SF News Police Arrest Suspect in Haight-Ashbury Sandwich Shop Attack, Suspect Has Multiple Other Warrants An arrest has been made in the July 19 punching of the owner of Sandy’s muffuletta shop, and the 30-year-old suspect has previous arrest warrants for sexual battery and gun charges.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Muffuletta Specialists Sandy's to Open Haight Street Shop Next Week If you don't know the glories of a proper, New Orleans-style muffuletta, you will be able to experience this distinct pleasure soon, as Sandy's gets set to open at 1457 Haight Street on April 20.
Arts & Entertainment Haight Street Fair Suddenly ‘Postponed’ Just Ten Days Before the 2022 Event The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair will not wear flowers in its hair as scheduled next Sunday, June 12, but organizers say they are “aiming for the end of the summer” with a replacement date.
SF News 21-Year-Old Man Killed in Haight-Ashbury Homicide Identified The Haight-Ashbury has been rattled by recent shootings that have left local businesses damaged and cars riddled with bullet holes. But Thursday's episode of gun violence in the neighborhood proved fatal, claiming the life of one 21-year-old Samuel Jessop.
SF News [Updated] Another Shooting In the Haight Kills One Person, Injures a Second There was another outburst of violence in the Upper Haight Thursday afternoon with the second shooting in two weeks, and this time at least two people were shot and injured.
SF News San Francisco Police Suspect Recent Shootings in Haight-Ashbury Are Gang-Related Last Friday, gunshots were heard ringing off Central Avenue, between Waller and Haight streets, in the Haight-Ashbury, leaving the neighborhood's Ritual Coffee Roasters location and nearby cars damaged. It's now believed that this shooting is gang-related.
SF News Haight-Ashbury Shooting Rattles Neighborhood; Ritual Coffee, Nearby Cars Damaged Friday afternoon, the Haight-Ashbury erupted in gunfire when "multiple shots" were fired off Central Avenue, between Waller and Haight streets, leaving a Ritual Coffee Roasters location with a broken street-facing window and close by cars with bullet holes.
Arts & Entertainment New 'Welcome Center'/Counterculture Museum Shop Opens at Haight & Ashbury At the corner of Haight & Ashbury, a new Haight-Ashbury-themed store and "counterculture museum shop" for tourists has just opened, and it's called Haight & Ashbury.
SF News Haight Neighborhood Group Sues City Over Sanctioned Homeless Camp A group calling themselves Concerned Citizens of the Haight is suing the City of San Francisco in federal court over a sanctioned "Safe Sleeping Village" that is set to open Friday on the former McDonald's lot at Haight and Stanyan.
SF News Curbside Retail Begins in SF With Noted Lines at Sex Shops, Bookstores Curbside retail sales and pickup began in SF on Monday. But because of the tight restrictions placed on local retailers by the city, it was met with a muted drum roll and short, sparse lines — for some merchants, if any at all — across the seven-by-seven.
SF News Photos: Mission District and Haight-Ashbury Shops Boarded Up — With Notes of Solidarity in Tow Non-essential businesses still sit vacant throughout San Francisco amid the coronavirus crisis, with many now boarded up, as if expecting a hurricane. But between the long stretches of plywood canvassing window panes across the city, irrefutable signs of unity and hope prevail.
Arts & Entertainment SF's 'First All-Female Rock Band' Ace Of Cups Reunites For New Album Sure, go ahead and laugh at those seventysomething silver-haired biddies recording rock music in the image above. Those seventysomething silver-haired biddies are the seminal Summer of Love musical act The Ace
SF News City Mulls Buying Troubled Haight McDonald's, Flipping It For Affordable Housing A McFlurry of crime and sketchiness has always surrounded the Haight and Stanyan McDonald's location, even before a daytime shooting there last Thursday afternoon. The unhealthy scene has long been a
Arts & Entertainment Rare Photo Collection From 1967 Shows Haight Street Fashions In The Summer Of Love In the private photo collection of Charles W. Cushman, recently made available online through the Indiana University Archives, there's a group of photos that were all likely shot in the same
Arts & Entertainment Video: Go Inside A 1967 Tour Bus As It Gawks At Haight Street Hippies Everything all summer long in SF continues to officially be "hippie" themed because it's the 50th anniversary of the famed Summer of Love and if you haven't
SF News Summer Of Love Epicenter Becomes Site Of Aggravated Assault The intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets — thought of by many as ground zero of the now 50-year-old Summer of Love, was home to a much less loving encounter Monday night,
Arts & Entertainment Summer of Love Anniversary Concert Is Really, Definitely Not Happening It’s not like San Francisco has a shortage of 50th anniversary commemorations of the 1967 Summer of Love squat-in, with a "Summer of Love Experience" exhibit underway at the
Arts & Entertainment Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary Promoter Steps Down, Haight Street Shop Owner 'Sunshine Powers' Steps In After his application for a free Summer of Love 50th Anniversary concert in Golden Gate Park was denied by the Recreation and Park Department and an appeal of that decision was also denied,
SF News Fanciful Renderings Imagine A Haight Street Without Cars In her essay "Slouching Toward Bethlehem," an investigation of life on Haight Street published in 1968, Joan Didion referred to a "center" that would not hold. While she was
Arts & Entertainment Oh Lorrrd: Janis Joplin Documentary Arrives In SF Today A lot of you have likely never seen Janis Joplin perform a number onstage, live or on video, because most of you are under the age of 70 and have little use for
Arts & Entertainment 'Kid Charlemagne': A Close Reading Of Steely Dan's Ode To Haight Street's LSD King "Oh Owsley, can you hear me now" Jimi Hendrix says on a BBC sessions recording of "Day Tripper just before he starts his solo. It's an appropriate reference,
SF News Man Knocked Out In The Haight Over Weed A man is recovering from head injuries after he was knocked out in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood over his weed. KTVU reports that the man was punched in the face and hit his
SF News New Generation Of Commune Hippies Takes Over The Red Victorian You may recall us talking about Embassy SF last fall after the New York Times did a piece about this new style of commune living that's been springing up around techie
SF News This Sit/Lie Ban Is Hurting Haight-Ashbury's Sidewalk Alcoholic Tourism Business As we've noted before, the Sit-Lie ban that went in to effect last year has had negligible effects on the Upper Haight. According to the Chronicle's latest Sit/
Arts & Entertainment Nina Arianda To Play Janis Joplin In Big Screen Biopic Enough of this sports talk. Let's get down to serious business: Tony Award-winning actress playing dead divas. Nina Arianda, who recently nabbed best actress honors at the Tonys for her
