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Homeless Woman Addresses Letter To DPW, SFPD As They Clear Her Encampment

In a sweep of homeless encampments described by the Coalition on Homelessness, the Department of Public Works and the SFPD cleared 30 tents near San Bruno Avenue and Alameda Street on Sunday morning

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Tacolicious Agrees To Settle Class-Action Lawsuit By Former Employees For $900,000

Tacolicious, the growing taco enterprise from founder Joe Hargrave that now has five Bay Area locations including three in SF, is opting to settle out of court a lawsuit originally brought by two

Lunchtime Links: 3.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off The Coast Of Eureka

Low temperatures overnight caused frosts in the Bay Area's valleys this morning. [National Weather Service Bay Area/Twitter] At 11:19 a.m. Monday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.9

State Bill To Repeal Limitations On Rent Control Has Some Local Landlords Fuming

San Francisco landlords were getting heated Friday in protest of a State Assembly bill that would repeal limits on rent control that have been in effect since 1995. AB 1506, at least in

BART's 'Fleet Of The Future' To Roll Out Further In The Future Than Promised

Since no news about a BART project being hampered by delays should come as a shock, it should inspire little more than half an eyeroll to hear that BART's fleet of new train

Medical Examiner Confirms All Ghost Ship Fire Victims Died Of Smoke Inhalation

"All it takes is a few breaths," says UC Davis Professor Kent Pinkerton, speaking to the Chronicle after reviewing some of the autopsy materials in the Ghost Ship case, in which all 36

Hail Returns Today As Bay Area Mountain Peaks Get Dusting Of Snow

Sledding at Mt. Diablo. #snow #brrr #eastbay pic.twitter.com/GgYHp8Ofbw— Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) March 6, 2017 As the mercury dropped Sunday, the strange, mercurial precipitation — with rain one moment, rainbows the next,

Woman Killed When Tree Falls On Tent In Yosemite

21-year-old woman killed by falling tree in Yosemite National Park over the weekend, officials say https://t.co/E4a45Ifhed pic.twitter.com/4cT9JUBm7c— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 6, 2017 A 21-year-old woman was

Monday Morning Linkdump: Former Stockton Mayor Arrested At SFO

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 ICYMI: The swift shutdown of Oroville Dam

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Your Guide To Food Subscription Boxes: The Good, The Bad & The Boozy

From international delicacies to delicious desserts, this is your guide to the world of food subscription boxes. It's not always easy putting together the perfect meal to impress your guests - unless you

Weekend Storm Brings Hail And Rainbows To The Bay, Blizzard In Tahoe

Beautiful Rainbow #GoldenGateBridge #SanFrancisco this morning - via David Yu pic.twitter.com/xqOQgiWAQV— Charlene ☕ 🇺🇸 (@FreshRoasters) March 5, 2017 A storm Saturday night and into Sunday morning dumped over an inch of rain

Pro-Trump Rally In Berkeley Turns Predictably Messy, 10 Arrested

Welp, that pro-Trump rally happened as scheduled on Saturday in downtown Berkeley despite the lack of a permit, and as was widely predicted, a bunch of black-clad anarchists showed up and started throwing

Sunday Links: Giants Coach Hit With Foul Ball

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Kids were forced to use a BART car as

Hundreds Evacuated Following Electrical Fire on BART

Large electrical fire at Walnut Creek BART. Trains halted. Crews standing by for BART electricians to secure power. #BARTIC pic.twitter.com/4qbA6yetSa— Confire PIO (@ContraCostaFire) March 5, 2017 As many as 400

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Trailer Drops For Jeremiah Tower Documentary, 'The Last Magnificent'

Famed San Francisco chef Jeremiah Tower was, arguably, America's first celebrity chef, cooking in an era when food began to figure more and more on television, and presiding over Stars, one of the

Oroville Dam Shutoff Causes Riverbanks To Collapse Downstream

Riverbanks collapse after #OrovilleDam spillway shut off. https://t.co/lIkgrn9uZP pic.twitter.com/MIt7Pthckk— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) March 4, 2017 An extreme side effect of the Department of Water Resources' decision to suddenly

Saturday Links: Thieves Target Flood Victims

Cops on lunch break violating the #bikelane #sfpd A post shared by velobry (@velobry) on Mar 2, 2017 at 11:33pm PST Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook.

Day Around The Bay: Since September, Twice As Many San Franciscans See City 'Headed In Right Direction'

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Peter Thiel's company Palantir is working with ICE to

Yelp Feature Will Tell Users If Businesses Have Gender-Neutral Bathrooms

San Francisco-based ratings company Yelp is getting five stars from LGBTQ advocates today. After stepping up yesterday to participate in an amicus brief supporting trans student Gavin Grimm in his lawsuit against a

Arts & Entertainment

Video: LGBT Activist Ken Jones Talks About The Impact Of 'When We Rise'

Ken Jones, a longtime activist in SF's LGBT community, is one of the primary characters portrayed in ABC's somewhat fictionalized though mostly based-in-fact miniseries, When We Rise. As we noted the other day

6,900 People Lost Their Jobs In SF In January

Unemployment remains at just 3.2 percent in San Francisco as of the end of January, however that is up from 2.9 percent in December, and a whopping 6,900 lost their

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Off The Grid's Food Truck Caravan Returns To Fort Mason Tonight

If there's one thing that helped formalize and reinforce the food truck fad, it's Off the Grid, a network — or perhaps better to say wagon train — of food entrepreneurs whose trucks and tents

Could The Texas Supreme Court Actually Roll Back Marriage Equality?

In a first of its kind challenge to the "settled law" of marriage equality, the Texas Supreme Court this week heard arguments in a case that questions to what extent Texas has to

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This Week In SF Food: Loló Cevicheria Shutters, Bauer Revisits Zarzuela, And More

The biggest news this week is arguably the long-awaited opening of Chinatown food and retail megaplex China Live, right? Also opening was Old Kan & Beer Co and, next week, a Grocery Outlet

Uber Evaded Authorities In Multiple Cities With Secret, Potentially Illegal 'Greyball' System

Well, well, well. Uber has really done it this time. Four current and former employees of the ride-hailing giant reveal to the New York Times that for years during the company's rapid expansion