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150-Foot Ferris Wheel Coming to Golden Gate Park
In honor of the park's 150th birthday in 2020, a 150-foot ferris wheel — or, as they're calling it, observation wheel — is getting installed in Golden Gate Park.
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Arts & Entertainment
Oakland's Mills College Will Sell Rare Shakespeare's Folio And Original Mozart Score
Mills College has struggled over the past several years to make up for a multi-million dollar deficit. Now, the college is selling their treasured copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio and an authentic, handwritten musical score by Mozart as a means to financially catch up.
SF News
SF Man Charged With Sexual Assault of 99-Year-Old Woman Found Guilty of Misdemeanor
A mentally ill San Francisco man accused of attempting to rape a 99-year-old woman in a Chinatown apartment building on New Year's Eve last year was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced this week, and found guilty of two misdemeanors.
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Friday Morning Constitutional: Biden Swings Through Bay Area
Dense fog blankets the Bay Area, a Republican candidate for Congress was arrested in the Outer Sunset for stalking, and a malnourished seal pup found in Redwood City returns to the wild.
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Day Around the Bay: Thousands of 'Penis Fish' Wash Up in Point Reyes
Employees at e-scooter company Spin are unionizing, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are apparently working on a Ghost Ship fire TV show, and a whole bunch of 10-inch "penis fish" (marine worms) washed up on Drakes Beach.
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Oakland’s Sweeping Affordable Housing Plan Has Produced Zero Units in Three Years
A 2016 ‘impact fee’ on market-rate housing was supposed to produce $65 million for 160 new affordable units, but so far has not produced one new affordable unit.
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SF Authorities Want To Reunite Burglary Victims With $2.5 Million In Recovered Property
If you recently lost a laptop, camera, purse, cellphone, or other item to a thief in the Bay Area, you might be able to get it back following the bust of a major fencing operation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Chipotle Is Giving Away Free Burritos Via Instagram
In an obvious ploy for more Instagram followers, Chipotle is giving away burritos this week to the first 500 people who spot Instagram posts from the chain's official account and text a particular code.
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Castro Merchants Have Filed Restraining Orders Against Two Harassing Individuals
Two presumably homeless individuals who frequent the Castro neighborhood have been ordered to stay away from two area businesses in the last several months, and those orders last for four years.
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Olivier Adella, Man Accused of Dumping Body in 2016 Murder, To Get Out of Jail
Olivier Adella, the "bodyguard" accused of disposing of the body in the 2016 murder of Keith Green will face no further charges and will be released from jail in four weeks. This potentially sets the stage for the retrial of Kaveh Bayat for the murder.
SF Politics
South Bay Congresswoman Has Seen the Inside of All Three Modern Impeachments
At age 71, California Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren is the only House Judiciary Committee member to have seen the inner workings of three impeachments, having interned for a member of the committee back in 1974.
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Expect Extra-Crowded Muni Trains As New Fleet Gets Taken Offline For More Repairs
The SFMTA is warning commuters that trains could feel especially crowded Thursday as it takes all the new fleet of Metro trains offline for emergency repairs. Also, it's still raining, so...
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Thursday Morning What's Up: Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Net Delayed Again
$2 million in stolen property found in San Francisco, West Portal residents are angry about the storm drainage situation, and the Golden Gate Bridge now won't have its suicide net until 2023.
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Day Around the Bay: Google Founder Larry Page Is Funding Flu Research
Three people have been charged in connection with the death of a Santa Rosa father and infant son linked to SF-bought fentanyl-laced meth, BART sees rain delays, and the man finally climbed off that building at Market and Gough.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Daily Driver Brings Its Bagels to the Ferry Building
Possibly as soon as Friday, noted new SF bagel purveyor Daily Driver will be opening a pop-up bagel stand in the Ferry Building that it hopes to make permanent.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Five Places To Seek Out Some Extra Xmas-y Holiday Cheer in San Francisco
In need of some Yuletide gaiety during this dreary impeachment season? There are a few spots around the Bay that are pulling out all the stops to amp up the Christmas spirit, if you're into that sort of thing.
Business & Tech
Google and Facebook Slip Out of Top Ten In Glassdoor Ratings By Employees
Two of the Bay Area's big tech companies that have long been evangelized by their employees and praised as places to work are steadily slipping in their popularity rankings on Glassdoor.
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Audit Finds PG&E Diverted $123 Million From Power Line 'Undergrounding'
PG&E can’t account for what it actually did with that $123 million, which was supposed to be spent on building underground power lines less prone to starting wildfires.
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One Puppy Found, One Still Missing After Stolen Van Incident in the East Bay
Of the 28 puppies and full-grown dogs that went missing in a pet transport van that was stolen on Sunday night, 27 have now been recovered. But one cute brown bulldog puppy remains missing, having apparently been sold in Oakland by a suspect who is now in custody.
SF News
Man Threatening to Jump From Building at Market and Gough Causes Major Traffic
A man has reportedly climbed to the top of a building at Market and Gough Streets in San Francisco and refuses to come down. Police are warning people to avoid the area.
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Jamaica Hampton, Shot By SFPD, Remains In Critical Condition As Family Seeks Answers
We're learning more about the 24-year-old man who was shot and critically wounded in an altercation with San Francisco police on Saturday morning. And the SFPD continues to be cagey about the situation as the man remains in critical condition at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital.
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Oakland Councilwoman Suggests Housing 1,000 Homeless on Cruise Ship
Oakland city councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan wants to employ a novel method of quickly creating emergency housing that has previously been used after natural disasters: cruise ships docked at the Port of Oakland.
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Humpday Headlines: More Details Emerge In East Bay Home Invasions
A woman was found shot in her car in Oakland, a poll shows that 90 percent of Bay Area residents want PG&E changed, and there's a high surf advisory on the way tomorrow.
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Day Around the Bay: Board of Supes Passes Mental Health SF
The Supervisors voted to approve a new Office of Emerging Technologies, Sup. Shamann Walton introduced a bill to fund 300 classes that have been cut at City College, and two suspects in a string of East Bay home invasions appeared in court.
Arts & Entertainment
'Hacked' Is the Dry Bay Area Hacker Movie Spoof We Didn't Know We Needed
A couple of local filmmakers have just delivered a short film that takes the late-90s/early aughts genre and parodies with Amazon and contemporary SF tech culture as the objects of its dry humor.