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Huge Colin Kaepernick Nike billboard springs up in SF's Union Square
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I had no clue what to make of the fandom surrounding BTS. So I dove in to find out.
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Being protected from COVID-19 is the most obvious benefit of getting vaccinated, but here's another one: free doughnuts.
Starting Monday, anyone who shows proof of vaccination at Krispy Kreme will receive a free glazed doughnut.
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A titan arum — otherwise known as the "corpse flower" — has a distinctive look with a stalk that can grow up to 15 feet tall.
What it’s most known for, though, is its funky smell, which can be smelled from up to half a mile away.
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At Vanessa’s Bistro in Berkeley, owner Vi Nguyen recently encountered a customer who stood in her kitchen doorway to yell at her after a server made a simple mistake.
“Not talk, yell,” Nguyen emphasized.
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‘He has screamed relentlessly’: Feral peacock divides Oakland neighborhood
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Storm-producing fire clouds threw out hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes over wildfire-stricken British Columbia and northwestern Alberta provinces in Canada Wednesday and Thursday, bewildering meteorologists.
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DoorDash, the food delivery app based out of San Francisco, is requiring all its nondelivery employees, including CEO Tony Xu, to do a “dash” once a month — and some employees are seemingly furious.
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Pretty much all of America is rooting for a Canadian team to beat the Warriors in the NBA Finals
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It’s not often a crowd of people gathers at an abandoned gas station to gawk at and smell a flower.
But it did this week in Alameda, when a local nursery owner dragged his very rare corpse flower to a place where the public could get a good view.
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BLACKPINK’s triumphant headlining Coachella set made thousands of new K-pop fans.
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It's so hot in the Pacific Northwest that roads are buckling.
Asphalt and concrete roadways are expanding and cracking and even Interstate 5 has been impacted amid a heat wave that has sent temperatures soaring to dangerous levels.
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It started with a petrified tree, half-buried in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The site intrigued Greg Francek, a ranger for East Bay Municipal Utility District.
He inspected further, and it led to one of the biggest fossil discoveries in Calif. history.
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The state of California launched a new program Friday that gives the residents the opportunity to get vaccinated by volunteering to help get others inoculated at sites across the state.
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When fuel moisture is high because plants are lush and water-filled, wildfires don't ignite and spread easily.
When it's low because vegetation is dry, parched, even dead, wildfires start easily and spread rapidly.
Fire season 2021 is looking grim. Our region's FMCs are tracking lower than the minimum-- a new record low. This is caused by the lack/delay of new growth. Average is 137%, low is 115%, 2021= 97%
#wildfire
#CAwx
@wildfirecenter
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Over 70,000 people at Burning Man are trapped, sheltering-in-place and being told to conserve resources after rains swamped Black Rock City.
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"Her husband stood at the doorway and was like, ‘She's hungry! She needs her food right now!’”
This wasn’t an isolated incident for Nguyen. Since California’s June 15 reopening of the economy, customers have gotten … a little difficult. Well, a lot difficult.
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Jake Phelps, editor of Thrasher magazine and skateboarding legend, is dead
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This year the fuel-moisture content across the Santa Cruz Mountains is terrifyingly low as the state moves out of a second, consecutive rainy season marked by dry conditions.
The 2020-2021 winter was the third driest on record.
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It's not every day a whale is seen venturing into the SF Bay to feed on anchovies, and until this week, it's never before happened in March.
Multiple reports reveal that a humpback whale has been swimming around the bay for a week now.
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It’s not clear what a man who called himself Barry O’Beirne was doing on the morning of June 6, 2018, when, after 35 years, Air Force special agents knocked on his door in Daly City and arrested him for desertion.
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Rene Compean of Palmdale was on a hike Monday near Mount Waterman, a popular ski destination in the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California.
While the 45-year-old was on his outdoor adventure, he snapped a picture.
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Nguyen isn’t the only restaurant owner to notice a change in customers’ behavior post-reopening.
“I’ve been seeing a huge rise in people just forgetting to be human,” said Mina Makram, founder of Palo Alto bakery Misfits Bakehouse.
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Bay Area DA admits 6-year-old's playground fentanyl overdose never happened
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Hundred dollar sandwiches. Two hundred dollar per person park tickets. Eight hundred dollar standard hotel rooms. Has Disneyland finally gotten too expensive?
According to a recent study, the answer is yes.
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At the beginning of what's expected to be a record-breaking wildfire season in California, a photo of a firefighter who has battled flames in Big Sur's Willow Fire is becoming a symbol of the foreboding 2021 wildfire season.
