Arts & Entertainment Important Photo: Bob Saget In Front Of 'Full House' Victorian While en route to a radio show in San Francisco recently, Bob Saget, Tanner family father, stopped by Lower Pacific Heights to pose in front of the original Full House victorian. Saget told
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Unseated As City With The Best Parks The non-profit Trust for Public Land surveyed parks in the nation's 50 largest cities. The three crucial factors included park access, size, services, and public investment. Each park was rated
SF News Two Cars Exchange Gunfire In Late Night Lower Haight Shootout Late last night around 12:30 a.m., two vehicles stopped at a light on Oak Street at Pierce near Alamo Square opened fire on one another, unleashing one witness said was about
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Victor/Victoria "Victorian Alamo Square Plate 2" by Demetrios Lyras.
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment 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'
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
misc 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.
SF News 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
misc 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment 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 "
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment 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