Arts & Entertainment Support the SF and Oakland Zoos As They Weather the Pandemic Shutdown Like many other nonprofits and performance venues in the Bay Area, the San Francisco and Oakland Zoos are dealing with a sharp drop in revenue due to shelter-in-place orders.
Business & Tech Bay Area-Based Zoom Pledges to Beef Up Security Amidst Potential State Investigations While the popularity and stock price of Zoom are both booming, the San Jose video conferencing software company is struggling with ever-unfolding privacy flaws and fresh regulatory scrutiny.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco To Applaud And Thank Healthcare Workers At 8PM Saturday Earlier calls for San Francisco to observe this nightly global ritual haven't taken hold — spread the word and make it happen for Saturday, April 4, and maybe every night thereafter.
SF Politics Mayor Breed: 'We Are Not Going To Solve Our Homeless Problem With This Crisis' While homeless advocates and several SF supervisors contend that the city is moving too slowly to get homeless people into shelters with adequate social distance, Mayor London Breed on Friday laid out some of the complications with giving every homeless person a hotel room.
Business & Tech SF Doctor Featured In Netflix Doc Says Possible COVID-19 Treatment Could Be Ready By September A local doctor known for his research into a universal flu vaccine says that his lab has a potential treatment in the works for COVID-19 using SARS antibodies. If all goes well, he says it could be ready for a public rollout by September — and it could also serve as a temporary vaccine as well.
SF News Filipino Cruise Ship Worker From Grand Princess Dies of COVID-19 In SF One of San Francisco's seven deaths to date from the coronavirus was a crew member on board the Grand Princess who was a citizen of the Philippines, and now fellow crew members and advocates are calling for transparency and care for the remaining quarantined crew.
Arts & Entertainment Salesforce Tower's LED Crown Honors Healthcare Workers With Clapping Hands Joining a worldwide, daily call for applause for the healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, the top of Salesforce Tower was illuminated this week with a video of clapping hands.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Counties Mum On Geographic Data LA County is broadcasting neighborhood-level virus data but we're not, Bay Area doctors and nurses are racing to draw up wills, and police are investigating a homicide near Oakland's City Hall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Democratic National Convention Moves to August SF police arrested a 54-year-old man connected to a string of Hayes Valley arsons, California is seriously lagging behind most of the country in its coronavirus testing backlog, and a new walk-up testing site has opened in SF General's parking lot.
SF News Navigation Center Resident Tests Positive, Supervisors Clamor To Open More Hotel Rooms for Them As the dread first COVID-19 case at a Navigation Center has arrived, several supervisors are fuming that transition of unhoused people to safe hotels has barely started.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud and Oasis Put Drag Shows Online SoMa queer nightclubs The Stud and Oasis are both doing shows, both live and recorded, that you can enjoy from home while also supporting these nightlife businesses in a time of crisis.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alexander's Steakhouse Offers Prime Rib and Dry-Aged Steak Dinners For Pickup Among the pricy luxuries that those with means can still indulge in — while also supporting a local business — Alexander's Steakhouse in SoMa (and in the South Bay) is offering some family meal packages for pickup that could just brighten up your weekend.
SF News New Nonprofit Delivers Fresh Produce to SF Seniors — Including Retired Nurse Who Remembers AIDS Epidemic San Franciscans have been stepping up to help each other left and right in the first weeks of the COVID-19 epidemic, and one non-profit that just formed two weeks ago is collecting donated organic fruits and vegetables and delivering them to homebound seniors.
SF Politics San Francisco To Extend Interest-Free Loans To Small Businesses In Trouble During Pandemic The city of San Francisco is establishing a $10 million emergency relief fund that will extend interest-free loans of up to $50,000 to small businesses in crisis during the coronavirus shelter-in-place period.
SF News Video Shows Thief Breaking Into Outer Sunset Store; Owner Says She Still Won't Board It Up SFist co-founder and senior editor emeritus Eve Batey has a story to share with the SFist readership today about her shop getting broken into early Wednesday morning, how fast the SFPD response was, as well as Nest cam video of the bicycle-riding thief.
SF News Despite Social Distancing Success In Bay Area, We Still Have to Brace for Death Toll to Rise Even with mitigation measures like social distancing and sheltering at home, the grim numbers of daily dead are ticking up statewide and will continue to in the next few weeks, with one estimate seeing 5,000 per week at the peak.
SF News Thursday Morning Here We Are: Shooting On Nob Hill Gravely Injures One An emergency hospital is being set up in the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, an Oakland woman describes her experience with COVID-19, and Russia is finally issuing a stay-at-home order as Putin disappears from sight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Buses Get Crowded After Trains Go Offline Sierra snowpack is at 53 percent of average after a very dry winter, Antioch police arrested an Arizona man after a three-city chase, and Muni buses and shuttles are looking too crowded for social distancing after the Metro trains were shut down.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Dolly Parton Reading to Children As the entire country is on varying degrees of lockdown, the great Dolly Parton has decided to do weekly live readings of bedtime stories for children — so there's a reason to look forward to Thursday.
SF News Poll: Americans Less Likely To Approve of Trump If They Know Someone Infected With Coronavirus A new Change Research poll suggests that as the virus spreads, and as more people's lives are directly impacted, their feelings about the President's responses to the crisis may change as well.
SF News SF Weekly and SF Evergreen Temporarily Cease Printing Over Loss of Advertisers SF’s waning foot traffic amid the COVID-19 crisis recently forced the San Francisco Media Company to stop producing print for SF Weekly and SF Evergreen, in lieu of adequate advertisement revenue.
Business & Tech Zoom Video Conferencing Hit With Lawsuit Over Facebook Data Sharing; Other Security Issues Racking Up A class action lawsuit gets Zoom to admit they give your data to Facebook, just as the FBI warns that hackers are having a field day on the video conferencing platform.
SF News Construction Halted On Office Buildings, Housing Without Affordable Units Among the construction that's been deemed "non-essential" under new public health orders are new office buildings, and any residential projects in SF where developers chose to pay into the city's affordable housing fund rather than build affordable units onsite.
SF News Somehow, People Still Got on Cruise Ships Last Month and Now They're Stuck at Sea Several extraordinary stories have come out in the last couple of days, made all the more extraordinary amid extraordinary times, about cruise ships that are still sailing the seas despite everything everyone should have learned well over 30 days ago about cruise ships being coronavirus vectors.
SF News CDC Director: 25 Percent of Infected People May Be Asymptomatic Experts are increasingly acknowledging that the rapid global spread of the coronavirus is due to how easily it's transmitted by those who show no symptoms — and yes it could be through exhaling.