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The appearance of bell-bottoms, Afros, butterfly collars, shag carpets and even shaggier sideburns told him the photos were shot in the 70s, but the lack of notes or inscriptions meant that identifying most of the people or even locations would be a challenge, if not impossible.
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It's not an exaggeration to say the new Van Gogh exhibit is an immersive experience.
Projectors cover the walls and floor in vibrant psychedelic brush strokes that are constantly in movement, cycling through the artist’s most famous paintings.
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New SF DA Brooke Jenkins fired 16 people on Friday. Progressives aren't happy.
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Catherine Dugoni never expected to get life-altering advice from her favorite pop heartthrob.
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Yet another skydiver has died at the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center.
The skydiving school in San Joaquin County is now the site of 22 recorded deaths since opening in 1981.
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Biebs by the bay! Star's spotted in San Francisco:
http://t.co/pS4BbOchYO
http://t.co/JEBn2szqv9
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Before and after: The dramatic transformation of a shabby West Oakland Victorian
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A stunning gold-and-green hued bird believed to be dead after a failed translocation experiment was found alive and well, a development that researchers are calling "an amazing sign."
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"Liminal spaces, like hallways and stairwells, feel particularly sterile, like wandering around a suburban junior high school built in the mid-1970s."
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Warriors TV broadcast team rated as worst in NBA by national fan poll
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"This is the beginning of a period where we’ll see a wide variety of California gun laws called into question, if not struck down entirely."
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What would a rated R version of “Mrs. Doubtfire” look like?
The internet pleaded for an answer late last week when a viral tweet addressed the late Robin Williams’ knack for improvisation.
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69-year-old Marilyn Hartman was arrested for attempting to sneak onto a flight at Chicago's O’Hare Intl. Airport.
This is the 22nd time she's been arrested for attempting to sneak onto a flight or otherwise violating orders to stay away from airports.
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Benjamin Kuo saw the message and thought he might be able to help.
As a satellite image aficionado, he was already familiar with tracking California wildfires in remote areas:
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Pelosi gets sworn in surrounded by her grandkids, kids of other House members
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This innovative project is part of a collaboration between Muir Woods staff members and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) interpretative team.
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Tosca would be happy to see you.
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About 30 years ago, a team of 120 animators, puppet makers and camera operators moved into a secret San Francisco warehouse to create what would become one of Disney’s most iconic movies: ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas.’
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The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers has its own corpse flowers.
The greenhouse typically extends its hours to accommodate an influx of visitors during that time.
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Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins was named an NBA All-Star starter for the first time in his career.
How did Wiggins get this far? A very plausible theory: K-pop fans.
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This was a decision she had fretted about for months.
“He was like, ‘tell me to quit my job’ and then he goes, ‘what do you do?’” In footage of the exchange, she tells Styles, “I work in marketing but it makes me sad.”
Watch the full video here:
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This Oscar-nominated
@Hulu
doc starts with a man replying to a vague newspaper ad.
“I bought the newspaper and saw an ad that said, ‘Man needed. Between 80 and 90 years old,’” says Sergio Chamy.
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Too Good To Go is an anti-food waste company that helps facilitate getting excess food from restaurants and grocery stores to the general public for just $4.99 or $5.99 per “surprise bag.”
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, a digital mortgage lender with offices in Oakland, laid off 900 employees weeks before Christmas on a mass Zoom call.
Only those being laid off were invited.
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BTS K-pop icon Suga threw his head back in laughter when a front-row fan showed him their cellphone.
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In a hot mic incident recorded over the Mineta San Jose International Airport’s air traffic control scanner, an unidentified pilot was heard delivering an expletive-heavy rant.
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“And I thought, am I crazy, or what? Because it didn’t make sense to me. Between 80 and 90 years old?”
It turns out the ad was posted by a private investigator hired by a woman to look into wrongdoing against her mother, who lives in a nursing home.
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No one is sure what he's looking for, or why he's so far from home.
He may be in search of territory, mates or prey, but whatever OR-93 is seeking, it's taken him on an unprecedented journey that's gripped wildlife watchers for over two months now.
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If you're really into Krispy Kreme, you can do this every single day for the rest of 2021.
“We all want to get COVID-19 behind us as fast as possible and we want to support everyone doing their part to make the country safe,” said a representative.
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California is taking a big step in its vaccine rollout, offering the shots to the general population next month.
The state announced it will expand vaccine eligibility to residents 50 and over beginning April 1, and those 16 and over starting April 15.
