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It's been some six months since California banned plastic bags at checkout counters. Now, a founder at a real SF startup is — for some reason — cutting them up to sell to you as dog raincoats. They are worth the $2 if you ask us...

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Midjourney just pivoted from AI art to full-body medical scanning and a Union Square spa. The prototype has scanned about a dozen people. The team working on it is nine people. Current scan time is 20 minutes, not the 60 seconds they're pitching. FDA clearance: none. Opening: 2027. Sure.

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Omakase Restaurant Group opened a splashy South City food hall on June 16 — the same day SFDPH shut down its Dumpling Time at Chase Center over a live rodent infestation.
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Rodent droppings found throughout the Slanted Door Group's Mission commissary and shuttered Chuck's Takeaway triggered a health closure — and a same-day reopening.

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For about two seasons, Aldon Smith was the most dominant young defender in football — then the story got complicated. His death at 36 closes a chapter Bay Area fans never stopped hoping would end differently.

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BREAKING: Oliver Tree, the Santa Cruz-raised musician behind "Miss You," was killed Sunday when two helicopters collided midair over Rio de Janeiro. He was 32.

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A husband-and-wife team spent four years running one of San Francisco's most coveted reservations — and walked away with 15,000 people still waiting to get in. The reason they quit says everything about who can actually survive in this city's restaurant scene right now.

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Orphan Andy's, the Castro's storied 24-hour diner of 48 years, was ordered closed over a cockroach infestation — a brutal blow as its retiring owners seek a buyer.

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It's official! After two years of silence from billionaire Hamdi Ulukaya's camp, there's now a name registered at the iconic Anchor Brewery — Hoodline SF found the filing at SF's County Clerk's office. What it says about the comeback:

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A late-night crash tore through two popular Castro Street parklets and slammed into a restaurant wall. Surveillance footage captured what happened next, and neighbors say the driver may already be known to police.