivity Hits New High of 22%; Peak Hospitalizations May Come In Three Weeks One in five COVID tests being administered statewide in California is coming back positive, a new high for the pandemic now in its fourth or fifth major wave, depending on who's counting. And hospitalizations in this winter surge are likely to peak later than they did last winter.
SF News Body of Missing Truckee Man Found Miles From Ski Area Where He'd Parked The remains of 43-year-old skier Rory Angelotta, who went missing on Christmas Day, have been recovered. But his body was found quite far from the Northstar resort where he had been skiing that day.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Announces 2022 Lineup With Metallica and Pink for Memorial Day Weekend, Tickets On Sale Tuesday It’s back to Memorial Day Weekend for the Napa Valley music festival BottleRock, and tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday, with Metallica, Pink, and Twenty One Pilots headlining.
Arts & Entertainment Small Memorial For Bob Saget Takes Shape Outside 'Full House' House On Monday, mourning fans were already gathering for selfies and leaving flowers outside the "Full House house" on Broderick Street, the exterior of which was used in the show and its unfortunate Netflix reboot.
SF News Very Good Dog Lost In Caldor Fire Turns Up Alive In the Snow, More Than Four Months After Disappearing Meet Russ, the pit bull-terrier mix who somehow fended for himself in South Lake Tahoe for several months after being separated from his family in the Caldor fire, but was found alive and is now reunited with his humans.
SF News [Update] SF COVID Testing Melts Down Even More, Testing Sites Cut Back Hours Amidst Staffing Shortage San Francisco COVID-19 testing sites are cutting back their hours at the worst possible time, as the Department of Public Health announces reduced hours at four of the city's largest mass-testing sites.
SF News UCSF's Dr. Bob Wachter Details His Son's Recent COVID Infection, His Own Worry While UCSF Department of Medicine Chair Dr. Bob Wachter has mostly been a sunny and optimistic voice through the pandemic, he sounds a bit shaken by a case of Omicron that hit close to home: his 28-year-old son.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Zynga Gets Acquired By NY-Based Game Maker Both Pfizer and Moderna say they're working on Omicron-specific vaccines, mobile game maker Zynga has been acquired by a New York company, and Klay Thompson made a triumphant return to the court last night — and Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider was in the stands.
SF News Newsom Proposes $2.7B Budget Expansion for COVID-19 Response — Where Would All That Money Go? Newsom on Saturday unveiled the 2022 to 2023 budget proposal, which includes $2.7B in COVID-19-related funding, a billion dollars more than last year when $1.7B was allotted for pandemic response and relief; a good amount of the proposed funds will go toward ramping up and streamlining testing.
SF News San Francisco Is Overwhelmed by 911 Calls; Hundreds of City Workers Out Due to COVID-19 Reasons Mayor Breed shared on Twitter Friday that hundreds of City workers were either sick with COVID-19 or are isolating from a potential exposure—a tweet followed a day later by the SF Department of Emergency Management urging residents to only call 911 "for life-threatening medical emergencies.”
Sponsored LA & SF Moves Drove CA’s Second Ever Decline in Year-to-Year Population, State Officials Announce State officials released reports December 2021 confirming that California’s population has been declining over the past year for the second time ever since it became a state in 1850. Nine of the
SF News Sunday Links: Deadly Four-Car Crash Shuts Down Eastbound I-80 Lanes in East Bay A multi-car accident caused massive delays along I-80 in San Pablo this morning, Klay Thompson will make his return to the Warriors inside the Chase Center Sunday night, and it looks like next week will be rain-free.
SF News Moderna CEO Says Second Booster Will Be Needed Come Fall; SF Doctors Suggest Creating More 'Targeted' Vaccines First Supplemental doses of COVID-19 vaccines — a.k.a. "booster shots" — slowly lose their efficacy over time. But, instead of just getting another jab of the same inoculation, medical professionals are suggesting newer, more variant-specific COVID-19 vaccines should be developed first.
SF News Saturday Links: Pleasanton Makes Restaurants Remove Parklets for Street Cleaning Many outdoor dining areas in downtown Pleasanton were removed Friday for street cleaning purposes, Newsom activated the state's National Guard to support COVID-19 testing capacities, and it's official: Oakland's own Amy Schneider has become the first woman to win more than $1M on "Jeopardy!."
