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As the Bay Area reopens, some step cautiously back into the world FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 April Littlefield, shown in her West Oakland home, is preparing to open her food pop-up.Sarahbeth Maney / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of5 April Littlefield organizes items for the reopening of her food pop-up.Sarahbeth Maney / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of5 Brandi Moody holds the notice for a wedding she is planning to attend now that she has received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 4of5 Brandi Moody talks with her nei...

Skip to main content Currently Reading For a year, El Rio was quiet. Last weekend the Mission District bar reopened with music and hope FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 The iconic mural of actress and samba singer Carmen Miranda is featured at El Rio.Yalonda M. James / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of6 General manager Lynne Angel cleans a table at El Rio. The beloved dive bar, which reopened on Thursday, had been closed ever since the Bay Area first went into shelter in place.Yalonda M. James / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of6 Elin Chee laughs as she listens to her friend Shivani Rangwala, no...

Bay Briefing: The lost year FacebookTwitterEmail Frida Ibarra, 31, sets up her laptop for DJing inside her new apartment in Oakland.Sarahbeth Maney / Special to The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Friday, March 12, and a year ago, our editor in chief sent us home. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. One year on The past year has been one of incomprehensible loss. There is that number, of course: 530,000 dead and counting, difficult to comprehend on a human scale. And then there is the other loss, less comprehensible, less tangible still — the loss of a year in our liv...

Bay Briefing: How S.F.'s Japantown could disappear FacebookTwitterEmail The Japan Center Mall sits at the heart of San Francisco’s Japantown, one of the last in the country.Marlena Sloss / Special to The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Thursday, Mar. 4, and California is changing the way it allocates vaccines, aiming to address inequities. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. Dozens of businesses under threat San Francisco’s Japantown has persisted, even as others throughout the United States faded away. Today, Nihonmachi is the country’s oldest and largest Japant...

'From desperation to uncertainty': As pandemic slows, Bay Area residents balance hope and the unknown FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Kathy Nelsen is director of Kabuki Springs and Spa in Japantown in San Francisco. The spa is open for massages but closed for baths — the service that Kabuki is known for. Nelsen said that adapting has been challenging but she feels she has an obligation to the city and to her staff to stay open. “I was going to retire this year, but I’ve got to see this through,” Nelsen says.Marlena Sloss / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Jenny Chow, a spa at...