SF News SF Giving $2.5 Million in Tax Waivers to Nightlife and Entertainment Venues Some 300 San Francisco music venues, bars, and nightclubs will get their local taxes and fees waived in hopes of helping them survive the pandemic.
Bay Area Sports A Case for Coach of the Year, as Kyle Shanahan and Injured 49ers Team Upset Patriots 33-6 With injuries stacking up for the 49ers ahead of their matchup with the favored New England Patriots, Niners head coach Kyle Shanahan looked poised to scheme new ways for his team to win, upsetting the Patriots and Bill Belichick at Gillette Stadium.
SF News Why?? Iconic Coca-Cola Billboard Being Removed From SF After 83 Years Details are few at the moment, but for reasons not entirely clear, the Coca-Cola Company has decided to pull down the iconic neon sign that has stood beside I-80 in SoMa since 1937.
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Is Urging People to Narc on Their Neighbors' Halloween Parties The cops would like everyone in SF to know that they will be on the hunt for public-health rule-breakers on Saturday, and you will get in trouble if you get caught throwing an actual Halloween party.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Crazy Night of Wind But No Major Fires There was a peak wind gust of 89 mph on Mount St. Helena last night, a brush fire in Castro Valley came within 50 feet of a home, and the Pope Fire in Napa County was 100-percent contained before the winds whipped up.
SF News San Francisco Partners With Local Nonprofit To Help Vulnerable Residents Vote in 2020 Election With just over a week until Election Day, the Shanti Project — a volunteer nonprofit organization that helps the well-being of people with disabling illnesses or conditions — and the City have teamed up to offer personalized ballot pick-up and drop-off services to local voters who need them.
SF News SF Police Find Body Burning in Debris Pile on SoMa Side Street SFPD officers doing rounds in SoMa early Sunday discovered a hellacious scene along a neighborhood side street: a body burning inside a debris pile.
SF News Sunday Links: 386,000 PG&E Customers Now Expected To Be Affected by Power Shutoff PG&E updated account holders Sunday (ahead of the scheduled power shutoff) to say that apparently 386,000 customers will now be affected, two men were injured in a North Oakland shooting Saturday, and the Pope Fire is now 80 percent contained.
SF News Hotel Diva in San Francisco Will Become Supportive Housing for Homeless California on Friday gave grant funding to four more homeless housing projects in the Bay Area. Those allocated resources will help Hotel Diva, a three-star lodge near Union Square, transform into supportive housing for the city's homeless.
SF News Berkeley Officials Say Hills Residents Should Consider Leaving ‘Until Fire Danger Subsides’; PG&E Shutoffs To Affect 143,000-Plus Bay Area Customers City of Berkeley officials announced Friday that residents living in the region's hills should evacuate before Sunday's extreme fire conditions — and PG&E's fire-safety shutoffs are now expected to leave some 143,000 Bay Area customers in the dark.
SF News Saturday Links: Pope Fire Now 70 Percent Contained The Pope Fire burning in Napa is now 70-percent contained, SF Zoo's 21-year-old ring-tailed lemur Maki is getting stronger each day (and living his best life), and the Mission District's beloved Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery is expected to reopen this coming Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Entire Bay Area To Receive Red Flag Warning Sunday Amid Strong Winds The entire Bay Area is expected to be under a Red Flag Warning come Sunday evening, a Muni bus collided with a bicyclist earlier this afternoon, and yes: there's another fire burning in Napa right now.
SF News Pleasanton Cold-Case Murder Solved Nine Years Ago Involved a Killer and a Victim Who Were Both Victims of Bullying The April 1984 murder of 14-year-old Tina Faelz shocked the small, still mostly rural community of Pleasanton to its core. Now the killer has finally confessed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Festival Eat Drink SF Morphs Into Something More Like Restaurant Week For This Year Local restaurant lobby group the Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA) still wanted to bring some attention to the hobbled local food scene during the time of year when they would normally be hosting their Eat Drink SF festival.
Bay Area Sports 49ers' Jed York Makes Lavish Donations In Attempt to Unseat Unfriendly Santa Clara City Councilmembers The 49ers CEO has dropped $3 million ($100 per registered voter!) to elect a new Santa Clara city council that would be far friendlier to billionaire NFL owner interests.
SF News Man Charged With Hate Crimes for Swastika Painted on Temple Has Sordid Berkeley Past The last thing Jewish people want to see is a swastika, ever. The Nazi symbol is especially unsettling on the front door of a synagogue, but that’s exactly what was found this week at Oakland’s Temple Sinai.
SF News Muni Rider Details Comedy of Errors As Bus Driver Attempts to Keep From Picking Up More Than 30 Passengers In normal times, it can be hard for a Muni bus driver to skip stops when they have an over-full load of passengers while also letting people off where there need to get off. But add a pandemic to that and it's even more impossible.
SF News Op-Ed: Pandemic Likely to Accelerate Black Exodus From SF and Oakland The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the health and housing security of Black people nationally, and it is all but certain to speed up what's been an ongoing exodus of Black people to the more affordable Bay Area suburbs.
SF News Aggressive Turkey Named Gerald Removed From Oakland Rose Garden, Exiled to Orinda The saga of Gerald, the wild turkey who had taken to attacking humans in Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden but seemed to have a specific hatred of older women, has seemingly come to an end.
SF News Pregnant 19-Year-Old Fatally Shot In Berkeley Drive-By A 19-year-old mother of a 10-month-old baby, who was carrying her second child, was fatally shot in a brazen drive-by shooting Wednesday while her entire family was in the same car with her.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Debate Drive-In Viewing Party Draws Crowd An encampment fire in Oakland damaged at least two buildings, convicted murderer Scott Peterson is having a virtual hearing today from San Quentin, and Uber drivers are suing the company over Yes on 22 pop-ups.
SF News Updated: Small Plane On Weird Course Over City Tailed By Fighter Jets Causes Stir, Mild Panic UPDATE: Earlier, unsubstantiated reports have now been confirm by CTP Watcher. The event was a photoshoot of two F/A-18 Hornets based at Lemoore Naval Air Station. The jets are a part of
SF News Day Around the Bay: Barricaded Gunman With Hostage Surrenders After Tense Day in East Oakland A raccoon got into SF City Hall, nurses are suing the city for overtime pay, Dr. Fauci is headed to the Bay Area, and former 49er Dana Stubblefield has been sentenced in a 2015 rape case.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Landmark Restaurant Tadich Grill and Noted Hofbrau Tommy's Joynt Plan Reopenings The oldest restaurant in San Francisco, Tadich Grill, which dates its establishment to 1849, is re-emerging from a pandemic closure next month, cioppino, steaks and all. And Tommy's is reopening before Halloween.
SF News Extreme Wind Event Arrives Early Next Week With Even Greater Potential Fire Danger, More PSPS Likely The relentlessness of 2020 with its anxieties and miseries lumbers on with yet another fire weather forecast that no one wants to hear. But a coming wind event that begins Sunday brings the most danger so far, according to one meteorologist.
