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El Niño Rain Driving Ants Indoors (Again)
Like a lot of San Franciscans, ants are fickle and particular. They prefer a temperate day. They need water, but not too much, and prefer easy access to good food and they will
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Ask A San Francisco Native: Has SF's Diversity Changed As Much As People Say It Has?
In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers
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SFMTA Forgets They Need To Direct Traffic, Ups SF Taxpayers' Super Bowl Bill
Remember how we told you that San Francisco was expected to spend about $4 million of taxpayer money on the Super Bowl? Well, scratch that figure! As it turns out, the good old
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Wednesday Morning Link Dump: CA's Economy At Peak
* What are you up to this week? If your response is "I dunno," well, now you do. [SFist] * How worker-friendly laws changed life as a server in San Francisco restaurants.
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Day Around The Bay: Powerball Jackpot Means Some Extra Cash For SF Schools
* The latest in Saturday's shooting on BART at West Oakland: It is very hard to get surveillance video off of BART trains, if it even was recorded at all. [ABC 7]
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Guy Who Just Moved Here Says Traffic Sucks, Suggests We All Take Turns Working From Home
Don't you just hate traffic? And don't you wish there was just one easy step we could all take to, you know, make it less sucky? Well one man
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The SFist To-Do List: 13 Cool Things To Check Out This Week
You might be doing Sober January, and if so, kudos! (Commiserate with my thoughts on it from last year, which are playing out again, on schedule, this January.) Here are some non-booze-
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[Video] Local Artists Stage Effigy 'Viking Funeral' For Motörhead Frontman
Welsh Motörhead frontman Ian Fraser Kilmister was known to friends as Lemmy and to fans for his appreciation of amphetamines and Nazi symbology, though importantly not ideology. Sadly for that group, Lemmy passed
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Jane Kim Proposes Doubling Affordable Housing Requirement To 25 Percent
Supervisor Jane Kim today introduced a charter amendment with the goal of asking San Franciscans to rethink affordable housing requirements for market-rate developments in several ways. The most significant of which would
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Use Tinder? You Have A Secret Internal Desirability Rating!
Sean Rad, the 29-year-old CEO of Tinder who now infamously didn't know the meaning of the word "sodomy", now tells Fast Company he has an "above
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Full Dolores Park Opening Delayed, New Opening Date Unknown
San Francisco cries a single, giant tear into its collective PBR tallboy today as we learn that the renovated south side of Dolores Park will not reopen this Thursday as planned. What'
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French Train Hero Spencer Stone Will Join Michelle Obama At Tonight's State Of The Union
Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, who hails from Sacramento, will be Michelle Obama's date tonight at the President's final State of the Union address or he will be one
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Death Spares David Bowie From Hearing Smash Mouth's 'Tribute' To Him
Each of us mourns in our own, private way. Sometimes we even mourn publicly, paying collective tribute to our loved ones and heroes. While the loss of space alien godrocker David Bowie affected
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Giveaway: Last Chance To See <em>Looking East</em> At The Asian Art Museum
When the U.S. Navy and Commodore Matthew Perry opened up Japan to trade in the mid-19th century, Western countries fell under the spell of the archipelago nation and went crazy for
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New App Aims To Be BDSM Tinder And Leather Kinkstagram Bound Into One
A new app launches today which aims to create both a viable social network and dating service for members of the BDSM and leather communities. KNKI, as the app is called, seeks to
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Portland Python Thief Shoves Snake Down His Pants
As the northwesternmost -ist site, it falls upon us to report on news coming from our friends in Oregon — for example, the armed ranchers who took over a federal building, or the firearms
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$15,000 Bounty For Arrest Of Early-Morning Oakland Sexual Assailant
An Oakland community organization is offering a reward of up to $15,000 to the person who helps bring a man who kidnapped, robbed and sexually assaulted a woman on an Oakland street
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60% Of Women In Tech Are Sexually Harassed (And More Numbers To Make You Throw Up)
via GIPHY A new study of more than 200 women in technology reveals a hypocrisy with which many will be woefully familiar: A booming industry built on the promise of a new world
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SF Couple Uses App To Time Contractions During Baby Delivery, They Mess Up, Out Comes Baby
Star of the show. pic.twitter.com/pT9ZSyaiGN — Marco Rogers (@polotek) January 8, 2016 A San Francisco couple just had a baby on Thursday, kind of by surprise. After tweeting about the entire
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Man Sues 49ers After Stadium Staff Allegedly Detain Him And Service Dog, Leading To Seizure
The San Francisco 49ers have found themselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit, after a Placerville man filed suit in San Jose federal court last Thursday alleging that the team denied both
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Adult, Teen, And Toddler Injured In Shooting On Troubled Stretch Of 80
A man in his 20s, a teenaged girl, and 2-year-old child were all injured by gunfire Monday night as their vehicles were shot in an area that's been the
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Wild Coyotes Now Roaming Haight, Panhandle
Coyotes are taking over San Francisco, you guys. Though coyote sightings in the city are not new, they seem to be getting a lot more common this past year, suggesting that our local
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Tuesday Morning Roundup: SFPD Union Head Allegedly Flouts Lobbying Laws
* What you're going to see on the Bay Area boards this winter. [SFist] * The turf that crews are laying down at Levi's Stadium is expected to "hold up
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Day Around The Bay: Official Super Bowl 50 Poster 'Raptures' San Mateo County
Eerie new #SuperBowl50 poster, where all of San Mateo County appears to have been raptured. (h/t @RosenbergMerc) pic.twitter.com/BRT3mF18w9 — Peter Hartlaub (@peterhartlaub) January 11, 2016 * The official Super Bowl 50
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From Macbeth to Coward: A Bay Area Winter Theater Preview
Now that the holidays are behind us, we can focus on the ongoing and upcoming seasons of our best local theater companies. And assuming you like live theater and don't always