Arts & Entertainment Photo: Lower Haight Swing Action The Mission isn't the only place with a public makeshift swing (RIP!), the Lower Haight played host to some noontime fun today care of this swing in the Lower Haight being used by
Arts & Entertainment Lower Haight Named 2011 Neighborhood Of The Year Beating out popular arrondissements like The Mission and North Beach, the Lower Haight nabbed Curbed's tight 2011 San Francisco Neighborhood of the Year battle. And we can see why: Lower Haight retains its
Arts & Entertainment Whimsical Wooden Swings Appear In Lower Haight Sometime last week, spontaneous pieces of outdated playground equipment started appearing in the Lower Haight, spreading some holiday mirth and merriment through the neighborhood. According to neighborhood watchers, the rope-and-wood swings were first
SF News Massive House Fire At Haight and Fillmore [Updates] Here's the scene at Haight and Fillmore just a few moments ago around 4:30 p.m. this afternoon. A KCBS crew on the scene reports it's a 3-alarm blaze. This afternoon's fire
Arts & Entertainment Abe's Market Puts a Bird on Itself A new mural went up on Abe's Market at Page and Fillmore Streets and no one complained about it. You're slipping, San Francisco.
SF News 3-Alarm Residential Fire Burns in the Lower Haight Sirens and choppers around the Lower Haight this evening as we are getting reports of a 3-alarm fire on the 400 block of Waller Street. Neighbors have spotted 8 fire trucks on the
Arts & Entertainment P-Kok Closes; Kok Opens Funky, fresh Lower Haight boutique P-Kok will close shop at the end of May. Haighteration has the scoop: "Owner Pat Pkok tells Haighteration that she has decided to consolidate the store with the
Arts & Entertainment This Friday: $60 Get-What-You-Get Tattoos in Lower Haight As the Lower Haight Art Walk approaches (from 6pm to 9:30pm on Friday, folks), so does the annual tattoo roulette tradition at Idle Hand Tattoo Studio. See, each year they offer "$60
SF News Underground SF for Sale The Lower Haight's only true nightclub, Underground SF, is up for sale. In fact, the entire building can be yours for around $1.5 million. According to Haighteration, the owner is "looking to
SF News Female Body Found In Burning Car In Lower Haight Overnight Around 3:30 a.m. last night firefighters responded to reports of a burning car at Webster and Rose Streets (between Page and Haight). A two-door gray Pontiac was fully engulfed in flames,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight Relocation for Ike's Place? Andrew Dudley from Haighteration brings our attention to a budding grassroots effort to have Ike's Place move to the Lower Haight. They even crafted a grassrootsy Facebook page, which reads: IKE's PLACE makes
Arts & Entertainment Being Analog at The Citrus Report Those lovable kids at The Citrus Report are throwing an on-going "office party" sporadically for the next two weeks in their e-mag's storefront space in the Lower Haight, featuring typewritten Google search results,
misc Nine Empty Sexy Storefronts Sit Restless on Lower Haight Haighteration, a glorious blog focused on the Lower Haight, brings to you the area's "nine sexiest" vacant storefronts on the lower half of San Francisco's most famous street. While fearing the empty stores
SF News Afternoon Shooting in Lower Haight Brazen drive-by shooting in the Lower Haight this afternoon. We're told the shooting happened at around 12:30 p.m. at Webster and Haight. Around five shots were heard. No word yet on
misc Hot Night = Shooting in Lower Haight Dammit. We were really getting used to the quiet. We hope that nobody was killed, and we'll try to update this as we hear more information.
misc SFist Blotter (Tuesday Edition) You get a very special blotter today. Alas. Carrying on San Francisco's lightning-hot crime wave, a drive-by shooting occurred on the Hayes Valley/Lower Haight nexus last night. At around 6:40 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Tagging in Broad Daylight on Haight Street Or perhaps he's a tagger refugee from the "bourgeois battle" at Warm Water Cove (), that "glorious urban wasteland" where "pretty whitegirls" don't work on their tans? You make the call. Amid concrete and
SF News Your Election Night Fêtes Too real, if you ask us. Election night will soon fall upon the city like a blanket of darkness. But that doesn't mean you should celebrate or grieve alone. Ripping off Inspired by
SF News A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Ross Mirkarimi Sandwich Ross Mirkarimi, the supervisor for the Western Addition/Lower Haight's District 5, was out for a jog this morning around 9:45 a.m. (guess Ross doesn't get into the office early) when
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers: Not only does this "Basie-esque" outfit perform lush jazz and blues tunes, but the chanteuse is pretty funny in between songs. Check them out
SF News Shootings Heard Around Town --Shots at Page and Buchanan around 8 p.m. last night. --Shots in the Lower Haight (from SFist Dan -- not sure if this is the same as the Page/Buchanan incident listed
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Weird Letter Writers As we were dozing off our hangover this morning after the wild party we threw when we found out we were named the Guardian readers' "best local blog" (did you hear us? The
SF News Doing Something About the Violence As a result, people in the neighborhood are in full "mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore" mode and organizing. Their request? Send cards, letters, and e-mails to Gavin,
SF News Last Night in the Lower Haight Last night was a meeting about the spate of violent crime and shootings in the Lower Haight. In attendance were various officials from the SFPD, including Heather Fong, as well as supervisors Ross
SF News Shootings in Lower Haight This is the second shooting in the Lower Haight in the past couple of weeks and second shooting in a row that took place in the morning. Yes, that's right, people are shooting
