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Day Around The Bay: Reprieve For Inflatable Pleasanton Snowman

The giant inflatable Pleasanton snowman will stay for Christmas after all. [CBS SF] Those expensive palm trees on the Bay Bridge? They're rotting and falling apart. [Chronicle] A USPS truck fire has damaged,

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Now Open: Bond, In The Former Esta Noche Space

While we were distracted by Thanksgiving, the team from Wish Bar and Lounge unlocked the doors to the restored 3079 16th Street space, formerly Esta Noche, which they're calling Bond. Bizarrely, despite being

Arts & Entertainment

The Man Who Says He Named Google Releases Amazing Kooky Documentary

San Francisco eccentric Bob Pritikin isn't just an art collector, former ad executive and hotelier, and "friend of the stars" (his words.) Now he's a documentarian and his subject, as it always has

Willie Brown Defends Bill Cosby Against Rape Allegations, Says Longtime Pal 'Can't Disprove A Lie'

On CBS yesterday morning, Willie Brown, San Francisco's 41st mayor and author of the autobiography Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times , reportedly came to the defense of his embattled friend Bill Cosby.

[UPDATES] Saturday Night's Berkeley Protest Ends In Tear Gas

In the latest local protest in a national movement for police accountability in the killing of black Americans, over 400 protestors marched for five hours Saturday night along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Police

[UPDATES] Protests In Oakland, SF For Third Straight Night, More This Afternoon

The Bay Area, and Oakland in particular, continues to protest the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Last night's rally in West Oakland, which shut down the West Oakland BART Station and

Day Around The Bay: A Gingerbread Bouchon Bakery

This pastry chef made a perfect gingerbread replica of Bouchon Bakery as a job application. [Eater] A violinist was pepper sprayed and robbed of instrument in the Mission. [Mission Local] These new traffic

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

The Basement Opens In 222 Hyde 'Rave Cave' Space

222 Hyde, which the SFBG lovingly called a rave cave, closed last year due to a change in ownership of the building plus some trouble with their liquor license. Before the team left,

Second Night In A Row Of Local Protests With Third Coming Tonight

Last night Oakland and San Francisco saw more marches, "die-ins," and calls for accountability in the deaths of black Americans at the hands of police. The most recent rallying cry was the decision

This Rain Is Messing Up Our Salmon Migration

Good for the fishes? Not these ones. As KPIX 5 reports, our endangered salmon population in the Sacramento River, already troubled by years of drought, is completely confused by the rain. Fish near

Mayor Lee's Approval Numbers Slide In New Poll

Last year, 65% of likely voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mayor Ed Lee according to the Chronicle. His approval rating has sunk before to 49%, but earlier this year was

Arts & Entertainment

Full Trailer For Season 2 Of 'Looking' Includes Drugs, Russian River, Walt Whitman

It's out, and the anticipation is mounting: Looking Season 2 has "dropped" a trailer, and it's sort of chill-worthy. As we learned from our exit interview with Jonathan Groff as he begrudgingly departed

Scenes From Last Night's Peaceful Eric Garner Protests In SF, Oakland, And Palo Alto

Last night, in the fourth such Oakland rally in two weeks, protesters once again called for police accountability in the deaths of black Americans. The demonstrations were spurred by a grand jury decision

Day Around The Bay: SF's Ghostbusters

These SF ghost hunters ain't afraid of no ghost. [SF Weekly] Did weird technical issues delay the release of a picture of the suspect in the Feather Lynn homicide case? [The Petrelis Files]

[UPDATES] Protesters Hit The Rainy Streets Of Oakland And SF In Wake Of Eric Garner Case In NY

Following the decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, major protests hit the streets of New York and other

Bon Voyage, reCAPTCHA: Now Google Can Tell You're Human Just From A Click

No one likes reCAPTCHA and everyone's encountered it before. Now the technique of asking users to type in distorted text in order to weed out bots from humans is headed for retirement. Maybe

Robin Williams Tunnel Legislation Introduced, Could Be Done Deal Soon

What started with Julie Wainwright's change.org petition to name the rainbow-accented tunnel north of the Golden Gate Bridge for the late Robin Williams is moving to its final stages of becoming a

Pleasanton Ousts Humongous Inflatable Snowman

A giant inflatable Frosty the Snowman in a Pleasanton Christmas tree lot will soon melt into memory. The 30-foot icon was removed today following a citation from a city official, and the story

Study Eyes Extended Central Subway To Fisherman's Wharf

Construction is well underway on SF's Central Subway from the Caltrain Station all 1.7 miles to Chinatown (expected 2019). But a new city-commissioned study says maybe we should shoot for an extended

Arts & Entertainment

Was Indie Band Pomplamoose's Tour Diary Sob Story Just Shilling For A Startup?

The viral web is full of pleas for attention, affection and (usually monetary) support. So when SFist and other sites like TechCrunch took to the story of the NorCal indie recording artist Pomplamoose,

Rainy Commute Causes Crashes, Golden Gate Bridge Fail

Heavy rain is the story of today's commute, causing dozens of crashes with over an inch of precipitation so far according to the Chronicle. The National Weather Service issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook

Day Around The Bay: World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day, and the Chronicle has some columns from the epidemic and the first day of remembrance in 1988. [Chronicle] A man died in an SF county jail on October

Arts & Entertainment

Willie Brown's City Hall Lights Guessing Game

"The lighting of City Hall has to be one of San Francisco’s most wonderful traditions," or so wrote Willie Brown in his Chronicle column this weekend. "It’s almost become a game

Arts & Entertainment

Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Santa The Hutt Quits Boozing

This season Betabrand, famed and defamed for their creation of the Suitsy (a onesie suit) has reprised their holiday horror photo scene starring Santa the Hutt. Passersby at the Valencia Street store are