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Tuesday Morning Roundup: ReFi Problems For Airbnb Hosts

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Hold Onto Your Bikes Because Tour De Fat Is Returning To San Francisco

Tour de Fat is New Belgium Brewing's traveling celebration of all things bicycle, honoring humankind's greatest invention. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, to increase awareness and participation in cycling as a sustainable form

Day Around The Bay: President Obama Lands In Tahoe

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Architect's Pretty Sketches Of Bay Area Landmarks Build A Following

It may not be Follow Friday just yet, but Dan Hogman's Instagram account and Facebook page are worth a Like any day of the week for lovers of Bay Area architecture, cool drawings,

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Vegan Protest Group Attempts To Disrupt SF Food Fest Where Foie Gras Was Being Served

Vegan protest loudly interrupts Eat Drink SF 2016 merriment https://t.co/xd0GAE00Gv pic.twitter.com/7i5ElRqig4— Eater SF (@eatersf) August 29, 2016 An animal rights group called Direct Action Everywhere staged a

How Tenants Who Fight Evictions Can Land On Renter Blacklists (Even If They Win)

If you, like Denise Barton and her young twin daughters, are evicted from an apartment in California, like they were from theirs in the Outer Richmond, you can fight... but she chose not

Video: Pantless Man Smokes Meth (Or Crack) On BART

SOME HOMELESS GUY SMOKIN CRACK ON BART pic.twitter.com/G2Bnh3MzGs— LIKNEM (@SOMESTEEZ) August 28, 2016 A possibly homeless man without shoes, wearing what appears to be a towel draped over his legs

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

The Best Thing At Eat Drink SF Was This Burrata Doughnut

A dish from Spruce chef de cuisine John Madriaga only labeled as "warm burrata" with naan was easily the highlight of the Friday grand tasting at this year's sold-out Eat Drink SF though

Apple Announces September 7 Event For iPhone 7 Release Just As Class Action Is Filed Over iPhone 6 'Touch Disease'

The presumed release event for the iPhone 7 is now officially on the books for September 7, right after Labor Day, as is customary for Apple's annual release schedule. As Recode reports, in

Due To Faulty Counters, Muni Ridership Numbers Have Been Wrong For At Least Two Years

According to automatic passenger counters, between fiscal years 2014 and 2015 ridership declined on Muni motor coaches by by 3.4 percent and on trolley coaches by 7.3 percent. Wait, what? Muni

Spurned By Silicon Valley Startup, Dallas Woman Pens Viral Cautionary Tale

A woman by the name of Penny Kim, who relocated to the Bay Area from Dallas this summer for a job with an unnamed and clearly failing job-search startup, penned a piece on

49ers' Kaepernick Will Continue To Sit During National Anthem To 'Stand With The People'

49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the now 28-year old player who rose to prominence during the 2012 season when he led his team to the Super Bowl, ended his 2015 season in relative disgrace,

Brock Turner Gets Out Of Jail Friday, Three Months Early

As has been reported previously, convicted rapist Brock Turner is set to be released from prison on September 2, having served half of his six-month sentence which many saw as insufficient for his

Duboce Park Neighbors Fed Up With Incessant Film Crews

Using a larger font size for extra angry emphasis on certain phrases, one Lower Haight neighbor residing on the one-block, Duboce Park-adjacent street called Potomac posted the flier shown below seeking some solidarity

Arts & Entertainment

This Wireless Speaker May Be Small, But It Packs A Punch

Bring your music wherever you go with the Soundfreaq Double Spot, now 46% off. True audiophiles need to bump their favorite beats no matter where they are. And with the Soundfreaq Double Spot

San Francisco's City Worker Salaries, By The Numbers

You already know that San Francisco has a $9.6 billion budget — "more than the budgets of 13 states and scores of countries around the world," the Chron notes. As reported earlier this

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Competition Ran High At Saturday's 420 Games

On any given Golden Gate Park Saturday morning, you’ll find people already out enjoying some marijuana, as well as people already out for their morning jog. There is never much Venn diagram

Woman Injured By Fallen Branch In City Park Still Waiting For City To Cover Medical Bills

The couple whose lives have been permanently impacted by the failure of a tree in Washington Square Park are continuing to speak out and hold the city responsible for the accident. As the

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Watch Black Rock City Rise On This Burning Man Live Stream

You are not, at this moment, in the middle of a desert in Nevada having a life-altering experience. But you're in luck! Among the most genuinely exciting aspects of Burning Man — watching an

Gang Of Ten Chase Man Through Dolores Park, Attack Him On Church Street

A man was critically injured early Sunday evening, after a large group of men chased him through Dolores Park then beat and stabbed him in a nearby intersection. According to the San Francisco

Monday Morning Linkdump: Balloon Darkens San Francisco

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Monday Morning Blaze Sends SFFD To Historic SoMa Structure

#WF8291 UPDATE 451 MINNA PIO ON SCENE 4 story VACANT NO INJURY SWCND ALARM pic.twitter.com/leeBu0rQMq— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) August 29, 2016 A vacant SoMa building was the site of

Video: Shark Spotted By Kayaker Near Mission Rock

A man kayaking in San Francisco Bay Saturday morning spotted the shark you see in the video above, which swam up to his kayak and then under it before swimming off. He was

Donald Trump Arrives For Peninsula And Napa Fundraisers Monday

Though he has no hope of winning California in November, Donald Trump is nonetheless visiting the Bay Area this week in search of campaign cash, and will be attending private events Monday in

CHP Officer Shoots Knife-Wielding Man Wandering On Freeway In Belmont, Shutting Down Northbound 101 For Four Hours

CHP officers responded early this morning to reports of a man walking between both northbound and southbound lanes of Highway 101 in Belmont. They arrived to find the man crossing back and forth