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City Attorney Threatens To Sue Record Label Over Bieber Graffiti

Hey, Biebs, looks like it is too late to say sorry. In a letter addressed to both Def Jam Records and Universal Music Group, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera today demanded the

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Day Around The Bay: Shrimp Boy's Testimony Wraps

Shrimp Boy finished testifying in the murder trial against him. [CBS 5] [Examiner] Winter Walk is set to end January 1. [SFMTA] Everyone's favorite scold, Stanley Roberts, catches Chestnut Street shoppers being jerks.

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[Update] Taint Of Martin Shkreli Threatens Bay Area Biotech Company

KaloBios is in trouble. The publicly traded South San Francisco biotech company is facing a possible delisting from NASDAQ following in the wake of the arrest of widely loathed CEO Martin Shkreli. Shkreli

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Twitter Patents Crowdsourced Tweet-Controlled Drone, FAA (Presumably) Cries

Like its fluttery mascot, Twitter dreams of flight. The social media titan was granted a patent last week for a tweet-controlled drone, with user actions on the platform (think retweets) somehow determining the

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Southwest Flight Returns To Oakland For Emergency Landing After Four Tense Hours Of Circling

A holiday horror show happened aboard a Southwest Airlines flight bound for Chicago Wednesday morning. A 6 a.m. flight from Oakland airport had a problem with its landing gear, which was identified

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Video: Is A Marin County Sheriff's Deputy Leading A Bay Area Dirt Bike Gang?

Cruising through the streets and sidewalks of San Francisco and disregarding traffic laws and pedestrian safety in the process, a dirt-bike gang known as Bay Area Supermoto (BASM) has for months been a

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

This Week In SF Food: Volta Softly Opens, Kava Lounge Comes To Divis, and More

This shortened, travel-heavy week is often a time for under-the-radar openings and end-of-year closing announcements. We are, sadly, saying goodbye to old-timey greasy spoon The Lucky Penny on Christmas Eve, and we learned

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Planning Commission Crushes Sticky-Icky Dreams, Rejects Fisherman's Wharf Pot Dispensary

The stoney dreams of bad seafood pungently mixed with the aroma of medical cannabis wafting from the SF-branded fleeces of confused tourists may have died a less-than-glamorous death last week, as the Planning

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Google-Owned Robot Maker Ruins Christmas With War-Machine Dogs Pulling Santa's Sleigh

Just in time for Christmas, maker of futuristic robots for the US Military, Google-owned Boston Dynamics, has unleashed a video that is sure to crush all visions of sugar plums dancing in heads

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Day Around The Bay: Seriously, No One Is Going To Niners Games

Wow, Daisy really wasn't kidding when she said Levi's Stadium was "a ghost town" last Sunday. [Oregonian] UC Berkeley plans to open a huge art museum, events space, and archive for film. [SF

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Pro-Development Group Loses Bid To Take Over SF Sierra Club

A Bay Area pro-development political action committee failed in its recent effort to take over the San Francisco chapter of the Sierra Club. San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation (SFBARF) accused the Sierra

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6.4 Billion Gallons Of Water Landed In Lake Tahoe Since Yesterday

It's been raining in Tahoe. Like, a lot. Over the past 24 hours the lake has reportedly risen 1.92 inches — a height increase that roughly translates to 6.39 billion gallons of

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SpaceX Vertically Lands Its Falcon 9 Rocket, Geeks Everywhere Rejoice

SpaceX finally did it. The pioneering company in contract with NASA to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station managed yesterday to vertically land its Falcon 9 rocket on a landing pad in

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Recently Approved Tech-Shuttle Program Faces Legal Challenge

It was just last month that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to make the tech shuttle pilot program permanent, thus formalizing the rules and regulations set forth to govern the commuter

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Crazed Yelper Allegedly Harassing Other Yelpers Who Leave Negative Business Reviews

Well this is a weird one. Apparently someone is threatening to harm Yelp customers who post negative reviews of a San Francisco-based plumbing company. When the plumbing company owner was presented with the

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Possible Explosive Found In Home Of Trump-Obsessed Richmond Man Who Allegedly Threatened Muslims

A device that may have been an actual bomb was detonated yesterday by a Walnut Creek bomb squad after being found in the house of a man who had allegedly threatened to harm

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Rise In Mission District Fires Totally Not Arson, Says Short-Staffed SFFD

As rent-controlled buildings continue to go up in flames, residents of the Mission District have begun to wonder openly if greedy/evil landlords really could be using arson as a technique to clear

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Start Dreaming Of A Wet Christmas

After yesterday's rain, things are only set to get wetter. The National Weather Service predicts that not only will it rain throughout the day today and into the evening, but that the rainy

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Walking Trash Pile / Aspiring Rapper Martin Shkreli Fired From Bay Area Company He Just Bought

"THEY SEE ME ROLLING..." pic.twitter.com/D1mDBEeZMq— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) September 16, 2015 Everyone's least favorite exemplar of late capitalism, pharmaceutical trash-ball Martin Shkreli, was predictably, officially fired today from his role

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Smoke OAK: Airport Security Official Busted For Drug Smuggling

It seems that for at least one Oakland International Airport security officer the temptation to abuse her position of power was just too (ahem) high. Federal officials have charged the officer with using

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Feds Accuse Fremont Man Of Attempting To Join Syrian Terrorist Group

A Fremont man has been charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists after federal officials stopped him from boarding a Turkey-bound flight at San Francisco International Airport this past June. The

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Your Smokes Are About To Get More Expensive As Litter Fee Set To Double

The price of cigarettes across San Francisco is set to increase on January 1, as the City Controller has announced a planned doubling of the so-called cigarette litter fee. The fee, first implemented

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Arena Opponents File Lawsuit To Block Warriors' Move To Mission Bay

Making good on their promise to fight the proposed Mission Bay Warriors' Arena "until the cows come home," the Mission Bay Alliance yesterday filed suit in Alameda County Superior Court accusing the future

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East Bay Woman Who Accosted Muslims During Prayers Charged With Hate Crime

Remember this lady? Of course you do — she would be hard to forget. Just under two weeks ago video surfaced that appeared to show her accosting several Muslim men praying in a Castro

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Day Around The Bay: PG&E Can't Prove That Their Pipelines Are Safe

PG&E can’t prove that their pipelines are safe. [Chronicle] Some otters played in the snow at San Francisco's Aquarium of the Bay. [ABC 7] A San Francisco resident made an