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Bay Area Men Recount Meeting Accused Murderer In Honolulu
A pair of friends from San Francisco and Oakland befriended a man in Hawaii who was arrested earlier this month for a murder there, and they say he "seemed very nice."
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SF Politics
Former SF Supervisor Jane Kim Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Lobbying Against Controversial SoMa High Rise
That 27-story residential tower slated for a Nordstom’s parking lot, which the supervisors shot down last October, has now generated a complaint with the SF Ethics Commission that the district’s former supervisor Jane Kim improperly lobbied against it.
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The Dixie Fire Was Officially the Most Expensive to Fight in U.S. History
The firefight in last year's Dixie Fire, which was paid for by the U.S. Forest Service using largely contracted local and private firefighting services, cost almost $640 million and ranks as the most expensive in history.
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Light Storm With Possible Thunder and Lightning Arrives Saturday Morning
Some more welcome rain is coming to the Bay Area on Saturday, though rainfall totals will be pretty modest. And you may see some lightning.
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Matthew Muller, Culprit In Denise Huskins' 2015 Kidnapping and Rape, Set to Be Sentenced to 31 More Years
Muller's trial in a state rape and robbery case had been delayed in part by his mental health treatment, but on Friday he was set to plead no contest to the charges and receive a sentence on top of his previous federal sentence.
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Friday Morning Constitutional: USF Dons Knocked Out In First Round
Santa Clara County marked the two-year anniversary of the shelter-in-place order, a teacher's strike in Sonoma County has ended, and the USF Dons unfortunately got knocked out in the first round of March Madness on Thursday night.
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St. Patrick’s Day Around the Bay: Castro Theatre Redesign Plans Revealed
SFUSD teachers will finally get their damn paychecks with interest added, Nancy Pelosi gets roundly roasted for an ill-advised Bono poem recital, and Another Planet Entertainment’s plans for the Castro Theatre involve ripping out quite a few seats.
Arts & Entertainment
Cockettes Exhibit at SF Public Library Has Thursday Night Opening Party
Thursday night’s opening celebration kicks off several months of Cockettes content, in honor of the library’s new exhibit “The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy.”
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Enormous New NorCal Reservoir Project Moves Forward With Federal Loan
The state of California is getting set to forge ahead with constructing a huge new reservoir in Colusa County that would be capable of storing enough water to supply three million households, and it just got the green light from the feds.
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Anti-Patagonia-Vest, Anti-Marina Flyers Popping Up in San Francisco
“Stop wearing vests, you look like a Republican” warns a series of new flyers being spotted about town, and the flyers also have some choice words for the Marina.
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Italian Appeals Court Reduces Sentences for Bay Area Men Convicted In Cop Killing
An appeals court in Rome has reduced the sentences of two young men from the Bay Area who were convicted last year in the July 2019 killing of a Roman Carabinieri (policeman), but both will still serve over 20 years in prison.
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Of Course SFPD Is Doing DUI Checkpoints for St. Patrick’s Day
The San Francisco Police Department is very eager to inform that they will be out in force with DUI checkpoints and patrols for St. Patrick’s Day, because well-publicized checkpoints do indeed cut down on drunk driving.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Michelin-Starred Coi, Daniel Patterson's Flagship, Shutters After 16 Years In North Beach
Chef Daniel Patterson, one of the Bay Area food world's most celebrated innovators, has seen his restaurant footprint shrink considerably in recent years. And now, sadly, his longtime fine-dining flagship, Coi, has permanently closed.
SF Politics
Two Pandemic Years Later, Gay Bathhouse Zoning Back on the Docket In SF
Way back in February 2020, SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced legislation that would re-legalize the bathhouses that the city had banned at the start of an earlier pandemic, the AIDS pandemic. And now he's proposing creating a new zoning category for them.
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$400-Per-Californian Gas Rebate in the Works at State Assembly
It’s another stimmy check for every California taxpayer — even if you don't’ drive or have a car — under a new gas rebate proposal before the state Assembly, but Gavin Newsom thinks only people with cars should get the rebate.
Bay Area Sports
Thursday Morning What's Up: Steph Curry Out 'Indefinitely' With Foot Injury
A woman in Millbrae was assaulted and robbed by a man who threatened to traffic her, Richmond police are searching for a runaway teen mom, and no sooner were the Warriors 'whole' again but Curry's now out with an injury.
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Day Around the Bay: Charges Filed In Murder of Security Guard Kevin Nishita
Three so-far unnamed suspects have been charged in Kevin Nishita's November murder, the new A's stadium has been dealt another blow, and The Sentinel is giving away free corned-beef sandwiches for St. Patrick's Day!
Arts & Entertainment
Oscar-Winning Marin County Filmmaker John Korty Has Died at Age 85
The director of “Go Ask Alice” and “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” was the inspiration for Coppola and George Lucas to start up their own Bay Area film studios, and remained in Marin County throughout his prolific career.
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Report: 40% of SF Houses are Selling for $100K Over Asking Price
Homes are selling for $100,000 or more over the asking price all over the Bay Area, as 40% of sales in SF and nearly 50% of San Jose homes are going for six figures over asking.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Horn BBQ, Brandon Jew, House of Prime Rib All Among 2022 James Beard Award Finalists
The finalists for this year's James Beard Awards — the first with a full slate of nominees and actual awards given since 2019 — are now out, and the Bay Area is well represented both in the California and national categories.
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Yet Another COVID-19 Surge? Wastewater Samples Suggest That Yes, We May Be in for Another Wave
While it may just be a blip, the CDC confirms that wastewater samples from a third of the country’s sample sites show increasing case counts, right while China and Europe are seeing big COVID surges.
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Fatal Shooting In Fremont Sounds Like Yet Another Failure for Mental Health System
A fatal shooting in a residential neighborhood in Fremont, which is being characterized as an act of self-defense, sounds like a tragic end to a psychotic episode that was left untreated.
SF Politics
Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration Ends With a Whimper, Supervisors Wonder If It Didn’t Make Things Worse
The much publicized Tenderloin emergency declaration will fizzle out Thursday, and the Board of Supervisors spent four hours debating its effectiveness Tuesday, concluding it merely pushed the urban blight to other parts of the city.
SF Politics
New Poll By Recall Boudin Campaign Suggests Dems In Favor; Pro-Boudin Camp Fires Back With More Police Data
There were a couple more salvos in both directions this week from the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and those who support him, with each side trying to use arguably shaky numbers to bolster their cases.
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Humpday Headlines: No Tsunami Threat From Japan Earthquake
BART service this morning between Dublin and Pleasanton was disrupted by a death on the tracks, those Uber/Lyft gas surcharges kick in, and a powerful earthquake near Fukushima in Japan is prompting tsuami warnings — but not for us.