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Thursday Morning What's Up: Beto's Running
The window for the Mavericks surf competition is closing, Kamala supports Newsom's death penalty moratorium, and Facebook still hasn't said what caused Wednesday's outage.
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Day Around The Bay: SF Gets Its First Lesbian Fire Chief
Jeanine Nicholson, a 25-year veteran of the SFFD, will step into Joanne Hayes-White's shoes as chief in May, and that Facebook/Instagram outage lasted pretty much all day.
Arts & Entertainment
Bill Graham To Light Up With New Conceptual Art Piece Tonight
A new public art piece by renowned conceptual art master Joseph Kosuth is getting flicked on officially for the first time tonight, on the previously unsightly Polk Street facade of Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.
Arts & Entertainment
Video: Baby's First Word Is 'Google'
It's 2019. We've sent men space, possibly cured AIDS, and we regularly tell bodiless robots to do things for us in our homes like turn on lamps and play songs we like. Why shouldn't babies imitate us?
Arts & Entertainment
Raise Your Hand If You Still Have A Collection Of Old Colorful Muni Passes
Long gone are the days when the SFMTA printed boldly color-blocked monthly Muni passes that riders would treasure for their clean and attractive graphic design.
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Wife Of Maine Man Arrested For Threats Against YouTube Actually Deleted His Channel, Lied To Him About It
The story about the jilted YouTuber who took a cross-country trip just to have a word with Google about his deleted channel has taken a darkly funny new twist.
Bay Area Sports
Raiders GM Mike Mayock Makes a Splash, Bolsters Roster via Trade, Free Agency
The Oakland Raiders made quite the pre-draft off-season splash this past weekend, with the acquisition of former Steelers All-Pro wideout Antonio Brown. However, the team's trading and spending-spree didn't end there.
Business & Tech
Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Experience Simultaneous Server Issues
It ain't so great having three major social platforms served from the same place when the servers go down!
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California Sanctuary Policy To Be Ridiculed Again in Wake of San Jose Murder
Immigration and Customs Enforcement claims they attempted to detain the alleged killer, Carlos Eduardo Arevalo Carranza, ten times, and have been denied each time.
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Newsom Calls For (Largely Symbolic) Halt To Death Penalty In CA
Due to legal challenges, no one has been executed in California since 2006. But after two ballot initiatives to end the death penalty failed to garner enough votes, Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking it upon himself to end it.
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Humpday Headlines: Google Tells Hardware Division Staff To Find New Jobs
Google has some non-layoff layoffs, Mission teenager temporarily avoids eviction from grandmother's apartment, and why California figures prominently in the college fraud scandal.
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Day Around The Bay: 12,000 Units Proposed For Redwood City Salt Ponds
The suspect in the Feb. 28 murder of Bambi Larson in San Jose was undocumented and has a rap sheet, and a 122-unit condo development is proposed for the Candlestick parking lot.
Arts & Entertainment
Dodgeball Meets 'Exploding Kittens' In New Game 'Throw Throw Burrito'
A new game in development from the creators of popular card game Exploding Kittens involves cards and trying to accrue like cards, and then also throwing plushy burritos at other players.
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AOC Piles On With Elizabeth Warren In Saying Our Democracy Has 'A Facebook Problem'
Facebook was squarely in the sights of liberal politicians this week after the presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren decried the company's decision to remove three of her ads that talked about breaking up Facebook.
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Sonoma County Teacher Arrested For Refereeing 'Fight Clubs' In His Classroom
A high school teacher in Cloverdale was arrested in connection with accusations that he condoned and played referee at "fight clubs" in which his students participated. At least one student required medical attention.
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Bay Area Rich People, Stanford Sailing Coach, Two Hollywood Actresses Indicted In College Admissions Scandal
In what's being called the biggest case of college admissions fraud ever, 50 individuals in six states have been indicted, including 14 people in the Bay Area, and actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin.
Business & Tech
Jilted YouTuber Arrested for Making Criminal Threats Against Google Personnel
Upset that his YouTube channel was shut down, a man drove 3,000 miles across the country to settle a score with Google.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Butcher & Farm Heads To Beso Space in Castro, From the Team Behind Lark
Following the closure of Beso on 18th Street in the Castro last week, we have news of a taker for the space, and it's the team behind Mediterranean spot Lark just a few doors down.
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After Cyclist's Death, SFMTA To Remove Parking And Extend Howard Street Bike Lane
Following the death of bicyclist Tess Rothstein on Friday, the SFMTA says it will immediately be removing street parking on the north side of Howard Street between Fourth and Sixth Streets in order to extend the protected bike lane.
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Tuesday Morning Links: Homeless Man Arrested In Killing of San Jose Woman
A 24-year-old transient has been arrested in the Feb. 28 death of Bambi Larson, a murder-suicide in a Santa Rosa mall parking lot, and Feinstein pushes to ground Boeing 737 Max jets.
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Day Around The Bay: Pelosi Says Trump 'Not Worth Impeaching'
Pelosi's not "for impeachment," a 35-year-old woman was stabbed with an ice pick in SoMa, and a sheriff's deputy faces trial soon following a battery incident in 2017.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Hates In-N-Out's Fries, Got Nasty Letter About Her Chez Panisse Review From Mimi Sheraton
It was just Week 2 for Soleil Ho at the Chronicle — in print at least — and we now have the second edition of her Bite Curious newsletter, as well as her latest Sunday review.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
AL's Place To Open AL's Deli In Yuzuki Space at 18th and Guerrero
Chef Aaron London's Michelin-starred Mission hit AL's Place is expanding for the first time, and it's onto the gourmet ghetto of 18th Street.
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Two-Alarm House Fire Blankets Mount Davidson In Smoke
A house fire in the Miraloma Park neighborhood sent smoke up over the skies of San Francisco Monday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment
Apartment Sadness: 100-Square-Foot Sunnyvale In-Law Is A Steal, And A Squeeze
Everyone's favorite schadenfreude-heavy real estate column is back! And this one's a real humdinger in the South Bay.