Riders aboard a crowded BART train were met with a festive Thanksgiving extravaganza Thursday morning, courtesy of “Bay Area TV Man” and friends. The special feast began and ended at West Oakland station with a full loop from Daly City to Dublin in between.

As KTVU reports, a video posted by Bay Area TV Man is gaining popularity online featuring the content creator, who wears a full face mask, and two friends setting up a table, decorations, and a full Thanksgiving spread consisting of turkey, chicken, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, egg rolls, and apple cider. Their fellow BART riders were then invited to partake in the feast.

"It was a little awkward at first," he told KTVU. "It really took one person to take a plate. Once we put on some music, people started dancing, popped some apple cider — it was a great moment to see."

Per KTVU, the trio first set up their feast on a Daly City-bound train starting at West Oakland station. The Thanksgiving train then headed back east from Daly City to Dublin, then back to West Oakland.

Bay Area TV Man, who wishes to remain anonymous, told KTVU he wanted to share a positive moment with the community, and BART is an iconic symbol of the Bay Area. He said he plans to organize similar community events in the future.

“My goal is to inspire people to look out for each other and bring more positivity to the Bay,” he told KTVU. “The mask is a reminder that you do not need a title or a face to make a difference. What matters is the heart behind the action.”

Image: Screenshot from video

Related: Jokers Pretend to Be Flight Attendants, Bring Beverage Cart on BART

Last-minute, unanticipated needs are sure to strike any Thanksgiving Day celebration, so we've listed all of the major SF grocery chains’ Thanksgiving Day hours, for when you absolutely need that forgotten food item or an alcohol restock.

Many of us will brave the grocery store today, the day before Thanksgiving, though many had the foresight to have already gotten that trip out of the way. But whichever of those categories you fall into, you will inevitably have still forgotten an item or five that you’ll wish you had remembered to buy. And there is always the possibility of running out of beer, wine, or spirits.

That's why we’re listing all of the big SF grocery chains’ Thanksgiving Day hours below. We cannot possibly include every corner store in San Francisco, so keep an eye out for those in your neighborhood. But we can confirm that all of these Bi-Rites, BevMos, Safeways, and various other grocers with full beer, wine, and liquor aisles are open on Thanksgiving Day. (Note: The hours listed are only for November 27, 2025.)

Trader Joe’s and Costco will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. But these chain grocers and beverage proprietors will be open for your 11th hour Thanksgiving day runs:

• ANDRONICO’S MARKET - 6 am to 6 pm
• BI-RITE MARKET - 8 am to 1 pm
• BEVMO! - 9 am to 5 pm
• LUCKY - 6 am to 6 pm
• MOLLIE STONE’S - 7am to 5pm
• SAFEWAY - 6 am to 6 pm
• WHOLE FOODS - 7 am to 1 pm

Related: Where To Buy Beer, Wine, and Liquor on Thanksgiving Day in SF [SFist]

Image: Display of Thanksgiving turkeys in a supermarket, Lafayette, California, November 13, 2025. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

• The Chronicle has a rundown of the worst times to drive in the Bay Area throughout the coming Thanksgiving week, and obviously Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday are the worst, but there are also some fascinating local insights. Here in the Bay Area, the most congested roadway on Thanksgiving Weekend is typically Highway 101 heading north from SF to Santa Rosa. [Chronicle]
• Mission Local has compiled a list of where hungry and needy people can still get a free Thanksgiving Dinner in SF, with most of these being on Thursday, but one of them a Wednesday brunch. There are the obvious heavy hitters like Glide and Saint Antony’s, but a whole lot more, though one of these is intended for seniors. The list also has information on how to volunteer. [Mission Local]
• East Bay Congressman and now-California Governor candidate Eric Swalwell is going on offense in the mortgage fraud accusations that Trump is throwing at him, filing a lawsuit against the Department of Justice for retaliation and improperly accessing his records. Swalwell insists he’s innocent, and it’s a pretty easy picture for the defense to paint that the Trump administration has been running shoddy, baseless, and politically motivated investigations. [Politico]

National:

• Employees of the federal General Services Administration (GSA) are suing over the Trump administration refusing to rehire them after the shutdown, citing dueling interpretations of language in the spending bill that ended the shutdown. [NYTimes]
• Now the FBI wants to interview the six Democratic Congressmembers who made a video saying that enlisted people don’t have to follow illegal orders, the latest hilarious overreaction considering that no one watched that video until Trump and Hegseth started throwing hissy fits about it. [CNN]  
• The flagship downtown New York City Macy’s is gambling on in-store events and promotions to boost holiday sales, with added attractions like arcade basketball, DJs, and a jazzed-up Santa Claus area. [CNN]

Video:

• Sure it’s still just Tuesday night, but is it basically already party time as we head into a four-day weekend? Let’s let Sammy Davis, Jr answer that question in a vintage Suntory whiskey ad from the 1970s.

