Bay Area Updates
No Indoor Dining & Bars In SF Until At Least “Mid-October”
Bay Area Updates, Outdoor Dining, What's Closed / What's Open When San Francisco announced its new reopening timeline on September 1st, there wasn’t any mention of indoor dining or bars. Today the city revised the reopening timeline and finally addresses this issue, but still without many specifics. According to the timeline released on September 10th, indoor restaurants and bars (whether indoors more...
SF’s “Free Wifi” Prank Has Insanely Long Password
Bay Area Updates, Wow Thanks to SF Gate and The Indian Express for giving us great background about this pretty funny “free wifi” flyer a viral San Francisco prankster posted a few weeks ago. Pablo Rohat, an SF-based digital creative artist known for cheeky pranks, posted a video of a flyer promising free wifi with more...
Twitter Needs Roommates for its Massive HQ in SF
Bay Area Updates Thanks to the SF Chronicle for letting us know that Twitter is looking for subtenants for its San Francisco Headquarters as its own employees are staying home. The tech company at has listed nearly 105,000 square feet of 1 Tenth Street for sublease. This is after the company adopted a permanent more...
SFO’s New Longest Flight: 17.5 Hours to India
Bay Area Updates, Travel SFO has a new longest flight. SFGate reported that United Airlines announced a brand new nonstop flight from San Francisco to Bangalore, India that’s 8,701 miles. The flight time clocks in at 17.5 hours. It beats the current longest flight from San Francisco to Singapore by 250 miles. It’s the first more...
SF’s Insane Dark Orange Skies: Day Turns to Night
Bay Area Updates, Fire Updates Well, this is weird… this morning the street lights were on and the sky burned a dark orange as if we were on the surface of Mars. Thanks to SF Gate and SF Dept. of Emergency Management for giving us the lowdown on why day turned to night and the sky more...
SF Parks Just Got Adorable Social-Distancing “Hearts”
Bay Area Updates, Brand New The San Francisco Parks Alliance kicked off their new “Heart Your Parks” gratitude campaign today for the month of September, which includes “heart-shaped social distanced circles” going in at Parks throughout the city. The first parks to get “hearts” include Alamo Square, Conservatory of Flowers Lawn, Glen Canyon Field, and (hopefully) more...
SF’s Residential Parking Time Limits Return Sept. 14th
Bay Area Updates Don’t get a ticket. Make sure you have a valid residential parking permit or be prepared to move your car. Residential parking time limits in San Francisco return on September 14. To make more parking available to neighborhood residents as more businesses open, enforcement of parking time limits in all Residential more...
New Tolls & Lower Speed Limits Coming to Bay Area Freeways?
Bay Area Updates Thank you SFGATE for letting us know that new tolls are reportedly coming to ‘many if not most’ Bay Area freeways. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Earlier this month, the agency sent a letter to all more...
What Was That Weird Smell in the Bay Yesterday?
Bay Area Updates Thanks to SF Gate for shedding some light on the rather unusual stinky situation where many people living close to the waterfront noticed an usual sulfur-like smell on Wednesday – that some people also described as smelling like cut fresh-cut grass or dirty socks. The order was entirely different from the more...
Alameda County’s Salons, Wineries & Pools Can Reopen If Outdoors
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open On Friday, Alameda County issued Health Officer Orders to reopen outdoor swimming pools and outdoor hair salons, nail salons, barbershops, waxing services, skin care and non-medical massages. Additionally, wineries in Alameda County can now offer outdoor tastings by appointment without needing to provide food. In alignment with the State’s Orders, more...
SF’s Brand New “Central Subway” to Open by End of 2021
Bay Area Updates Although San Francisco has had problems reopening its existing Metro subway service, work on San Francisco’s brand new “Central Subway” project has continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with necessary safety precautions. SFMTA has made important progress, but of course due to the unexpected challenges, there were slowdowns. This has set the more...
Mayor London Breed Closes County Jail in SF
Bay Area Updates, Police Reform Mayor London N. Breed and Sheriff Paul Miyamoto announced on August 25th, that County Jail #4, located on the 7th floor of the Hall of Justice, will close effective Saturday, September 5, 2020. Other San Francisco county jails currently have the capacity to absorb additional people in custody. People from County more...
Win $50 Gift Card to Asian Art Museum Boutique
Bay Area Updates, Freebies, Museums / Cultural Institutions, Win Stuff The Asian Art Museum invites you online to get 50% off more than 200 items from the Museum Boutique during their End-of-Summer Sale (August 17-23). During the sale, you’ll find the deepest discounts of the year. They are offering a great selection of apparel, accessories, jewelry, prints, books, stationery, toys, and more...
Uber “Likely” to Shut Down for Months in California
Bay Area Updates Thanks to KRON4 for letting us know that Uber says it’s likely to shut down temporarily in California over the new driver ruling. Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi says that ride- sharing company is likely shut down for several months in California if a court does not overturn a recent ruling requiring more...
Oakland’s Kamala Harris is Biden’s V.P. Pick
Bay Area Updates Oakland native, former Alameda County and San Francisco District Attorney and current U.S. Senator from California, Kamala Harris has been chosen by Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate for the 2020 election. Learn More: Looking Back on Kamala Harris’ Record in California – From cannabis to sex work, the more...
