Business & Tech The Hilton Oakland Airport Hotel Is Closing Permanently After 56 Years Oakland’s troubled Hegenberger Road is losing another national chain resident, as the Hilton Hotel near the Oakland Airport is shutting down permanently at the end of August.
SF News Two SF Walgreens Locations Will Permanently Close Tomorrow; Another to Cease Operating Wednesday And these three closures will come after the Walgreens stores on Ocean Avenue and Mission Street in San Francisco were shuttered for good earlier this month.
SF News California Has Quietly Paid $4.4 Million to Settle COVID-19 Shutdown Lawsuits An oddball assortment of churches, strip clubs, and tattoo parlors have squeezed $4.4 million out of the state to settle their lawsuits related to COVID closures, and the state spent $9.5 million on attorneys to defend the shutdowns.
SF News Yep... Panic Buying Is Back Across the Bay Area You're not the only one who's noticed empty toilet paper aisles and woefully long grocery store lines in San Francisco (and elsewhere in the Bay Area).
SF News Yelp Data Shows 5,000 San Francisco Area Businesses Have Closed Since Pandemic Began It’s been an unprecedented, extinction-level time for small businesses across the nation. Moreover, new findings from Yelp reveal that some 5,000 SF area businesses have closed since the global health crisis started — with over 2,000 of them now permanently shut down.
SF News Toll Plaza Gridlocked As Golden Gate Bridge Parking Lot Closures Backfire A plan to thwart backups on the Golden Gate Bridge backfired this weekend, as a closure of the bridge's two parking lots ended up reportedly causing even more gridlock than before.
SF News Lexington Club Bids Farewell This Weekend, Crowdfunds Commemorative Plaque With a two-part farewell ball this weekend and doors closing for good on April 30th, the 18-year-old lesbian bastion the Lexington Club is sure to be remembered for a long
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Has Closed There will be no last trips to The Orbit Room. Hoodline reports that the bar at 1900 Market Street quietly closed yesterday. Owner Jay Johnson passed away on March 21st, and the bar
SF News Lombard Street Residents Finally Get Peace And Quiet In Form Of Massive Crowd Of Pedestrians After residents of the visitor-beloved stretch of Lombard known (dubiously) as the "world's crookedest" asked the SFMTA to consider keeping tourist traffic off their street, the MTA complied,
SF News Highway 280 Shutdown Begins Tonight At 9 PM Part of the 280 will close starting tonight at 9 p.m. so that Caltrans crews can "install a new hinge making the roadway stronger in case of an earthquake." The
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's Iconic Le Video Expected To Close Next Month Le Video, the Inner Sunset video rental store known for its eccentric organizational system, its wide selection of hard-to-find titles, and its smarty-pants staff, has announced that they expect to
Arts & Entertainment Coit Tower Closed Until Spring 2014 For today's local tourism public service announcement: Coit Tower, the towering landmark we all prefer to enjoy from a safe distance, is closed for renovations as of today and won'
SF News Union Square Closed After Suspicious Device Found [Update] UPDATE 1:43: All clear. Just a backpack with no explosives found. Move along now. UPDATE 1:26: Canines (gorgeous ones, at that) are on the scene to sniff out the situation at
SF News Gough And Pine Closed After Fatal Accident [Updates] We're hearing word of a fatal multi-car collision at Gough and Pine in San Francisco's Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood. The incident happened a little before 7 am. At
SF News Dangling Window-Washing Rig At Embarcadero 1 Prompts Evacuation [Updated] UPDATE: The rig has been secured, reports CBS SF. All has returned to normal. A precariously teetering window-washer's scaffold atop Embarcadero 1 (301 Clay) in San Francisco has prompted a
SF News Bay Bridge To Reopen Tonight [Updated] Update: The Bay Bridge will open between 9 and 10 p.m. The Bay Bridge will reopen tonight ahead of schedule. Though no specific time has been confirmed, we snapped the below shots
SF News Bay Bridge Shuts Down For Five Days Starting At 8 PM Are you ready? While folks in Eastern SoMa celebrate a quieter few days, the commuters around the Bay Area brace themselves for a five-day Bay Bridge shutdown. This project has been 24
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Canteen Closes For Good This Friday Much-loved minuscule Canteen will close this Friday. And at the risk of sounding too inside-baseball, aggressive PR and foodies ilk have been noting its closure by posting dinner pics on various
SF News The Wax Museum At Fisherman's Wharf Closes Today After 50 Years The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf is closing today, and even though we've never set foot inside and wax museums are generally creepy and archaic, this seems notable. Interestingly,
SF News Suspicious Package Found On Third Street In SoMa [UPDATE] Update: All clear. Sidewalk reopened. Firefighters have taped off the sidewalk on Third Street between Stillman and Harrison in SoMa this afternoon after a suspicious package was found. Motor traffic is moving at
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Spreckels Lake Somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy at Spreckels Lake in Golden Gate Park, which is under renovation and looks like a tired metaphor for the fleetingness
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Closing Today With All-Day Party Golly. Big, unofficially the City's best little bar, will close tonight. And they will celebrate their going-out party with a day- and night-long bash. But fear not, folks, as
SF News Threat On Facebook Prompts Scotts Valley School Closure Someone, presumably a student, posted the following on Facebook yesterday: "If you go to school tomorrow, you will die." Ugh. The school in question was Scotts Valley High. And a student
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marnee Thai Shut Down for Abysmal Health Score Of 58 Marnee Thai in the Inner Sunset is generally accepted as one of the city's favorite spots to score above-par pad thai, with over 1,000 Yelp reviews and a 4-
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Turtle Tower Closing Little Saigon Store On Feb. 27 Turtle Tower, described by The Tens as "the undisputed king of northern-style pho," will permanently close its the doors at 631 Larkin on February 27. But fret not! They will
