SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Dining *Might* Restart In Bay Area By Second Week of February The outdoor dining era in San Francisco — and elsewhere around the Bay — might be able to resume in about three weeks, give or take, according to projections from the state on COVID-related ICU capacities.
SF News SF Saw Triple the Number of Overdose Deaths Than COVID-19 Deaths in 2020 Fentanyl is killing far more San Franciscans than coronavirus, according to a new report from the city’s Chief Medical Examiner.
SF News Excelsior District Assault Leaves 48-Year-Old Man In Critical Condition The SFPD is seeking two suspects in a Thursday afternoon assault in the Excelsior District that has left the victim clinging to life.
SF News New York Times Editors Again Take Secret Pleasure In 'Bay Area Exodus' Headline While there's no denying there has been an exodus of city residents during the pandemic that is driving down rents, did the Times need to go with the headline "They Can't Leave the Bay Area Fast Enough"?
SF News Biden Taps UCSF Prof. David Kessler to Lead Vaccine Distribution Effort UCSF professor of pedriatics, epidemiology, and biostatistics, and former FDA head Dr. David Kessler will be President-elect Joe Biden's chief science officer of COVID response in charge of vaccine science.
SF Politics Willie Brown's Chronicle Column Is Ending After 12 Years Former SF mayor Willie Brown will no longer be lending his gossip and opinions to the Chronicle as of next month. The controversial — and many would say highly problematic — "Willie's World" column is coming to an end after 12 years, and it sounds like it was not Willie's choice.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Most of America Wants Trump Convicted BART Police are hiring more unarmed crisis intervention officers, a hacker scraped Parler of all its posts and data before it was taken down, and 70 percent of Americans believe Trump played a role in last week's Capitol siege.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter CEO Hedges on Banning Trump - 'Was This Correct?' Ever-indecisive Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweets some lame crap about not taking pleasure in banning Trump, Newsom mobilizes National Guard troops in Sacramento, and Sutter Health's website crashes as seniors clamor for vaccine appointments.
SF News Pioneering SF Gay Activist Ken Jones Dies at 70 One of San Francisco's longest-serving LGBTQ activists, Ken Jones, lost his battle with bladder cancer this week. He died Wednesday at the age of 70, and his local community of friends is mourning the loss.
SF News Warm, Spring-Like Weekend Ahead as Bay Area Weatherman Warns of Potential January Red Flag Warnings Rain over the first week of the new year has given way to a dry spell with unseasonably warm temps — a false early spring akin to something we saw in the Bay Area in the depths of the drought in 2014.
Business & Tech Feds Allege Elizabeth Holmes Destroyed a SQL Database That Proved Her Theranos Product was Garbage Prosecutors subpoenaed an internal Theranos database they say proved executives knew their blood test product was a sham. That database was promptly destroyed, according to a new filing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Thomas Keller Flees Twitter After Series of PR Gaffes, Criticism Over Huge PPP Loans and Trump Ties It's been a rough year, PR-wise, for French Laundry chef and restaurant empire-builder Thomas Keller, and it looks like he's finally decided to abandon Twitter on account of the fact that he can't stop saying things there that piss off large swaths of the American public.
SF News 40-Year-Old Father and 9-Year-Old Son Found Dead in Marina District in Possible Murder-Suicide The San Francisco Police Department is investigating a possible murder-suicide that occurred Wednesday afternoon in the Marina District.
SF News 3.8M Earthquake Rumbles Under East Bay A small but not tiny earthquake centered around Concord rattled much of the East Bay on Thursday just after 11:15 a.m.
SF News Oakland Police Face New Possible Scandal Involving Social Media Accounts, Racist and Sexist Memes The Oakland Police Department has reportedly seized as many as 100 city-owned cellphones from officers in a new potential scandal that shows officers allegedly following and liking social media posts promoting racist and sexist jokes, and pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sacramento and Tahoe Partially Reopen Rep. Eric Swalwell will star as prosecutor in Trump's second Senate trial, the CA EDD is now making people prove their identities, and the Sacramento and Tahoe regions are lifting lockdowns and reopening outdoor dining.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ghost Ship Defendant Derick Almena Gets Plea Deal A Giants owner donated to QAnon congresswoman Lauren Boebert, the Friday Warriors-Suns game has been postponed due to COVID concerns, and more dangerous surf is expected Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Launches a Bizarre 'Top 25' That Will Be Updated Quarterly, Kind of Like the Eater 38 It's seemingly been a struggle for the Chronicle food department and restaurant critic Soleil Ho in assuming the albatross of Michael Bauer's Top 100 list ever since Bauer retired and Ho took his place.
SF News Massive Unemployment Scam Four Times Worse Than Thought, Victims Frozen Out of Their Own Accounts Scammers have racked up an estimated $8 billion in benefits, taken from the pockets of a million and a half genuinely unemployed people, who then find themselves locked out of their accounts, as California’s unemployment fraud spirals out of control.
SF Politics Trump Is Now the Only President Ever Impeached Twice; Senate Trial Not Likely Before Biden's Inauguration Day As New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries said, "Donald Trump is a living, breathing impeachable offense. It is what it is."
Arts & Entertainment SF Supervisors Move to Make Diego Rivera Mural a Landmark; SFAI Says 'Please Not Yet' The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to initiate a process to designate the famed Diego Rivera mural at the San Francisco Art Institute's Chestnut Street campus a city landmark, in order to prevent it from being sold and removed.
Business & Tech Airbnb Cancels All D.C. Reservations Ahead of Inauguration Guarding against taking any blame for providing shelter to domestic terrorists, Airbnb announced Wednesday that it would be canceling all reservations at properties owned by Washington D.C. hosts during inauguration week — as well as all reservations through Airbnb-owned HotelTonight.
Business & Tech Facebook Tells Employees to Stop Wearing Company-Branded Apparel, For Their Safety Following the bans on President Trump and "Stop the Steal" content, Facebook is telling its employees not to wear company-branded swag out in public, lest they incur the wrath of Trumpers.
SF News Berkeley Could Ban the Sale of Gas-Powered Cars by 2027 Much like the United Kingdom — which, in a bid for zero-emissions, hopes to outlaw the purchase of gas-powered cars by 2030 — Berkeley could ax the selling of cars powered by gasoline, diesel, and natural gas as soon as 2027.
SF News Humpday Headlines: It's Trump Impeachment Day, The Sequel The House is readying a swift second impeachment of President Trump today, the US hit yet another grim record for daily COVID deaths, and calls are growing for mass vaccinations in California without the phased rollout.
