SF News Cookie Monster Sets Fire to $1,400 Worth Of Baked Goods A 29-year-old woman became some kind of monster earlier this week when she walked into a Walgreens store at Market and Third Streets, sprayed lighter fluid all over an aisle full
SF News Market Street Chess Players Relocated; Effort Launched to Create Permanent Tables in Civic Center Here's an update in the story about the elderly guys who got evicted from their sidewalk chess-playing area on Market between 5th and 6th: District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim'
SF News Twitter In Talks For Second Mid-Market Office Ahead of their highly anticipated and high-profile IPO, Twitter is reportedly looking to more than double their square footage in mid-Market with a second office right around the corner from their
SF News SFPD Shuts Down Sidewalk Chess Games Well, this is a pathetic development in the War on Fun: The SFPD has confiscated all the game tables, chairs, and chess boards that have been used for at least three decades for
Arts & Entertainment What Will Become of the Historic, Quite Possibly Haunted, Market Street Cinema? Back in February, longtime strip joint Market Street Cinema (1077 Market Street) known for its ever-changing marquee messaging, Thanksgiving turkey drives, military discounts, and deals for conventioneers shut its doors. Was it
SF News Confirmed: Kelly Wearstler Designing Mid-Market Hotel With Rooftop Bar The Renoir Hotel at 7th and Market which over the last year was home to A Temporary Offering, which included the cool but temporary Rio Grande bar from the Trick Dog team that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink C.W. Nevius: The Chronicle's Latest Subway Shilling Columnist We've known for quite some time now that former Da Mayor, well-compensated political/sandwich lobbyist and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Willie Brown has been suspiciously vocal about his love for
SF News Mid-Market: Muni Bus Hits Pedestrian Last night at the intersection of Sixth and Market streets in San Francisco, a Muni bus smacked a pedestrian. The incident happened at around 6:15 p.m. The pedestrian was immediately whisked
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
