Arts & Entertainment Is 'San Francisco Doomed?' Musician Hannah Lew Talks Tech And The City Hannah Lew has been a fixture on the San Francisco music scene since starting the beloved, now-defunct band Grass Widow in 2007. Lew and her family moved to San Francisco when she was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local's Corner Vandalized (And Scrubbed) Again A week after Mission Local Market and Local Mission Eatery were hit with graffiti and death threats, vandals returned to Local's Corner to tag up the windows. According to one tipster, the graffiti
SF News Local Mission Market Targeted With Graffiti, Death Threats Thursday night in the Mission, a trio of stores under the Local Mission brand became the target of protests that later devolved into threatening vandalism. The protests stemmed from allegations of racial discrimination
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Divisadero Watch: Popeye's Chicken Threatened By Tides Of Change, Curious Landlord On the up-and-made-it stretch of Divisadero (or "the New Valencia" if you must, but you shouldn't), a noted fried chicken joint could be the next restaurant to get a complete overhaul. According to
SF News Is San Francisco Destined To Get More Conservative? This is the question being posed in a new piece from Salon: Will the influx of tech wealth and the construction of more and more condos inevitably lead to the fraying of San
SF News Holy God, 950-974 Market Street Is Going To Be Huge A development project that kind of dropped off our radar reappears via some new renderings today, via Curbed, and dear god it's another enormous hotel and arts center that will help to completely
SF News Angry Protesters Block, Smash Google Bus The Gbus minus window. pic.twitter.com/qfMnzFgiLf— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) December 20, 2013 In another display of ire directed toward vehicles that haul Google employees to and from work, a smattering of
SF News Kaplan's, The Army-Navy Store On Mid-Market, Closing After 74 Years In another sign of Mid-Market's continued comeuppance, Kaplan's, the 74-year-old army-navy store between 6th and 7th, is closing to make way for a 9-story hotel. The Kaplan family has struck a deal to
SF News 'This Is A City For The Right Kind Of People,' Screams (FAKE) Google Employee To Protester [Update] In a video taken at Monday morning's Google bus protest in the Mission District, SF Bay Guardian reporter Joe Fitz Rodriguez captured a heated exchange* between an alleged Google employee and a protester.
SF News Anti-Eviction Protesters Block Google Bus In The Mission [Update] The revolution has begun, comrades. Over in the city's tony Mission District at 24th and Valencia, a group of protesters braved the chill to block a Google Bus from moving its merry band
SF News NYT Columnist Visits S.F., Is Horrified By Our Public Transit Now that San Francisco is officially the most elite city in America, shouldn't we have a public transportation system that works? Or does our dysfunctional transit system point to an elitism at work
SF News Art Agnos: 'It's All But Over For The Poor In This City' We've said it several times, and now progressive former mayor Art Agnos chimes in for NPR in a national story about how shitty San Francisco's real estate market now is for the middle
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Dolores: Insane New Home Redefines 'Median Rent' In Noe Valley, where home prices are soaring, some merry pranksters are taking the term "Median Rent" literally with this cozy-looking statement that popped up in the middle of Dolores Street. Frankly, we're
SF News S.F. Rents Are Up 10% From Last Year San Francisco residents have long bemoaned the rising cost of rentals, and now there's word that the increase may be worse than you thought: in the past year alone, rents have risen a
SF News San Francisco Is The Least Affordable City For Middle Class Homeowners When discussing the affordability of San Francisco living, the conversation tends to turn towards whether low income residents and starving artists can still afford to live here amongst all the blue bloods and
SF News Real Estate Investors Target West Oakland For Gentrification As gentrification finger-pointing reaches a fever pitch in the Bay Area, the Wall Street Journal has found a new culprit: real estate investors who are pumping money in spots like West Oakland in
SF News Twitter IPO, Among Other Things, To Spur 'Hyper Gentrification' Many San Franciscans who did not used to be millionaires, who perhaps even couch-surfed in your living room once in the last decade, are going to become suddenly wealthy if they happen to
Arts & Entertainment Today's Techies Are Yesterday's Hippies, And Other Thoughts From The New Yorker As of late, a flurry of national media attention has followed San Francisco's growth and attendant cultural ramifications (take George Packer's recent Silicon Valley piece or this week's meditation on SF's housing crunch
SF News Mission Sex Club Falls Victim To S.F. Eviction Crisis Now that the Mission has turned into a giant independently-owned beard oil boutique, soaring rent prices have driven local sex club Mission Control out. They (along with countless other evictees, presumably) need your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Craft Cocktail Bar To Replace Red Devil Lounge The evolution of Polk Street continues as Red Devil Lounge plans to close by year's end. One of the last remaining live music venues left on Polk Street, a member of the Tipsy
SF News Startup Bro Backlash Leaps Off The Internet, Into Real Life [Updates] Yesterday's bro-tastic, anti-San Francisco screed did wonders to unite the various factions of the city's usually fractured internet commentariat. In fact, the ire directed at local entrepreneur and venture-funded hater Peter Shih reached
SF News Startup Bro Not Completely Stoked On S.F.'s Startup Bro Scene After slogging through the tech vs. art and rich vs. poor rhetoric swimming around San Francisco, we thought this trend of anti-San Francisco hate blogging had reached it's logical conclusion with that Gen-X
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Google Google Apps Apps' Yes, it's less a palate cleanser than a main course of anti-gentrification, but Esta Noche drag star Persia's (probably NSFW) video "Google Google Apps Apps" might be just the afternoon brain tickler you
SF News New T-Shirt Draws Attention To The Mission's Eviction Crisis Mia Gonzalez, owner of Encantada Gallery in the Mission, received an eviction notice from the darling little store she's run for more than 16 years. She responded by designing this powerful shirt. Friend
SF News 'Douchebags Like You Are Ruining San Francisco,' Gen-X Techie Says To Millennial Techies There's been enough tech vs. art or rich vs. poor handwringing going around lately that we suppose this was inevitable: A self-proclaimed "part of the gentrification" from the early '90s Mission district and
