SF News Now-Empty Cliff House Property Vandalized With Graffiti After Iconic Sign Comes Down Not even a full day after the famous Cliff House signage went down, the historic property — which existed as a San Francisco landmark for over 47 years — was defaced with large black graffiti letters sometime Thursday night.
SF News Saturday Links: 4.3M Earthquake Rocks Monterey County Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home has been (sort of) cleaned up after it was vandalized, Oakland rents continue to trend downward, and a 4.3 magnitude earthquake this morning around 6:42 a.m. rocked Pinnacles in Monterey County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi's House Vandalized With Graffiti, Blood-Like Paint — and Pig's Head Several storms could bring seven straight days of rain across the Bay Area, beach clean-ups in California have been hampered by shutdown orders, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Cow Hollow home was defaced with black lettering, red paint — and what looks like an actual pig's head.
SF News Two Women Killed In SoMa Hit-and-Run; Suspect Identified As Parolee With Rap Sheet A parolee with an arrest record for armed robbery and burglary allegedly stole a car on New Year's Eve that was then involved in a hit-and-run collision in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood that left two female pedestrians dead.
SF News New Year's Day Links: Fire Destroys Four Homes In Outer Mission California has some new laws taking effect today, the Bay Area added 6,000 new COVID cases on New Year's Eve and 91 deaths, and police in San Jose dispersed some sort of protest Thursday night that they say became unlawful.
datb Day Around the Bay: Tick Tock, 2020, Tick Tock 2020 got its last licks in with a freeway shooting that roiled the 101 in South San Francisco, but the state is handing out half a billion dollars in COVID-19 small business relief, and the Moderna vaccine is confirmed to be everything it’s cracked up to be.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cliff House Sign Comes Down In Dramatic End of an Era The Cliff House will surely always be The Cliff House, right? Well, maybe not exactly. With its indefinite closure and the departure of its longtime operators — who trademarked "The Cliff House" — the signage came down on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment SF Supervisor Hopes to Raise Funds From Local Billionaires to Save Nightlife Venues Supervisor Matt Haney hopes to create a nightlife fund that will attract private-sector donations so that the city doesn't lose one of its greatest cultural assets before the pandemic is through with us.
SF News San Francisco Extends Stay-at-Home Order Indefinitely Into January Predictably, especially given rising hospitalization numbers around the Bay, San Francisco has announced an extension of the stay-at-home order that took effect nearly one month ago, which was initially set to be lifted on January 4.
SF News Despite Violent Year Around the Bay and the Nation, SF Is Set to Record Similar Homicide Rate to 2018 San Francisco's homicide count stands at 48 as we enter the waning hours of 2020, marking a slight uptick from the record-low number of killings in the city in 2019, but nearly on par with the count from two years ago.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Release Escape Game With Jerry Rice, Build Upon Year-Long Commitment To ‘Faithful’ Despite challenges posed from having no fans in the stands this season, the 49ers have continued to innovate in how they interact with their fanbase, setting an example across the NFL.
SF News New Outbreak at Laguna Honda Infects 50 and Counting, Kills 3 Elderly Residents A new outbreak of COVID-19 at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital — the first since a small outbreak was quickly contained in the spring and became a model for other long-term care facilities dealing with the pandemic — has infected more than 50 staff members and residents, and continues to grow.
SF News NYE Morning Links: Red Cross Puts Out Call For Blood From Former COVID Patients The holiday light displays in Golden Gate Park won't be turned on tonight, SF General is seeking help identifying an elderly patient found in the Mission on Christmas Eve, and the Red Cross in the Bay Area is pleading for more convalescent plasma.
SF News San Francisco Gets Jolted Awake By 3.6M Offshore Quake 2020 won't go quietly, at least for the Bay Area, with a smallish earthquake that woke many people up early Thursday morning, and may have even knocked a few things off your shelves.
SF News Day Around the Bay: COVID-19 Variant Discovered in Southern California California's COVID-19 death count is close to passing the 25,000 mark, rainstorms are expected to soak the Bay Area as we enter into 2021, and the more communicable variant of COVID-19 that's been circulating in the UK and elsewhere has been discovered in Southern California.
SF News New Report Ranks How Much Bay Area Law Enforcement Agencies Pay For Violent Officer Misconduct You would think that how much a city pays in police misconduct settlements would correlate to the size of its police force. Such is not the case, according to information obtained by KTVU.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Win Two In A Row, Climb To 2-2 After eating dual losses by a combined 66 points in their first two games, the Golden State Warriors rebounded for back-to-back wins in Chicago and Detroit, featuring a Damion Lee game-winner and impressive play from rookie James Wiseman.
Arts & Entertainment DJ Earworm Condenses 2020's 25 Top Pop Songs Into 3 Minutes It's time, in these last remaining hours of 2020, to take in DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" mashup — a yearly tradition, and one more way to nail shut the coffin on this abominable year.
Arts & Entertainment Six Things to Treat Yourself With This Quiet, Lonesome New Year's Eve in SF Did you manage to snag a keep a quarantine boyfriend or girlfriend? Yes? No? It doesn't matter. You can still treat yourself with an expensive virtual show ticket and some good booze, and/or food.
SF News No Fireworks for New Year's In SF, and No Late BART Service Either BART is shutting down at 9 p.m. Thursday, there are no fireworks, and you shouldn't be out partying, full stop, the end.
Arts & Entertainment Covidiot Files: Five Northern California Casinos Staying Open for New Year's, Two With Private Events At least one casino in the Sacramento area is still planning to have a 6,000-person private event on New Year's Eve, even though there is no universe where this is not extremely risky.
SF News SFMTA Annual Report Shows How Ridership and On-Time Performance Have Inched Up But Remain Dismal The agency's budget is likely to be in the red for a long while unless the Biden administration decides to throw more money toward public transit, and in a newly released annual report, the SFMTA discusses ridership numbers and other metrics, as they stand.
SF News New Year's Weather: Some Sun, High Surf, and Then Two Weeks of Rain The National Weather Service is warning about sneaker waves and there's a High Surf Advisory for the NorCal coast as we head toward the bitter, bitter end of 2020.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Super-Tall Cranes Arrive at Port of Oakland Biden criticizes the vaccine rollout and vows to speed it up, BART is refusing delivery of new train cars until two problems are fixed, and those super-tall container cranes are arriving under the Golden Gate Bridge this morning from China.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vandalized Breonna Taylor Bust Goes Missing In Oakland The Breonna Taylor bust that was found vandalized in Oakland on Saturday has apparently been stolen, the man killed in a freeway shooting in SF last week has been ID'd, and two people were injured in a Tenderloin stabbing Monday night.