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An artist whose work played a major role in "Return of the Jedi" still seeks recognition.
#StarWars
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The
@CAPublicHealth
said Friday children will be required to wear masks in school despite the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releasing new guidelines saying face coverings aren't necessary if certain precautions are taken.
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The brown bear thought he'd struck gold: an open door, an empty kitchen and a fridge stocked with food.
The shaggy burglar took his time, even stopping for a drink from a fancy water feature on his stroll into the Pasadena home.
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Happy
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!
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fans believe the real-life backdrop for the forest moon of Endor exists in Muir Woods in Marin County.
Sadly, that's not true.
Worse, the forest that appeared in the film was mostly obliterated...
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It may feel to customers that the pandemic is over and restaurants should be completely back to normal.
In reality, many restaurants are still feeling the effects of the global crisis.
Read more:
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This week, a line stretched halfway down the block to catch a glimpse of the giant flower at the corner of Santa Clara Avenue and Oak Street.
Its owner, Solomon Leyva, wanted to share it with the community.
Read more:
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K-pop stars Blackpink played their first-ever San Francisco concert and even imitated the city's famed sea lions.
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Splooting is a reaction to extreme heat. If you’ve got a fur coat and you’re stuck in 107-degree weather, you don’t have a lot of options to cool down. For squirrels and other furry mammals, splooting is one of them.
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A 2018 study found that 11% of Disneyland employees reported experiencing homelessness in the previous two years, 68% were food insecure and 73% said they do not earn enough for basic living expenses.
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From far away, the caution tape and sheet of paper attached to an interpretative placard in Muir Woods National Monument could be mistaken for routine maintenance.
In fact, the park’s latest project is quite the opposite.
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You might not think windmills are the thing to see in 2021 — but anything is possible.
Just ask Sarah Cherney, co-owner of Peasants Feast restaurant, who has been watching people line up near one for 1-4 hours at a stretch over the past few months.
This small town is California's 'adult Disneyland'
Hotels are hitting 100% occupancy.
www.sfgate.com
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If you woke up this morning and thought you were on Mars instead of the Bay Area, you’re definitely not alone.
Smoke from the
#CaliforniaFires
has cast an orange glow over
#SanFrancisco
and the
#EastBay
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For bird-watching enthusiasts and amateur naturalists across the Bay Area, backyard feeders have provided a sense of solace and a much-needed connection with the outdoors.
But the
@CaliforniaDFW
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Though the little bottles of shampoo, soap and conditioner in your resort suite may not look like much, just one hotel chain in Hawaii uses hundreds of millions of them every year.
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San Francisco is set to become the second major city in the United States to require many indoor businesses to screen customers for proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
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Coachella Festival sees slowest ticket sales in 10 years
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Said Parks and Rec creator
@kentremendous
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Data shows that if you earn minimum wage in San Francisco — that's $16.32 an hour — you need to work 4.9 full time jobs a week to afford a fair market rent two-bedroom apartment.
That's 196 hours, more hours than there are in a week.
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If you looked out your front window and saw a squirrel stretched out spread-eagle and motionless on your lawn, you’d likely think it met some untimely end. Really, though, it’s probably just splooting.
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To her, making a replica of the coat Harris wore as a girl evoked progress, the legacy that the vice president's great-nieces and other young children will carry on. It brought Kamala Harris' story full circle.
They put together a pitch. Meena Harris loved it.
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San Francisco City Hall lights up in honor of the Women's March. Photo courtesy of Sonali Perera.
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Kevin Durant is second 'most hated' player in the NBA, according to fan tweets
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SF fire station says they're being asked to get rid of their beloved cat. But they want her to stay.
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A good Samaritan found hundreds of photos dumped on the street. He helped them get home safely.
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The jigsaw puzzle of William Howard Hughes Jr.'s life has many missing pieces. After disappearing into thin air in 1983 he was wanted across the globe by numerous agencies, from the Air Force to the FBI to Interpol. At one point it was thought that he defected to the Russians.
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Just days after receiving a $750 million cash infusion, a tech startup that Forbes branded in October as a “unicorn,” valued at $7 billion, laid off hundreds of employees in a manner that some online deemed “brutal.”
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Aespa made history at Outside Lands, becoming the first-ever K-pop group to perform at the 15-year-old festival.
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"So it was inevitable that a great many Americans would view the onset of coronavirus not as a mass tragedy unfolding in real time, but as a business opportunity," writes
@drewmagary
.
"To that end, I give you THE MICROCLIMATE AIR:"
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