Arts & Entertainment What Will Become of the Historic, Quite Possibly Haunted, Market Street Cinema? Back in February, longtime strip joint Market Street Cinema (1077 Market Street) known for its ever-changing marquee messaging, Thanksgiving turkey drives, military discounts, and deals for conventioneers shut its doors. Was it just
SF News Ed Lee Announces Spotify's Move To MidMarket Joining Twitter, ten other tech companies, a Coi spinoff, a clothing designer and a gastropub, Swedish music streaming company Spotify will move its headquarters to MidMarket in the Warfield Building. "Spotify is innovating
SF News Google Bus Piñata Attacked At Anti-Gentrification Rally A reported 30 to 40 people attended an anti-gentrification block party in the Mission on Sunday where, among other things, a Google Bus piñata was smashed to ribbons. "The scent of sage was
SF News Condo Conversion Legislation Gets Amended With Ten-Year Moratorium As discussed back in February, Supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener have co-authored some legislation that will clear a 2,000-unit backlog of tenancies in common (TICs) and allow them to convert to
SF News Adobe Books To Be Resurrected On 24th Street Good news for fans of aged wood pulp: the financially strapped Adobe Books will avoid disappearing completely by moving to the Mission's next new hotspot along 24th Street. After some aggressive rent increases
Arts & Entertainment Behold: A Map Of San Francisco's Lost Gay Bars Last month we brought you a roundup of ads from defunct gay bath houses in town, and about a year ago we showed you a semi-current map of the dozen gay bars that
SF News Map: San Francisco Is All 'Creative Class' And No Working Class Gentrification can be a dirty word around here, what with the constant hand-wringing associated with tech shuttles, rising rents and all the cool kids moving to Oakland. Over on The Atlantic Cities, however,
SF News Final Death Knell Tolls for Adobe Bookshop Way back in 2010 things weren't looking that great for 16th Street stalwart Adobe Bookshop, and it's only gotten worse. We'd heard in January that owner Andrew McKinley was going to try to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Facebook Employee Proposes To His Twitter Bride In Dolores Park Earlier this month, Facebook employee JP pulled off a coordinated social media/real life stunt proposal by enlisting friends, coworkers and his Twitter-employee-girlfriend's Facebook stalking habits to successfully sneak up on her in
SF News Chronicle Building Tagged With Anti-Nevius Graffiti C.W. Nevius penned another piece in praise of gentrification on Saturday, and by early Sunday someone had spraypainted "Fuck C.W. Nevius" and "Fuck Gentrification" on the side of the Chronicle building.
SF News Nevius Returns To The 'Loin To Find Feel-Good Miracle Ever a fan of gentrification and feel-good stories about the drug-addicted homeless, Chuck Nevius files a column today about a former "hellhole" at 850 Geary that was recently bought by a new owner
SF News Gentrification Report: Audi Showroom Coming To The Mission Curbed reports the Planning Commission has approved plans to put a glassy Audi Dealership in the Mission's gasoline alley at 14th Street and South Van Ness. This is, of course, right next door
SF News Rush Limbaugh Thinks Whiny San Franciscans Should Shut Up and Enjoy Their Gentrification Well then. That SF Mag piece by Salon's David Talbot about whether the new tech boom is ruining the character of SF somehow caught the attention of Rush Limbaugh. It seems Rush really
SF News They're Having Trouble Washing Anti-Yuppie Graffiti Away at 299 Valencia Remember how those scrappy, and some might say misguided anarchists went about defacing the lobby windows and sidewalk outside the new condo complex 299 Valencia with phrases like "Fuck Off Yuppies"? Well, the
SF News Some Missionites Still Unhappy That Mission Has Gentrified [Updated] We're well into the second (some might say third) decade of gentrification in the Mission, but nevertheless there are still some residents in the vicinity who would like things to be more like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 5 Gentrifiers On Divisadero As San Francisco changes with its influx of money and its penchant for microhoods (and saying such cringe-worthy dreck as "microhoods"), we here at SFist want to give you the top-drawer suspects of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NoPa Is The New Mission, Says New York Publication Hey, everybody, the New York Times has discovered San Francisco again! And this time it isn't about the Mission. Well, almost. The gray old lady sets its book-sniffing sights on NoPa — known to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission NIMBYs Force Fun Deli to Change Name Misguided and borderline xenophobic Mission residents, fooling themselves and others into the grand illusion that they're caring and creative ilk, recently NIMBY'd out all over their new surroundings. Again. This time it had
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dregs One Takes On Gentrification Speaking of Mission Mission, they bring our attention to "SF native and hip hop artist" Dregs One's new series called The Wake Up Report. His first episode concerns the incurable force known as
SF News Board of Supervisors Approves Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan As expected, the S.F. Board of Supervisors voted to approve the massive Hunters Point redevelopment project on Tuesday. "After years of debate," SF Appeal reports, "the Board of Supervisors gave first approval
SF News Housing Group Occupies Mission T-Mobile Building A smattering of folks partially responsible for Mission gentrification made an attempt to chip away at its glossy veneer on Monday. Last night at around 5 p.m., according to Mission Local, a
SF News <em>Wall Street Journal</em> On Temescal "Oakland's answer to San Francisco's Mission District," Temescal is, arguably, one of Oakland's finest neighborhoods. As Curbed noted earlier today, the WSJ review is downright intriguing, not to mention highly informative, when praising
Arts & Entertainment Punk-Drag Party Charlie Horse Killed By Neighbor Noise Complaints The expanding War on Fun has taken another life, ladies and germs. Marke B. over at the SFBG reports that punk-politico drag queen Anna Conda has decided to call it quits on her
SF News SF Sex Club To Hopefully Re-Open Soon Power Exchange, the 13-year-old sex club formerly located at 72 Otis that shutdown last year due to financial difficulties, wanted to open again, this time at 44 Gough. All was going according to
SF News Chain Store Threatens Cultural Integrity of SF Neighborhood Evil, culturally unrich, dastardly home improvement chain Lowe's is planning to open a store on Bayshore Boulevard. According to the SF Chronicle, it's in the negotiation stages. If you recall, a Home Depot
