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Most Bay Area Holiday Ice Rinks Won’t Be Opening This Year
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open Sadly, it looks like most of the Bay Area’s outdoor ice skating rinks that typically pop up for the holidays won’t be opening this year. Many of the Bays seasonal ice rinks recently announced they won’t be opening due to the ongoing pandemic. Operators have noted that everyone’s health and safety more...
Goodbye to San Francisco’s Iconic 83-Year Old Coca Cola Sign
Bay Area Updates, Goodbye, Only in San Francisco Thanks to Broke-Ass Stuart for tipping us off that San Francisco is losing its iconic Coca Cola sign. San Francisco’s most famous billboard was installed in 1937 to coincide with the opening of the Bay Bridge. Although, it’s not the original sign (it’s been upgraded over the years), it’s stood 112 more...
“Ride Out To Vote” Horseback Protest to the Ballot Box
Causes Your vote must go through. Make it count by November 3rd. Ride out. Drive out. Bike out. Just get out… VOTE. #RideOuttoVote #Vote #PonyExpress #YourVoteMustGoThrough Heels Down Fists Up / Voter Event October 29, 2020 | 3pm Laney College Student Parking Lot, Oakland FREE to Participate CALLING BAY AREA RIDERS! Those with non-motorized and electric personal transportation vehicles, more...
SF & Oakland to End Verily COVID-19 Testing Sites
Bay Area Updates, COVID Testing Two of the most populous counties in California, San Francisco and Alameda counties, will be ending their partnership with Verily, Google’s health-focused sister company, who promised to vastly expand Covid-19 testing across the state. Verily’s platform screens symptoms, books appointments and reports test results. California spent $55 million in contracts more...
SF’s Walt Disney Family Museum is Back November 5th
Museums / Cultural Institutions, What's Closed / What's Open The Walt Disney Family Museum plans to reopen to the public on Thursday, November 5, 2020 in accordance with guidelines recently announced by the Mayor’s Office of San Francisco and the Governor’s Office of California. Beginning November 5, the museum will be open Thursday through Sunday from 10am to 5:30pm, with more...
Check Out The Bay’s “Haunted Car Wash” (Oct. 28-31)
Halloween Forget regular old haunted houses, especially during this socially-distant times. How about a haunted car wash? Come see Freddy Kreuger and “friendly” clowns at the “Tunnel of Terror” from October 28-31 from 5-8pm at San Jose’s “Extreme Express Car Wash” at 655 W. San Carlos St., in San Jose. Expect a more...
SF Taxpayers on $30 Million Hook to Fix Tilting Millennium Tower
Bay Area Updates Thanks to the SF Chronicle for letting us know that fixing the tilting Millennium Tower, which has vexed the city and lowered property values of the buildings residents, will cost taxpayers $30 million. The $30 million share from the taxpayers is just a portion of the overall settlement of $100 million from more...
9 Bay Area Haunted Houses for 2020
Fun & Games, Halloween, Things to Do 2020 has been frightening enough, but if you’re craving some more traditional scares rather than, say, a maskless cougher elbowing you at the grocery store, then you might want to check out one of the Bay Area’s spookiest haunted houses. Some of the big Halloween attractions have transformed their attractions for more...
SF Extends Outdoor Dining to June 2021. Could it Be Made Permanent?
Bay Area Updates, Outdoor Dining, What's Closed / What's Open More than 1,800 individual operators and counting are making the Shared Spaces Program a successful part of San Francisco’s economic recovery. Permits originally set to expire at the end of December may now be extended through June 30, 2021 and new applications are welcome. Shared Spaces allow merchants to use sidewalks, full or partial streets, and other more...
SF’s Iconic Ghirardelli Square Sign is Back After 4 Months
Brand New, What's Closed / What's Open After going dark for nearly four months, SF’s iconic 19-foot-tall, 152-foot-wide “Ghirardelli Square” sign on the northern waterfront is making its comeback with a special re-lighting ceremony on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at about 6pm. The original sign was built in 1915, restored in 1964 was taken down in July and replicated more...
20-Year Wind Event Causes East Bay Parks to Close
Bay Area Updates, Fire Updates, Outdoorsy, What's Closed / What's Open Regional parks in the East Bay are closing in advance of the expected high winds for Sunday night. SF Gate reports that the wind event will likely be the biggest of the year with continual winds up to 35mph, with some gusts reaching 70mph. Take caution; the risk across the entire more...
SF Breaks 128 Year Old Heat Record
Bay Area Updates, Wow Last week San Francisco saw above-average temperatures due to offshore winds pushing warm air over from the inland valleys. The City experienced 3 days in a row of unusually high temperatures. It was in the low 90s Thursday through Saturday, October 15-17. Even more impressively, SFGate reported that on Friday, October 16, more...
SF’s New Mural Dedicated to Viral TikTok Star
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Murals, Only in San Francisco Thanks SFGATE for sharing that TikTok star 420doggface208 now has a new mural dedicated to him in San Francisco. Nathan Apodaca’s recent video of him longboarding to Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 classic hit Dreams and sipping a giant bottle of Oceanspray juice went viral with over 10 million views and counting. Inspired by more...
Mystery Anti-Pelosi Postcards Mailed to SF Residents
Jerk Alert, Only in San Francisco Did you get a mystery postcard in the mail today? We’ve just received our first report of some mysterious anti-Nancy Pelosi postcards that have started arriving in San Francisco mailboxes on Friday. The postcards, postmarked from Springfield, Missouri on October 20th are a crude two color print job saying in all more...
Whimsical Apocalyptic Roller Skater Rolls Through SF
Artsy Fartsy, Only in San Francisco, Wow San Francisco filmmaker Kyle Hanson McKee seized the opportunity when the skies turned hazy to make a unique short video, The New ‘Normal’, featuring roller skater Toya Willock. The film was shot on the eerily empty streets in downtown San Francisco. An uncanny roller skater explores apocalyptic San Francisco mid-wildfire season, more...
