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FBI Asks For Public's Help In Catching SF's 'Smiling Face Bandit'
A bemused bank robber is on the loose in San Francisco and the feds need your help. KRON 4 brings us news of the local bank robber dubbed the "Smiling Face Bandit&
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Angry Man Attacks Exercising Teens
Police took a man into custody Friday, after he threatened and attacked two teens working out in a San Francisco park. The attack went down at 5:58 a.m. Friday, at the
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Parked Cars Smashed During SFPD Chase Of Teen Suspect
A teen driver was arrested Monday afternoon, after fleeing from San Francisco police in a chase that smashed several cars. Police say that the incident began at 4:50 p.m. Monday, near
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Billion Dollar BART Extension To Livermore Has Officials Livid
Have you ever gazed at the system map while riding BART and noticed some dotted-line ‘proposed extensions’ and said to yourself “Haha yeah right, as if I’m going to live that
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SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week
Big name headliners and dog pageants round out this week's list of suggested activities. From the classic band The Who to pop star Betty Who to a play about the drummer
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Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Valencia Street Dinged For Bike Unfriendliness
* Do you like your brands sassy or bland? [Ad Week] * We're in the final days of Muni's 7R bus. [Moving SF] * "A complicated set of technology transfers and
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FDA: Your Moscow Mule Mug Might Be Giving You Copper Poisoning
The #thirst is real! 👅 #sundayswag A post shared by Moscow Mule (@the.moscow.mule) on May 21, 2017 at 10:06am PDT It's a trend widely noted in the last half-
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Alleged Crime Team Arrested In Slaying Of Man On Twin Peaks
San Francsico police say that they've arrested two suspects in the July slaying of a well-known film location scout, one of whom had recently been released on gun charges by
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Houston Family's Dog Dies In United Flight Cargo Hold En Route To SFO
A five-year-old King Charles spaniel named Lulu died aboard a United Airlines flight from Houston to San Francisco recently, and the family is pointing blame at the airline. The Houston family
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Lucky 13 Site Hits Market For $9.75M With Development Approvals
It looks as though the owners of the Upper Market Street dive bar Lucky 13, which we've long known is endangered, did not intend to do any development work themselves, but
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Tuesday Morning Roundup: Oakland Kidnapping Was Hoax
* Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here * Uber execs tell worried employees that they won'
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Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Controversial Anti-Diversity Memo
The Google software engineer who suggested that women are biologically less well-suited to engineering work in an internal memo last week was fired on Monday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, "First,
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A World Beyond Art At the Getty In Los Angeles
Whether you’re looking to fill your next trip to Los Angeles with art, film, or culture, the Getty has you covered. Celebrate one of the most iconic British artists of the 20th
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Light Up Your Home With A Minimal Carbon Footprint
Our lighting isn't just a way to set the mood and environment of any space we're in — it's also a way to help keep the planet green
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Day Around The Bay: Mission Residents Cheer Bike-Share Vandalism
* Four dummy heads used in a famous Alcatraz escape are "deteriorating," and they're getting recreated via 3D printing. [Chronicle] * Apparently a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution let
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Travis Kalanick May Be Angling For A Shareholder Battle To Return As Uber CEO
It sounds like ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was not speaking lightly when, as we heard last week, he was talking about "Steve Jobs-ing it" and returning to head the
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History: Donald Trump Tried To Buy The SF Giants Back In 1985
If you thought the San Francisco Giants 2010 world championship season was “Torture,” wait ‘til you contemplate an alternate history that kind-of almost came to pass. Local hardball blog McCovey Chronicles tags
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Top Round Roast Beef Heads Into Former Discolandia Space; Residents Freak When Iconic Sign Gets Repainted
Some 24th Street denizens were freaking out last week when they saw that the new tenants of the former Pig & Pie / Discolandia space at 2964 24th Street were painting over the beloved
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All The Photos And Video From This Weekend's Dog Surfing Contest In Pacifica
Linda Mar State Beach in Pacifica hosted the second annual World Dog Surfing Championships on Saturday. "How often do you get a chance to see a dog ride a surfboard?" spectator
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Still Good: AL's Place
Today we're kicking off a new feature called "Still Good," focusing on Bay Area restaurants that have been open a few years, or a few decades, and therefore may
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'MacBitch' At The Exit Theatre Is A Hilarious Tina Fey-ification Of The Shakespeare Classic
SFist’s stance on deplorable teens is well-documented, so we were naturally intrigued to see a new Macbeth send-up that uses inadequately monitored teenagers as symbols of bloodthirsty ambition. MacBitch, playing
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Video: Peek Inside Potrero Hill's Cryptocurrency Commune
There's a house full of cryptocurrency gurus in San Francisco, and it's like a modern-day commune from CNBC. A group of cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and enthusiasts live inside a
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South Bay Couple Buys Private Street Near Presidio, And Wealthy Residents Are Dismayed
A savvy couple from the South Bay who do some real estate investing happened to catch that a private street, and all the common areas surrounding it including sidewalks and planted medians, went
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Things People Do On BART: Pepper-Spray, Carry Crack, Attack, Shave
Monday-BART police searching for this man. Accused of assaulting passengers in 2 separate incidents @kron4news pic.twitter.com/hMC0I3TxbT — Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) August 7, 2017 Did BART's decision to stop
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Monday Lunchtime Links: Chron Backs Market Street Plan
* That's one fancy barn. [SocketSite] * Man runs into burning Berkeley apartment building to save neighbor. [ABC 7] * Suspects sought in weekend kidnapping and robbery at Berkeley's People’s Park.