Bay Area Updates
Here’s Why Seagulls Abandoned Oracle Park This Summer
Bay Area Updates Thanks to SF Gate for figuring out where all the seagulls went during the Giants baseball season at Oracle Park since there weren’t any fans in the stands leaving left-over garlic fries for them to munch on. A Giants spokesperson noted that the gulls never showed up all summer (other than more...
SF’s “Conservatory of Flowers” Reopens Oct. 1
Bay Area Updates, Museums / Cultural Institutions, What's Closed / What's Open The Conservatory of Flowers will reopen to visitors beginning Thursday, October 1 with modifications in place to ensure public safety and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Guests will be required to wear face coverings and the Conservatory will limit the number of visitors to 25 percent of its normal capacity to more...
Juneteenth is Now an Official Public Holiday in Santa Clara County
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Holidays Thank you ABC7 for letting us know that Santa Clara County is the first in the state to declare Juneteenth a paid public holiday. Juneteenth also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, or Emancipation Day is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the more...
SF Announces New Outdoor Concert Plan
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, What's Closed / What's Open Mayor London Breed Announces Program for Outdoor Entertainment and Amplified Sound as Part of City’s Reopening Friday, September 25, 2020 The Entertainment Commission’s JAM or “Just Add Music” permit will regulate entertainment and amplified sound at Shared Spaces locations, private business property, and other outdoor settings. Permit is available at no cost. Photo more...
20ft Big Waves Coming to Bay Area Beaches
Bay Area Updates, Outdoorsy Thanks to SFGate for tipping us off that big swells are expected to pound the shores along the Central Coast on Thursday. It’s the first big swell of the season, and Bay Area beaches are expected to have waves up to 20-ft, starting on Thursday night, 9/24 until Friday, 9/25 at more...
Huge Bridge Protest Planned for Thursday Night
Bay Area Updates, Causes In response to the results of Wednesday’s grand jury results in the Breonna Taylor case, a huge car caravan protest is planned for three Bay Area bridges on Thursday evening. Please note details may change. See the latest updates at @wallofmany, @vigilfordemocracy, @bayarea.protests According to the organizers, the intention is the drive more...
2020 Census Deadline Is Sept. 30: What’s at Stake for SF?
Bay Area Updates San Francisco Launches “Census Week of Action” September 24-30, 2020 Citywide effort is underway to count every resident in advance of September 30th deadline. Census Week of Action includes safe community outreach events, phone banking, and public service announcements from the San Francisco Giants and Golden State Warriors. Mayor London N. Breed on Wednesday launched more...
SF Has Lowest COVID Death Rate of Any Major U.S. City
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates Thanks to SFGATE for letting us know why SF has the lowest COVID-19 death rate of any other major city. Dr. Bob Wachter, the Chairman of UCSF Dept of Medicine shared the latest chart of the Morbidity and mortality from Covid-19 in selected cities from the United States. The chart shows that more...
5G and Seamless WiFI Coming to BART by 2023
Bay Area Updates Thanks to CNET for letting us know the latest updates about BART looking to get a serious connectivity upgrade with 5G and “seamless” WiFi coming to its tunnels and underground stations within the next three years. Earlier this year, BART unanimously approved a plan to improve cell phone connectivity across the more...
Muni’s Fare Inspectors Are Back This Week
Bay Area Updates The SFMTA announced that Muni’s transit fare inspectors will return to service, but with new approach. They’ll start with educating people on social distancing and mask policies, then move to doing fare inspections and issuing warnings and phase three later in 2020 will be returning to issuing citations. Rather than focusing more...
Free National Parks Day on “National Public Lands Day”
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open Sometimes you’ve just got to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city to enjoy the serenity of a national park. In normal times, on certain “fee-free” days throughout the year, enjoy free entry to all national parks and monuments including Muir Woods and Yosemite National Park and free admission aboard all more...
Amazon’s New Huge Fulfillment Center Comes to Bay Area
Bay Area Updates, Brand New Amazon is opening a brand new 150,000 sqft. fulfillment center in east Contra Costa County in the city of Oakley. The City of Oakley announced that Amazon will be the first tenant of the new Contra Costa Logistics Center Complex which will have five buildings, totaling 2 million-square-feet, will house a more...
San Francisco’s Eviction “Tsunami” Begins in Today
Bay Area Updates, Causes, COVID-19 Updates Thanks to 48 Hills for letting us know that local courts will start to hear eviction cases today (Monday, September 21st). Although the state of California does not yet allow people to be evicted for nonpayment of rent due to COVID, there are many other grounds that landlords can use to more...
SF Buses are Packed; Is SF Doing Enough to Keep Everyone Safe?
Bay Area Updates, City Insight, Only in San Francisco Thank you KPIX5 for reporting about the increased overcrowding on San Francisco Muni buses. Ridership has gone up on Muni and the overcrowding has caused Muni operators and drivers to question, is the City is doing enough to keep drivers and riders safe? SFMTA claims that they are closely monitoring their bus more...
Oakland Venue The Uptown Permanently Closes After 15 Years
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open Sad news from the East Bay, iconic Oakland nightclub The Uptown has announced its permanent closure. The venue had been closed for months due to the pandemic, and with no end in sight until live entertainment could resume, they have been forced to call it quits. It’s a heartbreaking loss for more...
