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It’s 7 a.m. and 50°, headed to 64° and coolish for awhile. Details for the next 10 days are here.

Mexican novelist and public intellectual Carlos Fuentes died Tuesday in Mexico City.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Christopher “Stoney” Ablett, accused of murdering Mark “Papa” Guardado outside a Mission District bar on Sept. 2, 2008, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole. Guardado was president of the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels; Ablett is a member of the Mongols motorcycle gang.

And in other neighborhood news, Cafe Gratitude will close on May 25, notes Mission Mission.

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