On Sunday, 22-year-old Danielle Walker from, Tiburon allegedly threw a Jack Russell Terrier out a third-story window. SF Appeal reports, "SFPD officers responded at 1:34 p.m. Sunday to a report of animal cruelty in the 100 block of Albion Street, which is between 15th and 16th Streets." more ›

La Cocina's 2012 San Francisco Street Food Festival will be held this summer on August 18th, from 11AM - 7PM in the Mission District. The annual event raises cash for the non-profit's incubator program which helps provide our fine city with amazing food at reasonable prices. This year's festivities will include 33 micro-vendors along with 40 owner-operated restaurants and the usual packed crowd. Get there early!
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Mission Bicycle recently unveiled via Facebook a bicycle for children named after the area's neighboring 'hood, Noe Valley (a neighborhood stereotypically teeming with families and lesbians and lesbians with families) called "The Noe." Cute, right? Well, according to the Mission Bicycle employe SFist spoke with today, it's a joke. Said employee claimed it was a potshot at poor, innocent Noe Valley. Heh. Then again, the Mission District also bubbles over with, dare we say, native Latino kids residing in many, many parts of the Mission. But that's... well, it's not something any self-respecting Zeitgeist-going, Brian Wilson beard-growing, Tartine-queuing young adult chooses to think about too much. Kills the magic, you know? more ›

On Saturday night, Joe Payne captured this shot of a fire hydrant geyser shooting water into the air like it just didn't care. Wee! The scene happened on Folsom and 20th in the Mission District. Mission Mission has some choice shots of the blast as well. Oh, and check out video footage, shot and edited by Michael Gondry, below. more ›

Ah, yes. Now, this is the kinda of graffiti we like: bold with a dash of guilt and a hint of self-awareness. Friend of SFist Pete Cat came across this gem while lollygagging in the city's Mission District Friday night. Some rapscallion wrote on a brick wall (a canvas notoriously difficult for building owners to erase), but left such a cheeky (and French, if we may say) spray of graffiti that one can't get that mad at it. Adorable, really. Adorable. more ›

Another small, independent record shop bites the dust. Force of Habit, the little punk shop at 3565 20th Street (at Lexington) appears to be on its way to closing as SFist finds that a new restaurant/café is moving in called 20 Spot. Force of Habit owner "Braindead" Dave Devereaux died last July at the age of 41 of unexplained causes. At the time, his family said they hoped to sell the shop and the online record business to someone who would keep it open, and a Save Force of Habit campaign launched to aid the effort. But it seems that was not meant to be. more ›

SFPD announced Friday night that they have arrested a 32-year-old suspect wanted in connection with three Mission District sexual assaults. Acting on anonymous tips from the community, San Francisco Police Officers arrested their suspect at Cesar Chavez and Treat Street. Investigators from the special victims unit linked the suspect to the attacks using the previously released surveillance footage and physical evidence from the crime scenes. more ›

If these two recent crime reports are any indication, the transition to 2012 was a stabby one for San Francisco. In less than a week, arguments over the price of crack cocaine and the outcome of a Mission District soccer match ended in unfortunate stabbings. more ›

Posh tech cafe The Summit will close its doors on January 28. Decried by some as a "masturbatory business fantasy," the creatively-minded Valencia Street space served coffee and pastries to "free thinkers, craftsmen, artisans, entrepreneurs, and the public." Only Blue Bottle, Ritual, or Four Barrel trained baristas were asked to apply for a gig at the "democratically-priced" cafe. more ›

A little after 8 p.m. on Wednesday night, a four-door Toyota sedan hit a cyclist riding at 17th and Valencia streets. "The full extent of the bicyclist's injuries was not immediately known," reports BCN (via SF Examiner). "[T]he victim was in pain but conscious and talking when emergency crews took him to the hospital." more ›

A group of Occupyists protesting Mission evictions on Saturday afternoon wrongly accused Tacolicious and its owner, Joe Hargrave, a small-business owner of evildoings. Brimming with Tea Party-like fervor, hope and confusion, "hundreds" of Occupy ilk (some of whom recently re-located to San Francisco and the Mission themselves) converged outside the Valencia Street location take action against evictions in the Mission. The group claimed that Tacolicioius, a noted restaurant serving titular tacos and more, wanted to evict the building at 739-741 Valencia. Problem is that Tacolicious doesn't own the building. They can't evict anyone. They don't want to evict anyone. more ›

