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Thursday Lunchtime Links: 24 Hour Fitness Fined For Allegedly Misleading Customers

Google is partnering with the country's largest auto dealership chain to push its self-driving cars. [Associated Press] Last September was the slowest one Bay Area real estate has seen in three years. [SF

Arts & Entertainment

Your Ocean Beach Bonfire Days Are Over (Until March)

Today, Nov 1 is the 1st day of the #NoBurnSeason at #OceanBeach, which lasts through the end of February. https://t.co/trqpmUUIWE pic.twitter.com/PCSr2zUTCf— Golden Gate NPS (@GoldenGateNPS) November 1,

Cyclist Reportedly Shoots Uber Driver In Tenderloin Confrontation

5 shots fired on Mason St at Turk. One man down, appears to be alive. #breaking pic.twitter.com/jyRXYu6s11— Fred Zirdung (@fredzirdung) November 2, 2017 A shooting at the peak of rush

Thursday Morning Roundup: Delays Send Tesla Stock Plummeting

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Alleged BMR scammers get shamed. [SFist] As Sally Struthers

Day Around The Bay: SF Might Issue Recreational Pot Sales Permits Sooner Than Expected

Tickets to hop this years Pliny the Younger line raise $244K for Sonoma County fire relief. [SF Chronicle] Oakland man gets 20 year sentence in after conspiring with Southwest Airlines employee to smuggle

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Water Damage Abruptly Shutters New Michelin Star Recipient Kinjo

In timing that couldn't possibly be worse, a San Francisco sushi restaurant has been forced to close for the rest of the year just days after receiving its first Michelin star. The restaurant

Runaway Dump Truck Crunches Divisadero Street Cars, Injures Three

Construction garbage truck breaks loose And smashes into parked cars. Divisadero at Vallejo. @CBSSF pic.twitter.com/BVG94MI3PF— Joe Vazquez (@joenewsman) October 31, 2017 An out-of-control dump truck hurtled down Divisadero Street Tuesday,

Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Can Facebook Be Fixed?

Uber's looking for an ad agency. [Ad Week] All about "The Missing Towers of Diamond Heights and Potential Landmark Wall." [SocketSite] Bag by local company Timbuk2 panned by [Wired]. A bunch of famous

SFFD Saves Yet Another Dog From Fort Funston Doom

Rescue crews saved a dog from peril Tuesday, plucking him or her from the side of a San Francisco cliff. The cliff, of course, was Fort Funston, the site of numerous such incidents

Driver Fatally Strikes Man On Sloat Boulevard

A 45-year-old man was fatally struck by a driver Halloween night, killed as he walked across Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco's Parkside neighborhood. According to San Francisco Police Department Sergeant Michael Andraychak, the

Halloween Gunfight In Castro Critically Injures SFPD Officer, Suspect

A suspicious vehicle report in San Francisco's Castro District led to an exchange of gunfire early Wednesday morning, with both a police officer and a suspect injured in the confrontation. According to San

Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Pier 70 Redevelopment Gets Final OK

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Farewell, MTT. [SFist] What's the big to-do? This. [SFist]

Bike-Riding Hat Thieves Beat Man At Ocean Beach

A man walking near Ocean Beach was violently accosted Friday, by two bike-riding robbers who apparently wanted his hat. Police say the chapeau crime went down at 12:20 a.m. Friday, near

Tuesday Lunchtime Links: SF Gym Water Chock Full Of Lead

How Facebook and Twitter are hustling to dodge regulators by regulating themselves. [CNet] Square's launching a big biz POS system. [Ad Week] What you have to do to screw up the iPhone's face

Market Street Mob Beats Women, Steals Their Property

Police are describing a massive brawl on Market Street as a robbery, after as many as 20 people attacked a pair of young women and stole their stuff. According to the San Francisco

Safeway Security Guard Fights For Life After Dog Attack, Stabbing

An early-morning incident at a San Francisco Safeway grocery store left a security guard seriously injured — stabbed by a robbery suspect, as well as bitten by the alleged shoplifter's dog. San Francisco Police

Tuesday Morning Roundup: Uber Gets Bite For Oakland Property

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here How do you make your cheeseburger? [SFist] The first

Day Around The Bay: Do You Believe In The Fox Plaza Devil Curse?

Area hospital apparently unconcerned with moral requirements of disables accessibility. [Mission Local] Dogpatch heats up. [SF Chronicle] Uber's got a new legal chief. [Bloomberg] A fundraiser for the SFPD bike cop struck by

One Dead In Fast-Moving San Francisco House Fire

#102917WF1 UPDATE FIRE 44 MOLIMO DR CONTAINED 1st Alarm 1 fatality 1 victim 1 Displaced Und. Investigation 554 am pic.twitter.com/anFw3d30ue— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) October 29, 2017 One person is

Gang Of Over 100 Teens Terrorize Guests At Great America Halloween Event

Things got super scary for guests of a Halloween event at California's Great America Saturday, but the fright didn't come from ghosts or goblins — instead, a large group of violent, larcenous teens was

Monday Lunchtime Links: Bay Area Crematory Sends Wrong Remains

It seems like a no-brainer, but no, the solution to too much Facebook isn't more Facebook. [Wired] Bay Area crematory sends wrong remains to grieving family. [KRON 4] China isn't into the iPhone

BART Cops Seek Alleged Swastika-Loving 'Star Wars' Fan

A man who BART police says has drawn swastikas and racial slurs on trains and stations across the Bay Area will not be charged with a hate crime for the acts, but will

As Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort Surrenders To FBI, Nancy Pelosi Demands 'Outside, Fully Independent Investigation'

As you do not live on a remote island far from Facebook and Twitter and the news (sigh, IF ONLY), you are likely aware that Paul Manafort, who managed now-President Donald Trump's campaign

Monday Morning Linkdump: Landlord From Hell Loses Lawsuit

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Your weekend ICYMI: It's Black Restaurant Week, film archivist

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

This Week In SF Food: Black Restaurant Week Continues, Californios Gets Four Stars, Scotch Bonnet Launches Brick And Mortar

Assuming you weren't sickened by a massive vegetable recall, you had plenty of food news to chew over this week: The (delayed) SF Michelin guide revealed that we now have more three-star joints