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  Massive Amount of Japanese Tsunami Trash Headed Our Way

  Nearly a year after a major earthquake and tsunami shook and doused Japan, some 25 million tons of debris that washed out to sea when the tsunami receded is headed toward the California coast. We're talking cars, boats, pieces of houses, you name it. Whatever didn't sink has been slowly making its way across the Pacific Ocean, and experts believe we'll start seeing large objects start washing up on beaches as soon as next...

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  Puppies Stolen in Bayview Burglary

  via CBS 5 Two favorite SFist subjects converged in a story this week: crime, and puppies. Thieves broke into a Bayview district home Tuesday morning and, after attacking the two adult parent dogs in the house, stole 4 three-week-old puppies. The puppies, in fact, appear to be all that the burglars were after. The two adult parents, which are described as a beagle and a Doberman pinscher (though the mom dog pictured at right...

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  This Week In Willie Brown: Solving The Taxi Problem

  Another cab driver recognized Willie Brown this week. Not only did the cabbie recognize the former mayor climbing in to the backseat, hoping to be driven down to the Hotel Vitale — but the cabbie also remembered a very specific part of one of Willie's columns. It was a bit where Brown pointed out that cabbies in San Francisco never seem to where they're going anymore. And that part is true, actually.

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  Day Around The Bay: Fourteen More Awesome New Desserts

  On Friday's Day Around the Bay, we wonder whether or not Kim Jong Un is dead, horrible telecommunications company AT&T doubling their charges, awesome new desserts, Ellen DeGeneres thanking Bill O'Reilly, and...

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  Cow Hollow's Historic Metro Cinema To Become Equinox Gym

  A plan to convert Cow Hollow's historic Metro movie theater (2055 Union) to an Equinox gymnasium went before the Planning Commission yesterday, and SFist learns today that it was approved. Alas, another historic cinema shall become a sweaty place full of Zumba and Marina-style hookups (similar to Mission-style hookups, sans burrito odors plus more hair product).

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  SFPD Releases 'It Gets Better' Film

  "I'm sure there's a Shit Someone Says video out there you haven't seen yet, but why not skip it and watch this surprisingly moving It Gets Better video from the SFPD," notes SF Appeal's Eve Batey, who first reported on the video. And she's right. The video, just released today by the San Francisco Police Department, showcases several queer officers telling their stories of growing up as gay youths. It's quite touching.

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  Ingleside Heights Bathroom Drug Cook Busted, Maybe More Boring Than Expected [Updated]

  33-year-old Angelic Cisneros, the woman who blew out the windows of her fiancé's Ingleside apartment while cooking up drugs in the bathroom, has been arrested for five felonies, including one count of possession of marijuana for sale and two counts of child endangerment. Unfortunately, the police have yet to give the tabloid-loving public what they want and release which drug, exactly, they think Ms. Cisneros was trying to cook up in her bathroom.

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  N-Judah To Become Slightly More Frustrating On Weekends

  The city's most used (and most loved/hated) light rail line will be taking weekends off starting at the end of this month. As the Examiner explains this morning, Muni will stop running weekend trains on February 24th and every weekend after that for a month and a half while they perform some upgrades around Carl Street and that messy intersection of Church and Duboce.

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  Early March Announcement For New iPad 3?

  Hey, rabid iPad fans, get ready to change your pad for one that's clearer, crisper, and thinner. According to All Things D, Apple will announce the iPad 3 (or, worse, the iPad 2S) in the first week of March. "Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2, and will do so at one of its trademark special events. The event will be held in San Francisco, presumably at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple’s preferred location for big announcements like these."

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  Google At Work On Some Sort Of Home Entertainment System

  Sigh. Remember Google TV? Yeah, we barely do. Anyway, the Bay Area's most well publicized employer is working on their first real foray into the world of entertainment hardware, with the intent of releasing something that's only being referred to as an "entertainment device" sometime this year. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the thing is a music device for the home, probably Bluetooth-enabled, and we're guessing unattractive.

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  Friday Morning Constitutional: New Bay Bridge Span Opens Labor Day 2013

  In Friday's morning roundup we get an opening date for the Bay Bridge east span, last-minute valentine's dining suggestions, a "lost" muni driver, and a giant gorilla spotting.

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  Woman In Black Lexus Drives Into Ocean Beach

  Police and lookiloos are wondering why a woman drover her black Lexus into the waters at Ocean Beach. The unidentified female apparently drove through a parking spot, the beach entrance, and down the sand into the ocean. According to SFGate, "Firefighters arrived on scene around 6:30 a.m. and found the woman sitting in her partially submerged car near Lincoln Way. Rescuers waded into the water and pulled the woman out."

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  Day Around The Bay: Exploding Pig Barns

  On today's Day Around the Bay, we learn about exploding pig barns (yikes!), a Chinatown blaze (ack!), bacon Guinness salted caramels for vegans (mmm), Facebook's secret paper fetish (oh dear), and more.

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  Local Thieves Are Now Stealing Fryer Grease

  As it turns out copper wire and heavy metals aren't the poorest thing Bay Area thieves are ripping off these days. As CBSLocal reports this week, bandits in San Francisco have started knocking off local cooking oil recyclers.

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  Suicidal Man Aimed To Get Himself Shot, Ends Up Assaulted By SFPD Instead

  A 49-year-old man attempting to lure police in to shooting him to death went on a rampage in his SoMa apartment building Tuesday night that ended in a brutal-looking punch-up from SFPD officers and accusations of police brutality. The man, who has not been identified, apparently assaulted multiple victims in his building near Third and Perry Streets to get the attention of responding police officers before threatening them with a gun he didn't have.