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SFPD Seeking Suspects In Random Killing Of Whole Foods Employee Near Alamo Square

Around 2 a.m. on the morning on February 10th, Ernesto "Xe" Gonzalez Acosta was shot at the intersection of Hayes and Webster Streets while walking to a friend's house near Alamo Square.

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Photo Du Jour: Victor/Victoria

"Victorian Alamo Square Plate 2" by Demetrios Lyras.

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Divisadero Doomed To Become S.F.'s Next Tourist Hotspot

As the debate over tour buses in Alamo Square rages on, the neighbors around the Western Addition's enclave of privileged real estate have a new proposal to deal with the droves of tourists

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Alamo Square Developer Still Trying To Make 'Painted Gentlemen' A Thing

Down the block from the postcard row of Painted Ladies in Alamo Square, the real estate developer behind three new post-Victorian homes on Steiner Street is still insisting that we refer to the

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Alamo Square Traffic Vigilantes Idly Document Tour Buses Behaving Badly

Alamo Square neighbors tired of tour guides on loudspeakers, exhaust fumes from idling buses and people setting up cardboard cutouts of the Full House cast in front of their homes have apparently had

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7 Reasons Not Be At Work On This Gorgeous Day

Those of you taking today off on this unusually warm springtime Friday, we salute/loathe you for being in a state of unadulterated bliss. Wait, scratch the "unadulterated" part. You're probably sipping wine

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Adidas Stages Quirky Fun Run For Commercial Shoot

Neighbors around Divisadero, the Panhandle and Alamo Square got front row seats to a much tamer version of Bay to Breakers today. What looked the city's marquee running/drinking event come six months

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Car Hits Pedestrian at Divis and Fell

Yikes. A man walking across the street at Divisadero and Fell this morning was hit by a car. The incident happened a little after 7 a.m. "The pedestrian's injuries did not appear

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Photo du Jour

"You and me against the world" by Darwin Bell.

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Meanwhile, In Alamo Square...

Pugs know what's up. (Photo: Darwin Bell)

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Alamo Square Shooting Wounds Man

After 8 p.m. Thursday night in the 800 block of Webster Street, a man was wounded after getting shot inside a home. "The victim, a 32-year-old man, was struck in the right

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Photo du Jour

"Trees and Trashcans" by Christine Ricks.

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Angry Resident Spraypaints Open Letter to Neighbor On Alamo Square House

Oh wow. An angry resident on Alamo Square spraypainted an open letter to a perturbed neighbor on the side of the former's house. Located on the northeast corner of Fulton and Scott near

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Teen Shot Dead Near Alamo Square Last Night

A little after 11 p.m. last night, two men were shot in the McAllister and Webster area of Alamo Square / Western Addition. A teenage boy, 17-year-old Xavier Gillette, later died at a

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Kirk Janes, RIP

The name of the bicyclist killed yesterday has been released. He was Kirk Janes, founder of the American Flyer bike messenger service, and a well-known figure in the local bike messenger community. We

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SFist Blotter

What a care- and crime-free life SF is living right now,right? And we don't believe any of it. According to local media outlets, SF is safe and sound. But according to a

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A Hot Prowler is Better Than No Prowler

We've really been digging this "EveryBlock" website, which aggregates news, crime reports, photos, reviews, health inspections, and lots of other details about neighborhoods. But unfortunately, the SFPD's data-sharing tool CrimeMAPS is pretty old-fashioned

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SFist Blotter

Even with all the nasty weather, this weekend proved to be yet another violent one in San Francisco. For sure. After five shootings took place within a 24-hour time period, two people lost

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The Latest Progressive Hope

Man, this dull-as-dishwater mayoral "race" is getting us in the blogging doldrums. Someone do something funny, quick! Meanwhile, we'll pass along the news of the latest progressive hope for the Newsom mayoral steamroller

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SFist Photo: Our Changing Skyline, Old vs. New

In the other corner, wearing blue-green, we have the "slender" tower, (do these candy stripes make me look thinner?) One Rincon along with some other blue-ish building, the "Las Vegasy" Intercontinental San Francisco

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Day Around The Bay

--A guy jumped onto the field to say hi to Barry Bonds yesterday. Arrested, drunk. [The Chron photo pool, the Snitch.] --They're looking on the Oregon coast now for the missing Alameda County

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The Stranger Thinks That We Are Awesome

We complain a lot about San Francisco -- MUNI is a disaster, the homeless guy down the street left his post-digested lunch on our doorstep again, our bicyclists are psychopaths, our supervisors accept

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Puppy Love

We want a dog so bad we've taken to following strangers in the street in the hope that they'll stop at the “don’t walk sign” and let us pet Fido. One may

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Recycling Your Christmas Tree

Well, you're in luck! The godlessness of the town of San Francisco is offset by its environmental zeal -- so if you've got a tree you need to get rid of, drag it

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Is Green A Verb?

As we discussed earlier today, PG&E and ReadyMade magazine are co-sponsoring "Let's Green This City," which is aiming to raise environmental consciousness by putting sofas covered with grass around the city.