Image: Joe Kukura, SFist

It was 50 years ago this Thursday that San Francisco’s own annual ‘Unthanksgiving’ started on Alcatraz Island, and as always, this year’s sunrise ceremony will be streaming online if you can’t make it to Alcatraz at 6 am.

We are reminded that this is Yelamu, Ohlone Territory on Thanksgiving morning when Alcatraz Island is the site of this Thursday’s 50th anniversary Indigenous Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering. The first of these ceremonies was exactly 50 years ago Thursday, on Thanksgiving Day 1975 (which also happened to be on November 27 that year, too). The Indigenous Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering was meant as a counter-celebration to Thanksgiving itself, known as “Unthanksgiving,” and paying homage to the Indigenous peoples who’ve survived centuries of lasting harms on their unceded land.

This close to the event, it is exceedingly difficult to get boat tickets to Alcatraz in person for the ceremony, though it is still possible. You can also just stream the event live online.

The ceremony will be streaming live on the International Indian Treaty Council Facebook page, the KPFA website and on the radio at KPFA 94.1 FM. Those live broadcasts will be from 6 am - 8 am on Thursday, November 27.

If you do really want to try and go in person, you’d better be prepared to get to Pier 33 at about 3:30 am or earlier Thursday morning. All of the Alcatraz City Cruises for the morning are sold out, but organizers say that “online ferry tickets are sold out but there will be 500 available at the box office on the day of the event.” You can get more information about the Alcatraz Cruise at Pier 33 here.

While Thursday is the 50th anniversary Indigenous Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering, the genesis of the event dates even earlier. It was established as a tribute to the November 1969 – June 1971 occupation of Alcatraz by Native American activists. A Lakota Sioux activist at the time argued that because the federal government gave up the former prison island and deemed it “surplus property,” by treaty, it should have been offered to Native Americans.

The activists did not get any of their demands met (they demanded deed and ownership of Alcatraz Island), but their 19-month occupation became a media cause célèbre and elevated the Native American rights movement to national prominence. It also eventually won a number of Native rights policy concessions out of the Nixon administration.  

That occupation served as the inspiration for the Indigenous Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering that started in 1975, and still continues 50 years later.

“In the late 1960s and early 70s, the Chippewa started the Thanksgiving, what we called ‘Unthanksgiving,” said Bill Means, a surviving Lakota member who was at the original 1969-71 occupation, on KPFA’s Unthanksgiving podcast last year. “We began to promote it as Indigenous Peoples Day.”

Eventually, many states and municipalities renamed Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. Then-President Joe Biden officially made Columbus Day into Indigenous Peoples Day with a 2024 declaration.

“That’s how the Alcatraz activities started,” Means explained. “There’s two of them. Of course, the one on Columbus Day, and then there’s the one on Thanksgiving which is a national prayer day, which we go there and have a sunrise ceremony. So there’s two major events there every year since that time in the early 70s.”

“We’ve been going there every year, and of course, it’s become quite a cultural event, especially on Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving,” Means added.

And 50 years later, it’s still quite the cultural event, and one that we should all experience (if even just via webcast) on some Thanksgiving during our time in the Bay Area.

Related: 'Unthanksgiving': Scenes From The Annual Native American Ceremony On Alcatraz [SFist]

Image: @treatycouncil via Twitter

SF’s most untraditional Thanksgiving tradition continues early Thursday morning, as the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island returns, and will be streamed online.

Each year since 1975 (except for a couple of those years during COVID spikes), Native Americans and like-minded supporters have gathered at Alcatraz Island before sunrise on Thanksgiving Day for an event that’s come to be known as Unthanksgiving. The event is technically called the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering, and happens again Thursday morning, to commemorate the 1969-71 Native ​​occupation of Alcatraz and to honor the Ramaytush Ohlone people who have never ceded that land.

