Results tagged “neighborhoods”

Speaking of the Inner Sunset...

In an attempt to get in on the hyperlocal (ugh, that word) trend, glossy rag interviewed pretty people about their favorite places to go in specific San Francisco neighborhoods. Above, Mission district fans prattle on about Revolution Cafe, Beauty Bar, and a bench.

SFist reader Greg Ellis writes to us for help.

Glen Park, which we have always thought was adorable and near [Update] where SFist Deborah resides, has been experiencing quite a growth spurt recently. New restaurants and businesses have been steadily opening up, renters get more for their money there, and it has its own BART Station. But getting to and from the BART Station has always been a bit of a pain.

Real estate agents have always reveled in transforming a neighborhood, or a sub-section of a shitty neighborhood, through the kind of re-branding that turns a place like Hell's Kitchen in NYC into Midtown West. Well, the San Francisco Association of Realtors are releasing their latest map, which is going to affect the official listing location of every property in town, and it includes such creative renamings as Barbary Coast for the Financial District, and NoPa for that section of the Western Addition that's home to a certain popular restaurant. Apparently the realtors stopped short of including TenderNob, because we all know that's kind of bullshit (and there's so few for-sale properties there that the real estate people don't give a shit). Says Matthew Borland, the agent leading the remapping, "the changes had to reflect a true change and feel of the fabric of a neighborhood."

Always on the hunt for neighborhood blogs -- although, let's face it, none can compare to Mission Mission -- we must tell you about Noe Valley Buzz. Created by Tricia Tulipano and Amber Justis, it's fun. And simple. And not saddled with loads and loads of icky text or notions of revolución. And prefers to use 'z' in lieu of 's.' And is perfectly unapologetic. They talk about Real Foods (RIP!), hot Jew Jacob Goldstein's even hotter Garage Store, and people who sell fruit that are out of season. Be sure to check it out, readers and Noe Valley residents. We'll advise you of any impending Noe Valley Buzz vs. Noe Valley, SF softball games.

(By Eyleen Tavy)

We came back from taking down the recycling yesterday evening to find we had locked ourselves out of our apartment. "Noooo!!" [Insert Emo Darth Vader ballad here. Warning -- audio.] We dialed the apartment manager on the call-box but got his voice mail. Lucky for us, the manager, who wouldn't be back until 10:00, called our s.o., who wouldn't be back until 8:00, and our s.o. called our friend who lives a few blocks away. So, instead of being forced to sit on our lobby stairs all night, uncomfortably greeting all of our neighbors, we were soon whisked away and served pasta, wine, and a couple of episodes of the BBC version of "Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares."

My Morning Jacket's newest live recording entitled The 2006-2007 New Year’s Eve Skit Picture Disc Skit (Could they pick a longer title?) is available now through the band's website. The recording is from their New Year's Eve performance at the Fillmore last year. If you were there, you would know that it was a "Oregon Trail"-themed performance. (OMG, how cool is that!) But we're curious, how do you pull off an "Oregon Trail"-themed party?...

SFist interviews the Reverend Billy of "what would jesus buy?"

Phillyist prepared to party by doing the hustle, lighting the lights, shopping up a storm, and... visiting Khrushchev?

We just received word that for the past two or three days (!?), 17th Street has been without power from at least Valencia up to Dolores. Anyone else have any word of this supposed outage? Seeing as how this is one attractive and expensive strip of real estate, right at the nexus of two neighborhoods, this is of the utmost importance.

Among San Francisco’s myriad neighborhoods, few are as widely misunderstood as the Outer Sunset. Location certainly plays a role. To your average Upper Haight resident – to say nothing of your average South of Market or North Beach resident – this beach-adjacent community may seem as distant as Honolulu, with an N-Judah trip that may rival a flight to Oahu in terms of travel time. But it’s sometimes easy to forget that San Francisco is a mere seven miles wide, and that the folks out west do have phone numbers that begin with 415, rather than 808.

Members of the exclusive Norteño gang in the Mission District got capped with a civil injunction today, barring them from hanging out each other in a 60-square-block area and from loitering after 10 p.m., according to a report in the Chronicle.

It really is all about the other side of Market Street now.

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse.

Awesome last name recipient and New York Times contributor Nicole Spiridakis covered NOPA (AKA, "North of the Panhandle" -- of course) in this past weekend's travel section of the NYT, "Colonizing an Urban Frontier".

