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Governor Brown Signs 'Right-To-Die' Into Law

California became the fifth state to legalize a "death with dignity" or "right-to-die" law today when Governor Jerry Brown signed an amended End of Life Option Act, AB X2-15. The bill, which passed

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18th Street Philz Closes Today, Larger Castro Street Location Opens Tomorrow

Philz relatively small 18th Street outpost closes this afternoon. For good. Now you'll have to trek all the way to Castro Street, where a new location roughly twice the size — with four baristas

Dave's, Beloved Downtown Dive, Loses Lease After 26 Years

"It seems impossible that you can find a real, 'normal' bar filled with regulars just steps from Market Street and/or the St. Regis," my esteemed SFist colleague Eve Batey wrote of Dave's

Man Shot And Killed Driving His Ice Cream Truck In Oakland

On Saturday, just four days after 27-year-old Antonio Ramos was shot and killed while painting a community empowerment and anti-violence mural in West Oakland, a locally known ice cream truck proprietor was also

Arts & Entertainment

19 Photos That Prove Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Is A Dog Festival

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is definitely about music, and oh what a broad range there always is. And it's surely about community, too the shows are free and freewheeling, and lots of folks are

Day Around The Bay: G Chahal Accused Of Intellectual Property Theft

Exploratorium workers are up in arms, protesting layoffs and program cuts as the nonprofit museum handsomely pays top employees. [CBS SF] Gurbaksh Chahal is accused of intellectual property theft, meaning he is now

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Not-So-Strict Rules For Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the festival so crowded they had to make it free. Yes, it's happening right now, as that friend of yours who had the day off has been emphasizing via incessant

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

3-Michelin-Star Chef Corey Lee's SFMOMA Restaurant To Serve Copies Of Famous Dishes

A new restaurant from highly decorated, three-Michelin-star chef Corey Lee —Benu, Monsieur Benjamin — will be situated on the ground floor of the new SFMOMA. So, with a nod to "what a museum does,

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Sunday's Finest: A Non-Religious 'Church Service' With Tartine Bread And Fernet For Communion

"Brothers and sisters," Mustafa Khan addressed his would-be parishioners in a would-be church on Valencia Street, the mortuary-turned-venue appropriately known as The Chapel. "We are digitally connected," he vamped with the vocal inflections

Old Bay Bridge Span To Be Detonated November 7th

After months spent securing signatures from various marine and wildlife groups, Caltrans has the final permits necessary from the US Army Corps of Engine to demolish, via implosion, the largest pier of the

In Further Simulacrum Of Life, Facebook To Add Moving Profile Pictures

New, GIF-like Facebook profile pictures will be able to move for 7 seconds and then revert to stationary images, as you might have known if you or a friend work at Facebook and

Chicken Daycare 'Qoopy' Is The Startup Parody That Could Finally Wake Us Up

It looks like a startup: You've seen the minimalist, mobile-friendly design before. It squawks like a startup: Twitter account? Check. But Qoopy, which purports to be a "waitlist only" doggy daycare for your

Sheisty Uber Driver Allegedly Steals Sleeping Passenger's Wallet, Goes On SF Spending Spree

The next time you find yourself nodding off in an Uber, just use this simple trick to stay awake: Remind yourself that one uber-shady Uber driver stands accused of stealing a passenger's wallet

Short-Term Rental Law Violators Got Fined $155K Last Month Alone

As San Franciscans mull Proposition F, which would overhaul the city's short-term rental laws, perhaps this figure might be taken into consideration. According to a press release the new City Office of Short

Writer Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket Pledges $1 Million To Planned Parenthood

Fortune has favored Daniel Handler, the Bay Area author who penned the Edward Gorey-meets-Charles Dickens children's books A Series Of Unfortunate Eventsunder the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. Now he and his wife, illustrator Lisa

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49ers Season Ticket Holders Give Up, Scramble To Offload Tickets

49ers fans are finding their faith tested by the conditions at Levi's Stadium and an already trying season. ABC 7 reports that as many as three thousand Season Builders Licenses, or SBLs are

Yes, It Looks Like Jack Dorsey Is There To Stay As Twitter CEO

Don't call it a comeback, because Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has already been back, serving as the company's interim CEO since Dick Costolo stepped down in June. But now, as investors like the

Local Artist Shot And Killed While Working On Anti-Violence Mural In West Oakland

27-year-old Antonio Ramos was painting a community mural under an Interstate 580 overpass in West Oakland on Tuesday when he was shot at around 10:30 a.m., according to Police reports. Spokesperson

Day Around The Bay: NorCal Extreme Sports Star Dies In NorCal Extreme Sports Accident

Erik Roner, a Northern California extreme sports star and MTV personality, was killed when he hit a tree while skydiving in Tahoe as part of a performance for a golf tournament. He was

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

See and be seen at these select San Francisco shows, parties, and events. You know, because you can't read the Internet all the time. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 TOAST TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD: "Be there

Linking Climate Change To Banking, Protestors Shut Down FiDi Intersection

Hundreds gathered in San Francisco today to rally for a fossil-free future! RT to support. #FloodTheSystem pic.twitter.com/nUhKwR89DU— Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) September 28, 2015 Yesterday morning roughly 100 activists by the

Supervisors Debating Affordable Housing Density Bonuses Today

As discussed last month, the Board of Supervisors today is debating an affordable housing density-bonus program, endorsed by the mayor and drafted by Planning. The deal for developers, as anticipated: Receive two extra

Videos: Intelligent Stanford, Berkeley Professors Win MacArthur Grants

"One day I want to see my basic research fundamentally change the way people live in the future," says Peidong Yang, an inorganic chemist who is creating "synthetic leaves" that could represent a

The Bay Area Has Killer Bees For The First Time Ever

Researchers say that the breed of so-called "africanized" honeybees sometimes known as “killer bees” for their protective, sometimes lethal instinct to attack when their hive is threatened have been detected in the Bay

Flywheel Taxi Sues For Cities To Regulate Uber And Lyft

In order to level what they deem to be an unfair field of competition against the likes of Uber and Lyft, Flywheel Taxi of San Francisco is suing California regulators, the Chronicle and