If you’re thinking of going, this is a very early morning commitment, and tickets are quite limited. While the event is free and open to the public, boat tickets to Alcatraz are $15.50, and the boats all leave from Pier 33 between 4:15 am and 6 am. Plus those tickets are currently showing as sold out, though organizers said in a recent Facebook post that “There will be 300 [tickets] available at the Pier 33 kiosk on the morning of the gathering.”

So it might be a better bet to just catch the online stream. KPFA will be streaming the audio online, and on your FM dial at 94.1. Video of the event will be streamed live on the Facebook page of the International Indian Treaty Council, with the event starting before sunrise. (Thursday’s sunrise is estimated to be at 7:04 am.)

That same International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) organizes this event. “It’s important to remember the brutal history of genocide that Indigenous Peoples have suffered,” IITC executive director Andrea Carmen said in a previous year’s announcement. “It’s also important that we gather together to give thanks for our lives, the survival, and resiliency of our cultures, and the spirit of resistance passed down to us by our ancestors. Because of their courage and sacrifice, we still have these sacred ways that continue to give us strength to be who we are.”

Will Colin Kaepernick show up for Unthanksgiving at Alcatraz, as he has done many previous years? You’d have to be on Alcatraz Island come 5 am tomorrow morning to know for sure. Though last year, Kaepernick sprung for breakfast for 200 attendees, prepared by Native American chef Crystal Wahpepah of Oakland’s Wahpepah’s Kitchen.

Related: 'Unthanksgiving': Scenes From The Annual Native American Ceremony On Alcatraz [SFist]

Image: @gothspiderbitch via Twitter

There will once again be a few thousand Indigenous people and allies on Alcatraz for the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Thursday, and while Colin Kapepernick may or may not be attending, he’s providing food from a renowned Native American chef.

Every year since 1975 (except for a couple years during COVID-19 outbreaks), Native Americans and their supporters have gathered at Alcatraz Island before sunrise on Thanksgiving Day for an event colloquially known as Unthanksgiving — though technically called the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering. This will happen again Thursday morning, commemorating the 1969-71 Native ​​occupation of Alcatraz and honoring the Ramaytush Ohlone people who never ceded that land.

The only way to get to Alcatraz is by boat, and advance boat tickets are sold out. But the boat proprietor Alcatraz City Cruises says they will open their Pier 33 ticket booth at 3:15 a.m., and organizers add that “There will be 500 tickets available for purchase at the box office on Pier 33 the morning of the event.” It may be easier to just tune in to 94.1 KPFA who will be broadcasting the ceremony from 5-8 a.m. Thursday.

The event is organized by the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC). “It’s important to remember the brutal history of genocide that Indigenous Peoples have suffered,” IITC executive director Andrea Carmen said in a previous release. “It’s also important that we gather together to give thanks for our lives, the survival, and resiliency of our cultures, and the spirit of resistance passed down to us by our ancestors. Because of their courage and sacrifice, we still have these sacred ways that continue to give us strength to be who we are.”

It is well-known that former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has shown up for the ceremony a few times, though it’s unknown if he’s attending this year. But SFGate reports that Kaepernick is paying for Kickapoo-themed breakfast burritos Thursday for 200 attendees, prepared by Native American chef Crystal Wahpepah of Oakland’s Wahpepah’s Kitchen. (Do not expect a free breakfast burrito if you attend. There will only be 200 of them, and SFGate says they’re for “tribal leaders, dancers and others returning to San Francisco post-gathering.”)

If you have not been to the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering before, the above video from KQED gives you a good idea of the spirit of this annual ceremony.

Related: 'Unthanksgiving': Scenes From The Annual Native American Ceremony On Alcatraz [SFist]

Image: @MuwekmaTribe via Twitter

You may have tasted, or heard about, the glories of a proper deep-fried turkey at Thanksgiving. But trying this yourself at home, without an experienced fry cook on hand and without some serious distance between the fry pot and your house, is not advised.

Vats of hot oil over open flames are recipes for disaster on Thanksgiving, and there is a whole genre of YouTube video about this. Basically, you can't put a frozen or very cold turkey into hot oil, you have to actually know your oil temperature, and you can't go over-estimating how much oil you need, leading to immediate overflow and explosive flames when you drop the bird in.

