Bay Area Updates
Watch This Parrot’s Impromptu Sing Along at Oakland Zoo
Bay Area Updates Thanks, KRON4 for letting us know that an adorable little parrot performed an impromptu sing-along at Oakland Zoo with a local bluegrass band. Dirty Cello is a bluegrass band that gets your heart thumping and your toes tapping – no matter how many toes you have. When asked to play for more...
SF’s North Beach Open Air Street Dining in the Works
Bay Area Updates, Outdoor Dining Funcheap Needs Your Help Our goal is to stay open during the crisis and, more importantly, when we come out of this. If you love Funcheap, can you help us stay alive? Learn more at GoFundMe Thanks to KRON4 for letting us know that restaurants in North Beach in San Francisco are more...
Specialty’s Cafe & Bakery Closing This Week After 33 Years
Bay Area Updates, Goodbye, What's Closed / What's Open Sad news courtesy of SF Gate, Specialty’s Cafe & Bakery will close all 50 locations due to the financial strain caused by the coronavirus pandemic. We will surely miss their delightful (but rather expensive) fresh-baked cookies. Specialty’s Café & Bakery announced on their website that they are closing after 33 years of more...
Amazing Oakland Teacher Featured on Ellen. Gets $50,000 Donation
Bay Area Updates, Community, Uplifting Funcheap first featured Peter Limata back in April, the amazing first-grade teacher from Oakland who does a live streaming storytime every day at 10:30am. He’s now back on the spotlight as a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Ellen surprised Limata of Emerson Elementary School, and he talked about how he more...
New Drive-Thru COVID-19 Test Site Opens in East Oakland Today
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates Thanks to NBC Bay Area for letting us know that a new drive-through COVID-19 testing site opens in East Oakland. The first drive-through testing location in East Oakland opens on Monday, May 18th. Testing will be available to all community members by appointment at no charge, regardless of insurance or immigration more...
Food Pantry Drive-Thru Helps 5,000 in Oakland and SF
Bay Area Updates, Uplifting Thank you KTVU for the wonderful news about the food distribution drive-thru held in San Francisco and Oakland. Do you need help?: Check out SF’s Food Resources Map with free, low-cost groceries, free meals and food pantries. With the help of over 200 volunteers, this past Saturday, The Salvation Army passed more...
Help Bars & Restaurants in SF Get New Pop-up Parklets
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open San Francisco still may be many weeks away from allowing bars and restaurants to have any indoor customers, so Sean Mason started a petition to make it easier for local businesses to fast track outdoors pop-up parklets to best serve customers safely, outdoors and in a socially-distant manner. The Pop-Up more...
Marin County Opens Up Some Parks & Trails Starting May 18
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open Thank you SF Gate for letting us know that Marin County has loosened some restrictions on park access starting this week Previously the county had a wide ban on parking at parks and trailheads. Starting May 18th, except for a few high-traffic parks and areas (like Muir Woods, Point Reyes and more...
SF Opens 3 New Test Sites for Underserved Areas This Week
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates Mayor London Breed Announces New COVID-19 Testing Sites in Underserved Areas Monday, May 18, 2020 Three new testing opportunities—a mobile site initially stationed in the Tenderloin, a site at City College, and another in Hunters View—bring testing resources to neighborhoods that are underserved and bolster San Francisco’s capacity to test workers and more...
Most Shops in SF Can Reopen Starting Monday at 10am
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open Funcheap Needs Your Help Our goal is to stay open during the crisis and, more importantly, when we come out of this. If you love Funcheap, can you help us stay alive? Learn more at GoFundMe As long as COVID-19 indicators in San Francisco continue to demonstrate progress on slowing the spread more...
E-40 Donates 1,000 Gallons of Hand Saniitzer to Local Prisons
Bay Area Updates, Uplifting Bay Area rap legend E-40 is doing his best to help make sure that COVID doesn’t run rampant in prisons. The hip-hop mogul, who in addition to music also runs wine, tequlia and “sluricane” pre-mix cocktail brands, helps convert alcohol production facilities to temporarily make hand sanitizer and has donated 1,000 more...
Berkeley May Open Huge Outdoor Dining Rooms
Bay Area Updates, Outdoor Dining, What's Closed / What's Open Funcheap Needs Your Help Our goal is to stay open during the crisis and, more importantly, when we come out of this. If you love Funcheap, can you help us stay alive? Learn more at GoFundMe Thanks to Eater SF for letting us know that the city of Berkeley is trying to more...
Muni Bringing Back Lots of Buses to SF on May 16th
Bay Area Updates Beginning Saturday, May 16, the SFMTA will increase the frequency on a number of lines in Muni’s existing COVID-19 Core system (including the 8, 14R, 22 Fillmore, 38R, 49, N Bus and T Bus) along with bringing back service on the 9R San Bruno Rapid. This more frequent service will continue to support essential trips in more...
South Lake Tahoe May Starting Fining Tourists $1,000
Bay Area Updates In the lead up to what is normally a packed Memorial Day weekend, South Lake Tahoe is increasing enforcement of their local order which allows the city to fine people $1,000 who violate the state’s stay-at-home order. According to SF Gate, South Lake mayor Jason Collins says the city has already more...
Stern Grove Festival Canceled for First Time Ever
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open It was announced on Thursday that the 83rd Stern Grove Festival has been canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the continued moratorium on large gatherings. The Bay Area’s original free outdoor music festival was initially scheduled to take place on Sundays from June 14 through August 16, 2020. It is the more...
