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Vehicle Crashes Into Backyard Near Cole Valley, Hits Propane Tank, Driver Injured

There was a wild scene at Frederick and Masonic streets in SF early Wednesday afternoon, after a vehicle drove onto the sidewalk, crashed into a backyard, and landed on a propane tank. There was no fire, but the driver of the vehicle has been hospitalized.

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Cole Valley Is Your Newest Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ After Board of Supervisors Approval

The to-go cocktails will be flowing on a few Cole Valley sidewalks during street-closure events, as the SF Board of Supervisors just made that neighborhood SF’s newest “entertainment zone” where establishments can sell to-go drinks during fairs and night markets.

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SF’s Next Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ Could Be Coming to Cole Valley

Three blocks of Cole Valley are poised to be the next “entertainment zone” where bars can sell to-go cocktails during certain outdoor events and gatherings, adding to the two existing entertainment zones on Front Street and outside the Chase Center.

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Woods Beer & Wine Co. Opening New Brewpub — With Burgers! — In Cole Valley

Woods Beer & Wine Co. is expanding yet again, and the brewery is readying a seventh location in the middle of SF, in Cole Valley, at the site of the former Reverie Cafe (848 Cole Street).

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Stunning Cole Valley 'Tree House' Sells For $5.6 Million — $2 Million Over Asking

A 1970s-era home tucked up near the end of Stanyan Street in Cole Valley — on a hill with sweeping city and Bay views — just sold for $2.1 million over its asking price after receiving 15 offers.

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Humpday Headlines: One Dead In Cole Valley House Fire

One person died and another was injured in a two-alarm fire on Schrader Street in SF, the two teenage victims in Tuesday's party bus shooting have been identified, and there are more camera sightings of that mountain lion seen in Bernal Heights.

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Elder Abuse Suspicions Shut Down Unauthorized Senior Facility Near Haight

A routine Friday morning medical call turned into a raid on what authorities suspect was a sham senior care facility in Cole Valley. The Examiner reports that seven senior citizens have been removed

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Cole Valley Home Of Rolling Stone's First Photographer Is For Sale

Although they might no longer recognize it if they were still with us, famous rock icons like Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia were at one time very familiar with a house now for

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Adele Spotted Brunching At Zazie

Apparently, one of the finest singers of her generation, Adele, is a huge fan of the brunch at Zazie in Cole Valley. She said so before her audience in San Jose on Sunday,

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Views Of Twin Peaks, Diamond Heights, Cole Valley, And More Of San Francisco Circa 1955

Today I continue reaching into the trove of color photographs taken by hobbyist Charles W. Cushman to bring you some more cityscapes that were on sunny spring days like we're having now, only

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Zazie Owner 'Not Sorry' About Her Anti-Toddler Comments; Business Booming At Restaurant Nonetheless

Just a quick update on what Hoodline has now dubbed "Toddlergate" — the dustup this past week over some off-the-cuff comments by the owner of Zazie, posted to a Cole Valley neighborhood Facebook group,

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[Updated] Zazie Owner Vents Frustration About Small Children In Restaurants

The controversy over children in restaurants is not new — and in a city with so few children as San Francisco, tension over the topic is pretty inevitable. But a kerfuffle has erupted via

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Cole Valley's Ice Cream Bar Getting A Spinoff In The Castro

Excellent news for Castro residents with sweet tooths: The Ice Cream Bar, the old-timey soda fountain and ice cream parlor in Cole Valley, is moving in on the former L'Occitane space at 554

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Christian Slater Look-Alike Menaces Child In San Francisco

Let me begin by saying that I am in no way making light of what might be an attempted child abduction. because crimes against children are, I think we all agree, utterly despicable.

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Bacon Bacon Urges Customers To Attend City Hall Hearing

Bacon Bacon fights back against bacon-aroma haters in the hood with this revamped window at their Cole Valley location. Eater notes: "Bacon Bacon's day of reckoning with the Planning Commission is coming up

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Delicious Bacon Aroma Forces 'Bacon Bacon' Closure

The bacon backlash has begun. Popular food truck turned cafe, Bacon Bacon, purveyor of "the Bacon Bouquet" and "Chocolate-covered Bacon," must to temporarily close its doors Friday in the Upper Haight. Why? Well,

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Local Mixologist Becomes Soda Jerk For Vintage-Style Ice Cream Bar

In frozen dessert news, there's a "1930's-inspired ice cream and artisanal soda shop" cleverly called Ice Cream Bar, opening in Cole Valley around the end of January. Judging from Eater's preview of the

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Cole Valley Stickup Turns Out To Be <strike>Unlicensed</strike> Film Shoot [Updated]

In Cole Valley, police officers responding to calls of a masked gunman holding up the Alpha Market on the corner of Cole and Parnassus discovered a much more pedestrian crime in progress. When

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Bomb Squad Finds Mortar In <del>Golden Gate Park</del> Cole Valley

SFist sources tell us that the bomb squad has been called to Golden Gate Park at JFK and 30th Avenue Carl Street in Cole Valley at around 6 p.m. Now, which one

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What's Fair For the Haight Street Fair

The complainers against the festival are the Haight Ashbury Improvement Association, the Cole Valley Improvement Association, the Waller Street Association and the Buena Vista Neighborhood Association. They're requesting that a beer garden is

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Driveway Parking

What does this have to do with anything other than being one of our favorite stories? Well, there's been an influx of driveway parking, especially in the Richmond, and Supervisor Jake McG wants

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Former SF Supervisor Dies

Bierman was 82 years old; she was first elected into office in 1992 at the age of 68. She had just been appointed by Newsom to the Port Commission two weeks ago. She

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Yvesdroppings Have Needs, Too

Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Driver over intercom as the M train inbound approached downtown: "Next stop, Montgomery. Beautiful people, get off here." -- From MeiMei

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Gastronomique: Raising A Stink

To get our cheese fix, there are a few places to go to: the Cheese Board in Berkeley deserves a few posts of its own, there are a few neighborhood cheese shops in

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Bay Blogger Thursday

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (okay, it was a Cole Valley coffee shop in August), we met an enterprising photographer who wanted to start her own photoblog. Her