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It’s 7 a.m., 52º and headed toward 60º. Details here.

Bastille Day is this weekend and El Rio’s got you covered if you want to start the festivities early. Beginning at 5:30 tonight, you can celebrate with a glass of wine at Mugsy’s Pop-Up Wine Bar. There will be sparkling Blanc de Noirs Crémant de Bourgogne and a 2009 Côtes du Rhône from Le Clos du Caillou, among other French wines. El Rio, 3158 Mission St. (at Cesar Chavez St.); 415-282-3325 or elriosf.com

SFWeekly sent an adult to the recently opened Helen Diller Playground at Dolores Park. What’s it like to climb the giant spiderweb as an adult? Sounds pretty fun, from the review.

Chronicle Watch heads out to the 16th and Mission BART plaza and finds plenty to complain about:

Commuters wrinkle their noses as they walk across either of the two street-level plazas at 16th and Mission streets, where loiterers have few qualms about using the plazas as an open-air restroom, neighbors and officials say.

“The elevator becomes an easy-access urinal or worse,” said Tony Sustak, a Richmond resident who commutes to the station daily. “The real dregs take a dump in public. They’re not discouraged by the crowds passing by.”

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Hélène Goupil is a former editor at Mission Local who now works independently as a videographer and editor. She's the co-author of "San Francisco: The Unknown City" (Arsenal Pulp Press).

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