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5 Tech-Savvy Accessories To Make Your Home Smarter
Spiff up your apartment with these ingenious home goods. Let's face it: there's always an opportunity for some good ol' fashioned home improvement. And these days, it'
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Day Around The Bay: Amazon Goes On Big SF Hiring Spree
* In an attempt to distract as as Muni shuts down the underground on nights and weekends for weeks on end, they just posted these photos of bearded hipsters testing Muni’s first light
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Cash Pouring In For Mayor, Supervisor Races As Ed Lee Staffers Bolt For Uber
It may become a new rite of passage in lame duck administrations that top staff start taking lobbying positions for the lawless scandal factory that is Uber. That’s a thread we see
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Outside Lands Releases Full Schedule, Set Times
If you're headed to Outside Lands, it's now time to strategize. The full complement of set times just went online today, and now you have a lot of decisions
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Food TV Personality Andrew Zimmern Says Instagram Has Replaced Yelp
We've heard it all before when it comes to gripes about Yelp, why many in the food scene hate it, and why many avid diners think it's indispensable nonetheless.
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Uber And Lyft Permanently Banned From Most Of Market Street Under New Plan
A new design is emerging for #sanfrancisco's Market Street #sfmuni #bicycling https://t.co/eVEw0l8EVQ pic.twitter.com/KoOqTmtQ43 — Human Streets (@humanstreetssf) July 31, 2017 The Better Market Street Plan, which
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Try Not To Panic: The 500 Club Is For Sale
Long-lived and long-loved Mission dive the 500 Club, a necessary fixture on SFist's Best Dive Bars list, is hitting the market, according to a real estate source who prefers
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They're Just Going To Build A Road On Top Of That Big Sur Landslide
If you can't dig under a problem, you may as well climb over it. That's what Caltrans is concluding with regard to that quarter mile of Pacific Coast Highway
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Stop Everything! An Ice Cream Museum Is Coming To SF
San Francisco is now exclusively just colorful pop-up interactive art exhibits. Fresh of the coattails of the current (and newly extended through September) Color Factory, Eater brings us word that the Museum
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BART Fills Budget Gap By Letting Ford And United Airlines Wrap Whole Trains With Ads
BART debuts train cars wrapped in ads. https://t.co/VXMWCoNeRm via @matierandross pic.twitter.com/BI8rQbP6rZ — SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 2, 2017 In yet another case of a public transit entity making ends
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Elbo Room Buys Another Year, Extends Lease Until 2019
The development boom has lowered the boom on the late, great Lexington Club, displaced the iconic Doc’s Clock, and taken the lives of many beloved longtime Valencia Corridor restaurants and bars because
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Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Instagram Stories Turns Two
* Dealing with Silicon Valley's age problem. [Wired] * Tesla owners described as "fanatical." [Roadshow] * North Face planning "concept store" on Union Street. [SocketSite] * Instagram Stories is already a
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Trick Dog Team Takes Over Former Wo Hing/Urchin Bistrot Space On Valencia
There's some movement finally on the vacant space at 584 Valencia Street that once housed the original Slanted Door location, and in recent years was home to Wo Hing General Store
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Feisty Rideshare Summoner Thwarts Cell Phone Robbery
An aspiring cell phone thief chose the wrong target Monday evening, when his victim fought back long enough to cause the miscreant's arrest. Police say the drama played out at 4:
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Wave Of Stick-Up Robberies Hits SF Businesses
At least three San Francisco businesses were robbed at gunpoint Monday, all victims of a thief or thieves demonstrating the same MO. Police say that the first stick-up went down at 2:
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80 Percent Of Walk Signal Buttons In SF Don't Do Anything To Change The Signal
Confirming what you've surely always known deep down, the vast majority of those buttons you push at intersections do not do anything to shorten the amount of time you are going
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Ask A San Francisco Native: How To Be A Better Tourist
Dear Rain, My family and I will be in the area for a little over 24 hours. We live in Austin and we understand tourists taking over your town, so we don'
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Search Continues For Missing Ocean Beach Swimmer
A swimmer who disappeared off the coast of Ocean Beach Tuesday remains lost this morning, as officials resume their search off the San Francisco coast. According to a tweet by the San Francisco
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Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Peter Thiel Dumps Facebook Shares
* Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here * Here's what you should be doing. [SFist]
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8 Hidden Gems That Will Move Canada To The Top Of Your Travel List
From larger-than-life waterfalls, to natural hot springs, to lush rainforests, Canada has more to see than just igloos, plaid shirts, and moose (meese?). In fact, at this time of year you
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Bring Your Screenplay To Life With Final Draft 10
The industry-standard software is over $100 off right now. Have a great idea for a movie you've been itching to write? Develop the next big time blockbuster with Final Draft
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Day Around The Bay: Butcher Posts Anti-Meat Signage
* Homicide and petty theft are on the rise this year in SF, but most other crime is stagnant in so far. [Examiner] * Direct Action Everywhere convinces Berkeley butcher to post an anti-meat
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Teen Detained At SFO After Jumping Out Of Jet's Emergency Door Onto Tarmac
Photos from inside the @COPAAirlines plane from which a teen jumped out today. https://t.co/yDw95MfQA1 pic.twitter.com/X7iPLFCi9o — NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) August 1, 2017 An American teenager who had
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Video: Steph Curry Crashes House Party, Chugs Bud Light
No afterparty is complete without @stephencurry30 randomly rolling in asking to party.. A post shared by Jim Marrinan (@jimboslice401) on Jul 31, 2017 at 6:31am PDT It's the off-season
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Enforcement 'Nightmare' Looming As 1,500 SF Buildings Still Not Seismically Retrofitted
Maybe you felt a little safer with yesterday's news that the sinking Millennium Tower could withstand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake. But perhaps the more relevant question is ‘Can the building