SF News Mission District Mural Defaced With 'Latino Art Only' Graffiti A recent defacing of a Mission District mural has raised questions of art's role in gentrification, as well as questions of the vandal's motives. The mural of 10 sea turtles along the PG&
SF News 'No Hipster Art' Graffiti Defaces Mission Mural Bigoted Graffiti Mars New College Hill Mural https://t.co/QQ5mG3ejcJ pic.twitter.com/hYvaiTdNTI— Bernalwood (@Bernalwood) May 5, 2016 In perhaps a call back to the halcyon hipster-filled days of the 2000s,
SF News Incorrigible Tagger Recently Fined $200K Spray Paints Police Cruiser Anyway Terry Cozy does not abide by the laws of polite society and is apparently undeterred by heavy fines and strong rebuke. And yet C.W. Nevius of the Chronicle provided the latter for
SF News Edward Sharpe Gets In On The Illegal Street Graffiti Marketing Game Uh oh - @dennisherrera isn't going to like @justinbieber-esque SF @EdwardSharpe graffiti pic.twitter.com/HhpPbzlWlC— Evan Sernoffsky (@EvanSernoffsky) March 16, 2016 Perhaps hoping to get a little bit of that Bieber shine,
SF News $1.5 Million Hayes Valley Victorian Haunted By Gibberish Squatter Graffiti If these walls could talk, they'd probably just scream unintelligibly. The Hayes Valley Victorian at 708-710 Buchanan, a "dejected old dame dating back to 1900" by the Chronicle's estimation, has been vacant since
SF News City Attorney Threatens To Sue Record Label Over Bieber Graffiti Hey, Biebs, looks like it is too late to say sorry. In a letter addressed to both Def Jam Records and Universal Music Group, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera today demanded the
SF News Video: Vandals Tag Francis Ford Coppola's Dome San Francisco's historic Sentinel Building is one of North Beach's most iconic structures, a great green tower owned by director Francis Ford Coppola. Now home to (among other tenants) Coppola's American Zoetrope studio
SF News Transient Sex Offender Busted For Vandalism At SF School The day after some mysterious graffiti roiled San Francisco's French American International School with fears of an ISIS message, police say that they've nabbed the tagger, and determined that the spray-painted message was
SF News [Update] SFPD Investigating Possible Hate Crime After Vandalism At SF French American School SFPD investigates reports of vandalism at French American School in San Francisco. https://t.co/tx2KoDnVGb pic.twitter.com/N257yhYgoe— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) November 17, 2015 Just days after a series of
SF News 'Business Consultancy' Defaces SF Sidewalks Then Lies About It Wonder how @bluewolf got to spraypaint ads all over SF downtown sidewalks near #Dreamforce: required to remove later? pic.twitter.com/DR8UxwQPb3— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) September 14, 2015 A New York based business
SF News Judge Deems Alleged 'NO MORE CHINESE' Tagger A Threat To Public Safety When a tagger gets caught in San Francisco, the miscreant is typically released on his or her own recognizance as they await trial, even if they face a massive number of charges. Not
SF News San Francisco Sues Prolific Graffiti Artist For $88,000 In Damage To Public Property If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em. That's what San Francisco is doing in an effort to stop one of the most prolific taggers in the city. In a lawsuit filed last week
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vandal With Vocabulary Tags Twee New Business In Bernal Heights Shocking news from pleasant Cortland Street on the south side of Bernal — or should I say "Banal"— Hill. A vigilante with a vocabulary has tagged a new business, Epicurean Trader — or per the
SF News 'Cryst' Might Be Back To His Prolific Tagging, Is Due In Court Today KTVU reports that deplorable teen Andrew Yarbrough a.k.a. "Cryst," the accused graffiti tagger who has smeared awnings and walls from Market Street to Treasure Island, is due in court today. There,
SF News Alleged 'Cryst' Tagger Faces 29 Counts Of Vandalism, Might Be Defending His Tags In SFist Comments Yesterday, according to CBS 5 San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon filed 10 felony counts of vandalism and 19 misdemeanor counts of vandalism against suspected tagger Andrew Yarborough. Yarbrough has allegedly tagged at
SF News Prolific Tagger Caught Photographing His Work In Dolores Park "Cryst" and "Sheep." That cryptic slang has been spray-painted all the way from Market Street to Treasure Island in what amounts to thousands of dollars in damage. But now, police say they've apprehended
SF News Video: Alleged Vandals Get Stuck On Cliff, Require Massive Rescue Effort Two men suspected of vandalizing a historic military battery in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area ended up needing to be saved by the same law enforcement officers they tried to evade. According
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gracias Madre, Salumeria Both Tagged With Anti-Hipster Graffiti Two upsacale Mission district businesses, Gracias Madre and Salumeria, have been tagged with graffiti in as many days. The writing on the former reads "White People Trying to Be Mexican, Fuck You." Over
Arts & Entertainment Artist Smears Mark Zuckerberg With Poop-Paint Portrait This shit is art. KATSU, a well-known, New York-based hacker, vandal, and graffiti artist who has repeatedly lampooned technology in his work, has now used his own feces to paint a portrait of
SF News Day Around The Bay: How To Get A Reservation At The Progress How to get a reservation at the Progress, the beautiful new restaurant we showed you last week from State Bird Provisions. [Eater] A San Jose police officer is on leave after threatening protesters
Arts & Entertainment Who Is Zamar, the Serial Street Artist Behind the Mischievous Squid? A tagger/street artist going by the name Mar or Zamar, and mr_tentacool on Instagram, has been covering surfaces all over San Francisco and Oakland with an image of a squid, sometimes
SF News New Angry Mission Graffiti Targets All Yuppies and Hipsters Mission Local Market and Local's Corner, and their owner Yaron Milgrom, are no longer the only targets for threatening, anti-gentrification graffiti along the 24th Street environs. As NBC Bay Area and others report,
SF News High Flying Graffiti Artist Tags Van Ness Skyscraper Above Van Ness Avenue, the formerly nondescript 100 Van Ness is getting a facelift to become a 399-unit apartment building with a rooftop garden. Sometime in the past 24 hours, however, the 400-foot
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
