SF News Saturday Links: Salesforce Commits $1.5M to Coronavirus Relief Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced the software company donated $1.5M to help those affected by the novel coronavirus, the Warriors amassed $1M to support out-of-work Chase Center employees, and now eight San Jose firefighters have tested positive for COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: All the Bay Area Coronavirus Updates for Friday the 13th Mayor London Breed has banned events of 100 or more people in SF, there are now six firefighters in San Jose who have tested positive, and Breed also announced a moratorium on all evictions stemming from the pandemic.
SF News Grand Princess Coronavirus Cases Likely Linked To Seattle Cases Through genetic analysis of virus samples, infectious disease detectives said Friday that the coronavirus cases that appeared on the Grand Princess cruise ship are very likely traceable back to the original Seattle case that spurred the hot spot to our north.
SF News SFUSD Offers Free Meals to Schoolkids During Coronavirus Closures The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) announced yesterday that they’ll close all schools Monday for three weeks, the last week being their scheduled spring break. As a result, SFUSD will now supply free student meals during the two-week closure prompted by COVID-19.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zero Zero, Mourad and Other Downtown Restaurant to Offer Meal Delivery Many restaurants around the country are confronting the possibly devastating effects of social distancing recommendations, and restaurants in downtown San Francisco are already feeling the pain only a week into this mess.
SF News Instagram Account That Posts Pretty Photos Of SF Posts Trump Video On Coronavirus Whoever is running the Instagram account @sanfrancisco.city, which has otherwise been a fairly innocuous account that sticks to pretty photos of San Francisco, just revealed that they reside somewhere far from San Francisco and in a land that is still listening to Donald Trump. Or maybe Russia.
Business & Tech Complaints About Illegal Airbnbs in SF Quadrupled Last Year You may have thought that talk of illegal Airbnb units was a thing of the past, but new data from SF's Office of Short-Term Rentals (OSTR) suggests that scofflaws are back at in our fair city.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 12 Best Alcohol Delivery Services In SF If you're already hunkered down with your toilet paper and sundries, we have a list of ways you can quickly order the other most important pantry-item category: booze.
SF Politics Former SF Building Commission President Sued for $420k in Check Fraud Wille Brown appointee Rodrigo Santos, now in private practice, allegedly took checks made out to the DBI and hand-scrawled them to be made out to ‘RoDBIgo Santos.” A lawsuit claims he got away with it 200 times.
SF News Virus Updates: Five New SF Cases, Museums Shutter, Oakland Schools Close The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in San Francisco went up by five on Friday, to 23, while the total count in Santa Clara County stands at 66. And the outlook for the entire country is looking increasingly dire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Union Vote In Dispute, Might Require Litigation Workers at Tartine Bakery and Tartine Manufactory voted on unionization Thursday, and the vote was a tight one — and currently the union is challenging 22 votes while Tartine management is challenging two.
SF News Weather Report: Settle In For a Wet Weekend Even though we were promised rain earlier this week that never came, the meteorologists seem to agree that we will most definitely be seeing a wet weekend around the Bay beginning Saturday, and a snowy one up in the Sierra.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Caterers and Others Begin Laying Off Workers The Grand Princess cruise ship is almost empty of passengers, international travelers are scrambling to get home before the European travel ban takes effect tonight, and PG&E is suspending service disconnections due to the pandemic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: All SF Public Schools To Close For Three Weeks All San Francisco Unified School District schools will close for three weeks to thwart the spread of novel coronavirus starting Monday, "Hamilton" is canceled at the Golden Gate Theatre until March 25th, and four San Jose firefighters test positive for COVID-19.
SF News SF Opens New Coronavirus Testing Center, But It’s Referral-Only You can’t get a walk-in test, and they’ll only take people referred by a doctor, but the temporarily shuttered Castro-Mission Health Center on 17th Street has been triaged into a COVID-19 testing center.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mayor London Breed Lunches At One Market, Restaurant Wants To Encourage People To Keep Eating Out Mayor London Breed on Thursday had lunch at One Market, in part symbolically to encourage San Franciscans to support the local economy and keep patronizing businesses, even as they practice varying degrees of social distancing.
Arts & Entertainment ACT and Berkeley Rep Cancel Shows, With Both Planning to Offer Video-Streaming Alternative The local theater community is being roiled by measures to stem the coronavirus pandemic, and today we learn that both American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre have canceled their current and upcoming shows for the next month. But video-streaming alternatives are on the way.
Arts & Entertainment Broadway Theaters, Disneyland Shut Down; SF Giants Delay Opening Day Social distancing measures hit the American entertainment and sports industries hard this week. And this is a very good thing, even though we are in uncharted territory both economically and societally.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Grocery Delivery Companies In SF To Help You Wait Out Self-Isolation San Franciscans are not yet being urged to self-isolate due to the novel coronavirus except in specific, high-risk cases. Understanding that this could change, it's good to know that there are options available to you in terms of grocery delivery during these truly strange times.
SF News San Francisco Reports 4 New COVID-19 Cases, 3 From Community Spread After one day with no new cases, the San Francisco Department of Public Health says that it has four more confirmed cases in the city — and it will now be updating the tally daily at 10 a.m. instead of noon.
SF News San Mateo Health Officer Says Society Would Need to 'Grind to a Halt' to Stop COVID-19 Dr. Scott Morrow, the chief health officer for San Mateo County, is emerging as our local Angela Merkel — a no-nonsense, no-spin alarm-ringer about the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News SF's Lakeshore Elementary School Closes Due To Possible Coronavirus Exposure Four students at San Francisco's Lakeshore Elementary School and "several" of their adult family members have shown signs of respiratory illness, which has led to a 14-day closure for the school — which sits directly beside the high school that was shut down last week.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Newsom Enacts Statewide Ban On Large Events Salesforce is donating $1.5 million to the coronavirus fight, Nancy Pelosi says even elbow bumps might be unwise, and a Grand Princess passenger describes a very disorganized disembarkation process.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kaiser Begins Drive-Thru Testing For Coronavirus All performances of 'Hamilton' and 'The Last Ship' have been canceled for two weeks, California nurses are protesting the CDC's recommendations, and a major crash blocked eastbound lanes of I-80 in Berkeley today.
Arts & Entertainment Woman Documenting Grand Princess Cruise on Twitter Tweets Videos of Grandmother Dancing, Singing in Quarantine A 23-year-old Bay Area woman and her grandparents have finally, happily, arrived back on land, and they're doing a lot of singing and dancing about it on Twitter.