Police are on the hunt after an early Friday morning sexual assault and beating in San Francisco's Mission District. Sometime between 3 a.m, and 4 a.m., a man followed a woman walking on 24th Street from South Van Ness to Portreo Avenue. When he finally approached his victim, he demanded money. When she didn't give him any, he took her to another location. That's when things got ugly. more ›

Mission Mission brings word that Martha Stewart, one of the most critical yet underrated philosophers in these our modern times, fell prey to San Francisco's sensitive cycling community over the weekend. It seems that, while shopping at Paxton Gate's Curiosities For Kids on tony Valencia Street, the (wrongfully!) convicted inside trader/domestic thinker parked her presumably gorgeous vehicle in the bike lane for a scant, very necessary five minutes. more ›

Police are searching for a male suspect, believed to be between the ages of 16 and 18, who fled the scene of a Mission district homicide just before 2 a.m. last night. The suspect shot a 26-year-old victim several times in the back after a verbal argument broke out near 23rd and Harrison, before fleeing in a late-model green Subaru Outback. more ›

After closing the Mission locale over nine years ago -- has it really been nine years?! -- Charles Phan recently told Tamara Palmer what he plans on doing with the old Slanted Door space at 584 Valencia space. While teaching a cooking class for kids at the Ferry Building on Saturday, Phan revealed that a new restaurant, tentatively named Wo Hing General Store, will focus on Chinese food. And that's not all. more ›

Early Sunday morning in the city's Mission District, a cyclist reportedly ignored a red light, which then prompted the late-night peddler to collided with a passing taxicab. The crash was reported a little before 1 a.m. at the intersection of 14th and Mission. "The bicyclist, a 46-year-old man, was traveling east on 14th Street when he was struck by a cab traveling north on Mission Street," reports SF Appeal. "The bicyclist was taken to San Francisco General Hospital to be treated for injuries that were considered life-threatening, although the victim's condition was said to be improving today." more ›

A woman on 18th Street and Lexington in the Mission District was allegedly kidnapped and almost raped by two men on Sunday afternoon. "A 22-year-old woman was approached by a man who pulled out a knife and forced her into a vehicle driven by another man," reports BC (via KTVU). "The suspects drove the victim down along the coastal region of San Mateo County, where they attempted to rape her before she was somehow able to escape from the truck and call 911." more ›

Using crimemapping.com data, Mission Local's Octavio Lopez Raygoza reveals the top 10 most crime-ridden spots in Mission, the city's Latin-American/artisan boutique district. They are: 10) 17th Street between Mission and Valencia , 9) Mission Street between 19th and 20th, 8) South Van Ness between 16th and 17th, 7) Cesar Chavez between Valencia and Guererro, 6) Valencia between 16th and 15th, 5) Mission between 23rd and 24th, 4) Valencia between 17th and 18th, 3) Potrero Avenue between 22nd and 23rd, 2) 16th between Mission and Valencia, and 1)... you'll have to visit Mission Local to find out the most dangerous block in the Mission. Stay safe! [ML] more ›

Speaking of cyclists, one was hit by a car on Christmas Day while heading west on 25th Street "when a gray sedan traveling east on 25th turned north onto Bartlett Street and reportedly struck him." The vehicle refused to stop, continuing down Bartlett. Said cyclist is now in serious condition. more ›

San Francisco's elite Mission district could be the lucky recipient of a high-end-ish bowling alley, just like SoMa. According to Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi, "New York's acclaimed Brooklyn Bowl has been the subject of some juicy rumors involving a possible Mission District location." While it's still in the gossipy stages and a locale has yet to be determined (obviously), Lucchesi warns us to "keep an eye on the 2500 block of Mission Street." Whatever it will be -- if it will be -- we can only hope a lot of WASP food cart Blue Bottle beer DoloPark salted caramel Bansky LEED heroin bikes will be involved. That would be the most, to say the least. [SFGate, via Mission Mission] more ›

A little after noon today, an alleged case of road rage happened in the city's historic and so very richly-textured Mission District. A reader who asked to remain anonymous told us what went down: more ›

Bar Bambino, the little 16th Street Italian joint that could, is opening a second location. And, according to Inside Scoop, that new location, smack-dab in the under-construction ODC Theater at 17th and Shotell, will get a new name: Pronto by Bar Bambino. more ›

Guns. They're bad. Or good. Depending. They kill people, sure; but Shockwave, our first Transformers action figure, turned into a gun. Obviously, like a profound game of chess played at an East Coast liberal arts institution, it's a complicated issue. Or not. They're guns. Pew, pew. more ›

Over in the Mission, a little known entertainer named Lady Gaga visited Rosamunde where she enjoyed some of their signature meat. Mission Mission has more: more ›