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This Week In Food: A Downtown Italian Stalwart Calls It Quits
Downtown favorite Barbacco is closing next week after 14 years, Collina debuts on Nob Hill, and Bandit finally soft-opens next to Dolores Park.
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Apartment Sadness: 'Founders' Are Moving to SF and Living In Sleeping Pods Again
Something must be shifting with the local economy, and as San Francisco continues to be a hotbed of artificial intelligence innovation, the people moving here for a piece of that gold rush are finding what many of us found coming here in years past: really high rents.
SF Politics
Pro-49ers Santa Clara Councilmembers File Ethics Charges Against Mayor and 49ers Critic Lisa Gillmor
The mud is flying both ways between Jed York’s critics and allies at Santa Clara City Hall, as York’s supporters just lodged a series of ethics complaints at Mayor Lisa Gillmor, whom Jed spent $2.5 million unsuccessfully trying to defeat.
SF Politics
Bohemian Grove Again Links Clarence Thomas to Likely Ethics Violation, This Time With Koch Brothers
ProPublica continues hammering away at investigating Clarence Thomas, and now they've uncovered at least two donor events hosted by the Koch Brothers in recent years that Thomas attended — all while the Kochs and their advocacy group Stand Together have had cases before the Supreme Court.
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72-Year-Old Man Finally Convicted of 2010 Rape, Murder of Younger Woman in Mission District SRO
It took 13 years, but prosecutors at long last won a rape and murder conviction of a 72-year-old man accused of killing and raping a 37-year-old woman in an incident dating back to 2010.
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US Marshals Arrest 4,500 Nationwide in Crackdown, Including 137 in Oakland
A more than year-long crackdown called Operation North Star has yielded its third mass arrest of thousands of suspects across the country, including 137 in Oakland on murder, assault, robbery, and gun charges.
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Stabbing On BART Train In Oakland Leaves One Injured
There was a stabbing overnight on a BART train in Oakland that appears to have been unprovoked, and the incident is sure to add to public perception that the trains are unsafe.
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Friday Morning Constitutional: The Air Out There Is Still Unhealthy, Until Tonight
The AQI in SF and parts of the North Bay was still bad Friday morning, but will improve; a shootout at an Albany car dealership left two dead Thursday; and a former Marriott employee won a $20M settlement over failure to accommodate his disability.
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Day Around the Bay: Brandon Crawford May be Finished as a San Francisco Giant
Smoky skies have extended the Spare the Air declaration through Friday, the pedestrian who was struck by an SUV on Valencia Street Wednesday has died, and Brandon Crawford, the last remaining Giant from their most recent championships, may have played his final game as a Giant.
SF Politics
Supervisor Peskin Proposes Moving the Golden Gate Ferris Wheel to His District, at Fisherman’s Wharf
Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was not a fan of putting the SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park, is now a fan of putting it in his own district in time for November’s APEC Summit.
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Welp, at Least One Dreamforce Attendee Was Accosted By a Mentally Ill Person
A week after Dreamforce ended, we thought, without a hitch and without any report of an unpleasant street incident, we now get a report of one such incident in which an attendee was assaulted and knocked to the ground by an unhinged suspect.
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SF Sees More Than 20,000 Car Break-Ins a Year, Arrests Made Around 1% of the Time
An SF Board of Supervisors committee broke down the car break-in problem Thursday, hoping to craft legislation to lower the approximate 23,000 auto burglaries SF sees every year — only about 1% of which result in arrests.
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The Season's First Bomb Cyclone Hits the West Coast Next Week — But Won't Likely Impact SF
Today's clear and sunny weather in San Francisco, with — despite some lingering smoke in the air — some balmy afternoon highs close to 70 in some parts of town, will be repeated by mid-week next week, in even warmer fashion. But first, a storm's a-comin'.
Arts & Entertainment
'POTUS' Offers Up a Feverish Feminist White House Farce at Berkeley Rep
A funny seven-woman play that amused New York audiences four about four months on Broadway last spring and summer has just arrived as the season opener at Berkeley Repertory Theater. And it's a fun one, to be sure.
Business & Tech
Cruise CEO Says SF ‘Should Be Rolling Out the Red Carpet’ for Robotaxis in TechCrunch Disrupt Interview
In his first major public interview since the DMV cut their San Francisco fleet in half, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said “we cannot expect perfection” from the self-driving cars, and acknowledged a possibility they could leave town if regulators curtail them any further.
Arts & Entertainment
Bay Lights Seeking $2M More In Funding, Nonprofit Founder Confident Lights Will Return
The Bay Lights, which went dark on the Bay Bridge in March a few years earlier than was promised due to corrosion and deterioration of the LEDs, will return again according to the founder of Illuminate, the nonprofit behind the original installation.
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Death of 'Euphoria' Actor Angus Cloud Ruled an Accidental Overdose
The sudden death of breakout 'Euphoria' star Angus Cloud in Oakland in July prompted speculation that it was a suicide. But a coroner's report has now ruled the death accidental.
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Oakland Private School Wins Fight for Giant Expansion After Years of Neighborhood Pushback
The Head-Royce School has won permission to expand their Oakland campus from 14 to 22 acres, despite their neighbors’ concern that the expansion could create additional wildfire risk.
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Mayor Proposes New Camera, License Plate Reader For Twin Peaks After Fatal Shooting
The entrance road to the Twin Peaks vista point could be getting a new surveillance camera and a license-plate reader, after a 19-year-old was fatally shot there last weekend.
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Thursday Morning What's Up: Murdoch Steps Down As Fox CEO
Rupert Murdoch, at age 92, is stepping down as CEO of Fox and News Corp.; a person was robbed in Berkeley by a suspect with AR-15; and video shows a gun battle on a residential street in East Oakland.
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Day Around the Bay: Tarantula Mating Season Begins on Mount Diablo
A pedestrian was severely injured in a crash at 18th and Valencia in SF's Mission; video of a Fort Mason car burglary and victims' effort to save their stuff goes viral; and it's tarantula mating season again on Mount Diablo.
SF Politics
Sacramento County DA Sues City of Sacramento Over Homeless Encampments
The latest homeless encampment lawsuit could be dubbed ‘Sacramento v. Sacramento,’ as the county’s DA has sued the city for not cleaning up homeless encampments.
SF Politics
Hilariously, Russian Hill Residents Banned Street Sweeping Years Ago, But Now They Regret That
Denizens of Russian Hill made a choice almost 40 years ago to sacrifice well-swept streets in exchange for hassle-free parking. And they still don't have to move their cars on street-sweeping days, but things are kind of a mess and some residents are trying to reverse course, all these years later.
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Deplorable Teens Attack KGO Reporter Dan Noyes, But He Thwarts Their Attempt to Steal His Bike
Our thoughts go out to longtime local TV reporter Dan Noyes, who was attacked Sunday by teens in the Presidio — but he foiled their attempt to steal his bike by threatening to put them on TV.
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San Francisco Leaders Get Ready to Roll Out the Red Carpet For Politicians and Journalists From Across Asia In November
With Dreamforce last week, some San Francisco residents got a taste of what's to come in mid-November, when world leaders and representatives from 20 nations in the Asia-Pacific region — along with a bevy of journalists — descend on the city for a major summit.