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Frank Chu Released From Hospital, After a Fall That Left Him With a Severe Spinal Injury

There’s relief across the 12 Galaxies, as San Francisco's ubiquitous sign-toting icon Frank Chu had been hospitalized after a late June fall at a BART station, but he is now mostly recovered. While he was at one point partially paralyzed, he’s now very much mobile and back on his beat.

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Make Your Own Frank Chu Sign With This Meme Generator

Frank Chu gives special meaning to the word "ubiquitous." This is weird, but it kind of makes me feel at home to know that somewhere on Market Street at pretty much

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Frank Chu Has A New Sponsor: Expensify

Frank Chu has a new sponsor. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. pic.twitter.com/kSXxKwT5pH — Audrey Cooper (@audreycoopersf) March 26, 2016 Famed local kook/perennial protester Frank Chu got

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San Francisco Will Finally Be Rendered As Pixel Art

The pixel pushing digital art collective eBoy, based in Vancouver and Berlin, has turned its attention to San Francisco. With our city a natural for the 8-bit digital art treatment, the only

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Frank Chu Hoists 'God Hates Dinosaurs' Sign From Doc Pop, Blows Minds

WWFCD? https://t.co/INCEo71rj8 (photo by @troy) pic.twitter.com/4g7BdqzlZs — Doctor Popular (@DocPop) January 15, 2015 Frank Chu continues to be the most confusing, interesting man in San Francisco. Latest proof:

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Why You Saw A 'God Hates Dinosaurs' Sign At Powell Street

#god #dinosaurs A photo posted by Lorena J (@lamarchatropical) on Jan 1, 2015 at 4:19pm PST The answer is that Doctor Popular, or DocPop for short, was conducting a sort of social

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Size Matters: Campers Line Up For The iPhone 6

"What if it sucks?" I asked Tim Noguera, 26, of San Francisco. "That's impossible." Tim and his friend, Nicholas Bertelsen of Denmark, happily sat behind a rope

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Frank Chu Talks Movie Career, Shoe Shopping, And His Never-Ending Protest

Noted San Francisco eccentric Frank Chu sat down with the Internet on Friday to answer some long-burning questions about... well, about pretty much anything, really. Frank covered topics ranging from the origin

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Frank Chu Will Answer All Your Burning Questions Tomorrow Afternoon

One of San Francisco's few remaining eccentrics, the indefatigable sign-holder Frank Chu will tell all tomorrow afternoon in a Reddit Ask Me Anything event. There is a strong chance his

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Photo Du Jour: Frank Chu Pride

Photo by dannebrog.

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Photo Du Jour: Thank You, Gavin!

Photo by Mr. Andrew Dalton.

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7 Reasons To Love San Francisco

There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more than mere words can. Each week we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site LAist

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For You, A Frank Chu Valentine

Two blasts from the past to lighten your day, let Frank Chu and The Simpsons ease you into a more festive Valentine's Eve with this mashup care of Brody Qat. She

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Frank Chu Endorses... Mitt Romney?

Noted local weirdo Frank Chu was spotted at an Occupy Wall Street West protest over the weekend. A Frank Chu appearance at an event where there is at least one camera present is

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Happy Birthday, Frank Chu!

Frank Chu, local color and noted sign carrier, turns 51 today. It's sad that, as far as we know, the city of San Francisco has yet to hand the man a

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Frank Chu imposter by Jim Herd of SFCitizen.

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Frank Chu Birthday Party at the Palace Hotel

Well, why the hell not at the Palace? Troy Holden, Chu's unofficial spokesperson, just sent out the following Twitter message of grave importance: "Frank Chu just called me and said

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Frank Chu Turns 50

Noted sign-carrying bon vivant Frank Chu turns 50 today. We should all pause for a moment of unbridled glee for we are most fortunate to have the man in our lives. In

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"Frosty Chu" by Flickr user moppet65535.

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What's Going On Here, Dude?

Bacon, Valencia Street, "art," San Francisco values, coalition, cupcakes, burlesque troupes, zzz.... Hey, should SFist reinstate its moratorium on Frank Chu? Sure, we haven't posted anything about him in

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What's Going On Here, Chu?

Candid shot from yesterday's St. Stupid's Day Parade. NSFW version after the jump.

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12 Galaxies to Become 'Blue Macaw' Restaurant

According to Tablehopper, 12 Galaxies will go from affectedly creative Mission nightspot to affectedly chic Mission restaurant. She reports, "Moving into the 12 Galaxies space in the Mission will be the ~BLUE

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Happy Birthday, Frank Chu

Lawrence Ferlinghetti isn't the only San Francisco luminary celebrating today. It's also Frank Chu's birthday! The Bay Area's favorite protester, for years Frank has been

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Frank Chu Extra

A lot of you have sent SFist photos of this "Adios Douche Bag(s)" poster with former President George W. Bush. A lot. And we relent. So here's the

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Frank Chu Returns Again

It's been some timer since we've posted anything after SFist lifted the Frank Chu ban, yes? So, John Murphy sent us the above image of Chu standing in front