Arts & Entertainment Bernal Heights Is The Hottest Neighborhood In The U.S. Right Now Home to lesbian bar Wild Side West, eye-popping vistas, chicken pot pie purveyor Liberty Cafe, quaint moments, cement stairs, and a calf muscle-building incline (i.e., Cortland Avenue), Bernal Heights* has been named
SF News Woman Killed By City Truck Identified As 35-Year-Old Daly City Mom The woman killed by a Rec and Parks truck Thursday afternoon in Holly Park has been identified as 35-year-old Daly City mother Christine Svanemyr. She had been lying in the grass on the
SF News Young Mother, Lying In Park With Infant, Killed By City Van [Updated] This afternoon in Bernal Heights' Holly Park, a woman lying on the grass park with her infant was killed after a San Francisco Recreation and Parks van ran her over. A few eyewitnesses
Arts & Entertainment Bernal's Wild Marmot Finally Nabbed The charismatic wild marmot one commenter said "should run for Board of Supervisors" after an SFist interview has finally been captured in Noe Valley. The self-described "giant ground squirrel" was nabbed after succumbing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Churchill/Bloodhound Guys Opening Another Bar In Bernal Two members of the team behind Churchill and Bloodhound, Mike Goebel and Darin Brunson, along with partner John Ottman-Combs, have taken over the former Stray Bar space on Cortland Avenue in Bernal Heights
Arts & Entertainment And Now, A Quiet Moment With Some Wild Parrots The wild parrots of San Francisco aren't confined just to Telegraph Hill anymore, as featured in that 2003 documentary. There's a flock of them down in Brisbane now, and one around Alamo Square,
SF News Creepy Meatball Poisoner Still At Large, 3 Dogs Sickened It's either a far-reaching conspiracy, or one very industrious (and creepy) dog-hater: the person(s) responsible for the trail of poisoned meatballs is still at large and has been hitting neighborhoods across the
Arts & Entertainment Why Is There a Piano On Top of Bernal Hill? Someone decided to dump an upright piano on top of Bernal Hill, and though we can't attest to how in or out of tune it is, people have been playing it. BrokeAss Stuart's
SF News Man Shot, Killed In Bernal Heights Near the 900 block of Ellsworth Street, near the San Francisco Housing Authority’s Alemany Boulevard property in Bernal Heights, a man in his twenties was shot and killed. According to CBS SF,
SF News Cyclist Lands In The Hospital After Rear-Ending Muni Bus A cyclist took a trip to the hospital this morning after an unfortunate incident with a 24-Divisadero bus in Bernal Heights. The bus was stopped at the intersection of Cortland Avenue and Bronte
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Ping Pong At Rock Bar Beer week can be a hectic, liver-ruining experience every February in San Francisco. So if you're looking for a beer week event where the competition isn't based around getting a taste of this
SF News Wave Of Muggings Hits Bernal Heights We told you two days ago about the guy who got shot in the hand during an armed robbery at 30th and Mission. Well, move up the hill from La Lengua and there's
Arts & Entertainment Occupy Bernal To Stop House Auction Tomorrow At City Hall On Friday, June 1, Occupy Bernal (the tiny Occupy group that, despite its size, somehow gets shit done) plans to stop the auction of Alberto Del Rio's house by making noise to drown
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Cortland "Cortland Avenue at Banks in Bernal Heights" by Troy Holden.
SF News Bayview, Bernal Heights Hosted Weekend Shootings Gunshots rang out in three separate shooting incidents this Saturday — two in the Bayview and one during a mugging in Bernal Heights. In the first Bayview incident a 20-year-old man was shot on
SF News Husband Sole Suspect In Murder Of Elderly Bernal Heights Woman Hao Mei Wu, the 72-year-old murder victim found unconscious in her Bernal Heights home on Friday night, appears to have been manually strangled by her husband. Police are still weighing a murder charge
SF News Local Blogger 'Totally Unprepared' For Earthquakes [Video] Local blogger and photographer Todd Lappin — the intrepid explorer behind Telstar Logistics, Bernalwood and probably more than one Photo du Jour around these parts — bravely allowed the host of the earthquake preparedness webshow
SF News Bernal Heights Totally Infested With Ugly Spiders An arachnid invasion which is likely affecting more than one neighborhood has come to our attention via our friends at Bernalwood. They report that this unidentified variety of fat, spotted spider has been
SF News In Bernal Heights, Angry Parents Rally Against Unjust Grade School Conditions Add another demonstration to the list of unhappy mobs around town: down in the quiet hillside hamlet of Bernal Heights, some twenty parents of children at the Paul Revere School gathered at the
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Bernal Heights... Our friends down in Bernal Heights are nominating this quirky Cortland Ave scene for the new title of, "Bernal Heights at its most Bernal Heightsiest". Of course, the suggestion there is that our
SF News Arrest Made in Shocking Succulent Thievery in Bernal Heights Over in Bernal Heights, though people still sometimes get robbed while walking home from Glen Park BART, the crimes that have been on everyone's minds lately in the 'hood are a recent spate
SF News Internet Super Sleuths Crown Bradford Street San Francisco's Steepest While the city's Bureau of Engineering would have you believe that Filbert Street and 22nd Street are tied for San Francisco's steepest, the mild obsessives at local data blog DataPointed discovered a freshly
SF News Bernal Heights Mom Stabbed In Eye During Argument In a story fit for Maury, a young mother was stabbed in the eye late Thursday morning during an argument with another woman, reportedly over a man who has had children with both
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bye Bye, Maggie Mudd Friend of SFist Justin Neisuler snapped this shot of the Maggie Mudd on Cortland Avenue in Bernal Heights. The store closed on April 3, and residents want to know why. Aw. Anyway, their
