SF City Guides
North Beach’s Brand New Carol Doda Mural
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Local Icons, San Francisco Thanks to our friend Broke-Ass Stuart for sharing that San Francisco has a brand new mural honoring local icon Carol Doda. You’ll find the new mural in North Beach at Bodega SF, at the corner of Filbert and Columbus. If you walk by, you might remember there was another iconic more...
Someone Ditched a Zipcar Stuck in the Sand at an SF Beach
Getting Help, Jerk Alert, San Francisco Thanks to itsthebay on for sharing an unusual sight. The Instagram account shared a video from @rolemodelrick showing an abandoned Zipcar stuck in the sand on the beach in San Francisco. We have questions. How did the person get their car onto the beach and how much did that mistake cost more...
SF’s Esprit Park Closes for a Year for Renovations
Bay Area Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco By Victoria Franco, Bay City News Foundation A renovation project at Esprit Park in San Francisco broke ground on Friday and will leave the park closed for about a year, according to the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. Once renovated, the 2-acre Dogpatch neighborhood park will still have its original design, more...
SF’s Iconic Ferry Building is Getting a Big Makeover
Bay Area Updates, Eat & Drink, Local Icons, San Francisco The Ferry Building is planning a series of enhancements to benefit the public, protect its status as a historic landmark and support the Ferry Building Marketplace’s beloved local, farm-driven and ethnically diverse merchants by improving the infrastructure and visitor circulation they need to be successful. The proposed enhancement plan will create more...
49ers Host Official Playoff Watch Parties in SF & San Jose (Jan. 22)
Celebrations, Super Bowl, Support the Bay By Heather Allen, Bay City News Foundation The San Francisco 49ers are hosting watch parties in San Jose, San Francisco and Mexico City for fans who can’t go in person to Sunday’s NFC divisional playoff game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. The 49ers will host the Dallas Cowboys in the more...
President Biden Visits Bay Area to Assess Damage from Recent Storms
Bay Area Updates, Getting Help President Joe Biden will visit Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties Thursday, January 19, to see first-hand the damage from a series of atmospheric river storms in the past three weeks. During the trip, the president plans to meet with business owners and residents affected by recent storms, as well as more...
SF Pushes for Privately-Funded Overdose Prevention Sites
Getting Help, San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed and Supervisor Hillary Ronen recently announced local steps the City is taking to address a recently identified permitting barrier to move forward with a non-city-funded Overdose Prevention Site. As the City has continued to wait for federal guidance around whether it can fund an overdose prevention program more...
Palace of Fine Arts’ Beloved Swan ‘Blanche’ Dies at 28
Goodbye, San Francisco Blanche, the swan who captured the hearts of generations of visitors to the Palace of Fine Arts, has died at 28, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department announced today. Blanche passed away Thursday, Jan. 12 at her home in Sonoma County, where she retired in July 2022 after a lifetime more...
McDonald’s Closes SF’s Fisherman Wharf Restaurant
Eat & Drink, Goodbye, San Francisco Thanks to SF Gate for sharing the news that the McDonald’s restaurant located at 145 Jefferson Street in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf has closed. A sign was put up on the front door stating that the restaurant has closed, but a new restaurant would take its place. McDonald’s has disclosed that more...
McDonald’s Free Chicken McNugget Day for One Day Only (Jan. 18)
Eat & Drink, Freebies McDonald’s is giving away its famous McNuggets for one day only on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 to celebrate their iconic chicken nugget’s 40th birthday. For today only, you can get a free 6-piece order of McNuggets. To get the freebie, customers must use the McDonald’s app to place the order. No other more...
SF Launches Flood Relief Grants for Residents & Small Businesses
Getting Help, San Francisco By Olivia Wynkoop, Bay City News Foundation San Francisco residents, property owners, and businesses that were badly impacted by January’s series of winter storms may be eligible for financial relief, Mayor London Breed announced on Tuesday. Since the beginning of the year, San Francisco has been hit by a series of more...
BART Repairs East Bay’s Yellow Line Starting President’s Day Weekend
Bay Area Updates, East Bay, Transportation BART’s next round of major trackway repairs will focus on the Yellow Line in the East Bay, which is the busiest in the BART system. The upcoming work is made possible by voter-approved Measure RR, which is providing $3.5 billion to rebuild BART’s core infrastructure. *Over President’s Day weekend, February 18-20, 2023, more...
Watch Lightning Strike Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco, Storm Watch Thanks to the National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area for sharing this cool footage of lightning striking the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday, January 14, 2023. Thanks to their Mersea cam, they were able to capture the distant video of the lightning striking the bridge at 4:42 pm. Check out the more...
Rare Bay Area “Ocean Tornado” Spotted in Sonoma County
Storm Watch Thanks to SF Gate for spreading the word about this hiker’s discovery on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. Santa Rosa resident Omar Rogers spotted a rare waterspout, a tornado that’s formed over water, near Sonoma County’s Ocean Cove area. The swirling vortex of air and water mist usually forms in tropical locations. The more...
SF’s WWII Battery Bunker Slides Down 200 Foot Cliff Onto Beach
San Francisco, Storm Watch A World War II-era military structure has fallen onto the beach at Fort Funston, park service officials said on Monday. The concrete battery bunker slid down a rain-soaked bluff, according to a post on social media by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. No injuries were reported, but visitors are urged more...
