SF City Guides
SOMA’s New Park + Secret Oasis Opens This Weekend
Brand New, City Discoveries, Community, New Parks, What's Closed / What's Open Once a parking lot, this brand new Filipino-inspired art & wellness pop-up and free garden for the community opened on April 14th and celebrates is grand opening weekend on April 16-17. Built by 350 volunteers during the depths of the pandemic, Kapwa Gardens is the newest attraction in San Francisco’s Filipino more...
Port of Oakland Sees “Cargo Boom”: Sets New Record
Bay Area Updates, Wow Officials at the Port of Oakland on Tuesday announced record-setting import and export volumes for the month of March with the equivalent of nearly 195,000 20-foot shipping containers going through the port. The equivalent of 97,538 20-foot shipping containers were imported through the port in March — a 45 percent increase more...
Oakland’s Tallest Mural (190-Feet) Unveiled This Week
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Murals By Keith Burbank, Bay City News The tallest mural in Oakland will be completed Thursday to bring attention to hunger, which the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated all over the world. The 190-foot-tall mural by artist Victor Ash is being painted on the side of the Oakland Marriott City Center at 1001 Broadway. Food more...
SF’s Indoor Concerts Are Back + 11p Dining Curfew Ends
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Festival Updates, Indoor Dining, Only in San Francisco, Reopening Beginning Thursday, April 15, San Francisco will resume indoor live-audience events, performances, meetings, and receptions with capacity limits and following other protocols, and will expand existing guidelines for outdoor live-audience events, performances, and other activities. San Francisco will reopen and expand additional activities that are allowed by the State for counties more...
Oakland’s “Truffle Shuffle” Drive-In ‘Shark Tank’ Premiere Party
Bay Area Updates, Celebrations, Support the Bay Oakland’s Truffle Shuffle will be featured on the TV show Shark Tank, and to celebrate the occasion, they’re hosting a Drive In Shark Tank Premiere Party at Alameda County Fairgrounds on April 16, 2021. Join in for the airing of their Shark Tank episode. We are so excited to announce that on more...
SF’s Muni Might be Free for 3 Months This Summer
Bay Area Updates, Freebies Two San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday proposed legislation to fund a three-month pilot program providing free public transit to boost San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency ridership, which plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The legislation, authored by supervisors Dean Preston and Matt Haney, would provide one-time funding for the program and aims more...
SF Is Opening Its First “Drug Sobering Center” in SoMa
Brand New, City Insight, Getting Help San Francisco city officials on Wednesday announced plans to move forward with opening a “drug sobering center” under a pilot program for people under the influence of drugs such as methamphetamine or fentanyl. The lease for the new Howard Street location will first need to be approved by the San Francisco more...
San Jose to Open City’s First Park Honoring Filipino-Americans
Brand New, What's Closed / What's Open By Jana Kadah Bay City News Foundation The San Jose City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved naming a new park Delano Manongs as a tribute to the city’s Filipino American community and farmworker justice movement. Delano Manongs Park, on Gimelli Way near North Capitol Avenue in East San Jose, is the first more...
SF Finally Allows Everyone 16+ to Get a Vaccine
COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines By Eli Walsh Bay City News Foundation San Francisco opened COVID-19 vaccine eligibility Tuesday to all residents age 16 and older, joining several other Bay Area counties in opening vaccine availability before the state’s expansion later this week. Read the Mayor’s press release. The expansion comes one week after the city expanded more...
UPDATE: Eight Bay Area Counties Pause J&J Vaccines
COVID Testing, COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines By Eli Walsh Bay City News Foundation UPDATE At least eight Bay Area counties paused administrations Tuesday of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine after a handful of people across the country developed blood clots less than two weeks after the shot. Public health officials in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, more...
SF’s 420 in the Park is Canceled (Again) for 2021
Bay Area Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco, What's Closed / What's Open For the second year in a row, due to the ongoing concerns around COVID and avoiding large crowds, the annual 420 Hippie Hill celebration on April 20, 2021 in Golden Gate Park has been officially cancelled by the city. City officials scheduled a press conference at 11:30am on April 13 to discuss plans more...
SF’s Mission Bay Will Have 3 Huge Breweries By Year End
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Eat & Drink, Only in San Francisco, What's Closed / What's Open With both the Giants and Warriors playing in the neighborhood, breweries are betting big on Mission Bay. Thanks to Eater for sharing the news that Mission Bay will have three massive breweries by the end of the year. Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing just opened on April 9 coinciding with Giants’ Opening Day. The more...
Four Grey Whales Found Dead in SF Bay in Just 8 Days
Bay Area Updates, Outdoorsy By Eli Walsh Bay City News Foundation At least one grey whale died this week in the San Francisco Bay Area after being struck by a boat, the Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center said Friday. This is one of four whales found dead in the Bay Area in just over a week. The more...
SF’s First Indoor Pools Re-Open April 20
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Reopening, Swimming / Waterparks, What's Closed / What's Open San Francisco just announced that the first of its indoor pools are set to reopen. Plus, SF Rec and Park intends to reopen all pools citywide by summer. Two of San Francisco’s indoor pools are poised to welcome back lap swimmers with reservations and all pools will re-open by mid-June, the San more...
Late-Night BART Trains Coming Back This Fall
Bay Area Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Eli Walsh, Bay City News Foundation BART will re-expand its train schedules later this year, offering more frequent trips and later service as riders are expected return to public transit as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, agency officials said Thursday. Since March of last year, the agency stopped both weekday and weekend more...
