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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Entire 2020 Wine Vintage Could Be Ruined By Smoke Taint From NorCal Fires The disparate wildfires raging in over a dozen counties in and around the Bay Area this August are happening before much of the grape harvest has even begun, threatening much of the vintage.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, The 2020 Election Will Have Drag Queens at Polling Places — And You Can Be One of Them For this fiercely contested election, the California secretary of state has officially partnered with Drag Out the Vote to ‘work’ the polls and lay the foundation for a big turnout.
Arts & Entertainment Two-Year-Old, Six-Bedroom Home Atop Mount Sutro Asks $22 Million A teardown-and-rebuild project in Clarendon Heights that dates back to 2012, with the completed house now just two years old, has just hit the market for an eye-popping $22 million.
SF News Santa Cruz Fire Destroys Big Basin Lodge; Arsonist Arrested In Big Sur Fire That Has Now Burned 7,000 Acres The CZU Lightning Complex fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties has forced the emergency evacuation of the UC Santa Cruz campus and displaced over 60,000 residents, and caused damage to the oldest state park in California.
SF News Forecast Suggests Small But Significant Chance Of More Thunderstorms Sunday Night Widespread lightning on Sunday and Monday from the remnants of a tropical storm in the Pacific has led to a nightmarish early fire season across NorCal. Now the remnants of yet another storm, formerly Hurricane Genevieve, pose another threat of lightning around the Bay Area.
Business & Tech Facebook Mulls 'Kill Switch' For Political Ads To Prevent Trump From Contesting Election Results Facebook is doing some disaster planning for the days and weeks after the election, given that all signs point to Donald Trump attempting to hold on to power by questioning the results of the election — should he, god willing, lose.
SF News North Bay Fire Complex Grows to 344 Square Miles, Claims Five Lives Firefighters began reaching some level of containment in the LNU Lightning Complex fires in Sonoma, Napa, and Solano counties Thursday night, but the level of destruction and death stemming from the fires has climbed to at least 480 structures and five lives.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: A Third Day Of Smoky Skies Air quality in SF will be at "orange" levels today, fire evacuees are eschewing shelters because of COVID, and the Golden State Killer's wife of 46 years speaks out for the first time since his arrest.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zuckerberg Testifies Remotely In FTC Antitrust Probe Newsom's DNC appearance has been put on hold due to the wildfires, Uber's former chief of security has been charged for allegedly covering up a 2016 hack, and Zuckerberg was testifying before the FTC this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 23 Years, SF's Farallon Restaurant Permanently Closes Farallon, the 23-year-old seafood staple near Union Square, has officially closed its doors due to the pandemic — adding its name to the still-growing tally of over 370 restaurants in the San Francisco metro area that have shuttered since March.
SF News Mondavi Fire Contained Quickly After Threatening Multiple Wineries A new wildfire erupted for unknown reasons in a field in the Napa Valley Thursday afternoon, nowhere near the footprint of the LNU Lightning Complex fires burning to the north and west.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Will Not Shut Down at Midnight After Last-Minute Reprieve Lyft was about to shut down all California rideshare operations at the stroke of midnight, but an appeals court granted a reprieve only about 12 hours before that would have happened.
SF News Op-Ed: Restructuring Police Department Oversight If the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests are to have a lasting impact on police practices in this country, they must be accompanied by legislative action.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Foundation Announces That No Awards Will Be Given Out This Year; Michelin Stars Still Coming For the first time in its 30 years of hosting an Oscars-like awards ceremony for restaurants and chefs, the James Beard Foundation announced Thursday that it will not be bestowing any awards during its planned September 25 broadcast.
SF News Fire Updates: LNU Complex Grows To 205 Square Miles, Two People Have Died Firefighters are stretched thin across Northern California as crews continue battling wildfires large and small on over two dozen fronts, in the nine-county Bay Area and beyond. And the still uncontained fire burning into Solano County is now imminently threatening thousands of homes.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up?: Explaining the Current Energy Crisis A PG&E worker died helping firefighters in Vacaville on Wednesday, energy officials explain why California became so suddenly short on power this week, and Steve Bannon has been charged with fraud in New York.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfires + Heatwave + Pandemic... You've Got To Be Joking Struggling businesses now have to lure people outside in the smoke, winds may pick up and make fires worse this evening, and on the plus side Barack Obama is set to tear Donald a new one in his DNC speech this evening.
SF News Fired Oakland Police Chief Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Citing Corruption Allegations Against Police Commission As Kirkpatrick warned she would, she has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that her firing came after she had sought to challenge "corruption and abuse of power" by members of the city's police commission.
SF News Mapping All the Wildfires As They Stand In the Bay Area Right Now You've likely seen the news reports and heard all the alphanumeric names being thrown around (LNU, CZU, 15-10, Hennessey, Gamble), and yes, it feels like we're in yet another apocalypse. Here are some maps.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man To Fire Up Online Shows and Apps, But Nevada Preparing for Crashers Anyway Burners are madly coding away to create a suite of “Multiverse” experiences in lieu of their annual bacchanalia, but the feds are keeping an eye on whether some of them will just show up at the Black Rock Desert anyway.
SF News SF Artist Who Once Painted Kamala Harris On Heart Sculpture Becomes 'Ken' In Viral Video At South Bay Marshalls An artist and onetime LGBT talk-show host in San Francisco, Tim Gaskin, has popped up in a video that's gone viral after he was heard spewing a homophobic epithet and other angry words at a store employee in the South Bay over a demand that he wear a face mask.
SF News 20-Year-Old SF Man Arraigned For Murder After Police-Chase Crash That Killed One and Injured Six A San Francisco man was arraigned for murder and other crimes Wednesday in connection with a police chase that ended in a horrific crash on Saturday in the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood that killed a 63-year-old Pittsburg man.
SF News August Lightning Fires: Napa Fires Grow to 31,500 Acres, Sonoma Fire Threatens Guerneville Fires that began Monday near Lake Berryessa in Napa have prompted evacuations in Vacaville and Winters, and a fire grew rapidly in Sonoma County overnight west of Healdsburg, creating a widespread evacuation order.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Apple Valuation Hits $2 Trillion The need for rolling blackouts was averted last night, the SF Board of Supervisors approved a settlement over homeless tents with UC Hastings, and Apple is now worth $2 trillion.
