Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Announces Free Portugal.The Man Show In Civic Center Next Month Fulfilling their pledge to put on three free concerts in the city this year, Another Planet Entertainment has just announced what the second one will be, and it's Portugal.The Man.
SF News BART Installing the Evasion-Proof Fare Gates Throughout Civic Center Station, Starting Today Heads up, gate-hoppers: BART is installing their supposedly evasion-proof Next Generation Fare Gates at Civic Center Station starting today, hoping to stem fare evasion at one of their most notorious stations.
SF News Large Blaze at Civic Center Residential Building Injures One, Displaces Three The charging of an electric scooter was apparently to blame for a one-alarm fire at Leavenworth and McAlister streets Monday morning, and while the blaze was out within an hour or so, one person was hospitalized and three more people were displaced.
SF News Juvenile Arrested In Civic Center Convenience Store Shooting; Store Part of Proposed Corner Store Curfew Legislation San Francisco police say they arrested a juvenile in connection with a Tuesday night shooting near Civic Center that occurred inside a corner store that is at the center of a potential Tenderloin crackdown.
SF News New Trees Installed in Civic Center Mark Grand Plan to ‘Reintroduce Vegetation on a Grand Scale’ to Plaza A tiny start to a very ambitious project got underway when Rec and Parks installed a few new sycamore trees in Civic Center Plaza, though this lofty landscape design has been stalled for years.
SF News Civic Center Walgreens Ransacked by Shoplifters Sunday, Police Didn’t Respond for Four Hours Another brazen Walgreens shoplifting heist was captured on video Sunday, as burglars emptied the shelves of the Ninth and Market street store, but police did not respond to the incident until four hours later.
SF News SFPD Touts 23 Arrests Last Week in U.N. Plaza Drug Crackdown ‘Night Operations’ The SF Police Department says they arrested 23 people in two nights during “night operations” last week in Civic Center’s long-beleaguered UN Plaza, as they continue their uphill battle to clean up that area.
SF News Phoenix Hotel Property Hits Market For $15M, Could Be Redeveloped as 450 Residential Units The beloved, retro, SoCal-motel-feeling Phoenix Hotel, which has always been a charmingly out-of-place oasis in between Civic Center and the Tenderloin, may not be long for this world as the property has just hit the market for $15 million.
Arts & Entertainment The LED Forest ‘Entwined’ Has Now Sprouted Up at Civic Center, Too ‘Entwined’ is still shining nightly at Golden Gate Park, but some of its pieces have just branched out to UN Plaza, and these shrub sculptures will be lit up there every night for up to two years.
SF News And Just Like That, UN Plaza Becomes a Skate Park In a matter of weeks, crews from the SF Rec & Parks Department transformed UN Plaza from the nexus of black-market chaos that it has been for at least a decade into a clean and lively skateboarding and table-tennis destination.
SF Politics Some Supervisors Vow to Jump In on This U.N. Plaza Farmers’ Market Controversy, Possibly Undoing the Move As the Heart of the City Farmers’ Market is set to be displaced to the next block over this weekend, two supervisors are proposing legislation to relitigate that decision, and maybe move the proposed skate park instead.
SF News Protest March and Rally Planned Wednesday Over Relocation of Civic Center Farmers' Market For Skate Park Vendors, organizers, and fans of the Heart of the City Farmers' Market will be staging a protest on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to change the city's mind about its plans to turn UN Plaza and its promenade near City Hall into an outdoor recreation area.
Arts & Entertainment Civic Center Carnival Kicks Off With Funnel Cakes and a 100-Foot Super Slide San Francisco's latest effort at temporarily activating the plaza in front of City Hall, a four-day, county-fair-style carnival, begins at 2:30 p.m. Thursday and runs through the weekend.
SF Politics Some Joker Is Advertising an SF ‘Doom Loop Walking Tour’ For $30 a Ticket In what seems an elaborate troll job, but managed to get published and promoted on Eventbrite, someone’s offering a chance to “view the open-air drug markets” at Civic Center for $30, which I’m pretty sure you can do for free.
SF News City Hall Acquires Civic Center Parking Lot, Will Make It 196 Affordable Housing Units What’s currently a parking lot at McAllister and Franklin Streets will become 196 units of affordable housing, in a horse-trading deal between developers and city officials that will ultimately create a reported 671 homes.
SF News TogetherSF Implies Civic Center Farmers' Market Is Shutting Down Due to Fentanyl, Then Apologizes Because It's Not That tech-money-funded advocacy group TogetherSF, as part of its bizarre ad campaign to convince us of a drug-crisis problem we're all well aware of, has put out some misinformation about the Heart of the City Farmers' Market. They were called out on it, now they're apologizing.
SF Politics Breed and Supervisors Heckled and Shouted Down at Press Conference On U.N. Plaza Drug-Dealing This made-for-TV event is not going to look good on TV, as Mayor Breed and the Board of Supervisors were heckled off their own stage and reportedly had a brick thrown at them at a Tuesday joint press conference on drug dealing at U.N. Plaza.
SF News Two People Shot and Injured Near Civic Center, Outside Burton Federal Building There was a shooting early Monday outside the Philip Burton Federal Building on Golden Gate Avenue that left two people injured, according to the SFPD.
SF News Largely Peaceful SF Pride Celebrations End On Weird Note With Crowd Fights, 'Bear Spray' Incident The full scale SF Pride Parade and Civic Center celebration went off mostly without incident on Sunday for the first time in three years. But the mood was slightly marred by some end-of-day (probably drunken) chaos.
SF News One Man Shot and Killed On Civic Center BART Platform, Suspect Immediately Apprehended One individual was fatally wounded in a shooting Thursday night on the train platform at BART's Civic Center Station, and BART Police officers who happened to be in the station immediately arrested the suspected shooter.
SF News [Update] Hit-and-Run Crash Near Civic Center Kills One Pedestrian, Injures Three Others A major collision occurred Tuesday night at the intersection of Polk and Hayes streets that took the life of a pedestrian, and one of the drivers involved reportedly fled the scene on foot.
SF News Young Man Kidnapped, Beaten, Shot, and Robbed Near Civic Center Saturday Morning The SFPD is seeking two suspects in an SUV who allegedly kidnapped a man in his 20s near Civic Center on Saturday morning, and later dropped him on the street, badly injured and partially naked.
SF News Tenderloin’s ‘Safe Sleeping Village’ Has Been Opened, Though Allows But 50 Tents The Safe Sleeping Village at Civic Center opened Monday, and we have a few reports on its first three days of operations.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Civic Center Burger King Permanently Closed After History Of Health Violations The Market Street Burger King abruptly closes following another recent health complaint, ending a 32-year run of giving San Francisco the runs.
Arts & Entertainment SF Arts Commission Votes To Remove Racist Statue Near City Hall The San Francisco Arts Commission has unanimously voted to remove a Civic Center statue depicting a Spanish vaquero and a missionary standing over a prone Native American figure. As KTVU tells it, dozens
