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Mr. 14-months-on-the-job Daniel Lurie thinks it's high time he be given some more sweeping powers currently held by the SF Board of Supervisors and various City Hall commissions. buff.ly/BKUr0Kf
For a certain segment of the population, the absurdist humor of Monty Python has never ceased to elicit titters and full-bellied laughs. And Eric Idle's musical adaptation of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,' now at the Golden Gate Theater, still delivers. buff.ly/fGiJuUo
A new spot called NOVA from Bar 49's owner is coming to the Castro, Clementina makes its debut in the Richmond, and Hamburguesa Bar gets a review, all in This Week in Food. buff.ly/MQ8OBrG
After a brutal fourth quarter in which they somehow managed to lose a staggering $218 million, the Emeryville-based Grocery Outlet is shuttering 36 stores, though these may not be Bay Area stores. buff.ly/nzPwjdG
There will be a big drone light show over the waterfront Saturday night, in conjunction with the Chinese New Year Parade — and this seems to be a redo from last year, when a technical snafu canceled the drone show. buff.ly/t8PtBmY
We have another clue about how and to what extent Mayor Daniel Lurie has been playing ball with the Trump administration — which we know led to Trump calling off his dogs back in October with that planned federal "surge." buff.ly/FanAhJZ
More pointless cruelty in the SF immigration courts under Trump, as a mother and her two kids, one of them deaf, checked in for their SF immigration appointment and were heartlessly shipped off to detention. buff.ly/hTdBIuG
One person is dead and another was injured in a collision between a vehicle and an electric scooter Thursday night in North Beach. buff.ly/bCmDnM5
Bay Area residents who had been trapped in Dubai since last Saturday began returning to SFO Thursday; SF is expected to see 80-degree days this weekend; and teachers in Dublin are threatening to strike on Monday. buff.ly/2mXcBnX
A strange and violent incident unfolded Thursday evening on a Tenderloin alley where SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's black SUV was reportedly blocked in by multiple people, and two of his security guards, both SFPD officers, were involved in a physical fight. buff.ly/ETN0u6L
Sheng Thao’s lawyers had a bad day in court; our military actions against Iran are raising gas prices and pummeling the stock market; and Airbnb is giving up on getting $120 million back from the City of San Francisco. buff.ly/Q0NH49i
A stage play inspired by the Paranormal Activity film franchise arrived at San Francisco's ACT in recent weeks, and it could presage a new paradigm for the horror genre coming to the live theater. buff.ly/YrWa23k
What is it with Bay Area law enforcement and their racist text messages? Yet another such scandal just hit the BART Police force. buff.ly/OsqAelB
A self-described, extra-legal "squatter removal service" was allegedly being run by a sword-wielding, San Francisco-based guy who, along with two associates, now faces assault, burglary, and false imprisonment charges in San Mateo County. buff.ly/Deo1Zzz
As we were getting periodic news in recent months about the reopening of the 104-year-old Huntington Hotel, the big question for those of us who won't be booking thousand-dollar rooms there has been 'When will The Big Four restaurant reopen?' We now have an answer. buff.ly/WmwRCrq
The Port of San Francisco is reportedly crossing its collective fingers that the massive, listing Dry Dock #2, which currently requires constant pumping to keep it from sinking, doesn't sink to the bottom of the Bay. buff.ly/D2c2haW
SFPD confronted a “group of unknown subjects in a physical altercation” at Mission Dolores Park Wednesday afternoon, and more disturbingly, six of the eight suspects arrested were teens. buff.ly/rUYPKdj
Given Trump's well established penchant for firing people, going a full year in office without a high-profile firing says something. But now Kristi Noem, aka ICE Barbie, the underqualified and always out-of-her-depth Secretary of Homeland Security, is out. buff.ly/7WySv8k
Two apartment complexes in Oakland's Uptown are facing foreclosure; food insecurity has been on the rise across the Bay Area; and a local sleep expert offers tips to prepare for the Daylight Saving Tiime loss of an hour this weekend. buff.ly/8C2w15n
A man accused of spraypainting hateful messages on an SF church has quite the rap sheet; Elon Musk took the stand in a case brought by Twitter shareholders; and the US just launched a torpedo for the first time since WWII. buff.ly/RCSwYqt
Fans of the Easter Sunday Hunky Jesus Contest will go cross-eyed to see that there’s a new feature-length documentary 'Hunky Jesus' hitting the film festival circuit, and you’ll be absolutely nailed by the trailer. buff.ly/aneeZYS
The hotly anticipated opening of Loveski Deli, with its much lauded bagels and other deli fare, came Wednesday in San Francisco's Jackson Square, marking the first foray into SF by Napa-based chef Christopher Kostow. buff.ly/N7bIS62
Iran’s World Cup soccer team is scheduled to play matches in the US in June, but the Iranian Football Federation is threatening to pull the team out of the tournament in protest of the attacks raining down on their country. buff.ly/cX6H7Ui
A pair of local developers, Presidio Bay and Prado Group, are the winning bidders to purchase the defunct former Westfield mall, and their redevelopment plans, which will hopefully be made public soon, include housing, office, and some retail. buff.ly/mj6N92n
While other City Hall departments are all forced to cut back in deficit times, the SF Sheriff’s Office is clocking another year of out-of-control overtime, in a familiar story of SF law enforcement's overtime overkill. buff.ly/99NqHjO
The jury returned with their verdicts Wednesday in the trial of accused Los Gatos "Party Mom" Shannon O'Connor, and she was found guilty on multiple counts including child endangerment and furnishing alcohol to minors. buff.ly/j3HiTo4
A new report from the San Francisco Mayor's Office finds some good news in a significant decrease in the number of people living in their vehicles in the city, but the number of tents and encampment structures has been relatively flat for the last nine months. buff.ly/qNZJDNI
The city is waiting on a court ruling before it removes the polarizing Vaillancourt Fountain; the Transamerica Pyramid is selling at a loss; and a BART Mart pop-up shop is happening at Downtown Berkeley Station. buff.ly/P6hiubW
The Bay Area got more transit money for the upcoming World Cup; the Giants are bringing back free opera in the ballpark; and the state Democratic Party chair has had it with these way too many Democrats running for governor. buff.ly/qYeRtVX
President Trump was not on his ridiculously self-named Trump Force One airplane when it blew through SFO on Monday, but maybe one of his idiot sons had crypto business in town or something, as the plane was spotted here. buff.ly/HgqB0Lx