Enter the professionals at Kim's Louisiana Fried Turkey & Stuff in Richmond, who have made a full-time business out of frying up turkey legs and whole turkeys year-round. Launched in 2019, Kim's is the brainchild of chef and owner Phillip Mitchell and his wife Kim Knox, and as they tell KQED, the inspiration came about because there weren't enough restaurants locally where you could buy Cajun- or Creole-style fried turkey.

And, as Mitchell tells the station, it's not the kind of thing everyone should be trying at home.

"A lot of folks think it’s fun and games and look it up on YouTube," Mitchell says. "You can ruin your holiday real quick with just a few missteps."

Mitchell says he'll be frying dozens of birds for Thanksgiving orders, and he's got his technique and equipment down so he can fry six birds at once.

And while they may be best eaten right out of the fryer, or close to it, Kim's customers have found they reheat well too — and Mitchell says he has customers pick up birds days before Thanksgiving to take down to L.A. or fly out to Atlanta.

If you want a deep-fried bird for your holiday, the time to place an order is now or soon. Kim's Louisiana Fried Turkey & Stuff is offering catering packages with sides and all to serve 10 or more people, starting at $280. Individual turkeys of 13 to 16 pounds may also be available by phone order.

Pickups will run all the way until 1 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and the website suggests some delivery options may be available for an extra fee. Call or text 707-853-6826 for details.

Photo via Kim's Louisian Fried Turkey

Photo via flysfo.com

Don’t be a turkey and run out of alcohol on Thanksgiving Day! Even if you drink through your supply on Thursday, there are many 11th hour beverage and grocery establishments that will gladly ring you up to refill your stock on Thanksgiving Day in SF.  

With Thanksgiving just about upon us, the Chronicle ran a nice list this week of  wine shops that are open on Thanksgiving Day. It’s a handy list! But it is geared toward, shall we say, a certain demographic (I’m not paying Plumpjack prices, I’ll tell you what), and it focuses more on wine than beer and hard liquor. We’ll include the Chron’s findings at the bottom of this list, but we’ve broadened it to beer and liquor sales, and your budget-friendlier grocery chains that are also open Thanksgiving Day.

We can’t possibly include every corner store in San Francisco, so you can keep an eye out for those hours in your neighborhood. But we confirmed that all of these Bi-Rites, BevMos, Whole Foods and various other grocers with the full beer, wine, and liquor aisles are open on Thanksgiving Day, and we’ve listed their hours along with them. (Note: The hours listed are only for November 24, 2022.)

BI-RITE MARKET

Alamo Square: 550 Divisadero Street, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Mission/Castro: 3639 18th Street; 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

BEVMO!

Bayview: 201 Bayshore Boulevard, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Nob Hill: 1301 Van Ness Avenue, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Laurel Heights: 3455 Geary Boulevard, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

WHOLE FOODS

Castro/Duboce Triangle: 2001 Market Street, 7 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Mid-Market: 1185 Market Street , 7 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Nob Hill: 1765 California Street , 7 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Noe Valley: 3950 24th Street, 7 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Oceanview: 1150 Ocean Avenue 7 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Potrero Hill: 450 Rhode Island Street, 7 a.m.- 3 p.m.

South of Market: 399 4th Street, 7 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Stonestown Galleria: 3251 20th Avenue, 7 a.m.- 3 p.m.  

Upper Haight: 690 Stanyan Street, 7 a.m.- 3 p.m.

SAFEWAY

Castro/Duboce Triangle: 2020 Market Street, 6 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Potrero Hill: 2300 16th Street, 5 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Mission/Bernal: 3350 Mission Street, 6 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Excelsior: 4950 Mission Street, 5 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Glen Park/Sunnyside: 625 Monterey Boulevard, 6 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Inner Parkside: 730 Taraval Street, 5 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Diamond Heights: 5290 Diamond Heights Boulevard, 5 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Outer Sunset: 2350 Noriega Street, 5 a.m. - 6 p.m.