Hey how was your weekend? You didn't have to work, did you? Muni certainly didn't: on Saturday, NextMuni showed only one bus running the entire 33 route all by itself. Expected wait time: ranging from an hour to an hour and a half. We were hoping to swing by Cliff's in the Castro (they've got these awesome elephant-shaped teapots), but obviously you can't go shopping in neighborhoods you can't get to. Sorry, MUMC!

! Cover article: A guy who makes money suing small businesses under the ADA. A review of the Kiki & Herb show. The Simpsons movie is okay. Meredith didn't much like her North Beach wine bar. Why did political cartoonist Ted Rall get moved to the food listings? Let's Get Killed reviews the Pamela des Barres book, feels ambivalent about it. And Savage Love: "is this a weird fetish?" (The lady's clapping on a date story was pretty funny.)

Street fashion sites like The Sartorialist -- whose frightening clarity made us weep after saying that the "idea of dark pattern mixing for summer at Prada was one of the best looks of the season,” because now dark prints are all that we can think about. Really, it consumes us -- are so popular, it only makes sense that San Francisco would soon have one of its own. And it does: SF Street Fashion. It tries to take a look at, well, street fashions via different SF neighborhoods (although they could put up more arrondissements for diversity, including THE CASTRO, where some of the most unintentionally jaw-dropping style statements live.)

Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic night" and sang a custom version of Madonna's "Borderline" to a much-beleaguered board member.

Say hello to your new next door neighbor: a parking garage. Petitioners are currently collecting signatures for a "build more parking" petition, but the terms are insane: it wouldn't just allow developers to install big garages, it would that all new homes build on extra parking, at the expense of living space. Require! As in, the government says that you don't have a choice!

Here where the Mission melts into the Castro to the west, and Noe Valley to the southwest, it’s a bit unclear which neighborhood we’re wandering around. If the shiny new brown sign at the foot of the hilly 000 block of Fair Oaks St. is to be taken seriously - and frankly, it’s not - then we’ve landed in the Liberty Hill Historic District. Crafty, real crafty. San Francisco needs more fictional “sub-neighborhoods” whose names reek of realtor-sponsored specificity, with the express intention of spiking property values, like it needs another earthquake. But since we’re still east of Dolores, let’s just go with the safe bet: this is the western edge of the Mission. Too general? Can we keep a straight face by upgrading this leg of Fair Oaks to tony-sounding Dolores Heights? What’s next? Pinning the “Amoeba Gulch” tag on the westernmost block of Haight?

We found it pretty interesting that the L.A. Times saw fit to publish a feature story examining teh Haight, complete with quotes from actor Peter Coyote, a Marin Resident. (Leave it to the LaLa Times to turn to an actor for quotes . . . ).

According to an article on PC World, Yahoo's mapping product is undergoing some improvements. The company is switching from a third-party data provider to an in-house platform that it hopes will prove more accurate, scalable, and user friendly--including better print-outs. Of note to us, visitors to Yahoo Maps, supposedly starting today, will have access to more detailed renditions of neighborhoods and buildings in New York City and San Francisco.

Gavin's not the only one looking to clean the streets this year, but the Board of Supervisors do to. Or more like Aaron Peskin who proposed using part of the budget surplus to pay for twenty new city employees to help clean everything up. The money will only be for the rest of the year but will continue onwards and upwards if there's money for it.

How's your water pressure right now? Reports are coming in from around the city that sinks and lavatories are running dry. One source tells us that the city water department was doing some seismic upgrades and accidentally wound up turning off water for a bunch of neighborhoods. It'll be back on in about an hour, we're told.

Not content to spooge up the atmosphere and mutilate pedestrians, Toyota's claimed your neighborhood fixtures as their own advertising space. It's bad enough that they've got their larger posters pasted on the abandoned construction site at 18th and Mission, but we spotted this small locker-sized contribution stuck to a nearby utility pole. (To avoid giving them free advertising, we've replaced their URL with that of a comparable organization.) The image on the poster is meant to evoke one of Toyota's lines of refrigerator-shaped vehicles by depicting someone practicing self-mutilation, which seems pretty much accurate.

Yesterday, at the intersection of Leavenworth and O'Farrell a red Toyota ran a red light and slammed into a cab. The cab then ricocheted into the side of a building. Both drivers suffered injuries, none serious.