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Watch: How SF’s Cable Cars Get Decked Out With Their Holiday Decorations

The “cable car elves” have struck again, and 12 SF cable cars are now resplendent in holiday razzle-dazzle, though it turns out this decoration job is done entirely by a team of volunteers. As of today, the cable cars you see running on San Francisco hills are now completely decorated

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Watch: How SF’s Cable Cars Get Decked Out With Their Holiday Decorations

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Downtown First Thursdays Funded For 2026 With $2 Million From Chris Larsen, Gap Heirs

The success of the past year and a half of Downtown First Thursdays events has encouraged the event's backers to go full-throttle into next year, guaranteeing that the monthly street party will go on.

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SFiST

Downtown First Thursdays Funded For 2026 With $2 Million From Chris Larsen, Gap Heirs

Mission Local

District 4 hopeful, who voted only once since 2019 and was a Republican, is out

Wannong “Tiffany” Deng missed nine consecutive elections before voting this month and was a registered Republican until 2022. District 4 hopeful, who voted only once since 2019 and was a Republican, is out

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District 4 hopeful, who voted only once since 2019 and was a Republican, is out

SFiST

Vogue Theater Got Its Neon Sign Fully Restored, Public Lighting Ceremony Is Next Week

Presidio Heights’ 119-year-old Vogue Theater has just had its marquee neon sign fully restored to its former glory, and will have a public lighting ceremony next Wednesday, December 3, followed by a free screening of the 1936 gem “San Francisco.”

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Vogue Theater Got Its Neon Sign Fully Restored, Public Lighting Ceremony Is Next Week

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SF Native Mysteriously Disappears In Nevada Desert

A 34-year-old from the Bay Area who has been living in Brooklyn has now been missing for a week, and their last known location — in a remote area near Las Vegas — makes little sense to his friends and family.

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SF Native Mysteriously Disappears In Nevada Desert

SF Standard

San Francisco’s billionaires double down on funding downtown parties

First Thursdays have drawn 300,000 people and generated $27.9M in impact. Now the backers are pouring in even more.

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SF Standard

San Francisco’s billionaires double down on funding downtown parties

Mission Local

Lone eyewitness recounts deadly 24 hours in S.F. filmmaker’s murder trial

Filmmaker Kevin Epps' former sister-in-law testified that Epps pulled a gun the night before the deadly shooting Lone eyewitness recounts deadly 24 hours in S.F. filmmaker’s murder trial

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Lone eyewitness recounts deadly 24 hours in S.F. filmmaker’s murder trial

SFiST

Obscure, 12-Year-Old Port of Oakland Coal Battle Could End Up Bankrupting City of Oakland

The City of Oakland signed a development deal for a coal-shipping terminal in 2013, and then backed out over environmental protests. Now that’s coming back to haunt them, as legal rulings against their flip-flop could cost the city hundreds of millions.

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Obscure, 12-Year-Old Port of Oakland Coal Battle Could End Up Bankrupting City of Oakland

SF Standard

‘We were barely making do’: Rent hike drives out original tenant of Ikea’s SF food hall

Vegan Puerto Rican restaurant Casa Borinqueña will exit Saluhall. Izzy and Wooks will move in.

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SF Standard

‘We were barely making do’: Rent hike drives out original tenant of Ikea’s SF food hall

Mission Local

The S.F. holiday dinner bringing 1,000 folks out to the Tenderloin

Tenderloin Tessie marks its 51st year of providing food and services to those in need in San Francisco. It's expecting a big crowd. The S.F. holiday dinner bringing 1,000 folks out to the Tenderloin

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The S.F. holiday dinner bringing 1,000 folks out to the Tenderloin

SFiST

Proposal to Bring Semi Trucks Back to Oakland’s I-580 Rigs Controversy Across East Bay

Semi trucks have not been allowed on Oakland’s I-580 in 74 years, as big rigs have had to take I-880 instead. Caltrans is considering undoing that policy, and everyone who lives anywhere near either interstate has an opinion about it.

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Proposal to Bring Semi Trucks Back to Oakland’s I-580 Rigs Controversy Across East Bay

SF Standard

The Bay Area sports debates that will spice up your Thanksgiving dinner

Is Brock Purdy elite" Is this Steph Curry’s last stand" Are the Giants cooked"

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The Bay Area sports debates that will spice up your Thanksgiving dinner

Mission Local

A bad sign

On Mission Street. Photo by Walter Mackins. A bad sign

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A bad sign

SF Standard

Bay FC hosted a championship game. What will it take to play in one?

After a disappointing season, the franchise is hiring a new coach, investing in a state-of-the-art training facility, and trying to catch up with top NWSL teams.

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Bay FC hosted a championship game. What will it take to play in one?

SF Standard

SF’s left want to raise taxes they’d agreed to lower. It’s as bad an idea as it sounds

Thanks to Supervisor Connie Chan and organized labor, the tired political turf wars are revving back up — and grand compromises are being trampled.

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SF’s left want to raise taxes they’d agreed to lower. It’s as bad an idea as it sounds

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Mission Local

And then there were three: The race to succeed Nancy Pelosi takes shape

A rock 'em, sock 'em campaign seems ready to ensue in San Francisco's first competitive congressional race since 1987 And then there were three: The race to succeed Nancy Pelosi takes shape

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Mission Local

And then there were three: The race to succeed Nancy Pelosi takes shape

SF Standard

After firing Justin Wilcox, it’s now or never for Ron Rivera’s Cal Bears

A blowout Big Game loss forced the first-year general manager to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth about the Bears’ program.

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After firing Justin Wilcox, it’s now or never for Ron Rivera’s Cal Bears

Mission Local

Christmas is coming!

At Union Square. Photo by Robert B. Livingston. Christmas is coming!

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Mission Local

Christmas is coming!