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500 SF Bars Might Require Vaccine Proof
Bars, COVID-19 Updates, Only in San Francisco, Vaccines Thanks to SFGate for sharing the news that a group of more than 500 bars in San Francisco are considering requiring proof of vaccine before entry. Amid the surge in recent COVID-19 cases spurred by the persistent Delta variant and the recent indoor mask recommendations, the San Francisco Bar Owner Alliance more...
SF Dive Bar Zeitgeist is Finally Fully Open
Bars, Bay Area Favorites, Reopening Cheers to Zeitgist... In case you missed it, SF dive bar Zeitgeist finally fully reopened including their indoor bar on July 13. Now, you’ll finally be able to enter through their normal front doors. Zeigeist’s New Extended Hours: Monday 2 – 11 pm Tuesday 2 – 11 pm Wednesday 2 – 11 pm Thursday 2 pm more...
SF’s Comedy Day in the Park is Back Sept. 19
Bay Area Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Things to Do San Francisco’s original, longest-running, free, outdoor comedy concert in the world, Comedy Day in the Park is back to celebrate its 40th anniversary. If you like lounging in the park, laughing your ass off, then the 40th Anniversary Comedy Day might be the best way for you to spend a Sunday afternoon. The more...
Chase Center’s Free Outdoor Comedy Night is July 23
Brand New, Get Out: Events One-night-only outdoor comedy takeover of Chase Center’s Thrive City w/ SF’s top comics Get ready for Friday night laughs as the team behind the Bay Area’s popular HellaSecret comedy shows comes to Thrive City, the plaza surrounding Chase Center, for the first time ever for a big comedy show featuring an outdoor beer garden more...
Iconic SF Nightclub AsiaSF Reopens July 29
LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco, Reopening It takes more than the worst pandemic in 102 years to wipe out a legendary, internationally-known entertainment icon and nightclub. Celebrating 23 years of sold out spectacles, AsiaSF, the storied San Francisco dinner theatre and cabaret featuring the world-famous transgender Ladies of AsiaSF, is set to welcome back its first paying more...
SF Adopts New Climate Action Goals to Become “Net Zero” by 2040
Brand New, Green, Only in San Francisco The City of San Francisco adopted new climate action goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address the urgent threat of climate change. San Francisco has made significant progress on its climate action goals to-date, including a 41% reduction in emissions six years ahead of schedule. Building on that success, more...
SF’s New Central Subway Is Now Testing Trains (Finally!)
Bay Area Updates, City Insight, Only in San Francisco, Transportation San Francisco’s Central Subway, a public transportation project criticized for being delayed and over budget, started testing trains in the underground tunnels last week, transit officials said Tuesday. The project, which began construction in 2012, is slated to open for public use by the spring of 2022, according to the San more...
MLB Reviewing Oakland’s Plan for New A’s Waterfront Stadium
Bay Area Updates, Oakland By Keith Burbank, Bay City News The Oakland City Council’s financial plan for a new waterfront baseball stadium for the hometown A’s will go before Major League Baseball immediately while the team considers other cities for a venue, A’s President Dave Kaval said in an interview Tuesday. “We need to have options,” more...
9 More SF Libraries Just Reopened This Week (July 19-20)
Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open This July 19-20, the San Francisco Public Library re-launched in-person services at Eureka Valley, Bayview, Western Addition, Bernal Heights, Ocean View, Noe Valley, Parkside, Presidio and Glen Park. This also means that book drops are now 24/7. In person you can: Open a library account and get a physical library card Browse library materials Use more...
SF City Parks Say Goodbye to Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers
Green, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches Gardeners maintaining the City’s parks, open spaces and public plazas will soon turn over a new leaf—trading gas-powered blowers with two-stroke engines for electric battery pack models instead, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department just announced. Beginning next month, Rec and Park will cease purchasing gas-powered backpack blowers with two-stroke more...
Brand New Arts Center Coming to SF’s Chinatown in 2024
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Only in San Francisco Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, on Thursday announced he was able to secure $26.5 million in state funding for a new arts and media center in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood. Ting, chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, said the new center, to be called Edge on the Square, would be a more...
SF Parks Reopens Eight Rec Centers on July 17th
Bay Area Updates, Reopening, Things to Do San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department is excited to share that they will reopen a limited number our recreation facilities for drop-in activities on Saturdays, beginning on July 17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the summer. Certain recreation facilities will also continue to be open on weeknights for specific more...
7 Bay Area Counties Now Asking You to Remask Indoors
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, Masks With cases of COVID-19 rising locally and increased circulation of the highly transmissible Delta variant, the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sonoma, and the City of Berkeley recommend that everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors in public places to ensure easy verification that all unvaccinated people are masked in those more...
SF’s Nihonmachi Street Fair is Back (July 17-Aug 8)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Japantown’s Nihonmachi Street Fair returns in 2021. Last year the Nihonmachi Street Fair was cancelled for the very first time in its history, but this year it’s back with multiple events on a few weekends. The biggest change from previous years is that in order to support the local Japantown restaurant more...
1888 Oakland Victorian Could Be Yours Free… With a Big Catch
Freebies, Housing, Oakland, Wow Thanks to SF Gate for sharing the news that a 133 year old Victorian home in Oakland could be yours for free. But there’s a very big (and expensive) catch. The historic home at 2428 Chestnut Street, built around 1888, is being given away for free, provided you have both the more...
