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Goodbye Rain: Warm Weather And Sunshine For The Week Ahead

It sure has been raining a lot lately, hasn't it? Well, for all of you feeling just a little too cooped up/soggy we have some good news: The National Weather Service predicts

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

This Week In SF Food: Bauer Dreams Of Po Boys, Get Ready For Poke

We told you where to find the best Irish food in San Francisco, warned you not to eat Trader Joe's pistachios, lamented the demolition of waterfront staple Sinbad's, and asked a native to

Airbnb's Listing Of Israeli West Bank Settlements Incites Protest

Security only allowed one person inside to deliver #StolenHomes petition with over 140,000 signatures to #airbnb pic.twitter.com/SlbQBQIapw— Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) March 11, 2016 These days, it's starting to seem

Arts & Entertainment

Your Drunk Inner Child Can't Wait For Next Week's Boozy Ball Pit

San Franciscans, deservedly or not, have a reputation for falling prey to Peter Pan Syndrome, as anyone who skipped Easter Mass in favor of careening wildly on tricycles down a perilous hill can

Fear Of Overreach Keeps BART Board From Passing Fines For Seat Hogs

You can still lounge to your heart's content across an entire row of BART seats — at least for now. The vote on whether or not to impose fines of up to $500 on

Day Around The Bay: A Look Inside The U.S. Mint

The U.S. Mint in San Francisco has starting minting a new batch of half-dollars for a commemorative series in honor of the National Park Service. [Chronicle] Someone painted racist slurs on a

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Longtime Waterfront Restaurant Sinbad's Is Being Demolished

So long, Sinbad's. Troubled waterfront restaurant is getting demolished right now https://t.co/dm2Pv4hxpq pic.twitter.com/v0rnSpHfHQ— Inside Scoop SF (@insidescoopsf) March 9, 2016 Sinbad's has been on the waterfront since

Google Artificial Intelligence Defeats Go Grandmaster, Humans Prepare For Robot Uprising

Ladies and gentlemen, we make a lot of jokes around here at SFist about the robot uprising, but news yesterday out of South Korea has us feeling a little, shall we say, on

This Burned Out Pacific Heights Mansion Can Be Yours For Only $6 Million

This beautiful, burned out shell of a home can be yours for the low, low price of $6 million dollars! The mansion, which is located at 2008 Vallejo Street, has been empty since

This Proposed Replacement For FLAX Breaks Our Heart Just A Little

You remember FLAX Art & Design, right? You are sure to recognize the iconic building, which features a giant wooden man poised to launch a colored pencil like a javelin, even if you

UC Berkeley Law Dean Allegedly Sexually Harassed Women, Received Slap On Wrist

The Dean of UC Berkeley Law School sexually harassed his employees, but was allowed to keep his job out of concern for his future career prospects, a suit brought by a former employee

Police: Serial Rapist Probably Lives Near UC Berkeley Campus

In a frightening update to the unsolved case of the serial rapist assaulting college-age women near the UC Berkeley Campus, police now say that the suspect likely lives close to the site of

BART Police Release Video of West Oakland Shooting Suspect

BART Police today released for the first time video of the suspect in last January's shooting aboard a crowded BART car. The video shows the suspect walking through what appears to be Pittsburg/

Check Out The Exploratorium's Sweet Video From Yesterday's Eclipse

You caught yesterday's live-stream of the total solar eclipse, right? The one in Micronesia? No? Well then, you're in luck, as the kind people over at the Exploratorium have put up a video

Study: BART Cars Host Bacteria Behind Skin Infections, Pneumonia

This past December a group investigating the cleanliness of five national transit networks found BART to be teeming with gram-positive cocci — bacteria that can cause skin infections and pneumonia. Samples obtained via swabbing

Video: Watch That Google Self-Driving Car Crashing Into A Bus

Remember when that Google self-driving car crashed into a city bus last month? As the robot was at fault, it appeared that the incident was the first time a self-driving car had caused

Oakland Police Department's Radios Keep Failing (Like, All Of Them At Once)

In what most likely will be read as a metaphor for larger problems facing Oakland's beleaguered police force, the department last Friday temporarily lost the ability to communicate when a system-wide failure brought

Sheriff's Deputies Who Allegedly Forced Inmates To Fight Plead Not Guilty

Two Sheriff's Deputies accused of forcing inmates in a San Francisco Jail to fight for the deputies' entertainment entered pleas of "not guilty" yesterday. News of the Fight Club-esque battles broke last March,

Santa Cruz Fraternity And Sorority Members Busted In MDMA Drug Ring

Six UC Santa Cruz fraternity and sorority members were arrested last Friday for running what federal agents allege to be a large MDMA — a drug also known as "Molly" or "Ecstasy" — "organized drug

Video: Reporter Barely Dodges Speeding Car On Live TV

A reporter never wants to become part of the story, and one news correspondent early Tuesday morning had a brutal close call reminding him of that very fact. The Bay Area's KTVU reporter

Lyft App Not Approved By California Regulators For Calculating Fares

Uber and Lyft have changed the taxi industry in many ways. The most obvious: supplanting the old-school meter that calculated distance by monitoring wheel rotations with a supposedly more accurate GPS meter. Measuring

Day Around The Bay: San Francisco's Homeless Population Is Aging

San Francisco's homeless population is aging, and experts fear that this could lead to a public health crisis. [Chronicle] The site of the former T-Mobile store at 20th and Mission Streets has been

'Mission Realty Bingo' Calls Out Absurd 94110 Real Estate Listings

Haven't you always wanted to "find a cultural Mecca?" Or maybe you're more the type searching for "a quietly concealed modern powder room, perfect for guests during an evening of artistic revelry?" No?

SFMTA Director: New Buses Work Just Fine On Hills

SFMTA Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin wants everyone to calm down. Contrary to a report last week in the Examiner, Reiskin says the new $1.1 million-a-pop 60-foot electric trolley buses purchased by