SF News Sunday Links: USF Agrees To Pay $2.5M Settlement Over Fraud Allegations The University of San Francisco will pay $2.5M to settle fraudulent charges, the front page of The New York Times today lists 1,000 lives lost to COVID-19, and, despite a stern warning from Mayor Breed, SF parks were mobbed yesterday.
Arts & Entertainment Eye Zen's 'OUT of Site: SOMA' Digital Production To Explore South of Market's Queer History Pride Month in San Francisco this year continues to shapeshift as more events either altogether cancel or adopt entirely online programs. One creative adjustment to the current times is Eye Zen's performance-driven, queer history tour of SOMA that's set to digitally debut in June.
SF News Saturday Links: Don't Overcrowd Parks This Long Weekend, Mayor Breed Warns Tom Hanks surprised graduating seniors at his Oakland alma mater yesterday, La Taqueria is expected to reopen for takeout next week, and Mayor Breed cautions San Franciscans to heed social distancing guidelines this holiday weekend at our city's parks — or they could be "shut down."
SF News Massive Fire Engulfs Pier 45 Warehouse, Threatens Historic WWII Ship The holiday weekend kicked off with a four-alarm fire at a fish processing facility on Pier 45 near Fisherman's Wharf. While now under control, the fire spread to the pier below the building and at one point threatened the SS Jeremiah O'Brien.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Poll Finds People Reluctant to Return to Restaurants It's going to be HOT this weekend, the feds have reversed a decision to allow a homeless Navigation Center under a freeway in the Bayview, and a new poll found Americans are reluctant to head back to concert and restaurants right now.
Arts & Entertainment Stud Stories: Remembering a Bar That Epitomized Everything Great and Weird About San Francisco As gay bars around the city have closed their doors here and there over the last ten years, I've always said that I wouldn't throw myself on any coffin unless or until The Stud had to close. Let the wailing begin.
SF Politics Report: Half of the #Reopen Crowd on Twitter are Probably Bots A Carnegie Mellon University analysis found that 82 percent of the most influential COVID-19 retweeters are bots, and that bots comprise about half of the Twitter accounts that are crowing “Reopen America.”
Arts & Entertainment SF to Allow Summer Day Camps Starting June 15 San Francisco and five other counties around the Bay are planning to loosen restrictions for childcare and summer day camps, giving parents some much needed relief in the coming few months.
Arts & Entertainment Aggressive Wild Turkey Terrorizes Visitors at Oakland Rose Garden Wild animals all over the Bay Area have been feeling emboldened and entitled as humans have retreated more and more indoors. And one wild turkey named Gerald is making life hell for anyone who tries to picnic at Morcom Rose Garden.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat Shutter in the Mission, Bringing an End to a Dive Bar Mini-Empire Today in bar casualties from the pandemic we have Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat, the last two dive-y spots in what was once a four-bar empire owned and operated by Paul Bavaro.
SF News SF Adds 122 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In Biggest Single-Day Jump Yet As testing has become more widespread, we have expected to see jumps in the number of new cases. But apart from a one-day, 6-percent jump on May 5 when 104 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed, the numbers of new cases found have not jumped so significantly day to day.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Crime Ring Defrauds the EDD Santa Clara County is beginning curbside retail today and entering Phase 2 behind the rest of the Bay Area, a new study looks at deceased COVID-19 patients' lungs, and a missing Rohnert Park teen has been found unharmed in Salinas.
SF News Exploded Minivan Causes Major Backup on Westbound Bay Bridge A vehicle on fire caused one of the first major traffic jams of the pandemic on the Bay Bridge Friday morning, with SF-bound congestion backed up all the way to Emeryville.
SF News Day Around the Bay: East Bay Doctors Say Suicides Are Spiking Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they're seeing an unprecedented rise in suicides linked to lockdown orders, SF restaurateur Nick Bovis enters his guilty pleas, and artists take over SFMOMA's website.
SF News Four Young Men Identified As Suspects Charged In Santa Cruz Kidnapping and Murder The Santa Cruz Sheriff's Office on Thursday held a press conference identifying a a trio of young twentysomething men from Lancaster, in LA County, as well as a fourth man as suspects in the October 1 kidnapping and murder of Tushar Atre.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Lil Uzi Vert's Deep-Faked Video For 'Wassup' Featuring Elon Musk and Donald Trump The theme of the new video from Lil Uzi Vert is deep-fake technology, and poking fun at fake news on social media.
SF News Santa Clara Sees Spike in Fentanyl Overdoses Under Shelter-In-Place Fake oxy and percocet sold on Snapchat have contributed to a tripling of fentanyl overdoses in Santa Clara County, and prosecutors are starting to charge dealers with murder.
SF News At Least Two Shootings Involving High-Powered Rifles Appear to Point to Rising Gang Tensions in SF SFPD Chief Bill Scott on Wednesday announced that two shootings in recent weeks — one in the Bayview on April 28 and one in Ingleside on May 12 — may be connected and both appear to be gang-related.
SF News San Francisco Man Reunites With Family After 61 Days In UCSF's COVID Unit Ron Temko says he was "one breath away from death" at more than one point during his two-month stay at UCSF Parnassus, suffering a severe and nearly fatal case of COVID-19.
SF News SFMTA Unveils Plan For More 'Slow Streets'; Muni Chief Discusses the Future of Public Transit on NPR The SFMTA has just published its amended plan for temporarily closing more city streets to vehicle traffic in order to allow more freedom for pedestrians, runners, and cyclists to occupy the roadway.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sonoma County May Open Outdoor Restaurants Sonoma County's health officer is making a case to the state about reopening outdoor restaurants and wineries this weekend, Napa has already reopened restaurants for indoor dining, and 40 CA counties have the green light to do this as well.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: The Stud to Close Its Doors at 9th & Harrison, Hold Drag Funeral Online The Stud Collective announced late Wednesday that iconic SF gay bar The Stud — currently holding the title of the longest continually operating gay bar in town, though not in the same location — will shut its doors at its current location as of Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Turtle Tower Robbed During Lunch Service Don't be alarmed by helicopters doing mock safety drills at Ocean Beach Thursday, SF Mayor London Breed has ordered 15 percent budget cuts across all city departments, and Contra Costa County is doing virtual wedding services on Zoom.
SF News USC Study Finds Even Greater Coronavirus Antibody Prevalence In LA Than Santa Clara Study A study that tested 863 Los Angeles County residents last month found that 4 percent of them carried antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 — and 60 percent of those who had been exposed to the virus were entirely asymptomatic.
SF News SF Nonprofit Behind Bay Lights To Transform Pink Triangle Into Public Light Display for 2020 Amid social distancing requirements, 2020’s Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks — which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year — will be modified into a public light display for onlookers to appreciate from afar, illuminated by over 2,700 LED nodes.
