Rincon Hill. It's more than an onramp. It's also home to a new dog park. Well, almost home to a new dog park. According to LiveSOMA, it's being held up "due to PG&E and getting electricity to the park." But it should open in no time. more ›

While it's certainly no 19th Avenue, the intersection at Harrison and Main is closely turning into one of the city's most perilous places for pedestrian crossing. "We have multiple traffic estuaries throughout the neighborhood, dumping cars, trucks, buses and anything else with wheels onto our streets, and many of the drivers are not only distracted by technology, but confused by the lines drawn on the road," reports LiveSOMA. Enter Jamie Whitaker (AKA Rincon Hill SF) who captured what goes who at Harrison and Main on a regular basis during rush hour. more ›

Rincon Hill will get a bit more mellow soon (which is a good thing for some people in the area) when the tony San Francisco neighborhood gets its very own pot club. A new cannabis dispensary has -- at last! -- been approved to open in Rincon Hill at 527 Howard Street (across from Temple nightclub, next door toe Eve) under the name of Igzactly Health Center, according to the Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association. more ›

While we wait to hear back from the fuzz on this violent mugging, here is a recent alert sent out from the South Beach/Rincon Hill/Mission Bay Neighbor's Association: 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 ›

Plug 1 of What I'm Seeing snaps this shot of the future SFist headquarters, One Rincon Hill. What? It could happen.
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Perfect for your next Burning Man art car or, well, your next Burning Man art car, the big red tomato that used to siren in customers at the now-closed Vino e Cucina is up for sale. According to the Craigslist ad: "After serving for 18 years as a SOMA landmark for San Franciscans, the giant tomato is available for sale. It is huge and ready to be hung or displayed by the buyer. It is hollow metal and in great condition. Original cost was $5,000. Asking price: $1,500. The tomato is still hanging at 489 Third Street, San Francisco (cross street Bryant). Please call 415-722-9229 if you have any questions or would like to purchase the 'Big Tomato.'" To check out the massive tomato, go to the chronically empty lot at Bryant and Third Street to see it in all its plump, red glory. more ›

Timecapsule: February 1869 more ›

Looking at our monitor through a wall of tears, the following info is difficult for us to report. According to Curbed, it has been confirmed that "the second tower of the Rincon Hill development has been cancelled for the foreseeable future." With vacancies still inexplicably open at the tallest apartment building west of the Mississippi River, One Rincon Hill; our economy in the bidet; and the cost of housing getting higher by the hour, developers have pulled out. Oh, and not only has development in Rincon Hill be drastically reduced, but at other locales across the Bay Area as well. more ›

One Rincon Hill - the tallest apartment building west of the Mississippi, or however its tag line goes - has been open and ready for business for some time now. It should come as no surprise to regular readers of SFist that we are very envious of its inhabitants, people who are ten times better than you. more ›

Holy smokes, readers. Cupid's Span, the love-it-or-hate-it-but-you-really-should-love-it-since-it's-chock-full-of-whimsical-glee, is almost back to its normal self. Over the past few months, part of the piece has been covered by scaffolding, but according to RinconHillSF, "the scaffolding around the top half of Cupid’s Span in Rincon Park appears to be coming down - unveiling an evenly colored top half of the bow." Exciting stuff! And according to Curbed, the park surrounding Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's masterpiece (oh, you heard us) is "Rincon Hill's favorite spot for open-air drinkage." Nice. more ›

The Library Tower (AKA the U.S. Bank Tower) in Los Angeles could soon be the second tallest building west of the Mississippi thanks to San Francisco's proposed Transbay Terminal. While the Library Tower, located in downtown Los Angeles, stands at an alluring 1,018-feet tall, the Transbay Terminal is primed to win the measuring contest at 1,200-feet. more ›

As most of you know, we here at SFist are staunch vertical-growth advocates. In addition to One Rincon Hill being visible from SFist headquarters, we have also had the pleasure of watching the mushroom tip of BLŪ sprout above SOMA/Rincon Hill overt the last few months. While unsure of whether or not it was the next St. Regis or SOMA Grand, we've been dying for some time to sneak a peak at its insides. more ›

