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Portola Festival Closes Out With Chemical Brothers, No More Crowd Incidents, and Some Noise Complaints

This past weekend's inaugural Portola Music Festival " which was not in the Portola neighborhood but over on Pier 80 " was a well attended debut with a ton of great EDM acts, crowd-control issues notwithstanding.

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Portola Festival Closes Out With Chemical Brothers, No More Crowd Incidents, and Some Noise Complaints

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Monday Morning Headlines: Musk Gets Deposed By Twitter

Thousands of motorcyclists gathered on Saturday in Stockton for a massive funeral for Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger, Elon Musk is getting deposed today by Twitter's attorneys, and temps in SF will cool off before warming back up by the weekend.

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Monday Morning Headlines: Musk Gets Deposed By Twitter

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SF Firefighter Wears 'Let's Go Brandon' Shirt While on Duty, SFFD Promises Disciplinary Actions

On Saturday, a tweet that contained a picture of an on-duty San Francisco firefighter wearing a "Let's Go Brandon" t-shirt began making rounds on Twitter – which has since prompted SFFD to take disciplinary actions against the City worker.

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SF Firefighter Wears 'Let's Go Brandon' Shirt While on Duty, SFFD Promises Disciplinary Actions

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Photos: Portola Festival Debuts With Spectacular Shows, But Very Messy Crowd Management

Long lines and some highly ineffective crowd management strategies led to mayhem, chaos, and bum-rushing at Saturday's Day 1 of the Portola Festival, overshadowing terrific performances from Flume, Charli XCX, and Fatboy Slim.

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Photos: Portola Festival Debuts With Spectacular Shows, But Very Messy Crowd Management

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Sunday Links: Many Neighborhoods in San Francisco Had Broken Traffic Lights Yesterday

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast near Eureka, Cal Academy's new exhibit is "bug-tacular," and many traffic lights were either blinking red or outright not working Saturday in SF.

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Sunday Links: Many Neighborhoods in San Francisco Had Broken Traffic Lights Yesterday

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Surprise, Surprise: PG&E Sued Over Alleged Responsibility for Mosquito Fire

A lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Company was recently filed with the San Francisco Superior Court that alleges the company was responsible for the Mosquito Fire. And, of course, the utility released a statement on Friday deflecting its implied liability.

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Surprise, Surprise: PG&E Sued Over Alleged Responsibility for Mosquito Fire

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Surprise, Surprise: PG&E Sued Over Alleged Responsibility for Mosquito Fire

A lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Company was recently filed with the San Francisco Superior Court that alleges the company was responsible for the Mosquito Fire. And, of course, the utility released a statement on Friday deflecting its implied liability.

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Surprise, Surprise: PG&E Sued Over Alleged Responsibility for Mosquito Fire

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Saturday Links: Mosquito Fire Now at Least 60% Contained

All CA counties have left the CDC's "high" category for COVID-19, Bay Area rents could swell by an extra 10% this year, and fire crews are making progress controlling the largest wildfire this year in California " with 60% of the Mosquito Fire now contained.

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Saturday Links: Mosquito Fire Now at Least 60% Contained

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Say It Ain't So: San Francisco's Double Play Bar and Grill Burns in Early Morning Fire

Sometime early Saturday morning, Double Play Bar and Grill " a San Francisco institution that first opened in 1909 " caught fire and suffered massive damages.

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Say It Ain't So: San Francisco's Double Play Bar and Grill Burns in Early Morning Fire

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Day Around the Bay: Someone Keeps Putting Bowls on Rooftops in San Francisco

A shooting in Oakland Friday afternoon left one dead and two injured during an attempted robbery, it'll be a sunny Bay Area weekend, and "mystery bowls" continue popping up on rooftops in San Francisco.

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Day Around the Bay: Someone Keeps Putting Bowls on Rooftops in San Francisco

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Futuristic Technology Hopes to Save Whales With Real-Time Tracking, Underwater Microphones, and More

About 80 whales are killed every year along the California coast because of collisions with ships, but a new "mapping and analysis tool" called Whale Safe thinks it can eliminate these collisions entirely.

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Futuristic Technology Hopes to Save Whales With Real-Time Tracking, Underwater Microphones, and More

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Gigantic Weekend of Events Is Upon Us, With Street Closures Galore

It's the first "Everything's happening this weekend" weekend, with Folsom Street Fair, the Portola festival, a Cat Extravaganza, and that's just scratching the surface.

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Gigantic Weekend of Events Is Upon Us, With Street Closures Galore

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'Moulin Rouge' Is a Terrific Spectacle, and That May Be All It Wants to Be

Baz Luhrmann's postmodern 2001 film makes for an exuberant and dazzling stage show, but the plot elements feel almost unnecessary.

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'Moulin Rouge' Is a Terrific Spectacle, and That May Be All It Wants to Be

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Mission District Father Brutally Attacked at 18th and Valencia Streets In Seemingly Random Violence

We have a description of the suspect who is still at large, in a Tuesday night random attack that has reportedly left a man with a "half detached ear" and facial scars "for life."

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Mission District Father Brutally Attacked at 18th and Valencia Streets In Seemingly Random Violence