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With Newly Reopened Alamo Square Park Comes New Wave Of Broad Daylight Car Break-Ins

All around Alamo Square, in the plain light of day, you can likely hear the sound of glass shattering. The problem is heightening, perhaps just with the summer tourism rush, near the crooked

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Il Casaro To Bring Neapolitan Pizza To Church Street In The Castro

Good news for pizza fans in the Castro environs: North Beach's Il Casaro Pizzeria & Mozzarella Bar is expanding with a second location, into the former Chilango space on Church Street, three doors

Video: Airbnb Host Pushes Woman Down Flight Of Stairs Over Late Check-Out

"You're not the great artist that you think you are, you're not the queen that you think you are. You need to leave now. This is not Africa," said a Dutch Airbnb host

Pot Shops' Facebook Pages Going Up In Smoke

A few Facebook bigwigs and executives are rolled up in the totally legal California cannabis industry, including former Facebook president Sean Parker who donated to the California recreational marijuana ballot measure. But Facebook

Carjacker Dislodges Victim At Gunpoint

A man who was carjacked Tuesday afternoon tried to thwart the theft by hopping on his vehicle, but his robbers were not dissuaded. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the crime went

Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Bay Area Drivers Forego Turn Signals

[Wired] warns tech against ignoring smaller cities. Inside SoMa's see-through house. [San Francisco Magazine] [Craig Newmark] is sending some of that sweet craigslist dough toward support animals. The East Bay has Ford bike

Videos: Drone Surveys Oakland Fire Damage

New drone video from KRON 4's QuadCopter4 gives us a picture of the extent of the damage following Friday's fire at the Alta Waverly complex in Oakland. The mixed-use development had been set

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You Can Now Get Soylent At Some 7-Eleven Stores

For all those who don't read tech blogs (or SFist) and have missed the news about the mail-order meal-replacement non-food known as Soylent, you may have your first introduction to the stuff via

Reddit, Facebook, Other Tech Giants Rally For Net Neutrality In 'Day of Action'

Today is a day of protest and calls for action from major players in the tech industry as the FCC prepares to roll back two-year-old protections for net neutrality. CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and

SF Might Start Taxing Landlords Who Keep Apartments Vacant

It's a comment news orgs get on nearly every story about San Francisco's rent control laws — something like,"I'm a property owner, but I refuse to rent out my vacant apartment(s) because

Ugly Dolores Park Confrontation Between Police, Skateboarders Ends In Multiple Injuries

A skateboarding event adjacent to Dolores Park turned ugly Tuesday night, when police officers seeking to end the proceedings and event participants faced off. KTVU reports that "hundreds" of people were watching skateboarders

Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Stanford Hospital Faces Heat Over Infection Rate

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here These Chinatown dioramas are amazing. [SFist] Google's new phone

5 Crowdfunded Products That Are Actually Amazing

From inflatable solar lanterns to high quality travel sets, you'll love these ingenious inventions. Sometimes a person comes up with a great idea, a whole bunch of people invest a lot of money

Day Around The Bay: Kendrick Lamar Opening A Pop-Up Shop Here In August

Surprise! An umbrella-sharing startup in China, modeled on bike-sharing only with no way to track the umbrellas once they've been taken, ends in loss of 300,000 umbrellas. [SFGate] Kendrick Lamar is opening

Arts & Entertainment

Dioramas and Miniatures Become Vessels For Memory In 'Forever, Chinatown'

by Jessica Lachenal While many people turn to cellphone photos, videos, or even journaling to remember the things that are important to them, artist Frank Wong turned to an art form once thought

Oakland Police Department Chastised In Federal Court Over Recent Sex Scandal

A judge who ordered reforms and imposed federal oversight on the Oakland Police Department nearly a decade and a half ago took the city and department to task again Monday at least verbally

Video: Boat Almost Nails Whale in Golden Gate Near-Miss

Watch out, whale watchers! This particular season is being hailed as “some of the best whale watching in history” as record numbers of the mammoth marine mammals are turning up on Northern California’

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Delivery Startup Young Fava Halts Service To Seek Larger Kitchen

Former Locanda chef Anthony Strong's upscale delivery-only concept Young Fava, which just debuted less than a month ago serving things like a "90s-Style Crudo" and a full caviar service with house-made potato chips,

It's Official: San Francisco And Oakland Are The Worst Cities For Drivers

There's another downside to living in the Bay Area. According to a study by WalletHub, San Francisco is now America's worst city for drivers and Oakland is the second worst. What does that

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Muralist 'Believe In People' Completes Brain Flower Piece In Tenderloin

UPDATE 2 downtown San Francisco! if you see me in the bottom right red circle you can imagine what it feels like to have these golden plants towering over me as I work.

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SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week

Get out and about! Select any number of these carefully curated events to broaden your horizons and hopefully not blow your bank account. Fans of comedy, cinema, and shopping will be especially jazzed

BART Board Divided Over 'Racial Bias' Defense For Withholding Teen Attack Videos

A debate is playing out publicly in the news media between BART directors and executives as well as between members of the media and BART over how much detail the transit system should

Firewatch: Seven Wildfires Currently Ablaze In Northern California

I-80 is closed in both directions due to a growing fire near Farad in the Sierra. Video courtesy of Kevin Quinn. pic.twitter.com/JntIiSG977— Brian Hickey (@kcraBrianHickey) July 10, 2017 by Jessica

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Japanese Blogger Handily Debunks Purported Photo Of Amelia Earhart

A military history blogger in Japan has, with very little effort, debunked a widely publicized theory that was at the center of a documentary that aired Sunday on the History channel, claiming that

Division Street Muggers Sic Mutt On Victim

An early morning mugging on San Francisco's Division Street had an unpleasant capper Tuesday, when the victim both lost his stuff and was bitten by a dog. According to the San Francisco Police