SF News Video: Skiing Duo Descends Treacherous, Spine-Tingling Shoulder of Yosemite's Half Dome TTempting fate, two skiers were able to snake down a particularly dangerous — and incredibly variable — part of Yosemite's Half Dome by alternating between skiing and rappelling down to the valley floor. They're still somehow alive (with footage, in tow).
SF News 4-Month-Old Maltese Puppy Reunited With Owners After San Francisco Car Burglary Named Scruggs, the plush ball of serotonin was returned to his rightful owners after he was stolen from a Subaru parked at the 200 block of Sutter Street in downtown San Francisco earlier this week, according to police.
SF News Sunday Links: Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 Vaccine Gets Emergency Use Authorization by FDA Bay Area rents dropped again for yet another month in a row, hundreds gathered in San Mateo yesterday to denounce the recent attacks on Asian Americans, and Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine was given the green light by the FDA Saturday for emergency use purposes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Cocina Prepares for Spring Opening of Its Tenderloin Food Hall After Pandemic Delays La Cocina, an SF-based nonprofit that primarily helps low-income food entrepreneurs grow their businesses, is set to host a soft opening of its much-anticipated Tenderloin food hall — aptly called the Municipal Marketplace — sometime in the coming months.
SF News Missing 14-Year-Old Katlin Gallaread Has Been Found When Katlin Gallaread went missing earlier this month — after leaving her Laguna Heights home without notifying her parents — there was a regional call on social media to locate her whereabouts. Friday, the San Francisco teenager was finally found safe, according to her father.
SF News Saturday Links: Are We Nearing the Dawn of a New San Francisco? The House has passed a $1.9T COVID-19 stimulus package, there will be no BART trains traveling between the Richmond and El Cerrito del Norte stations this weekend, and Broke-Ass Stuart writes in the SF Examiner that with tech bros leaving en masse, there's finally hope for the city.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Decomposed Body Found Near Highway 101 DoorDash is still high-key unsure of what the future holds for the company, J&J’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be authorized by the FDA over the weekend, and CHP officers came across a grisly scene in SF early Friday morning — a rotting body near Highway 101.
SF Politics New Senator Alex Padilla Introduces His First Bill, Citizenship for Essential Workers The handpicked junior senator from California is likely to make immigration reform his signature cause, and comes out of the gate with a bill that would grant citizenship to immigrants working essential jobs.
SF News Op-Ed: San Francisco Needs to Follow Berkeley's Lead and Get Rid of Single-Family Zoning The largely racist legacy of single-family zoning took a blow this week when Berkeley's city council voted unanimously to make moves to change its general plan. In housing-starved San Francisco, we are decades late in facing the fact that we live in a city that was developed half as a suburb.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Total Meltdown, a Pop-Up Specializing in Grilled Cheese and Mac and Cheese, Opens at Mission Picnic A new evening pop-up has arrived at the Mission Picnic space (983 Valencia Street) specializing in grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese, and cheesy tots — all available for takeout or delivery.
SF News One in Six Gen Z Adults Identifies as LGBTQ, Raising the National Percentage By 1.1% According to a newly released Gallup poll, America is getting queerer every year, confirming what many educators around the country have been saying for a number of years.
Business & Tech Twitter Will Let Influencers and Adult Performers Charge to See 'Premium' Tweets Twitter just announced two big new features on Thursday, one that allows users to create a "Super Follower" status in which followers can pay for premium content, and one that creates Facebook-esque groups based on shared interests.
Arts & Entertainment The Chapel in the Mission Stages Socially Distant Mini-Concert With Singer Live Via Projection Live vocal performances still aren't permitted in SF under pandemic rules, even outdoors. But on Thursday night, Mission District venue The Chapel pulled off an experiment in COVID-safe live performance, with the singer live except not physically in the space with the band or the audience.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: New Oakland A's Stadium Moves Ahead A four-month-old Maltese puppy was stolen out of a car near Union Sq. and the suspect refuses to say where it is, the victim in a brazen Oakland shooting in front of a bunch of kids has been identified, and the highway repair in Big Sur is expected to be done by early summer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sinkhole Opens On Sixth Street 280 Off-Ramp In SF SFMTA employees are eligible for vaccines now, a sinkhole opened on the northbound Sixth Street off-ramp of 280, and Airbnb reported a $3.9 billion loss in its first financial reporting as a publicly traded company.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indoor Dining in SF Will Be Limited to Single-Household Tables of Four As discussed earlier this week, the timing for the restart of indoor dining in San Francisco is looking to be next week, and Mayor London Breed confirmed on Wednesday that it will start again as soon as SF is moved into the "Red" tier.
SF News One Medical Has Vaccines Revoked By SF, San Mateo, and Alameda Counties Over Allegations of Improper Distribution A day after NPR reported that SF-based healthcare startup One Medical had given COVID vaccines to ineligible patients and non-patient-facing staff, three Bay Area health departments are stopping vaccine allocations to the company.
SF News Another Alleged ‘Kneeling on the Neck’ Police Killing in Antioch Draws Wrongful Death Lawsuit A 30-year-old Navy veteran died after Antioch police allegedly used the ‘George Floyd hold’ on him while he was suffering a mental health incident, and the family is suing the Antioch PD.
SF Politics Breed to Out-of-Town Criminals: 'Don't Come to Our City With All That Bulls**t' SF Mayor London Breed had some words of warning to criminals, particularly violent ones, on Wednesday as she announced a change in how law enforcement communicates about repeat offenders.
SF News Another Smash-and-Grab Caught On Video, This Time in Golden Gate Park, and Victim Chased Down Thief If you want a sense of the sheer volume of petty crime going on in San Francisco, you need only look at Twitter or Reddit, basically, because there's so much that some of it is getting caught on video in broad daylight.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Arrest Made In Cliff House Burglary Firefighters put out a small structure fire on Nob Hill Thursday morning, Rite-Aid stores in the Bay Area are now taking vaccine appointments, and Lady Gaga's dog walker was shot and two of her dogs were stolen in Hollywood last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Johnson & Johnson One-Dose Vaccine Likely On Its Way Soon SF rents are still the highest in the nation despite last year's slide, the recall effort against Gavin Newsom is part of a wave of rage against governors across the country, and the FDA may approve Johnson & Johnson's one-dose vaccine as early as Saturday, with shipments starting this week.
SF News New CDC Studies Say Group Fitness Classes, Heavy Breathing at Indoor Gyms Led to COVID Outbreaks Two new case studies by the CDC have found that indoor group fitness classes in Honolulu and Chicago led directly to COVID outbreaks that infected dozens of people.
Arts & Entertainment With Back Rent Due, SoMa LGBTQ Nightclub Oasis Turns to Crowdfunding, Telethon to Prevent Permanent Closure Among the nightclubs and music venues that have suffered deeply in San Francisco over the last year, one of the relative newest, Oasis, could face permanent closure without some immediate help from patrons, or the federal or local government.
Business & Tech Guy Who Flew ‘Suck My Nuts Robinhood’ Banner Over SF Tells His Story The GameStop “meme stocks” sensation has blown over, but the fellow whose “Suck My Nuts Robinhood” banner provided an amusing epilogue to the tale explains the details of the stunt.
