SF News Two-Alarm Fire Destroys Vacant Commercial Building Near Mission and 26th A commercial building on Mission Street between 25th and 26th streets went up in flames just after midnight Wednesday night but luckily did not spread to a residential building next door.
SF News Temporary Tattoo Outfit On Valencia Closes All Locations Amid Bad Press, Complaints Its Tattoos Aren't So Temporary It's been almost a year since we started hearing rumblings that Ephemeral, the tattoo parlor on Valencia Street whose tattoos were allegedly "made to fade," had some unhappy customers who were waiting much longer than the 9 to 15 months the shop promised for their tattoos to disappear.
SF News BART Police Install, Then Remove Possibly Decoy Watch Tower at 24th and Mission Plaza In the ongoing, Sisyphian effort to curb illegal vending and other illegal activity outside the 24th and Mission BART Station, BART Police put up a 15-foot watch tower on Monday. Then they took it down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District Vegan Mexican Restaurant Gracias Madre Closes After 14 Years Declaring it another victim of the pandemic's aftermath and the economic conditions in the Mission, the owners of Gracias Madre have shut the restaurant down for good.
SF News SFPD Investigating After Fatal Shooting Near Mission Soccer Field Friday Officers located the gunshot victim on the 2400 block of Harrison Street, near John O’Connell Tech soccer field, around 3 p.m. Friday, but the victim soon died from injuries. No arrests have been made.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Duc Loi Supermarket, the Go-To Banh Mi Spot In the Mission, Is Closing Next Week It's your last weekend to grab a banh mi from Duc Loi at 18th and Mission, as the 36-year-old Vietnamese grocer and sandwich counter is closing up shop — though the store will continue on under new ownership.
SF News The Former ‘Monster In the Mission’ Project, Now Slated to Be Affordable Housing, Gets Even Bigger Mayor London Breed is ordering a supersize increase in the number of units to the affordable housing complex going into what used to be the Burger King and Walgreens buildings at 16th and Mission, at the once-derided “Monster in the Mission” site.
Arts & Entertainment Valencia Street Music Club Amado’s Reeling From Basement Flood, Needs Community Support The Mission District live music venue Amado’s took a $500,000 hit with a flooding incident this summer that turned its downstairs area “into a swimming pool,” and the club is looking to its fans and regulars to help them bail out from the extensive damage.
SF News New Valencia Bike Lane Sows Confusion and Chaos, Some Call It ‘Valencia Meatgrinder' The reviews are decidedly mixed for the new Valencia center bike lane, with some saying it’s safer, and others alarmed that it “sandwiches” bicyclists between two lanes of moving cars.
SF News Mission District Fireworks Mayhem Leads To Late-Night Riot-Gear Police Skirmish The predictable onslaught of illegal Mission District July 4 fireworks displays turned into a hour-long melee between police and various skateboarders and sideshow aficionados, though the scene did not get as violent as last year’s Independence Day hullabaloo.
SF News Alleged Gang Member Arrested For Mission Shooting Was Wanted for Oakland Music Video Shooting That Killed One 22-year-old Javier Campos was arrested Wednesday night in Santa Cruz County and he's been linked to both Friday's Mission District shooting and the shootout at a gas station in Oakland that killed an 18-year-old man in January.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Person of Interest Detained In Mission Shooting Javier Campos, the person of interest wanted in connection with Friday's shooting in the Mission, has been detained; accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape was back in court Wednesday; and two Americans were found dead in a Baja California motel.
SF News Person of Interest In Mission District Shooting Is Also Wanted In Oakland Homicide The SFPD is on the hunt for a person of interest whom they've identified by a connection to a vehicle seen fleeing the scene of a shooting in the Mission District Friday that left nine people injured.
SF News Details Emerge in Friday Night Mass Shooting in the Mission: Suspect Named Following Friday night's shooting in the Mission District that wounded nine, one victim is still in critical condition, but SFPD named a suspect who has other outstanding warrants for firearms and homicide and vowed to increase police in the neighborhood.
SF News Shooting at Block Party in the Mission District Friday Night Leaves 9 People Injured SFPD says that the shooting, which happened 9 p.m. Friday at an anniversary party for local store Dying Breed, was a “targeted and isolated” incident, but no arrests have been made yet.
Arts & Entertainment SF Porchfest Returns Saturday In the Mission District A beloved "front porch festival" that first happened in San Francisco in 2015 is returning this weekend for a day of local music on sidewalks and porches in the Mission District.
SF News Prolifically Violent MS-13 Gang Member From SF's Mission District Convicted, Faces Life In Prison In a trial that followed over a dozen other convictions of his MS-13 associates, Elmer Rodriguez, a.k.a Gordo, was convicted in federal court this week on multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, and racketeering conspiracy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Oldest Diner, the Mission’s 105-Year-Old St. Francis Fountain, Has Found a New Owner It’s not a done deal yet, but the 105-year-old legacy business St. Francis Fountain appears to have found a new owner, a veteran of North Beach spot Mama's on Washington Square.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred AL’s Place Location Set To Reopen as Dosa Corner Chef Aaron London closed AL’s Place last August despite great reviews and big crowds, but now the location is slated to reopen as the Indian spot Dosa Corner.
SF News Shouting Match Escalates Into Violence at Contested Mission District Community Garden There was another dustup this week between some guerrilla gardeners and home-grown internet company Monkeybrains over the contested Parcel 36 in the Mission District, and this time a punch was thrown.
SF News New Squad of Community Ambassadors Hopes To Clean Up Mission District Blight A new group of “Mission Community Connector” ambassadors is being deployed starting today in the Mission District, in an effort to abate the neighborhood's rampant tent camping, street vending, and sidewalk drug use.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Former Roosevelt Tamale Parlor Has A New Taqueria Opening Friday Night The 100-year-old Roosevelt Tamale Parlor closed last September, but now less than eight months after its closure, the new Tacos del Barrio opens there Friday night. And they’re keeping the vintage neon sign!
SF Politics Board of Appeals Weighs In on Saga of Vacant, Apparently Unclaimed Mission District Lot, Tells Supes to Act The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Wednesday tossed out a permit that had been granted to local internet business Monkeybrains to put up a fence on one side of a lot adjacent to their building at 22nd and Treat.
Arts & Entertainment Gray Area’s New Show TECHS-MECHS Celebrates Media Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Sprawling, Immersive Body of Work The exhibition, offered through May 31, finds the perfect home in San Francisco's Mission district as it explores how technology is used to bring people together and to drive them apart.
SF News Fender-Bender On Mission District Alley Leads to Man Being Shot Two cars collided Sunday evening in SF's Mission District, and in an apparent act of road rage, one driver shot the other driver before fleeing the scene.
