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- The Miami Beach art fair UNTITLED is planning a Pier 70 show in January, and just announced the programming. [ArtNet]
- Corgi Con is back! The dog festival hits Ocean Beach this Sunday. [Hoodline]
- A pretty sweet looking apartment in the domed church next to Dolores Park can be yours for a cool $6.14 million. [Curbed]
- Drought fears have reemerged along with talk of a possible La Niña. [Chronicle]
- Pro snowboarder Casey Pletz was nearly beaten to death outside his San Ramon home. [ABC 7] [CBS 5]
- The Human Rights Campaign Foundation says that many cities in the Bay Area aren't up to snuff when it comes to non-discrimination laws and key LGBTQ services. [CBS 5]
- The Bay Area-based band Negativland announced that their latest album will ship with something extra — some of a deceased member's ashes (while supplies last). [NME]
- Facebook has announced plans to reduce its censorship, with the goal of allowing newsworthy content to pass through its filters. [TechCrunch]
- Google quietly updated its privacy policy this summer, and now combines personal information from Gmail (and other services) with DoubleClick browsing data to better target ads, linking users behavior and names as never before. [ProPublica]
- Luxor Cabs did in fact end up getting Legacy Business status. [Examiner] [SFist]
- A resident of the Richmond District found a nutty note on his car. [Hoodline]
- Jasmine Abuslin, the dispatcher's young daughter allegedly trafficked by Bay Area law enforcement officers, has a new attorney: John Burris, famous for suing OPD in the Riders case and others. [KRON4]