Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Canceled For the First Time; Organizers Promise 'Grander' Festivity In 2021 Following a week of vague messaging that gained some negative momentum in the press, SF Pride officially announced Tuesday that the 2020 parade and celebration in late June is canceled and will not be postponed to the fall.
SF News Three SoCal Churches Are Suing Governor Newsom Over Stay-at-Home Orders Pastors at three churches in the Inland Empire — in Riverside and San Bernardino counties — who believe they should be allowed to keep their houses of worship open during the pandemic have filed a First Amendment lawsuit against state and county officials that they seem destined to lose.
SF News Bizarre Easter Morning Murder Scene Found In Burning Mission District Home A 29-year-old man, naked and covered in blood on his patio, was taken into custody Sunday morning after San Francisco firefighters found the body of a woman in one of the bedrooms of a home on fire.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 10th Resident Dies at Hayward Nursing Home The CHP is investigating a freeway shooting that injured two in Oakland, a San Francisco man describes the misery of the coronavirus and his ongoing recovery, and Bay Area food banks are struggling to meet unprecedented demand.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma County Makes Wearing Face Masks the Law Gov. Newsom says that a plan for an incremental lifting of sheltering orders is being coordinated between all West Coast states, BART is closing some station entrances, and Sonoma just made it illegal to leave the house without a facial covering.
SF Politics CDC Gives SF A+ for Social Distancing, But Homeless Shelter Outbreak May Curve That Grade San Francisco gets a lovely acknowledgment for limiting the COVID-19 spread, though critics are calling out foot-dragging on the homeless shelter front.
SF News Bayview Grandmother, One of Eight Likely Infected With COVID-19 at Mid-March Funeral, Dies San Francisco's 10-person limit for funerals came after one mid-March funeral that likely produced a cluster of eight COVID-19 cases among congregants in the Bayview, including 83-year-old Tessie Henry.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 In SF Will Not Be Tolerated, Scofflaw Stoners Will Be Cited "We will not tolerate anyone coming to San Francisco for 420 this year," said Mayor London Breed in a virtual press conference Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: SF Zoo Celebrates Easter With Treats For the Animals The San Francisco Zoo had a ticketed, virtual Easter celebration on Sunday in order to raise funds to make up for lost revenue during the pandemic. And it featured animals getting special Easter treats.
SF News Carjacking Suspect Fatally Shot, Off-Duty SFPD Officer Stabbed In Crazy South SF Rampage Early Sunday morning, a man who allegedly attempted to carjack two different vehicles was shot and killed by officers in South San Francisco after he stabbed two people, got shot once, and tried to drive himself to the hospital.
SF News As SF Coronavirus Cases Approach 1,000, Hospitalizations Remain Low; Homeless Shelter Case Count Hits 91 While the grim milestone of 1,000 cumulative cases will likely be hit by Tuesday in San Francisco, overall numbers have remained encouraging for the city as this crisis unfolds and approaches what will likely be its national peak.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Caps Commissions for Food Delivery Apps at 15 Percent Amid the pandemic lockdown, food delivery apps have been raking it in. But a new emergency order from City Hall will limit how much these apps can charge to struggling restaurants for as long as we're still sheltering in place.
SF News SFPD and City Attorney Shut Down Underground Nightclub In Bayview Warehouse San Francisco police staked out and then raided a nightclub that appeared to be operating only in the wee hours (2 a.m. to 6 a.m.) and without any kind of license during the coronavirus lockdown.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Warmer Weather Moving In SF public schools are beginning distance learning, the CHP is seeking a freeway brick-thrower who killed a woman, and California may hit its COVID-19 death peak this week.
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Online Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary Contests Helped Our Spirits Rise Again SF’s annual Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests took place online this year — like most events these days. The Easter Sunday 2020 display of skimpily dressed Jesus and Mary look-alikes was, truly, a spiritual sight to behold from its respective Zoom and Twitch channels.
SF News Clinical Lab at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Begins Antibody Testing for COVID-19 Next Week While current national COVID-19 testing — which involves a technique called reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) — remains at a shortage, an SF lab is validating a new antibody test, helping to both expand testing availability and identify possible cases of herd immunity.
SF News Sunday Links: Bay Area Easter Celebrations Move Online Amid Coronavirus Pandemic Homeless families in LA are seeking refuge from the coronavirus by occupying vacant houses, SF is building a team to trace every COVID-19 case and point-of-contact, and many of today's Bay Area Easter festivities have gone digital — like virtual Easter egg hunts and live-streamed church services.
Arts & Entertainment Collection of Coronavirus-Inspired Honey Bear Murals Debut in The Castro San Francisco-based street artist fnnch added splashes of color and character to The Castro's boarded up businesses earlier this week, painting eight COVID-19-themed honey bears onto various planks of plywood that now line the muted neighborhood.
SF News Saturday Links: Burning Man Will Go Completely Virtual Amid COVID-19 Concerns Organizers of this year's Burning Man have canceled the event and will now host a "virtual Burning Man,” a woman died Friday night on State Route 242 after being struck by an object that came through the car's windshield, and crime rates are dropping around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Lights Bookstore Raises $300K To Keep Staff Paid, Stay Afloat An initial study of Gilead's drug remdesivir in 53 severe COVID-19 cases found 68 percent clinical improvement, Gov. Newsom hinted at a path to "some semblance of normalcy" in "a few weeks," and a pipe bomb report at an Oakland grocery store turned out to be nothing.
SF News New COVID-19 Cluster At SoMa Homeless Shelter Will Add 70 New Cases to SF Tally Prepare for San Francisco's confirmed coronavirus case count to jump on Saturday as we're now getting word of a 70-person outbreak (and counting) at the city's largest homeless shelter.
SF News Complaints About Nonessential Construction in SF Skyrocket Under Shelter-In-Place Homebuilders are not staying at home, and in some cases entering residential properties, as the Department of Building Inspection sees a roughly 500 percent increase in complaints.
SF News Homeless Coalition Calls For Stop To Homeless Encampment Sweeps During Pandemic The city may not be confiscating tents the way they had been before the coronavirus pandemic, but San Francisco authorities are still telling the homeless to move along and forcing the breakdown of encampments, even though this actively violates CDC guidelines for the unsheltered.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: SF Gay Men's Chorus Serenades Healthcare Workers The torrents of bad news and ticking up of death tolls the past few weeks have been met with near equal windfalls of moving human moments, tributes, and applause for the Americans who are out there each day taking care of the sick.
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Virtual Easter Sunday Service at Glide Memorial Church This Weekend For those who have attended an Easter service at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco and were feeling sad they couldn't go this year, and for those who have always been curious but never really wanted to sit in a real church, you can take in this Sunday's service from the comfort of your home.
