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Masala The Red Panda Escapes Northern California Zoo, Heads South

In a code "red panda" cuteness emergency, one of the five most adorable creatures at Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka has escaped. I repeat: Masala the red panda is on the loose. “She

Arts & Entertainment

SF Sketchfest Lineup Includes Christopher Guest, Sally Field, Jeff Goldblum

The highlight of 2016's SF Sketchfest, running January 7th to 24th in its 15th year, could be a salute to Waiting For Guffman on the 20th anniversary of that genre- inventing mockumentary. In

Tech-Employed Male Creates Elaborate Stats Model For SF Dating And Women's Attractiveness

"There’s a joke that I’ve heard passed around the circles of frustrated single men in San Francisco," writes payments startup person Steven Tang in a Medium post he's sure to regret,

Square's Dismal IPO Perceived As Referendum On Unicorn Brethren

Jack Dorsey developed Square's signature card reader and made waves in the mobile payments world after he was removed from Twitter in 2008. It's been a rocky ride since, but as the Verge

Most SF All-Cash Home Buyers Are 'Older Affluent People,' Not Techies

“We are finding all over the country that all-cash buyers are older affluent people," says John Burns of John Burns Real Estate Consulting in the Business Times, regarding new research his firm conducted

Day Around The Bay: Arrest Made In 1983 Rape, Murder Of SF Teen

32 years after the body of a San Francisco teenager was discoverd among the sands of Pescadero State Beach in San Mateo County, authorities have made an arrest. [Chron] Oakland students staged a

Video: Tron-Like 3D Market Street Map Created By Laser Truck

This past Sunday saw a strange sight, even by Market Street standards, when a laser-equipped motorcade made its sluggish way down Market Street. But perhaps you missed the LiDAR truck, which needed the

Agent Who Spent Three Years Undercover On Shrimp Boy Case Calls Him 'Abhorrent To Say The Least'

In testimony closed to the public to protect his identity, the pseudonymous "David Jordan," a federal agent who posed as a member of an East Coast crime syndicate to spend many hours with

The <em>Atlantic</em> Is The Latest To Ask Why Palo Alto Teens Kill Themselves

Four students in the Palo Alto school district have committed suicide since last October, none recently, and Hanna Rosin in the Atlantic is the latest to cover the events. As she points out,

Are $35 Permits Really Necessary For All Ocean Beach Bonfires?

In 2005, when the National Park Service proposed banning fires on Ocean Beach altogether, more than 3,000 fiery opinions were registered during a period of public comment. As a result, the idea

Arts & Entertainment

Video: City Hall Documentary Premieres At City Hall This Week

City Hall continues to fete its centennial this year with “The People’s Palace,” a new half-hour documentary by Jim Yager. The somewhat hagiographical pic documents the world's fifth-largest dome, built in 1915

Arts & Entertainment

The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week

As we do each week, SFist has "carefully curated" a list of the goings-on about town, so mark your cultural calendars for movies, comedy, and a little bit of swaggering (if that's your

SF Trans Woman Attacked For Second Time This Year, Coffee Thrown In Face

“I came here for safety and acceptance," Samantha Hulsey, a 25-year-old trans woman who moved to San Francisco from Savannah, Georgia in 2013, told the Chronicle after she was brutally assaulted for the

Artists' Television Access (ATA) Renews Lease, Hope On Valencia

"Time To Party" wrote Artists' Television Access, more commonly known as ATA, to Facebook last night in a post picked up by the Weekly that heralded their renewed lease at 992 Valencia Street.

The Girls Who Would Be Boy Scouts

“We know how to camp,” said 10-year-old Skyler Westover at a monthly meeting of the North Bay scout council in Santa Rosa on Friday. “We know how to start a fire. We want

Peruse Dave Eggers' Latest, A Children's Book About How The Golden Gate Bridge Got Its Color

In Pixar's Inside Out, which beautifully illustrates not just the inner workings of a child's mind but the sights of San Francisco, a voice in a young girl's head exclaims, "The Golden Gate

Vintage Porsches Collide In Napa Rally, Oakland Man Killed

An Oakland man's death during a vintage car rally has been reported by CBS SF. According to Sheriff’s Capt. Steve Blower, about 35 to 40 cars were participating in an event known

Google Discovers DMV Is Slow, Self-Driving Car Regulations Are Almost A Year Late

When his son turns 16 in three-and-a-half years, Chris Urmson of Google's driverless car project doesn't want to take him to the DMV for a driver's license. Maybe that's a personal anecdote about

To Protect Undercover Agents, Reporters Barred From Shrimp Boy Courtroom This Week

An undercover federal agent who went by the name David Jordan and posed as a member of the New Jersey mafia was one of several to infiltrate Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow's secretive circle

Day Around The Bay: State Funding For Local Jail Puts City In Bind

Two high school football players were shot Friday afternoon and a playoff game canceled in Sacramento. [Sacramento Bee] Crescent Heights wins its bidding war to build the Transbay residential tower. [Business Times] CCSF

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

This Week In SF Food: Tacos Cala Opens, Off The Grid Strikes Google Deal, And Bauer Butters Up Chef Jason Fox

This week, first up, SFist broke the news of Chino's closure. We also wrote up a new 24-hour pizza joint and club called Codeword. In other pizza news: Del Popolo. Nob Hill. Next

Arts & Entertainment

Feminism And Carol Doda, 'The Susan B. Anthony' Of Stripping

By the time Carol Doda died from complications of kidney failure in San Francisco on Monday, the woman who described herself as having "started a sexual revolution that spun as fast as twirling

Mushrooms Were Growing On Rotting Berkeley Balcony Before Fatal Collapse, According To 13 New Lawsuits

In the case of the Berkeley balcony collapse that killed six college-aged Irish exchange students in June when a structure that may have been only "decorative" broke and fell four stories ABC7 now

9th Circuit Reverses CA Judge Who Ruled Delays In Death Penalty 'Cruel And Unusual'

A panel of three judges appointed to the bench of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals by Democrats has reversed a July 2014 decision by a US District Judge that ruled the

Muni Mobile App Now Available For Your Downloading Pleasure

No doubt you marked your calendars for next week, which was reported as the first to download the Muni mobile payment application (for your cell phone). Not so! Yep, Christmas came early this