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Day Around the Bay: Vintage Cable Car Dedicated to Tony Bennett

A refurbished 1907 cable car was dedicated to the late Tony Bennett today, for Valentine's Day; Lyft saw its stock price leap up due to a typo in an earnings report; and the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade was marred by a deadly shooting.

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Friday Morning Constitutional: Tony Bennett Has Died

This weekend’s heat wave could see parts of the East Bay hit 100 degrees, some jokers had their way with the Valencia Street bike lane signs, and “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” singer Tony Bennett has died at age 96.

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The City Comes Together for Tony Bennett's 'I Left My Heart In San Francisco' Sing-Along

Saturday afternoon's SF-wide sing-along of "I Left My Heart In San Francisco," led by Tony Bennett himself, was a balm to the soul. Countless San Franciscans took to their webcams, balconies, and even rooftops to sing the hit number in honor of frontline workers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Tony Bennett to Lead 'I Left My Heart In San Francisco' Singalong on Saturday

On Saturday at noon, Tony Bennett will be attempting to get all of San Francisco to pop out of their windows and onto their balconies to sing along to the city anthem he made famous, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."

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As Tony Bennett Statue Unveiled On Nob Hill, Willie Brown Says 'I Hope It's Not Trump!'

Ex-Mayor Willie Brown jokes to crowd before unveiling of Tony Bennett statue on Nob Hill: "It better not be Trump!" pic.twitter.com/uNnvgb4FmW— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) August 19, 2016 A statue honoring

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Multiple Big Events Planned In SF To Celebrate Tony Bennett's 90th Birthday

"Tony Bennett and San Francisco are inseparable," writes Willie Brown. "A statue of a great American performing artist usually happens in the birthplace of the artist. Throughout the world, people associate San Francisco

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Tony Bennett Kind Of Botched 'God Bless America' At Yesterday's Giants Game

The great Tony Bennett, 88, was brought out to sing "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch of yesterday's Game 3 in the Giants-Nationals NLDS playoff series. His voice, honestly, still sounds

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What Does Joe Montana Have Against Tony Bennett?

Legendary 49ers quarterback Joe Montana does not like San Francisco's unofficial theme song, apparently. The four-time Super Bowl champ spent some time signing autographs for charity this weekend, but he had one very

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February 14th, 2012 Declared "Tony Bennett Day" In San Francisco [Photos]

As you know, San Francisco's honorary Granddad was celebrated in a ceremony at City Hall earlier today. While the emergency warning siren might have failed to entertain us, the San Francisco Boy's Chorus,

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San Francisco's Emergency Warning System To Play Tony Bennett At Noon? [Tragic Update]

As gooey-romantic-at-heart Andrew Dalton dutifully pointed out, at noon today, Valentine's Day, Tony Bennett will return for a special Valentine's day performance of the city's unofficial theme song under the dome at City

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Tony Bennett Uses Whitney Houston's Death To Call For Legalization Of Drugs

Noted crooner and Supreme Chancellor of San Francisco Tony Bennett, used the stage at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party Saturday night to implore his audience to join his campaign to reform this country's drug

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Entire City Required To Listen To Tony Bennett At Noon On Valentine's Day

Fifty years after he debuted "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" at the Venetian Room in the Fairmont Hotel, noted San Francisco fan and former Belvedere mansion owner Tony Bennett will return

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Why Are You Not Living in Tony Bennett's Mansion Already?

The classy crooner may have left his heart in San Francisco, but now he's also leaving his home in Belvedere. As Curbed points out today, Bennett's lavish bayside estate is up for sale

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San Francisco's New Theme Song?

From Tony Bennett to the Village People, several musicians have written songs about our beautiful city. What do you think should be our theme song? Over at yelp, they are arguing about Journey

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Guess This Is What They Mean By San Francisco Values

You can check out all the action in those Flickr photostream (including a picture of a really old and somewhat scary looking picture of Bob Weir) but the big news didn't concern who

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There Ain't No Party Like a Pelosi Party

If the sun is shining a bit brighter and the birds are chirping a bit chirpier it could only be because today is a big day-- as of this posting, our little Nancy

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Aftershocks

Well, it's April 19, 2006, and the goodwill created by celebrating disaster disaster has now officially dissipated. The Chronicle reports that numerous public officials are disgruntled at various protocol lapses that left them

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The Essefficist Cares. Sort of.

This week the Essefficist brings you yet another question from an out of towner pining for San Francisco. Hopefully this one will prove a little more satisfying than that poetry thing last week.

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It's Hard to Leave Your Heart in San Francisco

Now, there might be some of you wondering how could this be? How could the city that gave us the Summer of Love, the Winter of Love, and that damn Tony Bennett song