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Jeff Goldblum Is Bringing His Jazz Band To San Francisco
If you were unaware of this fact, your life is about to improve upon learning it: Jeff Goldblum is in a jazz band (he's the pianist). The noted actor from such
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Restaurants Still Annoyed About Postmates, And Not Being Able To Opt Out
It makes perfect sense that some restaurants would never offer delivery of their food because their food doesn't travel well, and they know this. But in the era of Postmates and
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[Semi-NSFW] These Are The Real Painted Ladies Of San Francisco
A set of trompe l'oeil body painting works by artist Trina Merry from her San Francisco Series: Visions in the Fog gives new meaning to the term "painted lady."
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Mother Of Madyson Middleton Says She Doesn't Blame Mother Of Accused Murderer
Laura Jordan, mother of slain eight-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz, gave her first media interview over the weekend, one week after her daughter's death. The
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Google And Gap Employees Send Messages Between Folsom Street Offices Via Post-Its
Gap Inc. is headquartered on the Embarcadero, with some offices in the building facing Folsom Street. Google also has offices directly across Folsom Street. Employees at the two companies have started posting messages
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Outside Lands Weather Forecast Looking Typically Cloudy, With Possible Rain
It's time once again to prepare yourself for Outside Lands, which is happening this weekend (I know, it sneaks up on you), August 7-9, in Golden Gate Park. As usual
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Hooray! Those Pee-Deflecting Walls Are Working!
The walls in San Francisco mean business. Or, more accurately, they mean "don't do your business here." That's after a new, fast-moving pilot program to paint
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Shootout During Sexual Assault Investigation Leaves Oakland Cop Injured, Suspect Dead
OPD recovers rifle from suspect who shot ofc. this morning. Ofc. is out of surgery/recovering. pic.twitter.com/RzXTcwEfZP — Oakland Police Dept. (@oaklandpoliceca) August 3, 2015 Oakland Police Department officers found themselves
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Weekend BART Closure Not The Disaster It Was Expected To Be
The weekend-long interruption of transbay BART service, which allowed BART crews to do some needed track work in and outside of the Transbay Tube, turned out not to create the traffic nightmare
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SF's 29th Homicide For 2015: Western Addition Shooting Kills Woman, Injures Others
Just days after planning began for a park spanning Buchanan Street between Grove and Eddy Streets to "help redefine the neighborhood’s identity," tragedy has befallen the site: on Saturday night,
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How To Write About A Failed Startup: A 'Postmortem' Style Guide
We can't all be unicorns. 9 out of 10 startups fail, and when they do, 10 out of 10 bereaved founders take to Medium or the company blog to share the
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There Are Now 21 Wildfires Burning In California; Rocky Fire Grows To 60,000 Acres
What's turned out to be the most massive wildfire of the season so far, the Rocky Fire that began last Wednesday in Lake County has now spread across two other county
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Video: San Francisco Airbnb-er Breaks Into Locked Room, Steals $35,000 Of Host's Stuff [Updated]
When an Outer Sunset woman decided to rent her home out via Airbnb, she was likely hoping to make an extra couple hundred bucks. Instead, over $35,000 of her possessions were stolen,
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Monday Morning Roundup: Dining At SF County Jail
* Your weekend ICYMI: There's an unauthorized Steve Jobs documentary, there was a refinery fire in Rodeo, a shoplifter went down hard at Bloomingdales, another dead whale washed up in Pacifica, and
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SF Home Buying For Regular People, Week 1: You Don't Have To Have 20% Down
FALLACY #1: You'll be kind of old by the time you save enough to buy a house. THE TRUTH: Reduce your down payment and you're already over the biggest
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Photo: Fire Breaks Out At Refinery In Contra Costa County
Refinery fire in Rodeo. pic.twitter.com/ywAheBW8Yz — Jason Sutton (@510Jason) August 2, 2015 A flare-up at the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo prompted health officials to issue a warning this afternoon
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Video: Bloomingdale's Security Under Fire For Bloody Takedown Of Shoplifting Suspect
Warning: video may be disturbing to some The use of force by private security at Bloomingdale's has come into question after video shows a bloody takedown inside the department store. On
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Another Dead Whale Washes Up In Pacifica
Another dead whale has washed ashore in Northern California, adding to this year's growing tally of marine mammal carcasses. According to Bay Cities News, the body was found Sunday morning on
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Photos: Rocky Fire Nearly Doubles In Size Overnight To 47,000 Acres
The Rocky Fire, a massive wildfire about a hundred miles north of the Bay Area, nearly doubled in size overnight and firefighters are barely closer to containing it. Just twelve hours after saying
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Sunday Morning Coming Down: Inside The Failure Of Google+
* It took less than a half-hour into the San Francisco 49ers’ first practice Saturday night for the Levi’s Stadium sod to come up in pieces. [KRON4] * I will never get tired
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Trailer Drops For Unauthorized Steve Jobs Documentary By The Guy Who Made 'Going Clear'
Alex Gibney, the director who made the provocative HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, has just made a new doc about the man who made Apple, Steve Jobs, titled
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Saturday Morning Special: Uber's Jaw-Dropping New Valuation
* The suspect arrested in San Francisco's first domestic violence homicide of 2015 pleads not guilty. [Bay City News] * The San Francisco Fire Department got an $8.2 million federal grant so
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Day Around The Bay: Muni's E Line Rolls Up The Embarcadero
* Reminder! Muni is shutting down the underground Metro at 9:30 or 10 p.m. starting tonight. Also there is no BART service Saturday or Sunday between West Oakland and Embarcadero Stations. [BART]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
This Week In SF Food: A.G. Ferrari Foods Closes In The Castro, Outside Lands Karaoke With Morimoto, And More
This week, Oakland's La Borinqueña Mex-icatessen celebrated its last in business. After four generations of tamales made "with love and lard," the family has decided to retire. Chino,
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Apartment Sadness: Doesn't Anyone Want This $6800 One-Bedroom?
I must be getting jaded, ladies and gentlemen, because when this ad for a $6800/mo "custom" one-bedroom first was shown to me a week or so ago, my first