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Blue Bottle Coffee Sells Majority Stake To Nestle

The cycle from homegrown, artisanal coffee bar on an alley to selling out to an international food conglomerate is complete, as it's announced today that Swiss food giant Nestle has purchased

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Day Around The Bay: Apple Mocked For Calling New Stores 'Town Halls'

* Everyone on social media is mocking Apple for saying their stores will now be called “town halls.” They are still stores. [Chronicle] * NTSB agrees that Tesla’s autopilot played significant role in a

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Casey's Pizza Opening First Brick-and-Mortar Location In Mission Bay Thursday

It's been almost exactly six years since pizza man Casey Crynes launched the city's first mobile pizza operation out of a food truck, Casey's Pizza, having grown

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Chelsea Manning Appears In SF, Speaks Out On Privacy In New York Times

"It was always unclear to me whether we were helping or perpetuating violence in a particular part of the country." https://t.co/9zcmP7YLlH — Ars Technica (@arstechnica) September 13, 2017 Just

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Supervisor Calls For Excelsior Bar La Oficina To Be Closed After Murder Of Patron

Around 12:30 a.m. on the morning of May 28, police officers arrived at La Oficina, a bar at 4234 Mission Street in the Outer Mission/Excelsior, to find bar patron Alvaro

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See A Few Branches From The Tree of Ténéré, Off Playa For This Weekend

One of the highlights, art-wise, of this year's Burning Man was the three-story, LED-filled, climbable man-made tree called the Tree of Ténéré, which provided shade during the

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SF Air Regulators Issue Russian Consulate Citation Over Smoke; Kremlin Calls It A 'Russophobic Stunt'

Bay Area Air District cites now-closed #SF #Russian consulate for smoke violation on Spare the Air day https://t.co/GFekKSMqP8 pic.twitter.com/bfjv7LM9AF — KRON4 News (@kron4news) September 12, 2017 Remember

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Experts (And The Farmer's Almanac) Already Predicting Another Wet Winter For California

Will California be slipping back into a drought come January 2018, or will we see deluge after deluge again, causing dams to burst at the seams, sending trees, roads, and bridges into ravines

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iPhone X's Facial Recognition May Be Terrible For Multiple Reasons

One of the big revelations though a widely anticipated one from yesterday's Apple launch event was the Home-button-free iPhone X and its facial-recognition technology. The internet has been

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2017 Lineup Features Cheap Trick, Big Freedia, Conor Oberst, & Many More

Following some teasers, we now have the full lineup for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2017, and it features a bunch of festival regulars as well as some surprises. In the former column we have

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Video: Hail In Santa Rosa This Morning

Drive safely, #SantaRosa! Make sure to turn your headlights on, your wipers on, and reduce your speed when driving in the rain. pic.twitter.com/98ADrv53Rc — Santa Rosa Police (@Santa_Rosa_PD) September

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Serena Williams And Alexis Ohanian Release Adorable Video Of Serena's Pregnancy

Meet Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. You have to check out link in bio for her amazing journey. Also check out my IG stories 😍😍❤️❤️ A post shared by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) on Sep 13,

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Day Around The Bay: Building Owner Sued Over UPS Shooting

Electric Light Orchestra 😎 It was lots of fun chasing these rare Bay Area bolts yesterday evening. This image consists of two consecutive strikes which happened shortly before the cell moved offshore. ----------------------------------------------------- I teach

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Right-Wing Berkeley Students Claim Steve Bannon Is Definitely Coming For 'Free Speech Week'

Once again, Republican and other right-aligned students at UC Berkeley are upping the ante in booking speakers or pretending to book speakers that the general student population will find abhorrent, and as

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

If you manage to escape another possible thunderstorm tonight (two in one week, in SF, with every other disaster of last week, definitely feels like End Times), there's a week of

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One More Photo: Lightning Strikes Salesforce Tower

#Lightning strikes the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/T01WHOLFt4 — Karl Mondon (@karlmondon) September 12, 2017 This is just one more extra dramatic photo of last night's crazy storm,

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New Details In Death Of Bubbles May Point To Hate Crime, Police Still Deny Hate Was Motive

A few more details have trickled out in the ongoing investigation into the Saturday murder of 44-year-old Anthony Torres, a.k.a. Bubbles, in the Tenderloin. Police have been insisting since

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YouTube Star PewDiePie Again In Trouble For Racist Speech, This Time With SF Game Company

27-year-old Swedish vlogger PewDiePie, who for reasons I can't even wrap my head around made $15 million last year for essentially rambling like a crazy person and taking video

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Incredibly Satisfying Video Follows BART's 'Brightening Crew' As They Power-Wash Station Stairs

Aww, some nice PR for BART for a change. BART just posted this video, apparently produced by their in-house communications team, highlighting the work of the guys who power-wash all the

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[Updates] Apple Unveils New iPhone X, Series 3 Watch, iPhone 8, And Animoji!

"I love hearing his voice, and I love hearing his message," said Apple CEO Tim Cook, coming out on stage at the new Steve Jobs Theater at Apple's new

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SFO Worker Struck By Lightning, Wildfire Sparked In Woodside, More Thunderstorms Expected Tuesday

Last night's rare and lengthy thunderstorm around the Bay Area caused upwards of 7,000 flashes in the sky and 1,200 ground strikes according to meteorologists, and everyone should be

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[Update] Photos: Freak September Thunderstorm Brings 1200+ Lightning Strikes

It's weird enough that we're getting a thunderstorm tonight, but this was one with an unusually high number of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. Also, meteorologists are saying that

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Day Around The Bay: SF State Stabbing Ruled Self-Defense

* A male student, DJ, and SF State cheerleader who was accused of assault with a deadly weapon and multiple felony counts was acquitted of most charges against him last week in a strange

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Who Are Antifa In The Bay Area, And Can They Be Negotiated With?

Is this black bloc's biggest ever showing in the Bay Area? pic.twitter.com/qX1Ck3j8Sh — Michael Montgomery (@MichaelMontCIR) August 27, 2017 We used to use the term "anarchists" or

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Druggy Haight & Stanyan McDonald's To Be Purchased By City, Redeveloped As Housing

The McDonald's at the end of Haight Street at Stanyan is not long for this world as the city has just about inked a deal to purchase the problematic property for