Xueer Lu
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 9
- Latest publication
- Sep 15, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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2026 San Francisco Elections (opens the original)
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Thank you for using our election dashboard! Everything you need to know to cast your vote is here. For free. Chris Larsen, whose donation was the largest to any supervisor race in city history, says he was ‘impressed’ with Ellington’s ‘pragmatism.’ Dorsey says Sixth Street has a disproportionate share of the city’s homelessness services. He championed opening the RESET center there. Why? San Francisco congressional candidates Chan and Wiener evaluate the performance of Democratic leadership duri
Excelsior Buzz: Free Shakespeare in McLaren Park this weekend (opens the original)
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“Excelsior Buzz” is a recurring column on changes, tidbits and news from the Excelsior. Got news? Send us tips at xueer@missionlocal.com. As you can feel in the air, San Francisco summer is here. And if you’re feeling the heat, even in the normally chilly Excelsior, but don’t have air conditioning at home? Check out the cooling centers at public library branches here. Spoiler: For those living in the Excelsior, the nearest cooling centers are in the Glen Park branch at 2825 Diamond St. and the P
The Excelsior’s Central Drug Store building has sold (opens the original)
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The former longtime home of Central Drug Store, a 117-year-old independent pharmacy in the Excelsior located at 4494 Mission St. at Santa Rosa Avenue that permanently closed last July, has been sold. The new owners, Markopulos Fotiu and Silvi Palloj, have been running a plumbing business called Marco Polo Plumbing for the past 15 years out of the city of San Bruno, providing services to the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Fotiu and Palloj made the purchase in June 2026, according to city records
Excelsior Buzz: Incoming big arts at the parks, end of summer night market, and a new Guatemalan restaurant (opens the original)
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“Excelsior Buzz” is a recurring column on changes, tidbits and other news from the Excelsior. Got news? Send us tips at xueer@missionlocal.com. El Quetzal Grill Restaurant, a new Guatemalan restaurant, has recently opened at 4441 Mission St. near Avalon Avenue. The restaurant recently put up its green “grand opening” sign after opening its doors to customers about six weeks ago on July 1. It replaced Fili-Taste Grill & Restaurant, a short-lived Filipino restaurant that opened in June 2024 and cl
People We Meet: Angel Contreras wants to build race cars (opens the original)
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Angel Contreras has wanted to design a car for as long as he can remember. Not just any car, but one built for racing. For years, he talked himself out of it, he said, worried that it was self-indulgent, disconnected from anything useful he could do for the people around him. Last year, Contreras asked an AI chatbot a direct question: How is motorsports actually good for anyone? The answer that stuck with him was about materials science: Racing pushes engineers toward discoveries that eventually
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