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Wednesday Morning Link Dump: SFPD's Crime Stats Are Looking Pretty Sketchy

After two years with no turnover in the ways you can hide your zits or whatever, [Instagram]'s announced five new filters: Slumber, Crema, Ludwig, Aden, Perpetua, Sleepy, and Doc (last two are

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Get Your Burrito Fix Now: La Taqueria's Three-Week Closure Begins Monday

Important information, especially for those who took that whole FiveThirtyEight Burrito Bracket thing seriously: Mission District burrito standby La Taqueria will be closing for three weeks starting on December 22. Gather ye burritos

Behold, The 15 Most Expensive Homes Sold In San Francisco This Year

We've still got two weeks of 2014 left yet so, who knows, maybe there are more $8.6 million home sales in the works in San Francisco? But according to SF Gate, this

Suspect Remains On The Loose After Shooting At Coit Tower

An 18-year-old man continues to fight for his life Tuesday after an early-morning shooting at Coit Tower. Bay City News reports via CBS5 that the victim, who hasn't been identified, flagged down a

Tuesday Morning Roundup: MTC Head Flies Business Class On Taxpayer Dime

One time District Attorney of SF Terence Hallinan has been suspended from practicing law. [SF Chronicle] The copious and pricey travel of Metropolitan Transportation Commission executive director Steve Heminger to a variety of

Arts & Entertainment

Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vintage Apple Commercial Highlights Christmas Ruined By DOS Prompts

Most of you whippersnappers will be confused by this ancient commercial from Apple, in which a family's Christmas Eve is ruined by the DOS prompts required by their brand new "Multimedia Computer." But

SF Nearing Last Year's Record As 2014 Homicide Count Rises To 44

55-year-old San Francisco resident Ronnie Hyson was shot and killed in a Tenderloin building last week, in what is reportedly San Francisco's 44th homicide of 2014. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson

Rain Snarls SFO Travel Monday, Causing Long Delays And Numerous Cancellations

Another day of storms, another day of significant delays and copious cancellations at San Francisco International Airport, as a daylong rainstorm is expected to snarl travel in and out of SFO for most

Monday Morning Roundup: The One-Year Anniversary Of Jahi McMath's Declared Death

Michael Brown's dad spoke in San Francisco this weekend. [KRON4] Google's 3D street view can't handle SF, NY. [Google Earth Blog] Starbucks tries to take down fancy-pants coffee joints like Blue Bottle with

SFMTA Agrees To Dismiss (Some) Tickets Issued Even After They Said They Weren't Enforcing Meters

ATTN: No meter enforcement today. #BayAreaStorm— SFMTA (@sfmta_muni) December 11, 2014 No Parking Meter Enforcement Today Due to #sfstorm #BayAreaStorm @sfmta_muni— City of SanFrancisco (@sfgov) December 11, 2014 "ATTN: No meter

CHP Officer Who Drew Gun After He Was Unmasked As False Protester Thought He Was Going To Die

Undercover police ARE violent protesters. In Oakland, cop pulls gun (not badge) on crowd after being exposed. pic.twitter.com/nBYc8MurZq— The Dreamkiller (@Eyeslam) December 11, 2014 An undercover California Highway Patrol officer

Your (75,000+) Tweets About Rainpocalypse 2014, Slickly Visualized

While the rest of us were tweeting about the storm, weather, flooding, etc, one guy apparently decided to take our social media grousing and turn it into something lovely. Identified only as "srogers"

Friday Morning Constitutional: Now We Know What That Ball Droid Is Called

There have been a lot of mudslides in Oakland this week. [KRON4] Star Wars: The Force Awakens "baseball cards" details the names of the new Star Wars characters. That ball droid is called

Day Around The Bay: The International Olympic Committee's Homophobic Past

A man who was shot to death on Mission Street last weekend was an EMT who was trying to break up a fight. [Mission Local] Burmese Kitchen has found a home in the

Despite Promise Not To Price Gouge During Storms, Uber's Surge Pricing Hits Shocking High In San Francisco Today

Would you characterize today's events in San Francisco as those indicative of “any change in the market, whether actual or imminently threatened, resulting from stress of weather, convulsion of nature, failure or shortage

Rainpocalypse's Silver Lining: No Parking Meter Enforcement Today In SF

Yes, today's storm is screwing up the Bay Area and flooding our streets, but there's one silver lining for San Franciscans, as parking meters won't be enforced today. According to the San Francisco

Photos: The Bay Area Is Flooding All Over

time for google to bring that barge idea back RT @retardra: @spweather seen on Cesar Chavez in SF pic.twitter.com/Mte0IJ3NDL— Roberto Baldwin (@strngwys) December 11, 2014 Hey, did you hear? It's

Thursday Morning Roundup: Silicon Valley Skullduggery

SF is where "indie classical" folks will convene for the first ever New Music Gathering this January. [New York Times] Get ready for your hot-selfie-taking-Russian-girl Instagram follower count to drop, as the social

Arts & Entertainment

20 Questions With SFist: Funcheap SF Founder Johnny Funcheap

From 2004 to 2008 or so, SFist made a habit of hitting interesting locals with a list of 20-or-so questions, for the edification and enjoyment of our readers. Now in our tenth year,

Arts & Entertainment

YouTube Packs All That Stuff You Posted On Facebook This Year Into One Video

Yearning to take a walk down the Memory Lane of videos you emailed pals/posted to Facebook/wrote creepy comments on? Then YouTube's Rewind video for 2014 might be what you're looking for,

SFPD Makes Arrests In Fatal Valencia Street Stabbing, Mysterious SoMa Slaying

The San Francisco Police Department sent out a flurry of announcements to press Tuesday, including news that arrests had been made in two recent homicides. According to a release sent by SFPD spokesperson

Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Your Robot Fears Are 'Misguided,' Says Their Leader

SF's trying to keep Telegraph Hill from falling apart. [ABC7] A man who'd been on San Quentin's death row since 1996 has died. [KRON4] Jesse Jackson's back in Silicon Valley to call tech

Public Defender: SFPD 'Has Not Acceptably Investigated' Slaying Of Sacred Heart Student, Arrested The Wrong Kid

Did the San Francisco Police Department arrest the wrong person in the stabbing death of Sacred Heart freshman Rashawn Williams? According to video evidence presented by the San Francisco Public Defender at a

Surprise! Woman Unexpectedly Gives Birth On Flight From SF To Phoenix

We're all used to surprises while traveling by air. Delays, too-close-for-comfort-pat-downs, weird terrible smells...but even the most jaded traveler must have been surprised when a woman gave birth aboard a Southwest Airlines

DA's Office Takes A Year To Figure Out Charges For Former Uber Driver Who Allegedly Killed 6-Year-Old [Updated]

Nearly a full year after a man driving for Uber allegedly struck and killed a 6-year-old girl, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office has decided to charge him with a single misdemeanor count.