SF City Guides
SF is Getting an Amazing New Immersive Art Show
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Deals Step into an experience like no other: at teamLab: Continuity, you become part of an interactive landscape of blooming flowers, darting fish, and soaring crows. At teamLab: Continuity, you will find yourself immersed in a wondrous ecosystem of lush imagery drawn from nature and East Asian art that dynamically evolves around more...
SF’s Free “Yerba Buena Gardens Festival” 2021 (June 26 – Aug 28)
Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Yerba Buena Gardens Festival announces a special 2021 summer season that will kickoff on Saturday, June 26 at 1:00pm with a free concert from Bobi Céspedes, the Bay Area’s matriarch of Cuban Music and with 23 free outdoor events throughout the summer. In 2020, the Festival was poised to celebrate its more...
See Diego Rivera’s Rare 30-Ton Fresco at SFMOMA for Free
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Updates, Murals, Museums / Cultural Institutions, Only in San Francisco Diego Rivera’s rarely seen fresco will be on view for free at SFMOMA opening at 1pm on June 28th. It’ll be on view until 2023. Ten years after his first stay, Diego Rivera (1886–1957) returned to San Francisco in June 1940 to headline the main fine arts exhibition of the Golden Gate more...
CA Launches Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Records
Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines By Eli Walsh, Bay City News Foundation Vaccinated state residents can now access their vaccine record digitally through a tool introduced Friday by the state’s Department of Public Health and Department of Technology. The access your digital record residents will need to input their name, date of birth, phone number or email more...
East Oakland May Become Home to WNBA Team
Bay Area Updates, Brand New By Keith Burbank, Bay City News Professional basketball and soccer may be coming to East Oakland and college basketball is already on its way, city and civic leaders said at a news conference Friday afternoon. The news conference at noon at Everett & Jones BBQ in Oakland involved city and county elected more...
SF Named 2021’s Best City for Your Summer “Vaxcation”
Bay Area Updates, Travel Thanks to KTVU for sharing the news that Lawnstarter ranked San Francisco as the best city in America to have a summer vaxcation. What’s a “vaxcation”? Lawnstarter states “Just what it sounds like: a vacation for the COVID-vaccinated.” Lawnstarter compared the 200 biggest U.S. cities based on 30 key metrics. They factored more...
Green Day Members Play Surprise Gig to Celebrate Reopened Oakland Dive Bar
Bay Area Updates, Celebrations, Reopening The Golden Bull in Oakland held an invite-only party celebrate their reopening with a surprise set from The Coverups, a side project from Green Day members. Don’t feel bad you missed out because the party was guest list only to ensure everyone was vaccinated. Thanks to SFGate for sharing the backstory. more...
SF Plans to Reopen All Libraries This Fall (Before School Begins)
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, Only in San Francisco, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open After a handful of San Francisco public libraries reopened last month for indoor service, city officials announced on Monday plans to reopen more libraries throughout the summer. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city halted indoor service at all of its libraries and redirected hundreds of library staff more...
McDonalds Now Hosts Bay Area Vaccine Clinics (w/ Free Food)
Freebies, Vaccines McDonald’s California Franchisees are partnering with the California Department of Public Health to offer free vaccinations at 70+ locations throughout the state. Starting June 21, pop-up clinics at McDonald’s restaurants will offer COVID-19 vaccines for our employees, their family members and the general public. People who receive a vaccine at McDonald’s more...
Oakland is Getting a New Giant Crane This Week
Brand New By Tony Hicks Bay City News Foundation The skyline around the Port of Oakland is going to get a little more crowded this week. Everport Terminal Services is bringing in a new towering, ship-to-shore crane to its Everport marine terminal, via ship from Shanghai-based ZPMC. The new cargo crane has a lift height more...
SF’s Brand New Shake Shack Opens June 28
Brand New, Indoor Dining Thanks to SF Gate for letting us know that the Shake Shack finally has an opening date set for its second ever San Francisco location. Shake Shack plans to open at the Westfield Center mall on June 28, 2021 and will be open every day from Noon to 6pm. Shake Shack / more...
Sneak Peek of SFMTA’s New Moscone Station (Opening 2022)
Brand New, What's Closed / What's Open After being delayed again and again, SFMTA is giving us periodic looks at what the new Central Subway will look like with an updated photo of the brand new sparkling “Yerba Buena/Moscone” station that (hopefully) is set to open for revenue service in Spring 2022 Sneak Peek Alert: Yerba Buena/Moscone Station more...
SF Reopens More Library Branches This Week (June 21-22)
Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Mayor London N. Breed and City Librarian Michael Lambert today announced the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) will reopen additional neighborhood branches for limited indoor and front door pick-up service starting today, June 21. More branches are slated to open throughout the summer as staffing permits and as San Francisco more...
14 Hours of Sunshine: The First Full Day of Summer 2021
Celebrations June 21, 2021 is within 1 second of being the longest day of the year and officially the first full day of Summer. (Technically summer began last night) With the sunrise at 5:48 am and sunset not until 8:35 pm in San Francisco that gives us a full 14 hours, 46 more...
Bay Area Comic Kabir Singh Slays on America’s Got Talent
Bay Area Favorites, Support the Bay, Wow Bay Area comedian Kabir Singh, who hails from Fremont, CA, is on this season’s of America’s Got Talent. Check out his hilarious audition below, where he got a standing ovation from judges. Judges Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, Sofia Vergara, and Simon Cowell all voted “Yes”, sending him to the next round of season 16 more...