South of Market: 298 King Street, 5 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Inner Richmond: 735 Seventh Avenue, 6 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Outer Richmond: 850 La Playa Street, 5 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Fillmore/Japantown: 1335 Webster, 6 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Embarcadero: 145 Jackson Street, 6 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Fisherman’s Wharf: 350 Bay Street, 6 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Marina: 15 Marina Boulevard, 5 a.m. - 6 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO WINE STORES

Biondivino, 1415 Green Street, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Bottle Bacchanal, 4126 18th Street, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Dolores Deluxe, 3500 22nd Street, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Dolores Outpost, 698 Guerrero Street, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Gemini Bottle Co., 2801 22nd Street, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The Jug Shop, 1648 Pacific Avenue, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Millay, 691 14th Street, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Noe Valley Wine & Spirits, 3821 24th Street, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

PlumpJack Wine & Spirits, 3201 Fillmore Street, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

PlumpJack Wine & Spirits, 4011 24th Street, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Swirl on Castro, 572 Castro Street, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Tofino Wines, 2696 Geary Boulevard. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

William Cross Wine Merchant, 2253 Polk Street , 11am - 3pm

Wine Impression, 3461 California Street, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Related: 12 Best Alcohol Delivery Services In SF [SFist]

Image: Lesia via Unsplash

The San Francisco Turkey Giveaway is handing out free turkeys to gobble up for the 15th year in a row, this year with 5,500 birds being given out for Thanksgiving.

Let’s talk turkey. An estimated 25% of San Franciscans don't have enough to eat, according to the Department of Public Health's Food Security Task Force. We hope to not have that happen on Thanksgiving, which is why the Examiner reports that for the 15th consecutive year, the city is distributing thousands of free turkeys. According to a release from the mayor’s office, the 2021 Turkey Giveaway will hand out “more than 5,500 turkeys.”

“With one in four San Franciscans at risk of food insecurity, we know that our communities greatly depend on programs like this to help make ends meet, especially during the holiday season,” Breed said in the release. “I am grateful to all of the city departments and community partners that work hard to help all San Franciscans, especially our families, seniors, and vulnerable communities, put food on the table and, more importantly, find hope and joy during the holidays.”

According to the release, the turkey drops started Friday at Bernal Dwellings Apartments. To be a free turkey recipient, you probably have to already be receiving some sort of services form either the San Francisco Housing Authority or the San Francisco Human Services Agency, the two agencies handling turkey distribution.

And they’re handing out more than just turkeys. According to the release, “the Housing Authority provides hundreds of food baskets with dry goods for holiday meals to families and individuals living in various housing sites.”

Seems like they’re pretty good turkeys, too, as according to the mayor’s office, they were donated by organizations that include Whole Foods and the California Poultry Association.

Related: The Chronicle Tells You How To Hunt And Kill Your Own Thanksgiving Turkey [SFist]

Image: @Adam12332871709 via Twitter

San Francisco-based grocery delivery startup Good Eggs left an unknown number of customers high and dry with nothing to eat on Thanksgiving — forcing some on last-minute grocery runs and others ordering takeout and fuming on social media.

The delivery disaster was due to an outage in the company's warehouse computer system on Wednesday morning, which apparently delayed so many orders from going out that some never arrived. Good Eggs CEO Bentley Hall explained the situation in an apologetic Twitter thread on Thursday.

"Early [Wednesday] morning, at a time when we should have been picking orders for our biggest and most important day of the year, we experienced a multi-hour warehouse system outage," Hall writes. "Once the system was back up and running, we were too optimistic about the how long it would take to fully catch up and get all of your orders out the door."

Hall said he was "devastated" and "deeply disappointed" at the failure, and said, "I am fully responsible for the results, the inadequate [communication] and the frustration."

Customers began complaining on social media on Wednesday as alerts arrived from Good Eggs about delivery delays. In some cases, San Francisco customers received notices that only some of their groceries — "the proteins, pies, Good Eggs Kitchen items and produce" — would arrive between midnight and 8 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day. As one friend of SFist wrote on Facebook, "Good Eggs you had one job! How bout you don’t leave my raw turkey on my porch between midnight and 8 am?"

The delays appear to have begun before this Wednesday system outage however, according to another social media user who said a scheduled Tuesday night delivery delayed until Wednesday morning, and then never arrived.

One Twitterer, heatherlynn, posted that her "elderly, high risk parents scheduled an order two weeks ago" and then waited up until 2 a.m. Thursday for the delivery, which never arrived. And on Thursday, no groceries arrived and neither did any communication from Good Eggs.

And to think just three weeks, the company was blogging about the 3,700 turkeys they ordered from suppliers in advance of the holiday.

Good Eggs has promised refunds for missed orders, but the Mercury News says the company declined to respond to a request for further comments — and they're likely all in a crisis PR meeting right now.

