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.
SF News Some Scientists Suggest Undetected Coronavirus Caused California's Oddly Early 'Flu Season' By now you've likely had a friend on social media talking about how they think they have already had COVID-19, and it happened a month or two before it was declared a pandemic or even known to have reached the U.S.
SF News Oakland Is Shutting Down 74 Miles of City Streets to Make More Room For Runners and Cyclists Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Thursday that the city will be closing 10 percent of its roadways to vehicle traffic during the coronavirus lockdown in order to create more social-distancing space for people trying to stay fit and active.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: CHP Clocks East Bay Driver Going 139 MPH Seven people have now died and 65 have been infected with COVID-19 at a Hayward nursing home, the SF Fire Department is running its holiday toy program early for needy families, and Gov. Newsom is reassuring fishermen that fishing season isn't canceled.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Still Won't Let House Members Vote Remotely The city of Berkeley has recorded its first COVID-19 death, Eventbrite just laid off 450 people, and the US Postal Service is seeking an $89 billion bailout.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison and Angler Team To Launch Saison Smokehouse This Weekend With both restaurants shut down for the foreseeable future, the culinary team behind Angler and Saison is launching a to-go barbecue concept this weekend in the Angler space, using the restaurant's centerpiece hearth and live fire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vandalism and Thefts Hit Lucky 13, Harvey’s, Countless Other Bars and Restaurants A wave of vandalism and theft is smashing and grabbing what little revenue or peace of mind our favorite restaurants can cobble together while the streets are emptied for shelter-in-place.
SF News Third Suspect Arrested In Chinatown Strong-Arm Robbery Last Summer A third suspect has been arrested in a violent street assault and robbery that happened last July, which sent two men from Chinatown to the hospital.
SF News Friends and Family of Elderly East Bay Woman Throw Socially Distant Parade for Her 81st Birthday Amid the Bay Area's active shelter-in-place order, friends and family of a now 81-year-old Alamo woman held a socially distant birthday parade — colorful balloons and eccentric signs, included — for her earlier today.
SF News As Muni Scales Back Service, Healthcare Workers Left Figuring How To Get To Work As the SFMTA shut down all but 17 of its 79 bus and train routes on Wednesday, riders who still need to move around the city — including healthcare and other frontline workers — are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks.
SF News SF Lesbian Pioneer Phyllis Lyon Dies at Age 95 One of the founding members of the Daughters of Bilitis and one half of the first same-sex couple to be legally married in San Francisco in 2004, Phyllis Lyon, has passed away. She was 95, and reportedly died of natural causes early Thursday.
SF News Ghost Ship Defendant Derick Almena Likely To Be Released From Jail Amid COVID-19 Outbreak Derick Almena, who has been in jail for three years in connection with the December 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland that claimed the lives of 36 people, is likely to be released this weekend as an Alameda County judge has granted his attorneys' request.
SF News Grand Princess Passengers Sue Cruise Line For Negligence The first of what will likely be a tsunami of COVID-19-related lawsuits against cruise ship companies came Wednesday when nine Northern California plaintiffs filed suit against Princess Cruise Lines and parent company Carnival Corp.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Kamala Harris VP Rumors on the Rise The assumption that the coronavirus will abate during summer may be wrong, Santa Rosa-based internet provider Sonic had a major outage last night, and fast-food workers are picketing in the East Bay for more protective gear.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wuhan Lifts Its Lockdown Orders Furloughs and pay cuts hit the Tesla plant in Fremont, SF inks deal for nearly 2,000 hotel rooms for the homeless at $197 a pop, and lockdown is over in the Wuhan Province.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz Coffee Reopens Select Bay Area Locations With 'Mobile Pick Up Concept' After taking a three-week hiatus, Philz Coffee reopened 27 Bay Area stores on Wednesday, each shop operating on a new "mobile pick up concept" to comply with social distancing guidelines.
Arts & Entertainment SF Mayor Says Normal Pride Celebration May Not Be Possible After a number of local publications covered the strangely vague stance being taken by SF Pride concerning the late June parade and weekend-long festival, SF Mayor London Breed made a comment Wednesday suggesting that it won't be happening.
Business & Tech Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli, Still In Prison, Wants Out So He Can Research Coronavirus Treatments An attorney for notorious "Pharma Bro" and all around garbage human Martin Shkreli says he is filing court papers this week to request a release for his client so that he may conduct "laboratory research" on the coronavirus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meals on Wheels In San Francisco Sees 60- to 100-Percent Uptick In New Clients Per Week As this pandemic unfolds and more San Francisco seniors find themselves homebound than ever before, the San Francisco chapter of Meals on Wheels — the organization that regularly delivers hot meals to the homebound — is reporting a steep rise in its number of newly signed-up clients.
SF News Marin County Health Officer Describes His Own Three-Week Bout With COVID-19 The top public health official in Marin County, Dr. Matt Willis, announced two weeks ago that he was self-quarantining at home with a case of the novel coronavirus, and now he's emerged out the other side to describe the first-hand experience.
SF News Updated: Bay Area Nursing Home Outbreaks Account For At Least 211 Positive Cases and 11 Deaths News of new clusters of COVID-19 cases at senior care facilities throughout the Bay Area continues to roll in, and as of Wednesday, the unsettling tallies of cases among both staff members and elderly residents is swiftly rising.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bernie Officially Drops Out Of 2020 Race Two ex-convicts have been charged in a December 3 murder in East Oakland, Santa Cruz has closed its beaches and banned surfing, and 100 American Airlines flight attendants have tested positive for COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grand Princess Cruise Ship Docks at Pier 35 to Refuel and Restock on Supplies The Grand Princess cruise ship returned to the SF Bay today and docked at Pier 35 to refuel and gather more supplies, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey pledged $1B of his wealth to coronavirus relief efforts, and three inmates at the Santa Rita Jail have tested positive for COVID-19.
SF News Op-Ed: UCSF Doctor Blasts City For Not Putting Homeless In Hotels After Discharging Patient Onto the Street As city officials continue to debate the feasibility and prudence of trying to provide hotel rooms as shelter for San Francisco's approximately 8,000 homeless people, a doctor at UCSF has a personal tale of having to discharge a homeless patient who tested negative for COVID-19.
