SF News Those ‘Anti-Sex Work’ Barriers Are Now Coming to Shotwell Street After street bollards and barriers chased the sex work scene off of Capp Street, but merely moved that activity over to Shotwell Street, the SFMTA has voted to bring the barriers to Shotwell Street too.
SF News New Oakland PD Chief Vows Sex Work Crackdown; In SF, Mission Residents Sue City Over the Scene on Shotwell There’s pushback against the sex worker situation on both sides of the Bay, as the new Oakland Police chief is promising a coming crackdown on International Boulevard, while Shotwell Street residents have sued SF over sex work on that street.
SF News SFPD Conducts Another Prostitution Sting In the Mission, Busting Johns and Sex Workers San Francisco police are touting a new round of pointless arrests that they made last week during an eight-day operation to discourage sex work in a section of the Mission District where it has basically existed, undeterred, for three decades or more.
SF News Capp Street Barriers to Be Made Permanent, Because Apparently They’re Working to Deter Street-Level Sex Trade The seemingly flimsy street barriers on Capp Street have done well enough at preventing late-night chaos on the street that they’ll be made permanent, though a different design will be utilized.
SF News The SFPD Brags About Busting Johns Seeking Sex Workers on Capp Street Undercover SFPD officers have recently been posing as sex workers and they say they've busted 30 "johns" in a pointless exercise on Capp Street, in an ongoing effort to crack down on solicitation on that Mission District alley.
SF News Capp Street Gets Bigger New Concrete Barricades, Firefighters Union Sounds Off Angrily On Twitter A new set of heavier and more immovable concrete barriers went up to deter the sex work trade on Capp Street this weekend, but the local firefighters union took to Twitter to decry what they see as a public safety risk.
SF Politics Supervisor Hillary Ronen Introduces Legislation To Legalize Sex Work As the sex worker controversy roils Capp Street, the district’s supervisor Hillary Ronen has unveiled legislation hoping to legalize sex work, though it really just asks the state legislature to do it.
SF News City Hall, SFPD Unveil Plans To Barricade Capp Street In Supposed Sex Work Crackdown We’re now getting some specifics on the so-called crackdown coming to the Capp Street sex work trade, with an SFMTA map of the barriers that Supervisor Ronen’s office tells us will be “up by Friday,” and SFPD teasing some enforcement details.
SF News Capp Street Will Be Barricaded Off Over Concerns There’s Too Many Sex Workers Strolling A long-running concern over the world’s oldest profession has Capp Street residents saying their street is “a sanctioned red-light district,” and apparently street barriers will be going up on a four-block stretch of Capp.
Arts & Entertainment Mission District's Lost Church Performance Venue Goes From Underground To City-Approved The intimate, hard-to-find Lost Church has been operating at 65 Capp Street as an underground theater venue for the last six years, but had previously been the Capp Street Project since as far
SF News Man Convicted Of Pimping Young Girls On Capp, Polk Streets A jury on Wednesday delivered a guilty verdict in a tragic case involving the rape, sex trafficking, and pimping of two teenage girls on the streets of San Francisco. Jamar Geeter, 28, was
SF News Capp Street Showdown Leaves Two Clinging To Life An argument on the Mission District corner of 17th and Capp Streets took a potentially deadly turn Wednesday night, when a suspect shot two men, critically wounding them. According to San Francisco Police
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Benefit for Capp Street Fire Victims On May 13, if you recall, a fire displaced residents of 506 Capp Street. A fundraiser will be held at Tope in North Beach to help them reclaim their lives. Head over to
SF News Violent Beating, Stabbing on Capp Street A brutal attack was reported at 24th and Capp Streets yesterday afternoon at around 5:40 pm. SFPD Officer Boaz Mariles told BCN (via SF Appeal) that "the two girls exited the bus
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Post-Postcard 11: the 11th Annual Small Format Art Sale: At this event, you are the artist and your work is on display. "Artists are encouraged to submit small format multiples--whether that be
SF News Shootings Heard Around Town --Shots at Page and Buchanan around 8 p.m. last night. --Shots in the Lower Haight (from SFist Dan -- not sure if this is the same as the Page/Buchanan incident listed
SF News A Rare Monday SFist Blotter Okay, we don't usually do crime wrapups on Monday, but we're starting to actually get more and more freaked out about the state of public safety in the city these days. If you
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next, oh.... the SF Weekly. Matt Smith finds out that Don Fisher got arrested for getting 15 year old girls drunk (when he was 19). The power of investigative journalism, folks! ....and HA!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --Audacia Ray, the editor of the sex worker zine $pread and a Fleshbot [nsfw] contributor, talks at Modern Times about the commodification of sex on the Internet. 7:30 p.m., 888 Valencia
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music Fest: Night Of Electronica They should really have more shows in art galleries -- as we walked into the Lab on Sunday night for the Mission Creek Music Fest ambient noise show Sunday night show, we saw
SF News Fires in the City A second fire in the Inner Mission in about as many months, as firefighters rushed to a burning apartment building on Capp Street between 18th and 19th Street early Thursday morning. Three people
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: SFist Has You Covered Usually, we try as hard as we can to avoid the real world, but we'll make an exception for the fourth San Francisco Documentary Film Festival. There are so many unbelievable films to
