Arts & Entertainment First Look: A.C.T. Reveals Redesigned Strand Theater Back in February, news that the American Conservatory Theater would be investing in the Strand Theater renewed our hopes for the troubled stretch of mid-Market. Today, courtesy of the Planning Department, we get
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Pour One Out For Patrick Swayze In 'Road House' Tonight San Francisco's love affair with drinking and ironic movie watching gets another outlet at newly arrived Sixth Street art gallery Satellite 66. To christen the space the gallery will be screening Road
SF News Sheer Volume Of Excrement In Machinery Breaking BART Escalators What in the?! Who is defecating with such frequency on our BART station escalators that, after it oozes down and gums up the machinery, it is causing them to break? Well, according to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out A Temporary Offering, Now Livening Up Seventh and Market Over at the Renoir Hotel, on Market Street between 7th and McAllister, a new group of pop-up ventures are serving to liven up the block and test the waters for future businesses on
SF News Market Street Car Ban Could Stretch From Hayes Valley To Embarcadero Three years after Gavin Newsom's hair started turning away cars on Market Street downtown, several city agencies have joined forces to eradicate automobiles altogether from Octavia Boulevard to the Embarcadero. Backed by SFMTA,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Woman Attacks Trolley, Gets Punched It's been awhile since we've had a solid Muni fight video. The latest comes to us today from Mid-Market, where some spectators camped out in front of Sheik Shoes at Fifth Street waiting
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Midday On Mid-Market "Midday on Mid-Market Street" by Troy Holden.
SF News Man's Jaw Fractured During Afternoon Market Mugging At around 2 p.m. on Monday, a man was coldcocked by a punch in the head and robbed while walking along Seventh and Market. He was hospitalized with a broken jaw, reports
Arts & Entertainment Sneak Peek Inside The New Twitter Headquarters The fine folks at Twitter—specifically, the benevolent Isaac Hepworth—sent SFist images of their new 10th and Market headquarters now in progress. Among the many niceties the larger, Tenderloin-adjacent office will boast?
SF News Startups Move to Mid-Market Seeking Tax-Cuts Last week, the first San Francisco startup moved to the Mid-Market area under the tax break revitalization efforts approved back in April. The Company, Zendesk, has taken advantage of the no-payroll tax backed
SF News Woman Assaulted By Four Men at Cable Car Turnaround At around 6:40 p.m. Wednesday night four men, ranging in ages from 13 to 20, allegedly attacked a 48-year-old woman near the cable car turnaround at Market and Fifth. She wasn't
SF News Good Samaritans Stabbed Coming to Woman's Aid Two good Samaritans were stabbed a little before 7 p.m. Thursday evening in the city's Mid-Market area after coming to the defense of a woman. "The suspect, a man in his 50s,
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Vol. 16: On Our Continuing Love Affair with the Dollar Stores of Mid-Market By Tenderloin Geographic Society: My, we got serious there. Last week, religion. The previous week...religion. Let’s lighten up, shall we? Maybe go shopping? A lot of chatter on the wires about
SF News Mid-Market Beauty School's Crack-Smoking Patio Mid-Market chronicler Bluoz makes a habit of showcasing local drug addicts in the area via his Crackhead of the Day feature. Today's selection was found on back door of the very new Marinello's
SF News S.F. Approves Twitter Tax Break The San Francisco Board of Supervisors overwhelmingly approved the controversial Twitter tax break today, a move that (hopefully) will keep the microblogging service from fleeing the city. "The measure passed by the Board
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Finally Weighs In On "Tempeh" District The one piece that's been missing from this Tenderloin/Tempeh story (first reported by SFist) was an actual response from just-for-now Mayor Mustache himself. The Examiner, ever-vigilant in their pursuit of a story,
SF News Traffic Light on Market Street Falls Down, Goes Boom Things are kind of falling apart a bit today, what with this bomb scare/actual bomb situation at the (old) Federal Building, and now, down street at Market and Jones we have a
SF News Mid-Market Hit and Run Kills Man On Saturday night, a 51-year-old man was found lying in the street near Eighth and Market after an apparent hit-and-run incident. The man was struck a little before 9:30 p.m. The
SF News Sympathy for the Farmville: Ed Lee and David Chiu Want to Keep Zynga in Town Too One of the biggest arguments against offering Twitter a tax break for staying in San Francisco and (hopefully) injecting some life in to mid-Market is the precedent it would set for other companies
misc Mid-Market Beautification Continues with Removal of Old Navy "Supermodelquins" Good news for those of us creeped out by the horrifying, contorted faces of Old Navy's plasticene spokespeople: the boardwalk-themed clothing store has announced they're moving on to a more live person-focused ad
SF News Mid-Market Building Owners Still Holding Out for Big Pay Days, But Arts District Moves Forward The stretch of mid-Market between 5th and 8th remains a pretty major blight for San Francisco, due in large part to the vacant and boarded up storefronts at the street level creating what
