The Standard Staff

Photos: Election Day around the Bay

Amid extremely tight races at the national and local levels, campaigns make their final appeals to voters 

Birdwatchers are flocking to see this rare “Close Encounters” air show.

At the annual gathering on ancestral Ohlone land, dancers and drummers celebrate indigenous resilience and offer a Thanksgiving counter-narrative.


The sprawling complex of Archimedes Banya is unlike any other place in the city—and puts you in a different world entirely.  

Japantown’s small businesses have thrived in the past year, unlike those elsewhere in SF. Merchants weigh in on the anomaly. 
