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07 Dec 2021

SF Artist & Antique Dealer Attacked by “Crazy” with a Knife

UPDATE: On Wednesday Sackett posted on Instagram that the attacker used a 6 inch switchblade that cut through Sackett’s main nerve and two of his main tendons and clear to his Bone on his left wrist. He underwent over five hours of surgery. He still doesn’t know if he’ll have full use

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07 Dec 2021

Brunch Spot Apologizes for Asking Armed Police Officers to Leave

The owners of a restaurant in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood apologized Sunday for asking police officers to leave their eatery because the officers’ guns made employees uncomfortable. In a statement posted Sunday on social media, Hilda and Jesse owners Rachel Sillcocks and Kristina Liedags Compton said “these are stressful

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07 Dec 2021

Delicious Kitchen Story/Sweet Maple Opening 5 New Locations in Bay Area

Kitchen Story’s brunch is pretty delicious, full stop.  It’s got unique twists on all the American brunch classics, often with Korean infusions, sometimes with French flair, and despite a hard couple years for the industry, the owner of Sweet Maple in Lower Pac Heights and Kitchen Story in the Castro,

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06 Dec 2021

“Twindemic” Warning: Omicron Variant May Have Genetic Snippet From Common Cold Virus

Scientists and health experts are encouraging all eligible people to get both flu vaccine and COVID booster shots, ahead of a potential “twindemic,” in which COVID-19 and flu cases rise at the same time. Pfizer’s effectiveness drops down to 47% from 88% six months after the second dose, according to

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06 Dec 2021

Speak Truth to Power With City College’s Journalism Classes, Now Enrolling Students

Editor’s note: Enrollment is now open for the Spring 2022 semester, which starts January 18. Classes are remote and free for SF residents through Free City. You can see some of CCSF Journalism students’ work from the Spring 2021 semester published across 48hills, KQED, The Guardsman, and San Francisco Bay

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06 Dec 2021

The Untold Story of Filipina Women’s Contributions to SF’s Housing Rights Movement

One of San Francisco’s first major fights for housing rights took place just 40 years ago, which culminated on the night of August 4, 1977, when 3,000 activists and students from SFSU and UC Berkeley formed a chain-linked human barricade to protect the I-Hotel residents who were being evicted to

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06 Dec 2021

The Chase Center is Asking Fans to Vote for The Best Food in the Arena

Up until Saturday night I had never been to a professional basketball game. I mean, I had seen the Harlem Globetrotters when I was a kid, but I’m not sure that exactly counts. Just ask Krusty the Clown. So it was with absolute glee that the fine folks at the

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03 Dec 2021

What Happens When A Liberal Family Moves to Tennessee

This is part of our Blue Woman in a Red State column “You don’t talk about politics here, you just keep them close to you,” a woman explains to me. My house is still a mess, and we are unpacking in this strange, new land dubbed “The South”. We just

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