SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Gate Agent at Oakland Airport Tests Positive The largest number of unemployment claims in U.S. history was filed this week, a two-alarm fire broke out overnight in a building behind the Golden Gate Theater, and half the beds at Kaiser San Jose are filled with coronavirus patients now.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Will Get a Piece of Federal Stimulus Package Mayor Breed says SF needs 5,000 more hospital beds to handle a surge in COVID-19 cases, SF businesses refusing to take cash are breaking the law, and Steph Curry is hosting a live Q&A Thursday with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Locked Down After Five Staff Members Test Positive For COVID-19 Laguna Honda Hospital, the city-owned facility that is a permanent home to hundreds of elderly patients, is placing two units under quarantine and locking down the entire facility for residents as of 5 p.m. Wednesday in order to contain a possible coronavirus outbreak.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: David Byrne's Reasons to Be Cheerful We could all use some reasons to be cheerful this week, right? Singer and all around genius poet of American music David Byrne has a new journalism project that wants to give you some hope.
SF News Supervisor Preston Secures Private Funds for Hotel to House Homeless Dean Preston puts up $10,000 of his own money into a private fund that will keep at least 30 unsheltered people put up safely to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic at the Oasis Inn.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Businesses Surprise and Delight Work-From-Home Employees with Same-Day Snack Care Packages Snacks n Chill delivers healthy treats from premium brands directly to your door. Same-day delivery available in parts of San Francisco.
SF News Rogue Promoter Tries Throwing Underground Party In Design District, Gets Shut Down By City Attorney Don't get any ideas about throwing speakeasy-style parties during San Francisco's shelter-in-place order, party people! San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is making an example of one such party scheduled for Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Food Critic Notes Poor Reviews of Quarantine Food at Travis Air Force Base San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho is bound to be getting bored at work during this unfolding public health crisis, and so she's likely to keep being creative with the columns like this week's.
SF News Low-Income Seniors at Mission SRO Go Hungry After Food Pantry Stops Delivering Dozens of senior citizens who live at the Altamont Hotel at 3048 16th Street have reportedly resorted to begging on the street or scrounging for food after a food pantry that had delivered to them weekly stopped doing so for safety reasons several weeks ago.
Arts & Entertainment What Will Happen With Burning Man? Organizers Still Can't Be Sure Burning Man's theme camp symposium is going forward on March 28 as a virtual event, and in a statement, organizers say they are watching and waiting and hoping that Black Rock City can be built again come August.
SF News Wednesday Morning News: SFPD Sergeant Tests Positive UC Berkeley is postponing its commencement, Alameda County health officials say most of the county's COVID-19 cases are people aged 20-44, and Prince Charles has tested positive but Camilla has not.
SF News Man In His 40s Becomes San Francisco's First COVID-19 Death San Francisco crossed another milestone in this pandemic late Tuesday when officials announced the city's first death from the coronavirus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tenderloin Sees Uptick In Break-Ins, Vandalism During Lockdown Mayor Breed announces new tenant protections, Democrats may be nearing a deal with the White House for a stimulus package, and Kaiser Permanente has canceled plans for a huge new headquarters complex in Oakland in a blow to the local economy.
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Easter Sunday Hunky Jesus Contest To Be Held Online Assuming we will all still be primarily indoors and isolated come Easter — Donald Trump be damned — the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence has announced that the beloved annual tradition of the Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests will be moving online, like most other live events these days.
Arts & Entertainment Haunting Drone Footage Shows the Ghost Town Of San Francisco on Sunday One week in to a shelter-in-place order and a growing global pandemic, San Francisco was its beautiful self on Sunday — just nearly devoid of people. Check out this gorgeous but chilling drone footage shot all over town.
Business & Tech Airbnb Hosts Furious That People Can Cancel Stays for Free During COVID-19 Outbreak The home-sharing service Airbnb is allowing guests to cancel for free over the “extenuating circumstances” of coronavirus travel restrictions, but house-hoarding hosts are huffy about it.
SF News San Francisco Hotels Offer Up 8500 Rooms And Counting for Homeless, Healthcare Workers A total of 31 hotels in San Francisco have stepped up to offer 8,500 vacant rooms for lease by the city, and more may be getting under contract soon.
SF News As Bay Area Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Tops 1000, Santa Clara County Remains Epicenter The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the nine-county Bay Area stands at 990 as of noon on Tuesday, and we are more than likely going to cross the 1,000 threshold by evening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Order From Your Favorite Restaurant Today For the 'Great American Takeout' Many restaurants have been forced to shut their doors indefinitely in San Francisco. For those restaurants that have stayed open to weather this storm as delivery- and takeout-only, today is a day to show solidarity and order from them.
SF News Collision Involving Wrong-Way Driver On 10th Street Leaves Three People Injured A car collided with two others Tuesday morning in SoMa, gravely injuring two people and also injuring a third.
SF News Tuesday Morning Headlines: Instacart To Hire 300,000 More Delivery People Hayward's drop-in testing site for COVID-19 was overwhelmed Monday, a Solano County judge finally suspended what was probably the state's last active trial, and San Francisco is closing its playgrounds amid virus concerns.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco Art Institute To Lay Off Staff, Close Permanently Mayor Breed chastised San Franciscans for not maintaining proper distances when outside, one of the elderly patients at a Burlingame nursing home has died of COVID-19, and the San Francisco Art Institute says it likely is closing its doors for good after this year's graduation.
SF News Photos: Mission District and Haight-Ashbury Shops Boarded Up — With Notes of Solidarity in Tow Non-essential businesses still sit vacant throughout San Francisco amid the coronavirus crisis, with many now boarded up, as if expecting a hurricane. But between the long stretches of plywood canvassing window panes across the city, irrefutable signs of unity and hope prevail.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Drag Queens and Musical Theater Artists Performing From Their Living Rooms One obvious way our current shelter-in-place, pandemic crisis differs from those in other eras is how wildly connected we already were in virtual space before all this began.
Arts & Entertainment Breed Unveils $2.5 Million Arts Relief Fund, But Industry Faces $48 Million in Losses Mayor Breed’s Arts Relief Program will dole out $2.5 million, possibly more if outside donors step up, which is still just a drop in the hat amidst months of cancelled events.
