Taking a cue from the East Bay's recent restaurant robberies, an armed gunman entered Valencia Street Italian eatery Beretta (formerly Last Supper Club/Radio Free Valencia) on Tuesday morning and robbed the joint. The restaurant was filled a with 10 patrons at the time....

It's Saturday the 26th and the iPhone says we have 26 minutes to wait for the 26 Valencia bus. This is the kind of magic we have always associated with the 26 Valencia, the bus line of which we are most inordinately fond. It's not like the 14 Mission, which we need, or the 33 Stanyan, which we respect, or the 38 Geary, which we fear (in a Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit kind of way).......

photo credit: 37 °C Last night's four-alarm fire at Valencia and 25th/26th Streets roared for two long hours, brought the Dovre Club's St. Paddy's Day revelry to a halt, and left 59 people temporarily homeless. Over 130 firefighters were on the scene, and only two people suffered minor injuries. Whew. While the cause of the fire is still unknown and scared many Mission residents, it did bring out the inner photojournalist inside many of......

Three men were shot in the Mission early Sunday morning at Valencia and Tiffany streets. According to the Gate, one of the victims, Jimmy Durwin Gongora, died from gunshot-related wounds; the other two were transported to SF General Hospital with life-threatening injuries. Two unidentified men, it seems, shot the three victims. No arrests have been made.Three more guys, it seems, were also shot in the Mission on Saturday night, resulting in yet another death.......

Last night at the surprisingly gorgeous housing projects HOPE VI revitalization program, Valencia Gardens -- as close to every cyclists' and Quentin Tarantino's favorite local beer garden -- there was a shooting, reportedly, over at 14th Street and Valencia. While we have yet to confirm the incident, according to a tipster: Outside my building at 14th and Valencia. From the cops outside it seems like some sort of argument was taking place. The victim......

All together now: We declare our right on this earth to park our cars within 50 feet of our favorite coffee shops, to be drivers, to be respected as drivers, on this earth, in the Mission, where we intend to find parking wherever we can by any means necessary....