SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gus’s Community Market on Haight Street Is About to Get Bigger, Expanding Into Vacant Spot Next Door The Haight Street Gus’s Community Market store is already about 7,000 square feet, but it just won City Hall approval to grow to almost 11,000 square feet, by expanding into the long-vacant space next door that used to be the Haight Ashbury Music Center.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Rolls Out Fleet of Mobile Security Cameras SF just rolled out some new mobile security cameras for "high-crime zones"; two planes crashed in mid-air in Tahoe; and the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair just celebrated its 45th edition on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 36-Year-Old Haight Street Bar Hobson’s Choice Is Closing Permanently Another punch in the gut to the SF bar scene, as the owner of Upper Haight rum bar Hobson’s Choice has announced the place is closing, though the establishment’s final day has not yet been determined.
Arts & Entertainment Go Enjoy This Weekend: Sunset Night Market, Greek Food Fest, and Haight Street Fair It’s technically the final weekend of the summer, and SF has free-admission culture fairs and festivals all over town, culminating with Sunday’s 44th annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair.
SF News Affordable Housing Complex at Blighted Former Haight Street McDonald’s Site Finally Breaks Ground It’s a new beginning for what was once, arguably, the sketchiest McDonald’s in San Francisco, as they just broke ground on what will be a gorgeous 160-unit affordable housing complex on that long-vacant site.
Arts & Entertainment Club Deluxe Has Indeed Closed, Will No Longer Operate at Haight and Ashbury Despite rebounding from last summer’s shock closure announcement, Haight Street jazz and swing nightclub Club Deluxe is apparently finished for good at its 1511 Haight Street location amidst an ongoing landlord dispute.
SF News Hate Crime Charge Filed In Alleged Antisemitic Assault With Skateboard on Haight Street An assault that allegedly took place last week on Haight Street has been deemed a hate crime by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, and the suspect has now been charged.
Arts & Entertainment Haight Street Swing Bar Club Deluxe is Apparently Closing, But Supervisor Preston Vows a Fight The 33-year-old jazz and swing venue Club Deluxe is closing, according to a statement circulating on social media attributed to its owner, but its district’s supervisor Dean Preston is exploring paths to keep the venue open at the same location.
SF News Haight Street Shooting Now a Homicide, as Victim Dies Three Weeks Later In one of the three shootings in three weeks on Haight Street, the victim in the October 23 nighttime shooting has now died, so the investigation will continue as a homicide.
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 one-stop shop
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 Haight Street Miracle: Street Kids Find And Return Stolen Bag Of Cash Call it a Haight Street miracle: Some homeless youths come across a stolen bag of cash on the sidewalk and, defying all expectations, return every cent to the rightful owner. This is not
SF News Video: Early Morning Fire Strikes Haight Street A fire burning in a Haight Street residence has been controlled this morning, but not before it was escalated to a two alarm blaze. According to the San Francisco Fire Department, the fire
Arts & Entertainment Louis C.K. Spotted On Haight Street After Surprise Shows In SF Even though comedian Louis C.K. wasn't due to be performing in the Bay Area for a couple of weeks he's doing two sets at Bill Graham on July 8 followed by a
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 naming something more metaphysical,
Arts & Entertainment Vintage Shop Owner 'Flabbergasted' By Animal Fur Raid The Haight Street vintage shop owner who was raided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for selling illegal animal parts claims she had no idea she was in violation of the
SF News Mostly Homeless Haight Denizen To Collect $140,000 Reward For Those Escaped Convicts 55-year-old Matthew Hay-Chapman looks like your average Upper Haight vagabond whom you probably wouldn't let borrow your cell phone if he asked. And that's exactly what happened last Saturday when he was headed
SF News Dino-Napper Strikes Haight Street, Steals Beloved Shoe Biz Brontosaurus Bring Dino back to Haight! #helpfinddino #haight #dino #missing #friend #pleasedontsitonme #haightashbury #kidslovehim #dinosaur #bringdinoback A photo posted by Shoebiz II (@dinobiz) on Jan 23, 2016 at 2:36pm PST It is a
SF News Haight Dispute Involving Dog And Skateboard Ends In Stabbing As the earth continues to rotate the sun, so does the troubled intersection of Haight and Stanyan Streets continue to be the site of violence. In today's installment, a stabbing suspect remains on
SF News Early-Morning Fight On Haight Street Ends In SF's 48th Homicide of 2015 One man is dead and another injured after an argument at the foot of Haight Street turned violent Saturday morning. According to the San Francisco Police Department, officers were called to Haight Street
Arts & Entertainment Video: Profanely-Monikered Dirt Bike Gang Takes Over Haight Street It's likely you've seen the dirt bike organization reportedly known as "Chicken Shit" tooling around San Francisco — I fondly recall watching a Friday, April 10 attempted takeover of Market Street that fizzled when
SF News Photos: Tour Bus Drives Down Haight Street On Fire Some tourists got an unexpected surprise in the Haight on Sunday morning as their tour bus unexpectedly caught on fire. Around 10:35 a.m., Sunday morning, a double-decker Big Bus San Francisco
SF News Dear Cars And Tech Shuttles: Haight Street Muni Only Lane Is Muni Only You would think that things would have been cleared up when, as Hoodline reports, at the end of last year Haight Street's red bus lane was explicitly painted with the words "MUNI ONLY.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Fizzary On Haight Is Closed With Brewing To Commence On Mission Looks like you'll have to head to the Mission location of The Fizzary for your microbrew chai cola or whatever as the soda store's offshoot on Haight Street is closed for a concept
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Psychedelic Haight Light Sculpture Dubbed 'The Hippie Trap' A guy in the Haight hung this piece of LED-based artwork outside his building in December, just before Christmas, and one of his neighbors jokingly told him they had nicknamed it The Hippie
