SF News San Francisco Finally Says Yes, You Can Take Your Masks Off on June 15 (Except on Muni) Business owners around the city have been waiting patiently to find out whether mask rules and capacity limits would actually be lifted in San Francisco when they are in the rest of the state on June 15. And now we know.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Cal/OSHA May Change Its Mind About Masks at Work At the urging of the state health officer Cal/OSHA may reconsider its guidance about masks in the workplace, an SF mother describes a robbery at gunpoint in the Mission, and Apple employees are grumbling about having to go into the office three days a week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Finds 16 More Pounds of Fentanyl In Oakland Bust The SFPD just seized a lot more illegal fentanyl and other drugs in an Oakland bust, an SF man was arrested for a May assault on an elderly woman on the Embarcadero, and food trucks are returning to downtown along with a trickle of office workers.
SF Politics SF Building Inspector Under Fire For Secretive $180,000 Loan from Developer He was Inspecting A senior inspector at the SF Department of Building Inspection “has been placed on administrative leave” over a $180,000 loan from a developer he was tasked with inspecting. One of the properties he may have inappropriately approved is, literally, a payday loan shop.
Arts & Entertainment Legoland Discovery Center Debuts In South Bay, Complete With Miniaturized Bay Area Northern California's first Legoland Discovery Center opened today in Milpitas, and it comes with its own 4D cinema, hands-on workshops, and a miniaturized diorama of San Francisco and Bay Area landmarks that took 45 builders and 1.5 million bricks to construct.
SF News Onetime SF Socialite Ann Miller, Who Left the City to Become a Nun 30 Years Ago, Dies at 92 A wealthy San Francisco socialite who hobnobbed with Nancy Reagan, claimed Phyllis Diller as a friend, and collected loads of designer shoes before giving everything up to take a vow of silence and become a nun, has died. She was 92.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Nightclub Oasis Is Set to Reopen In Time For Pride Weekend Fresh from a remodel and ready to welcome in crowds again, Oasis is preparing to host its grand reopening party on June 26, the Saturday of Pride weekend, and a Sunday rooftop day party for Pride as well, with more planned in July.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant and Bar Parklets Could Become Permanent, But Supervisors Are Keen on Imposing More Rules The 2,100 new Shared Spaces and parklet platforms around San Francisco are potentially becoming permanent fixtures, but if the Board of Supervisors has their way there will likely be a host of new restrictions and regulations.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Lineup Includes Perfume Genius, Too $hort, Thievery Corporation Barely two weeks before the first free concert, the Stern Grove Festival has released its lineup for the summer Sunday series, and it's a fun one. But don't miss your reservation window!
SF News Herd Immunity For San Francisco May Be Just Three Weeks Away There are still a few unknowns, and it would be unwise to declare ourselves definitively out of the woods, but some often-quoted experts at UCSF are sounding pretty bullish about San Francisco's shot at herd immunity.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Woman Arrested for Killing Young Son A 35-year-old San Jose woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her 7-year-old in Las Vegas, a new wildfire broke out in the CZU Lightning Complex burn area, and two more Bay Area counties are likely entering the "Yellow" tier in the final week of colored tiers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Condo Market In SF Is Going Crazy The condo market in SF just had its busiest three months in 16 years, small fires were popping up all over the Bay today, and DoorDash CEO Tony Xu is the highest paid CEO in the Bay Area by a lot.
SF News Alleged Santa Cruz Boogaloo Militia Planned ‘War’ on Police, Disguising Themselves as Antifa The far-right militia group connected to the killing two law enforcement officers last year had far more elaborate plans to kill many more officers. And, unsurprisingly, we learn of child enticement charges against the very people who claim a cabal of pedophiles is running the government.
SF News 27-Story Residential Tower Likely to Add to Quickly Changing SoMa Skyline A 27-story residential tower — an infill development slated for a SoMa alley that's been in the design and planning stages for over four years now — is set to get its entitlements this week, if all goes well at the Planning Commission.
SF News Manny's In the Mission Once Again Tagged With Anti-Jewish Graffiti Manny's, the politically engaged Mission cafe owned by newly named SFTMA board member Manny Yekutiel, was tagged over the weekend with graffiti that could be seen as hate speech.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Is Opening a New Restaurant... In LA Along with longtime Chez Panisse chef and NY Times contributor David Tanis, Alice Waters is taking on her first new restaurant project since Cafe Fanny closed almost a decade ago.
SF News Marin Resident Calls Off Solo Kayak Trip to Hawaii, Calls For Rescue Off Santa Cruz French-born kayaker Cyril Derreumaux, who is a resident of Larkspur, had to call for an emergency rescue Saturday night about 50 miles off the Santa Cruz coast — just six days into his attempted solo rowing trip from the San Francisco Bay to Hawaii.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Homeless Men Found Dead In Berkeley Two homeless men were found deceased in Berkeley's Civic Center Park on Sunday, the fight goes on over "anchor-outs" in Richardson Bay, and Alameda County's COVID death toll recently dropped dramatically and the explanation is odd.
SF News Oldest Chimpanzee in North America Dies at San Francisco Zoo "Cobby," the 63-year-old chimpanzee at the SF Zoo — who was adored by generations of visitors — passed away on June 5, likely due to a combination of his old age and having suffered from an illness earlier in the year.
SF News Man's Body Found at SFO Near BART Station Saturday afternoon, SFO officials announced a body was found near the airport's parking garage, close to the SFO BART Station; the unidentified body is reported to be male, but no age range has been given.
SF News 84-Year-Old San Francisco Grandmother Went Missing Over a Week Ago; SF Police Still Need Help Finding Her Jean Chang Kan Fung went for a walk from her Richmond District home on May 28 — and the 84-year-old has yet to return to her domicile.
SF News Sunday Links: San Francisco's City Hall Will Reopen to the Public Tomorrow City Hall will open up to the public Monday, SF police are looking for a female FedEx employee caught on camera stealing packages, and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcome into the world their new baby girl, Lilibet Diana.
SF News The Original Pride Flag Has Returned to San Francisco Thought to be destroyed after sustaining water damage while in storage, a piece of the OG Rainbow Flag — undeniably the most defining symbol of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — was rediscovered in 2019; a portion of that same flag now sits inside a glass display box in the Castro.
SF News Saturday Links: Today Marks the 40th Anniversary of the First AIDS Cases Reported in the US A federal judge in California on Friday overturned the state’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, new ADUs in Oakland might be banned, and the CDC reported the first cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome — known more commonly as "AIDS" — 40 years ago to the day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pro-Palestinian Demonstration Tries to Block Israeli Cargo Ship at Port of Oakland Pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to block an Israeli cargo ship from unloading at the Port of Oakland, SF police arrested a suspect linked to a Polk Gulch homicide last month, and one large black bear was low-key filmed strolling in an East Bay neighborhood Friday.
