Arts & Entertainment
Legendary California Painter Wayne Thiebaud Has Died at 101
Thiebaud’s paintings of cakes, pinball machines, and cityscapes have fetched up to $40 million, and the painter who passed away on Christmas Day.
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Low Temp In San Francisco Could Dip Below 40 Degrees Tuesday For the First Time Since 2017
Some very cold air is descending on the Bay Area this week ahead of another storm system, and all signs point to Tuesday morning likely being the chilliest that San Francisco has seen in four years.
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Daily New COVID Cases In SF the Highest Recorded Since January
While the data from the city remains five days behind, San Francisco is experiencing a COVID surge right now that will likely eclipse last winter's in sheer numbers — but hopefully not in hospitalizations or deaths.
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Monday Morning Headlines: Airlines Continue Canceling Flights Due to COVID
The Tahoe area continues to be mostly impassable due to snow, a power outage early this morning halted BART service to SFO, and airlines continue to cancel hundreds of flights per day due to COVID-related staffing shortages.
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Map From National Weather Service Shows Where We Might Get Snow in Bay Area Next Week
Late Saturday night and early Sunday morning saw snowflakes fall on some of the Bay Area's highest peaks. But even frozen precipitation is expected as soon as Tuesday, a good amount of that snow piling up in lower elevations, as well.
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Glide Sees Hundreds Enjoy Free Christmas Day Meals Amid Another Pandemic-Defined Year
Continuing its decades-long tradition of serving free holiday feasts, volunteers dished out over 600 free Christmas morning meals at Glide Memorial Church yesterday — many of those meals enjoyed underneath tents set up along Ellis Street.
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Sunday Links: Santa Cruz Had White Christmas As Temperatures Plunged
Hundreds of flights either leaving from or coming into the United States have already been canceled Sunday, the China Beach bathhouse is getting a $20M renovation, and a mixture of freezing temperatures and steady precipitation made for a snowy Christmas night in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Oakland Marks 134th Homicide With Shooting at Lake Merritt on Christmas Eve
Around 8:15 p.m. Friday, Oakland police responded to a cul-de-sac near Lake Merritt that has been the scene of multiple violent incidents this year, and found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
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Christmas Day Stocking Stuffer: More Rain Expected Throughout Holiday Weekend
Rain is forecasted to keep pouring down today and into early next week, a few Bay Area holiday pop-up bars will open later today, and… merry Christmas!
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Day Around the Bay: Gasoline Spill in Fremont Causes 100 Homes to Evacuate
An overturned trailer spilled gasoline on I-680 in Fremont this morning, it's going to be a wet Christmas across the Bay Area tomorrow, and over 3,800 flights were canceled globally today as Omicron continues surging across the world.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Sonoma County Farm ‘Strikes Black Truffle Gold’ After Nearly a Decade of Trying
After nine years and millions invested in trying, a family has grown the first-ever black truffle to sprout in Geyserville, and these Sonoma County truffles may soon be a mainstay in northern California fine dining.
Arts & Entertainment
This SF-Invented Toy is Getting Its Own Animated TV Series
Fidget toy the Tangle was invented in 1980 here in the city, and 250 million units sold later, will be anthropomorphized into the the star of an upcoming animated children’s television show.
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Pier 39 Sports Bar a Textbook Example of How Government Screwed Up COVID Relief for Restaurants
The feds offered $28.6 billion in grants to struggling restaurants this summer. Then they yanked the carpet out from restaurants that had already been awarded the money, and gave it to chains like Panera instead.
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Supervisors Give Breed Her Tenderloin Emergency Declaration in Late-Night 12:30 a.m. Christmas Eve Vote
London Breed got her Tenderloin ‘State of Emergency’ declaration approved by the Board of Supervisors, in a contentious ten-and-a-half hour meeting that stretched into the early hours of Christmas Eve.
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Christmas Eve Constitutional: Bay Area Hospitals Prep For Omicron Surge
I-680 was shut down last night due to a freeway shooting, a teacher's union in the East Bay threatens to strike, and Bay Area hospitals say they are prepared for a looming Omicron surge — even though hospitalizations are likely to be fewer than last year.
Arts & Entertainment
Mission District Fire Station With Snow Machine, Giant Santa, and Minions Wins SFFD Holiday Decorations Contest
The votes are in, and the 25th Street fire station with a snow machine has won the 2021 San Francisco Fire Station Holiday Decorations Contest in a white-out.
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Day Around the Bay: United Cancels Over 165 Christmas Eve Flights Due to Omicron
The Elizabeth Holmes jury still had no verdict today and will continue deliberating Monday, a body found in Napa is likely that of a missing woman, and United Airlines canceled over 100 flights Friday due to Omicron cases among employees.
Arts & Entertainment
Mayor London Breed Has a Cameo in ‘The Matrix Resurrections’
Keep an eye out for SF mayor London Breed making a brief appearance near the end of ‘The Matrix Resurrections,’ and yes, she is wearing goth black leather and high-fashion sunglasses.
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Sacramento Woman Pleads Guilty to Knocking Out Flight Attendant's Teeth
In one of the — grossly — many cases of assaults on flight attendants during this pandemic because Americans don't know how to behave, a Sacramento woman has pleaded guilty to punching a flight attendant on a Southwest flight in May.
Business & Tech
Fancy Las Vegas Gadget Convention CES Is Still On, Despite Omicron, and Absolutely Everyone Pulling Out
Organizers of the usually trend-setting trade show CES are determined to play chicken with surging COVID-19 case rates, but their biggest brands and keynote speakers are dropping out minute by minute.
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Two Found Dead In Flood-Submerged Vehicle On Low-Lying Street In Millbrae
Two people were found deceased Thursday morning inside a vehicle that became submerged in rapidly rising waters on a Millbrae Street, amid heavy rain.
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36-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Fatal Skateboard Beating of Homeless Man, And It’s Not His First Time, Either
This is the second skateboard beating charge for Joshua Stroman of Oakland, and this one was fatal, making it Oakland’s 131st homicide of the year — the most since 2012.
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San Francisco Offering Drop-In Booster Shots at Four Locations
As Omicron appears to be driving a spike in daily new cases in the city and across the country, the San Francisco Department of Public Health is shouting from the rooftops to get everyone a booster shot.
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Thursday Morning What's Up: Big Rig Falls Off East Bay Overpass
A big rig plunged off an overpass onto a road below in Lafayette this morning, a Jewish house of worship was possibly torched in San Jose, and Oakland Airport was already very busy first thing this morning.
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Day Around the Bay: Central Subway Supposedly Opening in Fall 2022
The Warriors have COVID problems, the SF Gay Men’s Chrous had to cancel its Christmas show, and — stop me if you’ve heard this — the long-delayed Central Subway is supposed to be coming soon.