SF News Noe Valley Home Of LGBTQ Heroes Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Gets Landmarked Just over a year after Phyllis Lyon passed away at the age of 95, the home that she shared for over five decades with her wife and life partner Del Martin is being declared a city landmark.
Arts & Entertainment The ‘Nash Bridges’ Reboot No One Asked For Is On Its Way A new ‘Nash Bridges’ will indeed be filmed here in San Francisco, with Don Johnson and Cheech Marin reprising their late 90s roles.
SF News Man Who Was Killed In Alameda Police Custody Had Lost His Job Last Year, Became Depressed and Drank Two weeks after he was killed while in the custody of Alameda police — having apparently asphyxiated while pressed to the ground on his stomach, not unlike George Floyd — we are learning a bit more of the story of Mario Arenales Gonzalez.
Arts & Entertainment Academy of Sciences Resumes Popular 'NightLife' Events Next Week The popular nighttime hours on Thursdays at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, complete with cocktail bars and DJs, return starting May 13, in yet another sign of life in SF getting more normal-ish.
SF News SF Officially Graduates to 'Yellow' Tier; London Breed Celebrates No More Businesses With Closed Doors San Francisco has returned, for the second and hopefully final time, to the state's least-restrictive COVID tier for reopening businesses, after a six-month struggle through a major pandemic surge.
SF News Trial of Bay Area Men Accused In 2019 Stabbing of Police Officer In Rome Concludes This Week The legal proceedings stemming from a tragic incident in July 2019 in Rome involving two teenagers from the Bay Area are still ongoing due to the pandemic, and this week, defense attorneys will present their closing arguments.
SF News A Week Later, SF Officials Say It's OK to Be Outside Without a Mask A week after the CDC updated its official guidance with regard to being outdoors — where COVID transmission risk is already extremely low — San Francisco health officials have updated theirs.
Bay Area Sports Steph and Dray Elite in Marvel's Arena of Heroes, Warriors Handle Business in New Orleans Stephen Curry scored 41 points and Draymond Green put up triple double numbers on the way to dismantling the Pelicans in New Orleans 123-108 in a first-ever NBA Special Edition broadcast: Marvel’s Arena of Heroes.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Woman Shot In Shootout Outside Airport Hotel at SFO A woman was found shot outside the Grand Hyatt at SFO Monday night, SF General may reduce its reliance on sheriff's deputies, and some more information has trickled out about why two suspects were not charged in the November killing of rapper Lil Yase.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Contra Costa County Invites Anyone to Come Get Vaccinated A standoff in Pinole ended peacefully Monday morning (though a dog was killed), Contra Costa County is telling everyone to come get vaccinated there, and PG&E will have a hearing on its probation violation on Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment 10-Foot Floral Butterfly Sculptures Land Across SF In hopes of getting you to flutter about town for Small Business Week, the SF Flower Mart has installed giant butterfly sculptures made of flowers in key retail corridors all over town.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-Day Breakfast Restaurant Hilda and Jesse Coming to North Beach A new all-day breakfast restaurant from a pair of local restaurant vets, which began as a pop-up, has found a permanent, brick-and-mortar location in North Beach.
SF News Sunday Wildfire In Big Basin Redwoods State Park Kicks Off Another Potentially Horrible Fire Season Dubbed the Basin Fire, the wildfire broke out after noon in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which remains closed to visitors after suffering damage in the CZU Lightning Complex fires last August.
SF News SF Bar and Gym Owners Get Psyched For 'Yellow' Tier Reopenings This Week Things aren't going to look radically different in San Francisco after the city enters the "Yellow" tier this week for the first time since October. But some businesses are going to be popping back open that have been closed for over a year.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Public Library's Main Branch Reopens After 14-Month Closure Monday marks the reopening of the San Francisco Public Library's Main Branch after more than a year of it being closed — and after a year in which Library staff were all put to work as Disaster Services Workers in various roles.
SF News We Can Stop Hoping for Herd Immunity, Experts Say — It Isn't Happening Monday brings with it a fairly depressing story from the New York Times about how infectious disease experts are saying that herd immunity is no longer the goal for the U.S., and is likely unrealistic given slowing vaccination rates.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The So-Called San Francisco Exodus Appears Over A neighborhood in Pinole was under lockdown orders due to an armed man this morning, Verizon is selling Yahoo and AOL, and an early Red Flag Warning in the North Bay is cause for concern after some small brush fires Sunday.
SF News Scenes From This Weekend's May Day Demonstrations Around the Bay Area May Day — also known as "Workers' Day" or "International Workers' Day" — is an annual holiday set aside to pay homage to the historic struggles (and gains) made by labor movements. And the pandemic’s only highlighted those wins and losses, particularly regarding essential workers.
SF News Strong Winds Cause Trees to Topple in San Francisco, One Person Injured Gusts over 30mph ripped through parts of San Francisco late Saturday afternoon — leaving a wake of fallen branches, blown-over trash bins, and one 50-foot tree collapsed at the Sydney G. Walton Square park, which apparently injured a person.
SF News Sunday Links: San Francisco Chinatown Jewelry Store Subjected to Robbery — in Broad Daylight Solano County was issued a Red Flag Warning, seven people were arrested in Oakland yesterday during the May Day rallies, and a jewelry store in the 800 block of Washington Street was broken into Saturday — right in front of passerby.
SF News Second Shooting on Highway 4 Leaves Driver Injured, Another Car Sprinkled With Bullet Holes Around 1:15 a.m. Saturday, a man was wounded when his red Nissan Altima was shot multiple times — from both sides, no less — while driving on Highway 4 in Pittsburg; this was the second shooting of a driver traveling on the same stretch of roadway this week.
SF News Bay Area Veterinarians Concerned About Sick Puppies Being Sold by Roadside Sellers The pandemic has led to an explosion in pet ownership. It's also helped fuel the number of puppies being purchased at makeshift stands — especially in the East Bay.
SF News Saturday Links: Santa Clara Reservoirs Are Now Just 16% Full An elderly San Francisco woman has been missing for almost two weeks, despite recent whale deaths, gray whale populations could soon reach an all-time high, and the ten Santa Clara Valley reservoirs are only 16% full — far below their 20-year historical average of 26%.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Bay Area Neighborhoods Have 99% Vaccination Rates Among Adults Five very cute kittens were rescued out of a car engine compartment by Brentwood firefighters, San Jose's Happy Hollow Park & Zoo saw the birth of two rare lemurs, and almost all adults in the 94707 zip code of North Berkeley and Palo Alto’s 94304 postal code have received at least one vaccine dose.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mexican Spot Otra Opens In the Lower Haight; Korean Fried Chicken Chain Bonchon Debuts at the Metreon New restaurants are opening again! This week we have news about a new modern Mexican spot from the team behind Son's Addition opening in the Lower Haight, and the debut of some new KFC (Korean fried chicken) downtown.
