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 Ritual Coffee Opening On Mid-Haight Block By Buena Vista Park Nobody talks about Mid-Haight, because there's not much there between the retail corridors of the Upper and Lower Haight, on that stretch between Central and Divisadero. But now Ritual Coffee is opening their
Arts & Entertainment Banksy Piece 'Rescued' From The Red Vic Swiped By Los Angeles Not everyone loves Banksy. When the only graffiti artist with big-name recognition stenciled a giant, Che-beret-wearing rat on the side of the Haight-Ashbury's Red Victorian — the recently sold hippie bed-and-breakfast, not the dearly-departed
Arts & Entertainment 'Ant-Man' Shooting In S.F. Next Week And We're Hoping For A Paul Rudd Sighting San Francisco has hosted a few blockbuster movie crews this summer — including Terminator: Genesis and San Andreas — and now Marvel's Ant-Man will be here next week. As reported by The Daily SuperHero and
Arts & Entertainment Janis Joplin Forever Stamps To Debut At Outside Lands The United States Postal Service announced a month ago that it'd be putting out the fifth in its Music Icons series of commemorative stamps, featuring Janis Joplin. Given Joplin's historic connection to San
SF News Stabbing Briefly Closes Haight Street Whole Foods The Whole Foods store on Stanyan and Haight Streets was briefly closed this morning after a shoplifter stabbed a security guard. SF Gate reports that at around 8:15 this morning, a security
SF News 4/20 Cleanup Costs Were Incredibly High This Year Due to extra police staffing, Muni re-routing, and trash cleanup, the cost of cleaning up after the annual April 20th smoke-out/celebration in Golden Gate Park soared to over $100,000 this year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woman Claims She Was Attacked At Punk Rock Bar For Wearing Google Glass [Update] The latest story to stoke the tech-vs.-everyone else debate in San Francisco hit the news last night as one local woman claims she was verbally and physically assaulted because she was using
Arts & Entertainment Pink Dolphin's Grand Opening In Haight Draws Huge Line Moms. They're fantastic. And they just want you to be safe. Take, for example, Ofelia Gomez of San Lorenzo, who camped out in front of the new Pink Dolphin store location on Haight
SF News After Tragic Fire Ousts Residents, Lower Haight 1-Bedrooms Go For $4K In September 27, 2011, a massive fire broke out at 493 Haight Street, gutting a Walgreens and several businesses and driving residents of the upstairs apartments from their homes. But the fire wasn't
SF News Woman Mugged In The Upper Haight By Knifepoint Over near the intersection of Page and Cole in the Upper Haight, a 68-year-old woman was robbed at knifepoint by a young, not-so-nice man. The victim was walking around the area at 7:
SF News Uber Driver Sued For Divisadero Fire Hydrant Incident The Uber driver involved in a bang-up accident that ended with another car crashing through a fire hydrant at Divisadero and Hayes Streets is now being blamed for injuries to a female pedestrian
Arts & Entertainment Do You Know These '90s Haight Street Newlyweds? By Sharon Knolle About 20 years ago, I took some photos of two newlyweds on Upper Haight. They were dressed in vintage clothes, the groom in an old-fashioned tie and glasses, the bride
SF News Photo/Video: Fire Burns Old Victorian In The Lower Haight Around 6:30 AM this morning, a fire broke out in the Lower Haight. Dan Jackson snapped this shot of the smoky scene at 373 Haight, between Webster and Buchanan. Haighteration notes that
SF News Photos: Muni Bus Crashes Into Car At Fell & Masonic At around 6:30 today, a Muni bus crashed into a car at Masonic and Fell. An SFist reader, who has asked to remain anonymous, sent us these photos and the following description
SF News S.F. Cabbie Chokes Passenger Who Wouldn't Tip Yet another reason to thank the universe for (decent) ride sharing. On Sunday morning, a cabbie turned into the Hulk after a passenger failed to give the customary tip. Strangulation ensued. "The taxi
SF News San Francisco Orders First Parklet Removal Sure, people were using the parklet outside Martin Macks gastropub on Haight Street. But not the right kind of people, darling. The Department of Public Works issued the order last week for one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delicious Bacon Aroma Forces 'Bacon Bacon' Closure The bacon backlash has begun. Popular food truck turned cafe, Bacon Bacon, purveyor of "the Bacon Bouquet" and "Chocolate-covered Bacon," must to temporarily close its doors Friday in the Upper Haight. Why? Well,
SF News Cleaning Up 4/20 Park Mess Costs About The Same As A 2-Pound Joint [Update] Although original estimates for cleaning up the two tons of Funyuns bags and It's-It wrappers left in the wake of Gate Gate Park 4/20 celebrations was initially pegged at 10 grand, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off The Grid In The Upper Haight This Thursday Eschew the Stanyan McDonald's tomorrow night, kids, for Off the Grid is coming to the has been in the Upper Haight for quite some time! At Waller and Stanyan. Sushi, BBQ, curry, Thai,
Arts & Entertainment Even In 1968, New Yorkers Thought S.F. Was A Joke Our colleagues back East have unpacked last night's episode of Mad Men, which begins with Don and Megan returning from a Hawaiian vacation in January 1968, after Don stole a G.I.'s
SF News Is the Job Economy To Blame For More Homeless Youths On the Streets? Yesterday we mentioned the growing issue of gutter punks in the Castro, something which may or may not have anything to do with the Sit/Lie ordinance and its enforcement in the Upper
SF News SFPD Releases Photos Of Kevin Collins Abduction Suspect Yesterday SFPD released photos and more information about a person of interest in the Feb 10, 1984 disappearance of 10-year-old Kevin Collins. Police are now seeking more information about Dan Leonard Therrien, deceased
SF News New Dildo Shop Opens In The Haight Hey everyone! A new retail shop catering to your every naughty need has just opened in the Upper Haight and it's called Behind Closed Doors despite the fact that in San Francisco, pervy
SF News Berkeley Teacher Busted For DUI, LSD After Leaving Grateful Dead Bar What was that about all California drivers being on drugs? 51-year-old Berkeley High School teacher Douglas Haight (seriously?) lost his job and teaching credentials after a December DUI arrest turned up a bottle
