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SF’s “Palace of Fine Arts” Reopens October 3
Bay Area Favorites, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open After being closed for more than a year during the COVID pandemic, San Francisco’s historic Palace of Fine Arts has finally announced the resumption of concerts and performances in their theater for 2021 and 2022. The first performance listed on the theater’s upcoming calendar is comedy queen and RuPaul’s Drag Race more...
4th of July Street Closures: Lake Merritt & Oakland
4th of July, What's Closed / What's Open In an effort to reduce fire hazards and to keep traffic from blocking emergency vehicles, key Oakland routes are closed to vehicles for the July 4th holiday around Lake Merritt. The closures on Lakeshore and Grand avenues near Lake Merritt are prompted by concerns about access for emergency vehicles, which are more...
Closed July 4th: Berkeley Fireworks Viewing Spot “Grizzly Peak”
4th of July, What's Closed / What's Open In an effort to reduce fire hazards and to keep traffic from blocking emergency vehicles, key routes are closed to vehicles for the July 4th holiday on Grizzly Peak Boulevard. Grizzly Peak is a popular spot to watch fireworks but is a very high fire hazard zone, fire officials said. The road more...
SF’s WWII Ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien Reopens July 2
Bay Area Updates, Museums / Cultural Institutions, Only in San Francisco, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open The SS Jeremiah O’Brien will re-open to the public on July 2, 2021, after over a year with the pandemic, fire and recovery efforts keeping it closed. Built in S. Portland Maine and launched June 19, 1943, the O’Brien had a distinguished wartime duty. She participated in the D-Day invasion in more...
SF’s “Fleet Week” Air Show is Back for 2021 (October 8-10)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open San Francisco Fleet Week is slated to return this year from October 3-11, 2021 with the return of the Air Show, the Parade of Ships, the humanitarian village and joint military and civilian disaster planning exercises. The air show is planned for October 8-10 headlined by the Blue Angels. San Francisco Fleet more...
SF Tiki Bar “Zombie Village” Reopens June 25
Bars, Reopening, Tiki Bars, What's Closed / What's Open Fun tiki bar “Zombie Village” which officially opened in the Tenderloin at 441 Jones (near O’Farrell) in 2019 only to have to shut down for most of 2020 due the pandemic, is finally back open. The bar, which has two floors with private tiki hut alcoves, a candlelit cave and “Doc’s more...
SF’s Historic Tiki “Tonga Room” Reopens July 9
Bay Area Favorites, Only in San Francisco, Reopening, Tiki Bars, What's Closed / What's Open San Francisco’s historic tiki bar and restaurant, Tonga Room, reopens on July 9, on Friday and Saturday nights. Located at the iconic Fairmont San Francisco hotel, Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar has delighted guests with its tropical décor, decadent libations and Polynesian-fusion cuisine and family-style meals since 1945. Tonga Room features The Island more...
SF’s Free “Yerba Buena Gardens Festival” 2021 (June 26 – Aug 28)
Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Yerba Buena Gardens Festival announces a special 2021 summer season that will kickoff on Saturday, June 26 at 1:00pm with a free concert from Bobi Céspedes, the Bay Area’s matriarch of Cuban Music and with 23 free outdoor events throughout the summer. In 2020, the Festival was poised to celebrate its more...
SF Plans to Reopen All Libraries This Fall (Before School Begins)
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, Only in San Francisco, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open After a handful of San Francisco public libraries reopened last month for indoor service, city officials announced on Monday plans to reopen more libraries throughout the summer. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city halted indoor service at all of its libraries and redirected hundreds of library staff more...
Sneak Peek of SFMTA’s New Moscone Station (Opening 2022)
Brand New, What's Closed / What's Open After being delayed again and again, SFMTA is giving us periodic looks at what the new Central Subway will look like with an updated photo of the brand new sparkling “Yerba Buena/Moscone” station that (hopefully) is set to open for revenue service in Spring 2022 Sneak Peek Alert: Yerba Buena/Moscone Station more...
SF Reopens More Library Branches This Week (June 21-22)
Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Mayor London N. Breed and City Librarian Michael Lambert today announced the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) will reopen additional neighborhood branches for limited indoor and front door pick-up service starting today, June 21. More branches are slated to open throughout the summer as staffing permits and as San Francisco more...
Levi’s Stadium’s Mass Vaccine Site Closing on June 24
COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines, What's Closed / What's Open By Jana Kadah, Bay City News Foundation Santa Clara County’s mass vaccination site at Levi’s Stadium is closing on June 24, after administering more than 350,000 doses. It is one of four mass vaccine sites that will close within the next few weeks as COVID cases slow and more than 80 more...
Nor Cal’s “Great Wolf Lodge” Waterpark is Finally Open
Brand New, Swimming / Waterparks, What's Closed / What's Open Thanks to Alt 150.3 for letting us know that after a long delay, Northern California’s first Great Wolf Lodge opened for a “sneak preview” on June 15th and celebrates its grand opening June 29, 2021. The six-story, 500-room family resort and massive indoor waterpark on a 29-acre site Manteca, (about 30 more...
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Fully Reopens
Bay Area Favorites, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk reopened fully on Tuesday, June 15th along with much of the rest of the state of California. The classic seaside amusement park features more than 40 rides and attractions including two National Historic Landmarks: the world-famous 1924 Giant Dipper wooden roller coaster and the beautiful 1911 more...
Amazing Big Sur Trail Reopens For First Time Since 2008
Fire Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, Reopening, Uplifting, What's Closed / What's Open Thanks to KCBS for letting us know that the popular Pfeiffer Falls Trail in Big Sur is reopening for the first time in 13 years. Save the Redwoods League and California State Parks are reopening a fully renovated Pfeiffer Falls Trail in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park on June 18, 2021. This is the first time more...
