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8 Must-Haves For Any Smart Home
Our top eco-friendly, automation-fueled gadgets to make your everyday better. These days, helping out the environment by opting for green, eco-friendly gear isn't just easy, it's
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Day Around the Bay: Lyft and Uber Drivers Behaving Badly
* Stanley Roberts has more People Behaving Badly, this time: Lyft and Uber drivers getting caught in intersections. [KRON 4] * The DMV has placed a few self-service kiosks into some Bay Area grocery
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Cancelled Patriot Prayer Rally Ended Up Costing SFPD $755,000
After the San Francisco Police Department played a cat-and-mouse game with the organizers of that Patriot Prayer rally in August, the city of San Francisco is left holding a hefty bill
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Taylor Mac: A Joyfully Liberal Carnival Barker To Get Us Through These Terrible Times
I've been thinking how best to talk about what I experienced Sunday at Chapter II of Taylor Mac's irreverently epic, hard-to-describe, "performance art concert" called
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Facebook Censors Reject Completely Tame Folsom Street Fair Ad, Then Reverse Themselves
Some more anti-Facebook LGBTQ outrage erupted late last week when the GLBT Historical Society had a totally safe-for-work, entirely tame ad they wanted to post seeking volunteers for their booth
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Video: Warriors Help Stranded Hurricane Irma Shelter Pets
Much like there were thousands of shelter pets that needed to be relocated following the massive flooding with Hurricane Harvey in and around Houston, there are tons of four-legged friends that needed
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Alaska Promises To Keep Virgin Amenities, Signs Partner Deals With Giants, Kevin Durant
Alaska Airlines knows that many folks are going to miss Virgin America, so they're trying their best to ease your worries—by copping some of Virgin America's signature style
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Mueller Forces Facebook To Cough Up More Details On Russian Meddling
President Donald Trump will be none too pleased that the “single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history” just got greater. In the wake of last week’s revelation that Facebook
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Land Under SF Freeway Overpasses Could Soon Become Parks
San Francisco might have more than a few new parks in its future as 10 plots of land located underneath the city's elevated freeways could potentially be converted to parks and
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Jardiniere To Host Benefit Dinner To Pay DACA Recipients' Renewal Fees
A benefit dinner happening next Monday, September 25 at Jardiniere in San Francisco will be a first-of-its kind fundraiser for the local area with proceeds directly going to pay registration renewal
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Milo Yiannopoulos Insists 'Free Speech Week' Is On, And That He's Paid $65K For Venue Rentals
Relentless alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who along with some alleged conservative/alt-right financial backing is dead-set on taking UC Berkeley to task for trying to stymie or cancel the Free
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BART Gives Away Free Weekend Round Trip Tickets
In an effort to help boost its weekend ridership, BART is handing out free round-trip tickets that are good for a trip on any weekend until December 18th. The agency has already
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Amazon Greenlights SF-Based Series 'Tong Wars', Wong Kar-Wai To Direct
San Francisco is getting some of its big-budget TV location cred back after the disappointing cancellation of Netflix's local darling series Sense 8. Amazon is stepping into the void, according
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Monday Lunchtime Links: Oakland Library Faces Heinous Tagging
* What "real people" think of the iPhone X. [CNet] * Still more ethical concerns raised for AI. [Wired] * Marin home of the one-time world's fastest man goes on the
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Daisy Does The Niners: 49ers Fall 12-9 To The Sloppy Seahawks
by Daisy Barringer If you read the Bay Area papers today, you’ll see headlines like, “49ers put up fight but again leave Seattle with loss” and “49ers halfway good in 12-9
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Dreamers File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration's Move to End DACA
The resistance to Trump's rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA) program continues today as San Diego-based attorney Dulce Garcia files a lawsuit in San Francisco federal
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Berkeley Police Fight Fake News Regarding Stabbing At Shapiro Protest
A rumored story that was being perpetuated last week by Kyle "Based Stickman" Chapman regarding a Ben Shapiro supporter getting stabbed in the neck by "Antifa terrorists," and which
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Photo Of Driver Who Allegedly Crushed Homeless Person's Tent For SF Parking Space Goes Viral
A homeless person's tent was in a parking space, which this driver ran over, then parked on. pic.twitter.com/FyLLTsGeri — Joe Fitz Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) September 14, 2017 SF Examiner reporter
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Man Dead After Early-Morning San Francisco Stabbing
A stabbing behind a San Francisco shopping complex marks San Francisco's 49th homicide for 2017, already taking the city's annual count past those of some recent years. According to
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Bizarre BART Mugging Attempt Goes Sideways When Victim Fakes Seizure
When a BART passenger was handed a note demanding her wallet and phone, the quick thinking woman took an original approach to thwarting the theft: She pretended to have a medical emergency, which
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Monday Morning Linkdump: Condo In Sinking Millennium Tower Improbably Sells
* Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here * Your weekend ICYIM: Another SF homicide plays into the
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Become The Excel Wizard You Wish You Were
Become a master of spreadsheets and more with a special deal on this training. Hate working with troublesome formulas, confusing conditionals, weird formatting and all the other hoopla related to Excel? Make your
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This Week In SF Food: Waxman's Gone For Good, City Beer Store Grows, And More
The big food-world news of the week was the majority-stake acquisition of Blue Bottle by food giant Nestle, which is sure to turn off many a coffee snob. But we also
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Sunday Links: Mugging Victim Tells Chilling Tale
* Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here * Anyone make it to this Apartment Sadness subject'
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SF Symphony Opening Night Gala Features Yo-Yo Ma, And A Rousing 'Bolero'
The SF Symphony Gala kicked off the orchestra's season on Thursday night, later in September than usual as MTT was on tour with the Vienna Symphony orchestra. Often enough, classical music