SF News Activism Wins: Jack Spade Backs Out Of The Mission In a coup for the anti-formula-retail contingent and Valencia merchants, Jack Spade has backed out of trying to move into the former Adobe Books location on 16th Street, bowing to neighborhood protests. The
SF News Jack Spade Jerk-Off Protest Promises To 'Fill The Streets With Semen' [Update] In an effort to demonstrate objection to formula retail stores like Jack Spade popping up in the Mission, former mayoral candidate Chicken John Rinaldi (who once vowed to barf on food vendors in
SF News Mission Sex Club Falls Victim To S.F. Eviction Crisis Now that the Mission has turned into a giant independently-owned beard oil boutique, soaring rent prices have driven local sex club Mission Control out. They (along with countless other evictees, presumably) need your
SF News Limo Chauffeur Hurt During Mission Robbery Attempt Over near 18th and Mission early Thursday morning, a limo driver was injured after an unsuccessful robbery attempt. "A driver for the San Francisco’s based Abala Limo Service told police that two
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Long Line In The Mission For 'Grand Theft Auto V' Release San Francisco's Mission District, home of the placated infantilized male, saw a long line early Tuesday morning for neither food nor food truck. The queue -- around 100 deep, according to David Downs
SF News Jack Spade Cleared For 16th Street (For Now) Wednesday evening, the Board of Appeals voted 3-2 to allow a Jack Spade store to continue building out their controversial new store on 16th Street in the Mission. Despite an aggressive campaign from
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Well, It's Gabriel, Gabriel... Horn blowing caught by Troy Holden.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four Barrel Celebrates Five Years With Free Coffee, Animals To Pet [Updated With Baby Alpaca Pic] Today Four Barrel Coffee turns five. Aw. And with that, the noted coffee purveyors will offer its fans (because we now live in a city where coffee roasters have fans, making Four Barrel
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: A Pigeon Lover's Dream Come True A bicyclist and pigeons on Chula Lane come together in peanut butter-and-chocolate-like harmony in this photo shot by Gerard Livernois. Huzzah, pigeons! (Our apologies to those of you who, inexplicably, loathe the winged
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Mammoth Life Record Release We're never sure how to write about music, especially tunes and ditties we dig. In Stephen Sondheim's (brilliant) Finishing The Hat, the composer accuses all music writers (save for a couple of NYT
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Laundry Day Mission resident carries laundry, as seen by Bhautik Joshi.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jason Priestly Was In The Mission Filming Canadian Food Show Yesterday Sister Kate star Jason Priestly — we don't have any choice 90210 references since we never really cared for the show; we were Melrose fans — was in town Thursday filming in the city's white-hot
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Inside Mission Dolores Cemetery While scores visit Dolores Park and the Mission daily, few check out the gorgeous cemetery inside the Mission Dolores Basilica. Gerard Livernois snapped this shot of a well-worn statue inside the resting grounds.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Google Google Apps Apps' Yes, it's less a palate cleanser than a main course of anti-gentrification, but Esta Noche drag star Persia's (probably NSFW) video "Google Google Apps Apps" might be just the afternoon brain tickler you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tamale Lady Launches Online Fundraising Campaign Two weeks after we reported that much-loved neighborhood fixture Virginia Ramos, aka The Tamale Lady, was no longer welcome to sell her tamales at Zeitgeist, a new Indiegogo fundraising campaign has been set
SF News New T-Shirt Draws Attention To The Mission's Eviction Crisis Mia Gonzalez, owner of Encantada Gallery in the Mission, received an eviction notice from the darling little store she's run for more than 16 years. She responded by designing this powerful shirt. Friend
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacon Bacon Opens At Brick & Mortar Today You have until 2:30 pm today, folks, to head over to the new Bacon Bacon outpost on the Mission, located inside Brick & Mortar (1710 Mission). The noted baconry will be open
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tamale Lady Feels City Support, Vows to Hang On On Wednesday we reported that beloved S.F. fixture The Tamale Lady was no longer welcome to sell her tamales at Zeitgeist, sparking a furor among her fans and supporters. Two days later,
SF News Sketch: Suspect Sought In Attack Near Dolores Park Police are looking for a tall dude who brutally attacked another man near Dolores Park early Sunday morning. The assault happened anywhere between 12:45 a.m. and 1:15 a.m. in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chocolate & Bourbon Pairing At Hi-Lo Saturday On Saturday, June 15th, Hog & Rocks bar manager and scribe Michael Lazar (Left Coast Libations: The Art of West Coast Bartending)will join chocolatier Lisa Gallinger (Dandelion Chocolate) for an afternoon of
SF News Transamerica Windmill, Musical Greens: A Peek At Urban Putt's Forthcoming Playland Urban Putt, the Mission's forthcoming 18-hole indoor mini-golf course, is a few putts closer to becoming a reality this week. The city's Planning Commission will review the designs this Thursday, which means we
SF News 'Douchebags Like You Are Ruining San Francisco,' Gen-X Techie Says To Millennial Techies There's been enough tech vs. art or rich vs. poor handwringing going around lately that we suppose this was inevitable: A self-proclaimed "part of the gentrification" from the early '90s Mission district and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Palace Steak House To Re-Open This Weekend As Retro, Whole-Beast Joint The retro-classy Palace Steak House closed their doors way back in 2009, leaving late night carnivores without a place to find reasonably priced steaks at 2 a.m. on Mission Street. Although the
