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Your weekend ICYMI: Details leaked on the new iPhone(s), we have an overview of this fall's classical events, a couple restaurants opened (and re-opened), the heat is turning wine grapes to raisins, and here are some skateboarders bombing SF hills.
Your Saturday and Sunday links
Driver dead after slamming into pillar on 580. [KRON 4]
Former [SF Chronicle] business reporter Lloyd Watson has died.
SFFD battalion chief dies while at work in firehouse office. [SF Chronicle] [CBS 5] [ABC 7] [KRON 4] [NBC Bay Area]
The pilot killed in a small plane crash in Point Reyes had just fled Hurricane Harvey. [CBS 5]
[Business Insider] makes a wide-eyed discovery of the Excelsior.
"The new iPhone will be boring. Get over it" commands [CNet]
Speaking of getting over it, [Wired] has penned "A Requiem for the iPhone's Home Button."
Chinese donations to UC Berkeley have increased by millions since 2009. [Daily Californian]
SFFD extinguishes SoMa blaze. [KRON 4]
How Russia created fake Americans to bork our election. [New York Times]

Monday Morning Linkdump: SFFD Mourns Fallen Battalion Chief