Misguided and borderline xenophobic Mission residents, fooling themselves and others into the grand illusion that they're caring and creative ilk, recently NIMBY'd out all over their new surroundings. Again. This time it had to do with the superbly-titled Gunz & Bunz sandwich shop on 24th and Folsom. The name, derived from a popular fast-food chain in Beirut called Buns and Guns, offended a smattering of full-diaper neighbors scared about violence. Neighbors who threatened the owner to change the sign, or else. Neighbors who never bothered to ask the owner about the name. more ›

Just off of the main drag in the Lower Haight, property owner David Nale's attempts to convert 15 rooms in three Fillmore street addresses he owns to an official Single Room Occupancy hotel has the neighbors getting defensive. Although the Examiner reports that Nale has already been renting out rooms in his three properties on a monthly basis for some four years now, the surrounding Lower Haighters don't want to see him get the permits he needs from the Planning Department to officially offer individual leases to tenants and make his property an SRO. more ›

After three years of meetings and discussion the Planning Commission has unanimously decided to move forward on construction of a Whole Foods location on Market Street at Dolores. Per the Examiner, the corner lot will be transformed into an 8-story building with 82 apartments and a slick storefront along Market where Greenpeace volunteers can ambush unsuspecting shoppers. more ›

Aw, this is cute: new homeowner Maureen Futtner seems excited to be moving in to her freshly-built home at 555 Bartlett, in the North SoCha neighborhood. So excited that she's throwing a Meet Your Neighborhood event this Saturday to introduce everyone to local businesses like Front Porch and Rosamunde. Curbed is asking if NIMBYism is dead, but at the risk of acronym overload how about we just call this upscaling of yes-in-my-neighborhood activism PLIMBY? Or "Please Look in My Backyard" if you're not in to the whole brevity thing. [Ex] via [Curbed] more ›

Our mother's grandmother was right: The Beatles are nothing but trouble. According to the Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association, tomorrow's Paul McCartney concert at AT&T Park might prove too rock 'n' roll for Rincon Hill eardrums. So much so, in fact, they posted a hotline to call if the moptop turns it to 11. more ›

Because 24th Street and Mission exists as a bastion of soft-eject tranquility, living anywhere near the intersection means a peaceful night's sleep, right? Not so. One neighbor near popular dive bar the Attic is suing the venue for being too noisy. more ›

We've been avoiding posting about the sweet happy hour deal at Cup A Joe Coffeehouse for fear of it getting too popular, but we need your help to keep the deal going (read further). more ›

Some of you may have heard the news, via the Chron's Inside Scoop yesterday, that Ike Shehadeh, owner of the ever-popular Ike's Place, has been served with an eviction notice. The owner of the building is being sued by the upstairs tenants, who claim to have been "terrorized" by the noise of Ike's constant crowds and the never-ending smell of Peg Bundys and Kryptonite sandwiches wafting up to their apartments. (Interestingly, frequent NIMBY support Chuck Nevius sides with Ike in this case.) more ›

When your Editor lived in the Historic Mission District for many, many years, it was a lot to take. Not standing in line Bugaloos, asking for the whereabouts of the closest American Apparel, arguably well-dressed, bathed and lightly cologned -- the judgmental glares from the Converse-wearing let-'em-eat-cake set would, at times, prove too much. When that happened, we would head up 24th Street to more open-minded, albeit crowded, grounds of Noe Valley. more ›

We figure most of you have tried a sandwich at one of SF's latest sandwich meccas, Ike's Place (but OMG if you haven't you need to try, like at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday). Today the NYT discovers the popular shop via the negative reactions coming from neighbors, who are now decrying the loss of peace on their formerly quiet block in the Castro. Also, they point out that while some businesses may hate the impact of Yelp, it was that four-letter site who was responsible for Ike's massive popularity, and for that owner Ike Shehadeh is grateful. more ›

CurbedSF is reporting that the denizens of San Francisco's South Beach neighborhood are damn mad at the California High Speed Rail Authority and, as typical, they're not going to take it anymore. more ›

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Cow Hollow merchants are rejoicing after crushing Muni's new terminal bus idea. If you recall, Muni wanted to "establish a 291 feet long Bus Terminus at Union & Fillmore." But after merchants threw a temper-tantrum, culled in thousands of signatures, made lots of frowny faces, Muni Executive Director Nathaniel Ford relented. "[T]he two sides agreed to a compromise — the articulated buses would only run from 5 to 9 a.m. on Union Street and the terminal idea at Union and Fillmore streets would be temporarily abandoned," chirps The Examiner. [Curbed, via Ex] more ›

Power Exchange, the 13-year-old sex club formerly located at 72 Otis that shutdown last year due to financial difficulties, wanted to open again, this time at 44 Gough. All was going according to plan, until one perturbed citizen, Lisa Dunmeyer, a Brady Street resident, put the kibosh on the popular humping space. It seems that said sex club (allegedly) attracted an unsavory crowd, one that would embarrass her in front of her guests. "When she had friends over," reports Mission Local, "they couldn’t believe the action. Cars circled the block blasting music, and prostitutes walked up and down the street." more ›

Now that boozing, urinating, and nudity have been banned from the ING Bay to Breakers race, a run famous for boozing, urinating, and nudity -- seriously, we're sorry; this is partially our fault -- residents have sounded off on the B2B Fackbook page. more ›