Arts & Entertainment SF Artist/Prankster Puts Tiny Saxophones On the Ground for Pigeons to 'Play' The local artist and graphic designer responsible for those realistic-looking AirPod stickers that showed up on the ground around SF last fall has a new bit of tomfoolery to distract us from our pandemic/wildfire misery.
SF News Gang of Santa Cruz Natives Forms Amateur Fire Brigade, Claiming Cal Fire Isn't Doing Enough A volunteer group of amateur firefighters is taking it upon themselves to try to save homes in and around Bonny Doon in Santa Cruz County, as the state's firefighting resources are stretched thin with too many fires to battle.
SF News Dilapidated County Jail Building to Close September 5, Months Ahead of Schedule The raw sewage, COVID-19 hotbed known as San Francisco County Jail No. 4 will close permanently on Labor Day weekend, ending an injustice at the Hall of Justice.
SF News New York Times SF Bureau Chief Is Already Very Tired Of Covering Fires Thomas Fuller, the San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times for the last four years, has been stuck covering wildfires for the last three very active fire seasons — and then came this one, starting off good and early. He is sounding really quite exhausted with it all.
Arts & Entertainment Mission's Carnaval Becomes Job Fair and COVID-Testing Event This year's Carnaval in the Mission, moved from Memorial Day to Labor Day weekend, will look a lot different than most years, but there may be a few dancers passing through.
SF News Firefighters Slowly Increase Containment On Bay Area Fires Amid Favorable Weather Lower temperatures, higher humidity, and relatively calm winds have allowed firefighters to begin to get the upper hand on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay. But the smaller Woodward Fire in Marin County continues burning and threatening homes.
SF News Muni Train Service Halts Again Following Equipment Trouble, Key Personnel Testing COVID-Positive After only one weekday back in service, all Muni light-rail trains are going offline again for at least several weeks following an equipment failure on Monday, and a worker in the Muni Metro control center testing positive for COVID-19.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Most of the Redwoods In Big Basin Survived the Fire Most of the trees in Big Basin Redwoods State Park appear to have survived the CZU fire complex, Alameda County is allowing hair salons to open outdoors, and former First Lady of SF Kimberly Guilfoyle gave a bizarre-ass speech at the RNC.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hundreds of Parks Closed Due to Fires The remains of a woman missing in a 2005 Placer County murder have been found, Northern California is short on firefighting personnel, and a sideshow broke out in the Mission late Saturday/early Sunday.
SF News The 10 Largest Wildfires In California History Were Neither the Deadliest Nor the Most Destructive The history of wildfires in both recent and less recent California memory is dotted with truly tragic events like the 2018 Camp Fire, as well as incomprehensibly large and destructive events that were not necessarily as tragic because few homes or people were lost to them.
SF News Newsom Enacts New Fire Shelter Strategies to Avoid COVID-19 Outbreaks We’re now feeling the full fury of coronavirus and wildfire crises happening at the same time, and the state is scrambling to make sure COVID outbreaks don’t hit thousands of shelter evacuees.
SF News Court Overturns Death Penalty In Notorious 2004 Scott Peterson Case The California Supreme Court issued a ruling Monday upholding the murder conviction of Scott Peterson, who was convicted 16 years ago in the December 2002 killing of his pregnant wife, but it said his trial may have been unfair in the sentencing phase.
SF News First COVID Rapid-Testing Site For Airport Workers In the U.S. Comes to SFO San Francisco International Airport just became the first airport in the U.S. to offer rapid COVID-19 testing to all airport and airline employees, with results in an hour or less.
SF News Red Flag Warning Called Off and Firefighters Make Steady Progress Containing Three Major Wildfires Mother Nature has gone easy on us for once this month, and fears of overnight lightning storms failed to materialize, giving firefighters another night of calm, cool conditions to make progress on the three major fires burning in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
SF News First Weekday Of Major Muni Metro Changes Includes Overhead Wire Problem As of Saturday, August 22, Muni riders have been getting to see how some major changes are working on the Muni Metro train lines — and Monday morning all the new signs went up erasing the K and L lines from core-tunnel stations.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Air Quality In the East Bay Has Been Really Bad Zoom users experienced a major outage today, air quality remains terrible around SF, and a Vacaville man claims to have saved his property by spraying flames with Bud Light.
SF News Firefighter Battling CZU Lightning Fire Has Wallet Stolen and Bank Account Emptied By Thieves While helping to contain the life-threatening, ever-growing CZU Lightning fire, a CAL FIRE ground commander had their department vehicle broken into, wallet stolen, and bank account completely drained this weekend; welcome to 2020.
SF News Temporary Animal Shelters Pop Up Across Bay Area, Offering To House Everything From Rabbits to Llamas The wildfires raging across the Bay Area haven’t just forced people to flee their abodes in droves — but they've also left thousands of pets and livestock to go without shelter amid the chaos. Dogs, rabbits, and even llamas are now filling up temporary animal shelters all over the region.
SF News Walbridge Fire Held Outside Of Guerneville and Healdsburg As High Winds Arrive; SCU Complex Prompts New Evacuation We are heading into a scary 48-hour period for the three massive wildfire complexes around the Bay Area as unstable air and possible thunderstorms move north from the remnants of Hurricane Genevieve.
SF News Sunday Links: National Weather Service Issues Red Flag Warning Across Bay Area The LNU Lightning Complex and SCU Lightning Complex fires are now nearly the same size, an Alameda library is creating a first of its kind "clean air center," and the National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning across the Bay Area — that'll stay into effect until at least Monday night.
SF News Fire Updates: With 13,000 Firefighters Battling Blazes, Newsom Asks Australia and Canada For Help Saturday, it was confirmed the LNU Lightning Complex and SCU Lightning Complex fires became the second and third largest wildfires in the state’s history. Newsom before the weekend also pleaded to Canada and Australia for help to contend with this "unprecedented moment" in time.
SF News As Bay Area Wildfires Continue Burning Amid COVID-19, Online Donations Prove Key To Helping Firefighters and Victims With evacuation orders heaping and refugees now hunkered down inside hotel rooms, the Bay Area's reeling from yet another devastating spell of forest fires. And unfortunately: helping the victims and firefighters amid the pandemic is a less clear-cut action than one might think.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Adored Hayes Valley Champagne Bar The Riddler Closes Over Financial Hardships Another day, another shuttered Bay Area restaurant. The Riddler, the esteemed SF champagne bar that matched bubbly with tater tot waffles, announced on Instagram this week they're waving goodbye to their Hayes Valley watering hole — and are now selling their wine selections at half price.
SF News Saturday Links: SF Supervisor Tests Positive for COVID-19 District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar has tested positive for COVID-19 and is showing "minor” symptoms, this year's Bay Area Black Restaurant Week is more important than ever, and Hadley Hall, the founder of Coming Home Hospice — SF’s history-making AIDS hospice — has died at 87.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco To Stay on California's Coronavirus Watch List "Dome dining" is back in San Francisco at Hashiri after changes were made to its controversial “igloos,” the SCU Lightning Complex fire is now ten times larger than the size of Manhattan, and… alas: San Francisco will stay on the state’s COVID-19 watch list, after all.
