Arts & Entertainment Life-Sized Ox Statues Arrive All Over Town to Celebrate Lunar New Year There’s no Chinese New Year parade, but the Year of the Ox still rocks with 11 life-size ox statues painted by the artists who normally make the parade’s fantastic floats.
SF News SF Opens First Drop-In Vaccination Site in Bayview, No Appointments Needed If you are over 65 and live in one of two zip codes in the Bayview, all you need to do is get in line for a vaccine at a new city-run vaccination clinic, starting this week.
SF News San Francisco Is Suing Its Own School District In Escalating War Over Reopening San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is filing a lawsuit Wednesday against the city's school district, arguing that the district is now out of compliance with a state law directing districts to adopt a plan for reopening for in-person classes.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Drop Game At Home To Boston Celtics, Fall To 9th In The West And 11-10 On The Season Juan Toscano-Anderson ties career-high with 16 points and Stephen Curry adds 38, crossing 17,000-point threshold in loss to Celtics.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Netflix Again Dominates Golden Globe Nominations One man was killed in a triple shooting in the Bayview Tuesday morning, South SF-based Vaxart announced that a Phase 1 trial of its oral COVID vaccine was not successful in producing the right antibodies, and many Californians abandoned the Republican party last month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Traci Des Jardins' Two Presidio Restaurants Have Made Their Closures Permanent Kaiser had to cancel 5,000 vaccine appointments in Santa Clara County due to low vaccine supply, Twitter has kicked the official MyPillow account off the platform due to apparent threats against Jack Dorsey, and The Commissary and Arguello have both closed for good in the Presidio.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Camps Already Backing Out of 2021 Over COVID-19 Concerns, Despite No Official Call Well-known Burning Man camps are already chiming in with a big old “Nope” on attending the 2021 event, even as Black Rock City organizers have not officially decided whether to proceed this year.
SF News UK COVID Variant Found in Alameda County — In Six Patients It was only a matter of time, but after a couple of weeks in which the more-infectious strain of COVID-19 first detected in the U.K. was found in Southern California, it has been found in six people in the Bay Area.
SF News San Francisco Remains In State's 'Purple' Tier for Reopening, But 'Red' Tier Is In Sight In the week since the Bay Area began reopening businesses again, we can see the SF data skewing further downward, both in daily new cases and the percent-positivity rate, which means the city could reach a new tier in a matter of a week or two.
Business & Tech Uber Acquires Alcohol-Delivery App Drizly For $1.1 Billion Once again showing that the company's priorities have shifted since the pandemic began, Uber has just purchased Boston-based booze-delivery app Drizly, so that you can make sure to get a side whiskey brought to your door with your burger and fries.
SF News While Rents Slid Last Year In SF, Ritzy Zip Codes Saw 46% Bump In Luxury Home Sales The wealthy have largely not suffered in the pandemic, and if anything, the Bay Area wealthy just opted to upgrade their manses or hunker down further in cloistered, expensive homes.
SF Politics Effort to Recall Gavin Newsom Looks Likely To Reach 1.5 Million Signatures; Former San Diego Mayor Jumps In Mix The continuing campaign to trigger a recall election for Governor Gavin Newsom is looking likelier to succeed each day, and the group behind it has reportedly amassed 1.3 million certified signatures from voters, with only 200,000 left to go by mid-March.
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SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sonoma Cancels Vaccine Appointments For Those Under 75 Sonoma County is trying to prioritize vaccinating the over-75 population and canceling appointments for anyone younger, an appeals court upholds SF's decision to remove an offensive statue, and public health officials warn against Super Bowl parties.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Google Settles Labor Lawsuit Over Female Employees' Pay Google/Alphabet has agreed to pay $1.3 million in back pay to 2,565 female engineers in a pay equity lawsuit from the Dept. of Labor, Biden has issued a federal mask mandate for transit, and the Oakland Zoo's ticketing system crashed due to high demand after reopening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ten New and Upcoming SF Restaurants to Get You Excited To Eat Out In 2021 Just like birthdays in 2020 didn't count, planned restaurant debuts that were either put on hold or scaled back are all being given do-overs now that we're in a new year. Here are ten spots to be excited about that are either already open, or soon will be.
SF News UC Berkeley Sees COVID-19 Surge, as Frat House Parties Are Becoming A Problem More than 7% of all positive UC Berkeley student body cases in the last six months came in just this past weekend, and school officials are scolding kids for letting their guards down.
SF News SF Opens Community Vaccination Site at 24th and Capp Streets A second outdoor, walk-up vaccination site has opened in San Francisco, this one, in the Mission District, intended to increase equity of vaccine distribution in one of the hardest-hit communities in the pandemic.
SF News Cold Front Brings New Round of Rain to the Bay Area Before Another Dry Spell Early February is looking mostly warm, spring-like and dry for much of the Bay Area, but first we have to get past the cold front moving in Monday.
SF News [UPDATED] Private Detective to the Stars Jack Palladino Dies After Attack Outside Upper Haight Home; 2 Arrested Famed local private investigator Jack Palladino was doing what he does best on Thursday afternoon when he was violently attacked by a pair of teens — he was gathering evidence.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Oakland Airport Shut Down Due to Frivolous Bomb Threat The Placer County man's death after receiving a vaccine shot has been determined to not be vaccine-related, Oakland Airport's Terminal 1 was shut down for two hours Sunday due to a bomb threat, and Tony Bennett is reportedly suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
SF News Yosemite Could Reopen Tomorrow; Mariposa Grove Still Closed After Sustaining Wind Damage Yosemite National Park closed almost two weeks ago after the 748,000-acre green space was damaged by strong storms. Though the park might reopen as soon as Monday, its famous thicket of redwoods at Mariposa Grove will remain off-limits to visitors for some time.
SF News Sunday Links: California Tops 40,000 COVID-19 Deaths A woman was shot in the face by a BB gun walking through the parking lot of a local Whole Foods, strong winds will return to the Bay Area tomorrow, and amid new variants spreading and outdoor dining resuming in SF and elsewhere — CA recorded its 40,000th COVID-19-related death Saturday.
SF News San Francisco Zoo Now Open to the General Public After contending with yet another shutdown — one that dealt even more financial blows to our local zoological facilities — the San Francisco Zoo has, once again, reopened to the general public.
SF News This Drone Footage Shows Just How Bad the Washout South of Big Sur Really Is The massive atmospheric river downpour that drenched California — especially here in NorCal — caused a stretch of Highway 1 in Big Sur to dive right into the ocean; this Caltrans’ drone footage shows just how much actually dove off the cliffside.
