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Day Around The Bay: Serial Small Business Scammer Nabbed

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. City College is considering building teacher housing at its

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'King Charles III' Is A Witty Dramedy Tailor-Made For Royal Watchers And Shakespeare Nerds

The year is 2020, say, and beloved English monarch Elizabeth II has just died that's perhaps jumping the gun in terms of a prediction, though, given that she's only 90 this year and

Women Accused Of Holding Four Brothers As Slaves At Northern California Pot Farm

In a tale straight out of a Northern California nightmare, two women stand accused of kidnapping four brothers and forcing them to work as slaves on a marijuana farm near the Sierra mountain

Feds Accept Version Of Anti-Displacement Preference Plan

Today is a good day. We WON historic anti-displacement housing preference in SF! #fightingandwinning for our communities who need it most. pic.twitter.com/DCBi3betue— London Breed (@LondonBreed) September 22, 2016 Supervisor London

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Former Betelnut Spot To Become Something Mexican

The word is finally in about what restaurateur Adriano Paganini is doing with the former Betelnut space at 2030 Union Street, next door to his restaurant Belga: It will be a second Mexican

Four Bay Area Brainiacs On Receiving End Of MacArthur 'Genius Awards'

It's official: there are a lot of geniuses around these parts. Well, four at least. We learn today via the Chronicle that four people in the Bay Area are official winners of this

Remembering The Hunters Point Uprising, Sparked 50 Years Ago After Police Killed Unarmed Black Teen

"This is the San Francisco America pretends does not exist," the writer James Baldwin said while surveying the historically black Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in 1963. That quote, from the documentary Take This Hammer,

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SFist's Annual First-Timer's Guide To Folsom Street Fair Weekend, With Event Suggestions

The gay community's and the local fetish community's high holidays are upon us this weekend with 33rd annual Folsom Street Fair. Though it was originally a very gay male event and continues to

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Video: Trailer For New SF-Shot Bruce Lee Biopic 'Birth Of The Dragon'

Kung fu master Bruce Lee, who was born in SF's Chinatown but raised in Hong Kong, is the subject of a new biopic currently making the festival rounds, Birth of the Dragon. Directed

49er Colin Kaepernick To Grace Cover Of 'Time' Following National Anthem Protest

Colin Kaepernick's ongoing protest of police brutality has moved from local TV news to the national magazine world, with the San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback set to appear, kneeling, on the October 3

A Year And A Half After His Arrest In Child Porn Case, SF Politico Enrique Pearce Remains Free On Bail

The wheels of justice grind slowly, assuming that they do indeed grind. That, at least, appears to be true in the case of a former high-profile San Francisco politico who was arrested on

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The Five Best Skate Spots In San Francisco

If you look at San Francisco a little differently, you'll start to see skateboarding spots everywhere. That's what the sport does: radically repurpose the urban landscape. Steps are for leaping off, handrails are

Thursday Lunchtime Links: SF's Raised Crosswalks

[KRON 4] staffer falls in love with injured dog from news report, is now adopting the pup. The California Supreme Court agrees to consider a lawsuit that Yelp warns could lead to the

Peskin At Millennium Tower Hearing: 'This Isn't Somebody's Leaking Toilet. This Is a Big Deal.'

Supervisor Peskin grills city officials about Millennium-"this isn't somebody's leaking toilet-this is a big deal" pic.twitter.com/E167qhiHAY— carolyn tyler (@ctylerabc7) September 22, 2016 The political piece of the Millennium Tower

Nearly All Of The Affordable Housing Budget For The Mission To Be Spent On One Building

Just to illustrate the difficult economics of building affordable housing in a time of great need for it, Mission Local is reporting that nearly all of the budget from an affordable housing bond

Google To Open Youth Education Center In Oakland

Fruitvale Village, a transit-adjacent 255,000 square-foot real estate development with 47 housing units owned by a local nonprofit and completed in 2003, is getting a new commercial tenant: Google, the Alphabet, Inc.

Sacramento Mayor Beats Protester To 'Bloody Pulp' After Getting Pied In The Face

Don't mess with former NBA star and current mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson. That seems to be the takeaway this morning after a farm-to-table dinner event last night devolved into something a little

Family Seeks Man Last Seen On Outer Richmond Street

The family of a San Francisco man who disappeared earlier this month hasn't given up hope that they'll find him, saying that his cell phone still appears to be active. The Richmond District

As California Executions Hang In The Balance, Man Convicted Of Oakland Sleepover Murder Sentenced To Death

Even as the future of California's death penalty hangs on two November ballot measures, a judge ruled Wednesday that the man convicted of a high-profile double murder in the East Bay should be

Thursday Morning Roundup: Yahoo's Massive Data Breach

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Support for CA's proposed condoms in porn law appears

[Update] Suspicious Rice Cooker Shuts Down South Van Ness Causing Huge Commuter Headache

Hearing S Van Ness is closed btw Mission and Market due to police activity. pic.twitter.com/cg4YxhMCfM— Alexis Smith (@AlexisABC7) September 22, 2016 The sound of a news chopper overheard in the

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Day Around The Bay: Bluetooth-Enabled Vibrators And Alleged Privacy Violations

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Don't want to get your car towed from a

Video: Stanley Roberts Shames Driver With Admittedly Poor Vision

If your vision were so bad that you had to cross your fingers in hopes of not hitting pedestrians, would you still drive? No, right? And yet that's the exact situation discovered by

Berkeley Passes Resolution Banning Dog-Eating Festival... In China

Oliver, rescued from Yulin, China Dog Meat Festival, appears at Berkeley City Council #berkmtg pic.twitter.com/KwDFYniUnU— Tom Lochner (@tomlochner) September 21, 2016 Tuesday's meeting of the Berkeley City Council featured a