SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight's Beloved Cuco's Getting Evicted, Again Remember that utterly disreputable, monstrous Lower Haight landlord who circulated a letter to his tenants a couple months back saying there was a new requirement for tenants that they have a minimum annual
SF News Lower Haight Landlord Wants You To Forget About That $100K Rent Requirement When Hoodline first reported that a Lower Haight landlord presented tenants with a letter that appeared to require a $100,000 minimum in income, the response was fast and furious. The outrageous and
SF News Lower Haight Landlord Won't Let You In Bed For Less Than $100,000 Just a few years ago, Haight and Fillmore was derided as "dicey" (or worse). But these days, at least one landlord appears intent on driving the average San Franciscan out of the area,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist This Afternoon: Three Twins' Grand Reopening Bash Though Three Twins Ice Cream officially reopened its location at Haight and Fillmore in January, this afternoon at 3 PM they're holding their "Grand Reopening" party. The local ice cream company's Lower Haight
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Twins Ice Cream Reopens Following 2011 Fire Good news for all you Lower Haighters and ice cream obsessives: Three Twins is reopening their Fillmore Street shop today after an almost two-and-a-half-year hiatus. And as Haighteration reports, they're now scooping a
SF News Oh Hey, Some Dude's Exposing His Penis To Passersby At Oak And Divis Yikes. Here we go: Haighteration has word that someone living at Oak and Divisadero — three blocks from Ida B Wells High School and five blocks away from John Muir Elementary — has taken to
SF News Two Pedestrians Seriously Injured In Separate Hit-Run Incidents Early Thursday morning around 2:45 a.m. a man was left in critical condition after being struck near the intersection of Valencia Street and Clinton Park. A second pedestrian was also seriously
Arts & Entertainment Benefits To Be Held For Alan Forbes, Noted Artist Attacked In The Lower Haight Alan Forbes—a famous poster artist who's created designs for Queens of the Stone Age, AFI, Graveyard, Jello Biafra, just to name a few—was attacked in the Lower Haight on October 21.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Lower Haight International Cafe, shot by Demetrios Lyras.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Duboce Triangle Utility Box Turned Into Utopic Optical Illusion Well, color us astounded. Noted artist Mona Caron, of the Duboce Bikeway Mural behind the Safeway on Market Street, created this cool trompe l'oeil on Church and Duboce. Castro Biscuit reports, "Caron was
SF News Market Street Safeway Evicts Recycling Center, Expands Starbucks The Safeway on Market Street straddling the Castro and Lower Haight neighborhoods issued an eviction notice to the recycling center that has operated on their property for almost 30 years. While the grocery
Arts & Entertainment 'GQ' Profiles Lower Haight Record Store Icon Dick Vivian If you haven't been to Rooky Ricardo's Records (448 Haight Street), that's a shame. It is one of the retail gems of the city, and an expertly curated flea market of mid-century music
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 22-Year-Old Man Shot In The Lower Haight A 22-year-old was shot in the leg last night on the 100 block of Pierce Street in the Lower Haight. He was a passenger in a vehicle that was exiting a parking area
SF News Two Cars Exchange Gunfire In Late Night Lower Haight Shootout Late last night around 12:30 a.m., two vehicles stopped at a light on Oak Street at Pierce near Alamo Square opened fire on one another, unleashing one witness said was about
SF News Teen Thugs Rob Divisadero Comic Book Store, Make Off With $75 A comic book store at Divisadero and Page fell victim to a brazen, daylight armed robbery on Friday, the first in its 23-year history. Comix Experience owner Brian Hibbs tells Haighteration that two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Precious' Maven Chef Resigns One year after helping open three-star Lower Haight gem Maven, chef and partner David Kurtz has resigned. In his place as executive chef is chef de cuisine Isaac Miller (who used to work
Arts & Entertainment 'Hoarders' Comes to Lower Haight Next Week Ladies and gentlemen of San Francisco, Hoarders (a.k.a. SFist Brock's favorite show, after Intervention) is returning with a new episode that was shot in the Lower Haight, and it airs next
SF News Lower Haight Seeks Local Vigilante To Fight Neighborhood Crime Despite being named 2011's Neighborhood of the Year, the Lower Haight has been coping with a spate of robberies, break-ins and phonejackings over the past few months. Finally, someone in the neighborhood has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Memphis Minnie's Celebrates 12 Years Making Lower Haight More Hickory Bold "Never has barbecue been so popular in San Francisco — and never has there been so little of it," explained Memphis Minnie's founder Bob Kantor in a recent interview with Haighteration. And he's right.
SF News The Vapor Room To Close Under Pressure From Feds The latest victim of U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag's crusade against medical marijuana dispensaries is the Lower Haight's oft-celebrated Vapor Room Cooperative. As owner Martin Olive tells Haighteration, the Feds have been tightening
Arts & Entertainment New Blog Pokes Fun At Lower Haight Homeless Lady [Updated] Well, this is enthralling/depressing. A new Tumblr account (noted in today's Morning Links) called Lower Haight Sleeping Bag Lady asks obnoxious Lower Haight residents and its fans to submit photos of a
