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Ed Lee's Big Money Tech Leader Donations, By The Numbers
Even though Mayor Ed Lee's reelection bid is virtually unopposed, his campaign has been gathering cash hand over fist. One area from which he's getting big bucks is the
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Young Yosemite Campers Killed By Falling Tree Limb
Two young campers were killed in Yosemite National Park this morning when a oak tree's limb fell onto their tent as they slept. According to Yosemite National Park spokesman Scott Gediman,
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Here's The Woman Who Allegedly Crashed A Stolen Car Then Jumped Off The Bay Bridge
CHP looking for Erlynn K. Sanchez-Edwards, 25 from Richmond as suspect in the 8/12 bridge incident. Call 415.557.1094 pic.twitter.com/ybMcIG27eW — CHP San Francisco (@CHPSanFrancisco) August 14, 2015
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Apartment Sadness: A Prison-Cell-Like SRO They're Calling An 'Efficiency'
I considered highlighting another expensive atrocity this week - a $6500 one-bedroom that comes with some nice countertops, proximity to Duboce Park, free SF maid service, and constant noise from the Muni light
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SF Giants Shamelessly Pander To 'Full House' Cultists With Bizarre Yet Hilarious Video
People seem more into Full House these days than they were when the damn thing was on, with news that a reunion show and Lifetime movie on the topic getting the kind of
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Cautionary Graffiti Spray-Painted Onto Jaw-Droppingly Expensive Duboce Park Apartment Building
The Lower Haight building with the $6,500 1-bedroom already got tagged. 🚫💲 “Don’t Waste Your $” A photo posted by Andrew Dalton (@dolfapedia) on Aug 13, 2015 at 11:04pm PDT On
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Exclusive: No, Someone is Not Bringing a 747 Jumbo Jet to Burning Man This Year
You may have read it on Reddit, and SFist has tracked down the organizers and confirmed that the rumors are true. The 747 jumbo jet that was promised to appear at Burning Man
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How To Do The San Francisco Street Food Festival
"It’s probably no surprise to you to hear that we, too, have felt the changes of the Mission" writes La Cocina of the relocation of their annual summer Street Food
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1956 Travel Movie Poking Fun At SF Is Super Charming, Somewhat Racist
"It's the only town that goes in 6 directions," Brooklynite Phil Foster says of San Francisco in this 1956 travelogue, "East, South, North, West, Up, and Down."
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SFist At The Movies: The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Straight Outta Compton, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Everywhere Hey look, it's another movie based on a television series! Guy Ritchie directed this one, and Henry "Superman" Cavill stars
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Video: How El Niño Works
The will-we-or-won't-we game has begun with regard to the "Godzilla El Niño" taking shape off our coast, and this week we got the U.S.
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'The Diary Of A Teenage Girl' Is Perfect, Frank, And True
The media was having a field day trying to figure out why Alexander Skarsgard showed up in drag at the San Francisco premiere of The Diary of a Teenage Girl at the Castro
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Day Around The Bay: Jerusalem Fire Now 23,500 Acres
* Apple has removed racist ringtones after the Chronicle contacted them about this weird loophole. [Chron] * Get ready for mammoth Twitter DMs: They have arrived. [Wired] * This $6,500 one bedroom Duboce Park “penthouse”
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An Interview And Performance By Fantastic Negrito, The Oakland Musician Whose OSL Set Was Canceled
In the wake of being detained and disallowed from playing his set last weekend on suspicion of selling a wristband to Outside Lands, Oakland musician Fantastic Negrito doesn't sound bitter. “I
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Cadillac Bar & Grill Debuts At Twitter Building
Another one of several new food spots to debut in the Market Square complex opened this week, and that's the revamp of long-ago SF margarita and Tex-Mex destination, The
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Protests Close I-980 After Police Kill Armed 24-Year-Old
Very large crime scene at 27th and MLK for OIS pic.twitter.com/NSfS2YP7kx — Alan McCann (@AlanSbcg) August 12, 2015 Protestors blocked off-ramps at Interstate 980, broke windows at an Oakland City
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The Best Public Restrooms In SF
When you're in the middle of downtown shopping, or getting off BART/Muni in desperate need of a place to pee (since station bathrooms remain closed, pending some coming upgrades), this
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One Year On, No Apparent Progress In Feather Lynn Murder
It's been a full year since the "suspicious death" of 31-year-old Bryan Higgins a.k.a. Feather Lynn on Church Street, and six months since police said
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Owners Of Mission Building Destroyed By Fire Slapped With 48-Tenant Lawsuit
The owners of a Mission building where a January fire killed one and displaced scores of tenants was served with a long-anticipated lawsuit Tuesday, as former residents of the structure claim that
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Ron Conway Donations In District 3 Fight Questioned
The only two local-official elections that will be at all interesting this November are the Sheriff's race in which incumbent Ross Mirkarimi will have to fend of bad press and
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What Would You Trade For Steve Jobs' Old Car?
Since his death in 2011, we've seen a veneration of Steve Jobs that's reminiscent of the attention focused on, say, a European saint. (His office at Apple remains untouched,
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[Update] Tech Exec Claims Washio May Have Delivered Used Condom With Infant's Clothes, But It Also May Have Been Used Glove
"Better. Faster. Cleaner." That's the way of Washio, the Uber of someone else doing your laundry. But in a hastily deleted tweet from one prominent San Francisco tech executive,
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Checking Back In On The Transbay Transit Center, And Its Shiny Metal 'Skin'
The Transbay Transit Center, which will transform the landscape of downtown SF when it opens for business in late 2017, continues to take shape out of the ground along four blocks of Natoma
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Thursday Morning Roundup: SF's Homeless Shelters Are 'Cesspools'
* "The average [San Francisco] renter is paying nearly 47 percent of his or her monthly income on rent in the second quarter of 2015." [KRON4] * Why the logarithmic scale for earthquakes
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Day Around The Bay: Don't Pass Cable Cars!
Two cable car operators were hit earlier this year. And now @sfmta_muni is working to make the iconic job safer. http://t.co/p77rsOaDHW — KQED News (@KQEDnews) August 12, 2015 * Following on