Arts & Entertainment Comedian W. Kamau Bell On SF Gentrification: 'You Know It's Bad When Even White People Are Angry' W. Kamau Bell admits to "pulling back" in front of San Francisco's often largely white audiences. But last night on Valencia Street at the Chapel during a live taping of KQED's new podcast
SF News How Many People Does It Take To Protect Mark Zuckerberg's New House? Two years after Mark Zuckerberg snapped up a home at 21st and Dolores Streets, the Facebook founder and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have finally moved into the $10 million fixer-upper. That means
SF News Have The Tech Wealthy Totally Supplanted The Mission Hipster? Local Site Says Yes. In declaring the Mission "hipster" to be dead, former SF Bay Guardian nightlife writer and onetime publisher Marke Bieschke has certainly threatened to kill the website 48 Hills, which published his virally popular
SF News 'White Power' Tags Appear In Mission District The Mission District is no stranger to graffiti, from anti-gentrification messages spray-painted on businesses and buildings, to the defacement of an LGBTQ-themed mural, to the campaign of vandalism and threats against Local's Market.
SF News Elbo Room Clings To Life With Month Reprieve, Open Through Year's End "Big fu**in News!" writes Elbo Room bar co-owner Matt Shapiro in a rosy Facebook post flagged by Capp Street Crapp."Elbo Room's lease is extended til the end of the year!!!! With
SF News SFPD Investigates 'Suspicious' Mission District Death After a young woman died near San Francisco General Hospital, police say they are investigating her death as "suspicious." Police say that the body of 23-year-old San Francisco resident Melanie Oliveri was found
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Proprietor Of Valencia Street Bar Calls Out 'Ugly' Entitled Millennials Longstanding Valencia Street bar Blondie's always seems to evoke mixed reactions from SFist's commenter community, from those who say things like "this place was over run by young bankers and dot.com 1.
SF News Uncooperative Witnesses Impede Investigation Into Shooting At Mission Homeless Encampment The investigation into a possible drive-by shooting at a Mission District homeless encampment Tuesday night is hitting a dead end after witnesses to the incident stopped cooperating with police. San Francisco Police Department
SF News Homeless Navigation Center To Become 165-Unit Affordable Building; Will There Be More Navigation Centers? Affordable housing advocates in the Mission District have something to celebrate: The development rights for what's currently the temporary Homeless Navigation Center at the former Phoenix Continuation High School site have been awarded
SF News Super High-End Sports Car Showroom Attempts To Move Onto Valencia Two years after formula-retail protestors drove off a proposed Jack Spade store in the Mission's former Adobe Books space, another luxury goods dealer has applied for space in another former arts hub. This
SF News There Was An Armed Assault In Blondie's Bar Bathroom Last Night The bathroom of Blondie's Bar on Valencia Street (between 16th and 17th Streets) became the scene of an armed assault on a 25-year-old man last night. As the Examiner reports, a pair of
SF News Planning Commission Says It May Halt Some Mission Development Although a proposed moratorium on market-rate housing in the Mission District died before the Board of Supervisors last month when it failed to garner a nine vote majority, another body capable of exerting
SF News Supervisors Kill Moratorium On Mission Market-Rate Housing, 'This Is Not The End' Says Campos The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted down a proposed temporary moratorium on market-rate housing in the Mission District last night, putting an end to an exhausting eight-hour meeting. Supervisors Mark Farrell, Scott
SF News Peek Inside Albion Hall, A Mission Treasure You Can Never Afford 143 Albion is quite the address. Remodeled to become a four-bedroom residence in 2009, it's now on the market for $6.5 million, which Curbed indicates is one of the highest asks ever
Arts & Entertainment '94110' TV Pilot Casting Monologues, Presented Without Comment When San Franciscans learned of a casting call for a TV pilot called 94110 that would tell "the story of six leading technology executives living, learning, and loving together in San Francisco’s
SF News A Mission Development Moratorium Would Stall 1,100 Housing Units A temporary moratorium measure on market-rate development in the Mission District that Supervisor David Campos introduced to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday would, according to the Business Times, stall around 1,100
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Fifty Years of San Francisco Street Photography' You ever come across a vintage San Francisco photograph that gives you gasps, goosebumps and throbs of nostalgic fascination? There will be an entire gallery of photographs like that at the upcoming exhibit
Arts & Entertainment Here Are The Roles Being Cast For That Mission-Based TV Pilot '94110' The in-production TV pilot 94110 that was casting in the Mission recently has been relatively hush-hush about its vision, allowing rampant speculation. Many have expressed their distaste for the project Mission Local even
Arts & Entertainment McSweeney's Launches Kickstarter With Loopy Prizes Like Notes From Spike Jonze And Insults From The Onion “For 15 years now, it’s been a break-even operation,” founder Dave Eggers said of his small, Mission District-based publishing house McSweeney's, in an interview with the New York Times last October. “I’
SF News Judge Halts 1050 Valencia Development Mid-Construction A Superior Court Judge has called for a halt to the five-story development currently under construction at 1050 Valencia Street between 21st and 22nd Streets, at Hill Street. And this is triggering a
SF News Bizarre Vandal Caught On Tape At Mission District School Why vandalize a school? And if you're going to vandalize a school, why have your vandalism take the form of theft of some worthless light bulb covers? That's what officials at the Children's
SF News 2-Alarm Fire In The Mission Displaces 9, No Injuries Fire on 26th and Bartlett.This is right outside our living room.Luckily we're ok. @KTVU @abc7newsBayArea @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/B2FmfYrerX— Alexander Meinke (@AlexanderMeinke) April 8, 2015 A fire in the Mission
SF News Five People Seriously Injured, Two More Flee In Fire At 24th And Treat Streets Fire in San Francisco's Mission - Treat and 24th. Five people taken to the hospital. pic.twitter.com/36eDoLiWHM— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) March 11, 2015 Five people were injured, and two more people
SF News Fleeing Mission Robbers Might Have Left Little Kid Behind In their haste to flee police during a Mission District robbery gone wrong, two suspects made a lot of mistakes. Their biggest one, however, might have been to bring a four-year-old child with
SF News Names Of Officers Involved In Fatal Mission Shooting Released, March Planned For Tonight The SFPD has released the names of the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of Amilcar Perez-Lopez, identifying them as Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli. The shooting, which took place on the
