Who’s in town Stand-up comedy: Comedian Dov Davidoff — whose TV credits include “Chelsea Lately” and “Chappelle’s Show” — appears in the second show of a four-day gig in The City. [8 p.m., Punch Line Comedy Club, 444 Battery St., S.F.]Lectures India and China: Experts on India and China compare the two countries and assess their present and future roles in the world economy. [6 p.m., Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St., S.F.]
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PERSON IN TOWNComedian and musician Reggie Watts, who is known for his improvised musical sets featuring only his voice and a looping machine, performs at the Independent, in San Francisco. His sold-out appearance is part of SF Sketchfest’s “Summer Nights” series. [8 and 10:30 p.m., 628 Divisadero St., S.F.]LECTURES
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Police are hunting three thugs who hog-tied and beat up an employee of an office building near Union Square before robbing three computers Sunday night.
The 29-year-old victim was attacked in the entrance to the office building in the 500 block of Sutter Street around 10:45 p.m., police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said Monday.
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Two men in their 20s leaving a nightclub in the Union Square area were jumped by four thugs Friday, cops said. The victims were punched and knocked on the ground at Campton Place and Stockton Street around 2:20 a.m., police said. The four hoodlums who jumped them, described by police as men in their 20s, fled the scene on foot. One of the four was taken into custody shortly after the incident, cops said.
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A police raid on Mark Lugo’s New Jersey apartment on Tuesday uncovered several stolen artworks - including a Picasso painting that was taken from a Manhattan hotel, investigators said Thursday.
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Robert Lesnick, loss prevention manager for a New Jersey fine wine store, told The San Francisco Examiner Thursday he was “gobsmacked” to learn that Mark Lugo was arrested last week for the brazen theft of a Picasso drawing from a Union Square art gallery.
“I was having my morning coffee reading the paper and almost spit it out,” Lesnick said.
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Mark Lugo stole from me, too!
Robert Lesnick, a loss prevention manager for a fine wine store in New Jersey, told The San Francisco Examiner Thursday he was “gobsmacked” to learn that Lugo was arrested for the brazen theft of a Picasso drawing from a Union Square art gallery.
“I was having my morning coffee reading the paper and almost spit it out,” Lesnick said.
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The nerve of this guy! A casual crook who sauntered down a busy Union Square street Tuesday with a Picasso original under his armpit has locals and merchants stunned at the nonchalant midday heist.
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A Union Square restaurant says its security camera captured the brazen crook who swiped an original Picasso artwork from a nearby art gallery on Tuesday.
An image of the bandit carrying the pricey sketch was released Wednesday by Lee Housekeeper, spokesman for camera-armed eatery Lefty O'Douls.
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A piece of art worth several hundred thousand dollars was stolen this morning from a gallery near Union Square, a police spokesman said. A man walked into the gallery, located in the 300 block of Geary Street, at about 11:40 a.m., took a drawing off the wall and walked out, Officer Albie Esparza said. He was seen getting into a taxicab and leaving the area.
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