SF News Developer of Failed Fillmore Heritage Center Skates With Just a $100K Settlement Over Unpaid $5.5M Loan The Fillmore Heritage Center that was home to the former Yoshi’s has been a bust, and its latest disappointment is a mere $100,000 settlement payment from a developer who got a city loan on the place for $5.5 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Mediterranee Staying Put on Fillmore After All, With Lease Extension After Bout of Uncertainty The fate of 45-year-old Middle Eastern restaurant La Mediterranee was up in the air after a new controversial landlord on a buying spree bought its Upper Fillmore building, but the restaurant and owner jointly announced a four-year lease extension for the legacy business.
SF News SF Supervisors Strengthen Legacy Business Protections, Hoping to Save La Mediterranee and Others After a billionaire bought up several Upper Fillmore buildings and legacy businesses there were given their walking papers, Supervisor Aaron Peskin just passed his bill adding protections to keep those businesses in place.
Arts & Entertainment Church of 8 Wheels Building Gets Landmark Status, Skate Parties Will Apparently Keep On Rollin’ The former church on Fillmore Street now popularly known as the Church 8 Wheels was granted landmark status by the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, and while the property will be redeveloped into housing, its popular skate rink will reportedly stay intact.
SF News The Former Yoshi’s in the Fillmore Could Be Reborn as a New Food Hall Sometime This Year The building that housed Yoshi’s SF and the Fillmore Heritage Center has been a vacant reminder of a boondoggle for going on five years, but someone’s finally in negotiations to take on the lease and make it some sort of food hall and event space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prolific SF Restaurateur Opening Two New Restaurants In Pac Heights and Hayes Valley We have word of two new spots coming from his Back of the House Restaurant Group: The Tailor's Son on upper Fillmore, and a second location of The Bird in Hayes Valley.
SF News Fillmore Shooting Suspects Were At Funeral For 'Local Pimp,' Will Not Face Murder Charges, Say Prosecutors The two suspects in Saturday's Fillmore District shooting that left one man dead and five people injured will not be facing murder charges because prosecutors say they were part of a gun battle that began with the dead man brandishing a weapon.
SF News Proposed Fillmore And California Parklet/Arch Would Recall Similar Historic Structures Is it just me, or is there a bit of a parklet arms race going on these days? For some years, cafes and restaurants have been upping the ante in terms of their
SF News Man Dragged Down Fillmore Street In Brazen Backpack Beat-Down A Fillmore Street pedestrian was hospitalized Monday, after a team of muggers dragged and assaulted him over a backpack. The 36-year-old male victim was walking down Fillmore Street between Eddy and O'Farrell Streets
SF News Christmas Comes Early For Fillmore Street Prowler A Lower Haight criminal found an odd way to express his or her (way early) holiday spirit Monday, when they broke into an area resident's home and stole her Christmas ornaments. According to
misc The 22 Will Not Be Eaten By A Tiger Today It's obvious that busses travel in packs to avoid predators (thanks for that one, Chris!), and given recent happenings at the zoo, we certainly don't blame MUNI for taking precautionary action, but isn't
Arts & Entertainment Howl Turns Fifty It's almost exactly fifty years later, and it still smacks you upside your beret-wearing cool-cat bongo-beating head, man -- Allan Ginsberg debuted his classic poem "Howl" on Friday, October 7, 1955, at a
SF News Ski's On Bundle up, ski bunnies -- looks like Jonny Moseley's 30th birthday Pacific Heights ski jump party, sponsored by Icer, is back on! After a contentious meeting of the SF Interdepartmental Staff Committtee on
SF News Ski Jump Cancelled This just in! Newsom cancelled Jonny Moseley's 30th birthday party. Look at bummed-out Jonny over there -- doesn't he look kind of like Matty Gonzalez at that angle? Just a little bit? Newsom,
Arts & Entertainment Downhill Fillmore Boy, have we got some bad Cow Hollow ideas for you! Have you guys been following the whole "turning Fillmore Street into a ski slope" thing? So Icer Event Management has decided to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Happiness is a warm broth. We must mention that, post-blues, we found comfort in the best spanakopita, a Greek phyllo dough square stuffed with spinach. We saw it displayed in the window at Dino's, and it was so
SF News Political Junkie: The Gossip Passing along news about public figures in an attempt to distract ourselves from the pain of everyday existence: your Political Junkie gossip roundup for the day! Our soon-to-be-former first lady Kimberly made it
Arts & Entertainment Oh You Pretty Things SFist is frequently complimented on our glowing skin and healthy hair. Is it clean living? A healthy diet of fruits and vegetables? Yet another unplanned pregnancy? No, we owe it all to Kiehl's.