That same friend of SFist said she had not yet received any refund as of Friday, and added, "A refund for stuff that never got delivered isn’t exactly making it right. It’s just the start of making it less wrong."

It's been a few years since SFist has reposted local cooking school founder Mary Risley's delightful advice for roasting a Thanksgiving turkey — and it bears repeating in a year when a lot of people may be trying to do this for the first time at home and not with family.

Risley and her now closed Tante Marie's Cooking School posted the video below to YouTube in 2011, and plainspoken teacher that she is, Risley didn't mince words about the traditional Thanksgiving bird.

"Just put the fucking turkey in the oven," she says. "Don't worry about it. Turkey never really tastes good."

It's true that some cooks have methods they swear by to keep a turkey moist, but these are notoriously hard birds to keep from drying out — and Risley just says if you want moisture, that's what gravy is for.

Tante Marie's closed in 2014, but these days Risley is still running the food nonprofit she founded over 30 years ago, FoodRunners. The organization collects food that would otherwise go to waste from restaurants, grocery stores, and events, and transports it to soup kitchens and places that turn it into meals for those in need — and she was featured on an ABC 7 segment back in September talking about how COVID had shut down all the catering event the organization had typically relied on for collecting food waste.

“Un-Thanksgiving Day,” also known as the Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Ceremony, has sold out its advance boat tickets. But a “limited amount” will go on sale at 3 a.m. Thursday at Pier 33, and KPFA will stream the audio online.

We marked the 50th anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz by Native American activists last week, and the annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering has its 41st iteration early on Thursday morning. But if you’re trying to buy tickets online, you can’t. While the event is free, boat tickets to Alcatraz are not. Those tickets are only available through Alcatraz Cruises, and they’re currently sold out. But according to an event press release just issued Wednesday morning, “a limited amount of tickets will be available for purchase at the dock beginning at 3:00 a.m.” Thursday morning (SFist confirmed with organizers that those tickets will be released). You can also try the Facebook event page discussion for boat ride tickets, but there are certainly more people asking than offering there. Better find your own boat!

Fortunately, the event will be simulcast live (6 a.m.-9 a.m.) on Berkeley’s KPFA website, as well as on their old-time radio frequency at 94.1 FM. But KPFA being a radio station, this will be an audio-only simulcast, with no video feed.

The event generally draws around 5,000 people, so you’ll want to show up well before 3 a.m. if you still need a boat ticket. The ceremony is hosted by the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), as it has been since its first observance in 1975, in  addition to a similar observance they always do on Indigenous Peoples Day.

“It’s very important that we continue to carry out these gatherings twice a year on this sacred and historic place to tell the truth about our histories, share our cultures and commemorate and give thanks to all those who have gone before us and who left us these ways,” IITC executive director Andrea Carmen said in a statement. “We also give thanks for the lives of our children and future generations and recommit ourselves to do whatever is needed to protect Mother Earth and our ways of life so that they can survive and thrive.”

Colin Kaepernick showed up for the observance in 2017, while Spearhead’s Michael Franti showed to jam the year before, along with Nahko of Nahko And Medicine for the People. If you still want to try for a ticket, you’ll want to show up at Pier 33 (the one at the eastern end of Bay Street) well before 3 a.m. Thursday morning.

Related: 'Unthanksgiving': Scenes From The Annual Native American Ceremony On Alcatraz (SFist)

Image: reverendlukewarm via Flickr

Videos of hamsters enjoying human-looking meals are nothing new to YouTube, but this particular hamster, Matilda, is somewhat new to the platform, and actually has a whole channel devoted to her and hamster care instructional videos.

And this miniature Thanksgiving spread made especially for Matilda to stuff in her tiny mouth is pretty impressive. Look at that slice of pie!

[h/t: ABC 7]

"I have been hungry before," Amanda Ngo, the owner of the Mission District grocery store Duc Loi, tells neighborhood website Mission Local. Knowing the power that a good meal has to bring people together — those in need and those of plenty — Ngo will be serving 1,000 people lunch for Thanksgiving tomorrow. Starting at noon, her store, which recently expanded with a branch in the Bayview, will cater to the any and all.

Ngo tells Mission Local she's still looking for volunteers to come by the market at 2200 Mission Street today. Need convincing to pitch in? Just take a look at this heartwarming video.

Related: This Week In SF Food: RTB Fillmore Pops Up For Ramen, Duc Loi Expands, And More