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Don't Forget, It's Critical Mass (And A Giants Game) Tonight

It's the last Friday of the month, and you know what that means: Critical Mass. The monthly “organized coincidence” of bike riders kicks off at 6 PM at Justin Herman Plaza. "There will

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Two Construction Workers Seriously Injured After Scaffolding Collapses In SoMa

One construction worker fell 40 feet and another fell 30 feet while installing a scaffolding at a construction site at 350 Mission Street in SoMa this afternoon. According to San Francisco Fire Department

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Year Of The Horse: Chinese New Year's Parade

Rich colors, loud clanging, hordes of people, and an overwhelming sense of pride took over San Francisco's annual Chinese New Year Parade on Saturday. Photog Erik Wilson was there to capture the people

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Man Shot Several Times Outside Westfield Mall; Suspect At Large [Updated]

The Westfield Mall at Market & Powell is a crime scene as police investigate a shooting. pic.twitter.com/zq4FspFOuV— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) February 17, 2014 Police are now looking for a suspect

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Three Men Kidnap Woman Waiting For Bus Near Gap HQ [Updated]

Ugh. On Saturday, a woman was reportedly kidnapped by a group of unknown men while waiting for a bus at Folsom and Spear. After being driven to a second location, she was fortunate

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Photo Du Jour: Downtown Autograph Hounds

Autograph seekers in front of the St. Regis waiting for Warriors players (and, hopefully, for their sake, not Sean Penn). Shot by Gerard Livernois.

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Photo Du Jour: Luxury Highrise Wars

The Paramount can't throw shade at at the St. Regis San Francisco. Pft. (Photo by kapshure.)

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Photo Du Jour: Jonathan Borofsky's 'Human Structures'

"Human Structures" by Jonathan Borofsky at 555 Mission, shot by Darwin Bell.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Ramen Burger Tomfoolery Comes To OneUP, Hapa Ramen

Perhaps Mr. Andrew Dalton—who didn't take a shine to Nombe's Ramen Burger, describing it as "underwhelming"—might enjoy this latest installment to the noodle-wrapped-burger trend: OneUP Restaurant's Ramen Burger. It sure as

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Photo Du Jour: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Broken planters at Market and Hermann, as seen by Gerard Livernois.

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Spear Street Wells Fargo Robbed

A little after 1:30 p.m. Monday, the Wells Fargo Bank at 100 Spear was robbed. A man, it seems, entered the bank a little after lunch hour, approached a female teller,

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Monday: SFist Editor Brock Keeling Guest Bartending At Gitane

In semi-self-serving news, your SFist editor (that's me!) will kick off a new guest-bartending series at Gitane on Monday, May 6th. It goes to benefit La Cocina. Monday night’s specialty libation, christened

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Louie's To Get Major Food Overhaul

Is nothing sacred? Louie's, the perfect little bar on Stevenson that serves perfect nachos with chemical-laced, drizzly orange cheese, is getting a major food overhaul. The guys behind the Tempest, who are scoring

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Shooting Near Financial District In San Francisco

Today at around 3:50 p.m. near the corner of Market and Davis streets, an unidentified person was shot and taken to a nearby hospital. The victim's condition is not yet know,

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Sports Bar On Geary To Get Fancy-ish Makeover

Most of you know RJ's Sports Bar as that yellow-sinage watering hole you see while smoking on the patio at Rye. "What is that place," you ask yourself between drags. "It scares me

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Eat Here Tonight: Beef Short Rib Stracotto At Perbacco

Spend some time downtown with the rest of your office brood. Where? Why at Perbacco. the noted joint on California, helmed by Executive Chef Staffan Terje, offers a smaller place next door (aptly

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Video: Starling Murmuration In Downtown S.F.

Our dear friends at Barbary Coast Consulting captured this mesmerizing video of a starling murmuration. What makes this video so special, compared to other murmuration videos, is that this one occurs in downtown

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Video: Police Manhandle Protesters in Downtown S.F.

During Saturday's "Anti-Colonial, Anti-Capitalist" demonstration in downtown San Francisco, police ended up arresting 20 protesters/"criminal street gang" members for a variety of infractions, including: conspiracy, riot, refusing to obey a lawful order

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Meanwhile, In Between A Muni Bus And A Streetcar...

Twitter user @bekaroni84 (via Dan McMenamin) snapped this shot of a serious car accident that happened this afternoon near Market and First between a Muni bus and a streetcar. According to SF Appeal,

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Eat Here Tonight: Basil Summer Soup At Perbacco

But we're only a week into summer, you bemoan? Nonsense. It's summertime and thus never too early to get summer items on the menu. (See: AQ Restaurant, a noted SoMa joint that changes

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Video: San Francisco Is Backwards

Via Bold Italic, Ryan Jay and Alexander Shahmiri's short flick looks at the downtown and the Financial District in reverse. Yes, it was filmed two years ago, but we're just getting around to

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SoMa Mugging Results In Officer Gunfire

After hearing a woman's cries for help at Fremont and Mission Streets at around 10:40 p.m. Sunday night, officers found a woman struggling with a man attempting to mug her. And

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Eat Here Tonight: Boulevard (Duh)

What else did you think we were going to suggest? In light of last night's eight-years-in-the-making climactic Outstanding Restaurant win at the James Beard Awards, why not check out Boulevard before swarms of

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Photo Du Jour: FiDi

Untitled photo by "Brandon Doran."

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Photos: Downtown One Big Traffic Jam As Occupy SF Takes Over Wells Fargo [Updated]

Scads of Occupy activists marched to the Wells Fargo offices at California for the annual shareholders meeting. According to ABC 7, "An estimated 400 people are protesting outside " the building right now. "The