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Man Hiding In Bushes Attacks Lake Merced Stroller With Pipe

A man taking an evening stroll near San Francisco's Lake Merced got a horrifying surprise Wednesday, when an assailant leapt from the bushes and started bashing him with a pipe. Police say that

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Go Hear This: Metallica's Lars Ulrich Reading 'The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas'

Part goofily scatological holiday children's book and part parable of Christmas-related greed, The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas is a 2012 work of literature by Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter of pop-punk band McFly.

13,000 Sign Petition Asking For Fire Inspections That Lead To Artist Evictions To Stop

An online petition, which as of Wednesday had garnered 10,000 signatures and is now up to 13,000, was delivered to San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection on Wednesday by 25-year-old SF

Holidays In SF Means Parking Given, Other Parking Taken Away

Update 12/23: Basically everything I wrote in this post regarding Muni's parking enforcement over the holidays was wrong. I'm sorry about that — I took the information exactly as it appeared on Muni's

Woman Handcuffed And Held Down By BART Police Suffers Miscarriage

A pregnant woman traveling to the doctor's office with her boyfriend had a violent encounter with BART police that we reported on in August, and she now says the incident caused her to

Thursday Morning Roundup: New SFPD Use Of Force Police Passes

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Uber Finally Convinced By DMV To Yank Self-Driving Cars Off SF Streets

A week after boldly defying California officials and arguing that they had every right to test their self-driving vehicles with paying customers inside, Uber has relented and pulled its self-driving cars off the

Day Around The Bay: Uber Sits Down With The AG, DMV Over Self-Driving Fracas

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Muggles Unite For Harry Potter Trivia, Returning (With Butterbeer) To SF

A photo posted by Harry Potter Trivia (@hptrivia) on Jun 16, 2016 at 2:24pm PDT If you're a regular Hermione Granger when it comes to factoids about the Harry Potter series, you

In First Interview, New SFPD Chief Acknowledges Officers' Apprehension

Alluding to calls she'd made to vet incoming SFPD chief Bill Scott, who comes from 27 years with the LAPD, Board of Supervisors President London Breed said yesterday that ''they're sad to lose

Video: Robber Disguised As Pest-Control Worker Chased From SF Jazz Center

A man disguised as a pest-control worker tried and failed to rob the SF Jazz Center earlier this month, successfully bluffing his way into the building and past a security guard before his

Epileptic Reporter Comes After Twitter Over Troll Who Sent Him Tweet Designed To Induce A Seizure

A new wrinkle in the battle for internet civility has arrived in the form of a legal petition filed this week by reporter and avid Twitterer Kurt Eichenwald asking that Twitter disclose the

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

The 15 Best New SF Restaurants Of 2016

The last couple of years have been heady ones for San Francisco's dining scene, with 2010 kicking off a wave of new ingenuity, talent, and luxury that had yet to crash through the

Today Is The Winter Solstice And You Should Totally Embrace The Darkness

Today, as San Francisco's many proud pagans will tell you, is the Winter Solstice. That means it's the shortest day of the year — the sun will set at 4:55 p.m. barring

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Pre-Travel Palate Cleanser: What Not To Do On A Plane

Most of these words of advice should be no-brainers, but since you may very well be getting on a plane today or tomorrow, or even next week, please let the puppets from Glove

Police Nab SoMa Cell Phone Thief

An alleged thief who preyed on a SoMa benchsitter ended up in handcuffs Tuesday, nabbed just blocks from the scene of the crime. Police say that the miscreant, whose name has yet to

Photo Du Jour: One Easy Trick To Never Lose Your Wireless Apple AirPods

Figured out how I'm gonna keep these AirPods from falling out of my ears pic.twitter.com/5AKmzVIX5b— Andrew Cornett 🌚🏡⏳ (@amotion) December 21, 2016 When Apple executives first unveiled the new $159 wireless

Motorist Assaults Pedestrian Who Tapped His Car

A driver who beat a pedestrian for making contact with his car remains at large today, following a SoMa confrontation that sent the victim to the hospital. Police say that the 50-year-old male

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

'Sumo Stew' Event Brings Sumo Wrestler-Inspired Eating, Sumo Wrestling Match Livestream To SF

Inspired by their travels to Japan, New York photographer Michael Harlan Turkell and cooking store owner Harry Rosenblum have been putting on bi-monthly events they call "Sumo Stew," highlighted in the past by

Wednesday Lunchtime Links: SF Man Sentenced In Sex-Worker Shooting

Google has released its top searches of 2016. [KRON 4] A former research scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who was found guilt of falsifying data and reports in order to receive

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Soylent's Algae Supplier Retaliates After Being Blamed For Vomiting, Diarrhea

That some customers were getting violently ill, vomiting and defecating for hours, after eating the meal-replacement product Soylent Bar is not up for debate. What is, however, is the root cause of all

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These Plasma Beam Lighters Stay Lit Even In Rainy Conditions

Get over $150 off these rechargeable TSA-approved lighters. Plus, they're the closest thing you can get to a real lightsaber. Find a light even in the worst weather with these powerful electricity-powered lighters:

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Ask A San Francisco Native: What Are Your San Francisco Christmas Traditions?

Dear Rain, After over a decade of living in San Francisco but flying "home" every year, it occurred to me that, uh, this is my home! So I'll be staying in the city

Market Street Muggers Stalk, Beat Teen Over Backpack

A teen who tried to evade a group of Market Street muggers was sadly unsuccessful Tuesday, as he was beaten and robbed even after seeking shelter in an area eatery. It was 9:

Man Pleads Guilty To $550K French Laundry Wine Heist

Wine snobs across the nation can breathe a bit easier today knowing that one of the men behind the infamous 2014 Christmas day French Laundry heist has pleaded guilty to his involvement. The