So, it's the eleventh hour and you've decided against crushing up a couple of Ambiens into a mug of fume blanc and calling it a year. Instead, you've turned that frown upside down, choosing to see what's happening tonight on New Year's Eve 2008. Good for you. And to help you out, here are some last-minute events for each neighborhood in the San Francisco. Just follow links for more info; they will provide you with more in-depth details. more ›

-- Fallout from yesterday's tiger-ian death of 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. continues. [CBS 5, SFGate, Spotswood, FCJ, SF MetBlog, Peta (cuckoo!)] more ›

-- Smell that? It's the stench of awards season underway. And the San Francisco Film Critics Circle nominees are... [Hartlaub, Maximum Strength Mick] more ›

We've always been warm for One Rincon Hill's late-modernist form. For some reason, though, we failed to realize this darling accent of omission, located at the tip on the building's west side, is intentional. What fun! more ›

-- Not enough credit card debt in your life? Top-shelf department store Barneys New York will solve that problem after it opens this week. [Chron] more ›

-- Heklina (writing for SF Weekly again) on our newly crowned drag king. [The Snitch] more ›

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". more ›

-- 4.2 tremor slightly moves the Bay Area, donuts. [Chron, Yahoo, Examiner, FCJ] more ›

Since it's bound to open soon and we'll certainly never be able to step foot inside of the million dollar-plus apartments in SF's new and phallic-y One Rincon Hill -- biggest apartment building west of the Mississippi, damn straight -- the scary-sounding and fancy-named Telstar Logistics snapped some shots from inside the budding building. more ›

-- "Not guilty," says you know who. [Chron, Examiner, ABC 7] more ›

Thanks to some ass-kicking by Matthew Bajko at the BAR, Bevan's taking a bit more time this year to plan for Halloween. Next public meeting: Wednesday, the 30th, at 5:30 in the California Pacific Medical Center, Davies Campus, in the Level B Auditorium in the North Tower Building. Is it just us, or do those directions sound like riddles in a scavenger hunt? Anyway, they'll be talking about the city's plan for moving Halloween to the waterfront. more ›

-Police say they're taking a bite out of crime in the Western Addition. -And today's minor earthquake was in Lafayette. We still think there has been way too many of these minor quakes lately. more ›

With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of Diablo, San Francisco Magazine, San Jose Magazine, and 7x7. more ›

Have you guys been to the UPS pickup office in Potrero Hill by 280? They have all these huge banners in the lobby that say "We Have Been An Accident-Free Work Zone for 10,000 Days," or something to that effect. As we while away our life waiting in line (only to find that the package we're waiting for is "still on the truck," but that's a separate post for a separate day), we amuse ourselves by idly speculating, what do you think the last accident was? And isn't that a lot of pressure to put on everyone not to get injured today, which would then necessitate the removal of all those signs? more ›

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly: Tommy Craggs, like Tony Toni Tone, has done it again! This week, he uses the Microsoft Word auto-summarizer to read last week's interminable Sean Penn in Iran articles from the Chron! Could it be that Mr. Craggs heard our desperate cries for help? In other news, Matt Smith hates on Chris Daly's Rincon Hill deal, the Infiltrator pretends to Christian rock, and the cover article's about heavy metal Thor. Savage Love: you know, if you start a letter to Dan with "I'm straight, I'm smart, I'm funny, and I'm hot," you kind of get what you deserve. Next: the Metro! RIP, Bob Moog. The war on terror seemed a little overblown in Lodi. Spongebob Squarepants at Great America! Cover: San Jose gang war. And Secret Asian Man eats your hate up like love. The Guardian and the East Bay Express after the jump, plus the pick of the week! more ›

Ever since SFist has lived in San Francisco, we've heard one complaint more than any other--"why can't we get a decent bagel in this town?" Well, that and. "why can't we build more housing in this city?" For a closer look at the reason why we can't (build more housing, not get better bagels), one just has to look at several recent stories to see why it is that we're all paying way too much for a way-too-small-apartment that hasn't had its rent-controlled walls painted in way too long. more ›