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This Week In Food: Chicken-Fried Everything
Chicken Fried Palace debuts in the Mission, Standard Fare calls it quits in Berkeley, and we get the first big review of Via Aurelia, all in This Week In Food.
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Get Hopped Up: That Bunny Cafe In Fisherman’s Wharf Announces December 21 Opening Date
Rabbit lovers can finally let their hare down when that long-rumored Bunny Cafe comes to Fisherman’s Wharf with a just-announced opening date of Sunday, December 21, and the crazy rabbits will indeed be up for adoption.
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Newly Released Video Shows Moment Bodega Cat Was Killed on 16th Street
Some newly released surveillance video from Randa's Market, from the October night when the store's beloved resident cat, KitKat, was fatally injured by a Waymo, complicates the picture of what happened.
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[Updated] Social Worker In Critical Condition After Being Stabbed at SF General Hospital
A 51-year-old UCSF social worker was stabbed in the neck and shoulder by a patient Thursday afternoon, and the suspect was quickly taken into custody, as the hospital had already called authorities on the unruly patient.
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SFPD Arrests Suspect In Livermore Roommate Killing
The death of a 55-year-old man in Livermore led police there to suspect that the man's 3o-year-old roommate could be to blame. And one day after the body was discovered, the roommate was spotted in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment
Sunset Holiday Mercantile Is Back This Weekend For a Two-Day ‘Shop Local’ Spectacular
Cross Amazon off your shopping list and pump your dollars locally, as the Sunset Holiday Mercantile takes over the SF County Fair Building with two days of local vendors and makers, plus yes they will be serving holiday espresso martinis.
Arts & Entertainment
Netflix Strikes $83B Deal to Acquire Warner Bros. (and HBO) to Create Content Juggernaut
If government regulators don't torpedo the deal, Netflix is poised to become a movie, TV, and streaming giant even larger than it is today, bringing everything from 'Batman' to 'Game of Thrones' into its fold.
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Friday Morning Constitutional: Marina Residents Already Making Noise About Safeway Plan
A 21-year-old Santa Rosa woman crashed after leading CHP on high-speed chase; critics are pouncing on Pamela Price trying to run for Alameda County DA again; and Marina residents are already making noise about a huge proposed development on the site of the Safeway there.
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Day Around the Bay: SF Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike
Teachers went on strike today in the West Contra Costa school district; SF Unified teachers have taken a vote to authorize a strike, but this may not be imminent; and a car crashed into a doggy day care in Alameda.
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SF City Hall Employee Who Embezzled $627K, Bought VR Headsets With It, Pleads Guilty
A former SF City Hall HR employee who was notoriously busted for invoicing the city for “earthquake supplies” but was actually buying VR headsets and tablets (and then selling them on eBay), pleaded guilty Thursday to all charges.
Arts & Entertainment
Uncle John’s Tree Gets Lit Tonight In Golden Gate Park, Salesforce Park Firing Up Its Lights Too
For the 96th year in a row, SF biggest and roundest Christmas tree gets its switch flipped in a 6:30 pm lighting Thursday night. Meanwhile, Salesforce Park gets its holiday light display lit Friday, plus a sing-along 'Frozen' Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment
Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and Director Jon Chu Make Surprise Appearance at 'Wicked' Screening In San Rafael
The two stars of Wicked For Good and the film's Bay Area-born director made a surprise appearance after a screening of the film Wednesday night in San Rafael, and did a Q&A with the audience.
Arts & Entertainment
The ‘Let’s Glow SF’ Holiday Projection Mapping Extravaganza Kicks Off Again Downtown Friday Night
What they’re calling “the nation’s largest holiday projection art festival” will turn the sides of downtown SF buildings into ice castles and gingerbread houses, as Let’s Glow SF returns for its fifth year this Friday night.
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Marina Safeway Also on the Redevelopment Docket With Plans For 790 Units In 25-Story Complex
They saved likely the most controversial for last. Align Real Estate, the SF-based firm that is seeking to redevelop three other Safeway properties in the city into large mixed-use developments, also has a very ambitious plan for the waterfront-adjacent Marina Safeway.
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Stanley Roberts Returns! 'People Behaving Badly' Gets Revived on KRON4 After 7-Year Hiatus
The Bay Area's favorite finger-wagging scold of the local news, Stanley Roberts, will be back on the air on KRON4 starting next week, with his first "People Behaving Badly" segment in seven years.
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Lurie Names Longtime SFPD Veteran Derrick Lew as New San Francisco Police Chief
A San Francisco native and 22-year veteran of the SF Police Department, SFPD Deputy Chief Derrick Lew has just been named the permanent new SF Police Chief. And, interestingly, he was once shot by London Breed’s cousin.
Arts & Entertainment
Cause of Death Revealed for Claude, the Academy of Science's Albino Alligator
Claude the albino alligator, the longtime mascot of the California Academy of Sciences who died unexpectedly earlier this week at the age of 30, now has an official cause of death.
SF Politics
Recalled Alameda County DA Pamela Price Is Running for the Job Again
We have the odd situation of someone who was just recalled from office running for that same office again a year later, as thrown-out former Alameda County DA Pamela Price announces she’s running to be District Attorney again.
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Thursday Morning What's Up: Darrell Issa May Relocate to Texas Due to Prop 50
Republican Congressman Darrell Issa is likely to be a casualty of Prop 50 and is talking about moving to Texas; an abalone poacher was arrested in Sonoma; and some atmospheric rivers are coming... to the Pacific Northwest.
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That 5.9M Earthquake Warning Out of Nevada Was Fake News
Millions of Northern California residents received a Shake Alert warning at 8:06 am Thursday about an earthquake with an epicenter in Lyon County, Nevada, but the quake itself soon disappeared from the USGS website, and the agency said it was a false alarm.
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Day Around the Bay: Huge Godzilla Festival Coming to Japantown This Weekend
An Excelsior house fire left one dead Wednesday; parents in the Marin car crash that killed four teens do not want the driver to be prosecuted; and a big Godzilla festival is roaring into Japantown this weekend.
Business & Tech
DMV Now Hammering Out Rules for Self-Driving Trucks to Come to California
The next frontier of the self-driving car movement is likely to be self-driving commercial trucks, and the California DMV is creating the rules right now for the testing of autonomous semi trucks.
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67-Story Residential Tower at South Van Ness and Market Is Moving Forward
A stalled residential project which could make up nearly 1,000 of the 82,000 new units San Francisco is mandated to build in the next half-decade appears to be back in motion and headed toward construction.
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Huzzah! All Clipper Card Systems Will Take Credit and Debit Cards, Starting Next Wednesday
Muni, Caltrain, and all the public transit services that take Clipper will accept credit or debit card taps for rides in just a week, as paying with credit or debit won’t just be a BART thing anymore starting this Wednesday.
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Randa's Market on 16th Street, Home of the Late KitKat, Has Gotten a New Bodega Cat
The home of the bodega cat who was tragically killed by a Waymo in October, Randa's Market on 16th Street, has gotten a new cat, and her name is Coco.