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Joe Kukura

Joe Kukura

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SF Might Name an SF Street After Claude the Albino Alligator, and You Can Help Pick Which Street

The late albino alligator Claude now has a City Hall effort afoot to name a street in Golden Gate Park after him, and there's a public poll to help decide which street will become “Claude the Albino Alligator Way.”
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California Might Ban Tesla Sales for 30 Days Over Deceptive ‘Autopi...

A state judge ruled that Tesla can’t sell or manufacture cars in California for 30 days over false advertising claims about their ‘full self-driving’ mode. But the California DMV cut Tesla some slack, giving them 60 days to fix the ads.
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Day Around the Bay: SFO Taking Heat for African-American Art Displa...

Trump just struck down all of California’s AI regulations; that new Bang & Olufsen just opened in Union Square; and people are suddenly mad about an African-American-themed art exhibit at the SFO Museum that’s just basically AI.
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SF-Based Catering Website Swaps Restaurants’ Real Food Pictures Wit...

These bagels claim to be Boichik Bagels on the catering website Forkable, but they are fake AI-generated bagels, as perhaps evidenced by the oddly uniform size of the bagel slices, all slightly larger than a normal bagel half. Now restaurants listed on the website are furious.
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SF City Hall Employee Who Embezzled $627K, Bought VR Headsets With ...

A former SF City Hall HR employee who was notoriously busted for invoicing the city for “earthquake supplies” but was actually buying VR headsets and tablets (and then selling them on eBay), pleaded guilty Thursday to all charges.
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Duboce Triangle's Courtney’s Produce Will Close Permanently Friday ...

A longtime favorite for Duboce Park picnic snack and PB&J runs, the 54-year-old Courtney’s Produce will close permanently on Friday, following the recent passing of the shop’s co-founder Lola Courtney.
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Report: SF Home Hit by $11 Million Crypto Theft Owned By Sam Altman...

While Sam Altman’s one-time romantic partner Lachy Groom was not the person who had $11 million in crypto stolen from his account, Groom does own the home where the invasion happened, and reportedly lives there too.
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SF Supervisor Wants Tenderloin Liquor Store Curfew Expanded Into SoMa

Corner stores in parts of SoMa would be forced to close at midnight if the district’s Supervisor Matt Dorsey gets his way, as Dorsey proposes a corner store “curfew” similar to the one that’s been placed on parts of the Tenderloin.
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Obscure, 12-Year-Old Port of Oakland Coal Battle Could End Up Bankr...

The City of Oakland signed a development deal for a coal-shipping terminal in 2013, and then backed out over environmental protests. Now that’s coming back to haunt them, as legal rulings against their flip-flop could cost the city hundreds of millions.
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Mammoth Mountain Opens Ski Season, But Heavenly, Boreal, and Norths...

Mammoth Mountain opened its ski resort today, and Mount Rose opens Friday, but a slew of Tahoe ski resorts have pushed back their openings indefinitely because there’s just not enough snow at the moment.
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Travis Kalanick’s Cloudkitchens Closes Its East Oakland Ghost Kitch...

Maybe ghost kitchens aren’t scaring up as much business these days, as Uber founder Travis Kalanick just shut down a ghost kitchen that his new megabucks startup Cloudkitchens opened there five years ago.
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Now the Fillmore Has Its Own Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone,’ Where To-G...

As booze-filled “entertainment zones” where people can buy to-go cocktails spread across San Francisco, now the Fillmore has one too, or rather, it has one big entertainment zone and another small one.
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Anh Phoong Now Selling Official T-Shirts and Hoodies, If You Absolu...

Want to be a walking billboard for Bay Area billboard celebrity Anh Phoong? Now you can, for anywhere between $25-$50, with a new line of official Anh Phoong t-shirts and hoodies.
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Kim Guilfoyle Surprisingly Praises Her ‘Very Good Relationship’ Wit...

Gavin Newsom’s ex-wife Kim Guilfoyle was unexpectedly complimentary towards Gavin in her first TV interview as the sitting US ambassador to Greece, but she oddly had nothing nice to say about her more recent fiancé Donald Trump Jr.
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California Revokes 17,000 Immigrants’ Commercial Driver’s Licenses ...

More than 17,000 California commercial driver’s licenses issued to immigrants have been revoked, as the state speeds up to comply with new federal rules that driver’s licenses can’t be valid for those no longer legally allowed to be in the US.
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SF’s Trumper Archbishop Rebukes Trump For Once, Condemns Immigratio...

The new “woke pope” seems to be trickling his wokeness down to even the ultraconservative Archbishop of San Francisco, who just joined more than 200 other US bishops in condemning Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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Utah Woman Has Been Missing From Santa Cruz For Five Days, Authorit...

A 35-year-old Utah woman last seen at a beach bonfire the night of Thursday, November 6 at Rio Del Mar Beach has been missing for five days, and authorities are now finding reason to suspect her disappearance may have been foul play.
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Renowned SF Filmmaker Kevin Epps Went On Trial Today for 2016 Murde...

‘Straight Outta Hunters Point’ director Kevin Epps saw his life go sideways, from making movies with Spike Lee to being charged with a 2016 homicide. This odd tale continues as his murder trial began today.
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Union Square Ice Rink Now Back Open, Macy’s Holiday Tree Coming Bac...

The Union Square Holiday Ice Rink officially reopened for the holly jolly season Wednesday night, and mark your calendars, because the giant Macy’s Christmas tree is getting lit up next Tuesday night.
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Off the Grid Food Truck Party Getting Its Own Holiday Food Pop-Up I...

The folks behind the beloved local food truck meetup series Off the Grid are getting their own brick-and-mortar place in Union Square’s former Uniqlo store, and the place will be called Off the Grid’s Holiday Food Market.
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Vaillancourt Fountain Will Now Likely Be Removed, as SF Arts Commis...

A 15-month-long controversy over the possible removal of the brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain is over, as the SF Arts Commission just voted 8-5 to take it down, though they say it will be put into storage and it could possibly be rebuilt.