SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Summit, Noted Artisan Valencia Street Cafe, Will Close Its Doors This Month Posh tech cafe The Summit will close its doors on January 28. Decried by some as a "masturbatory business fantasy," the creatively-minded Valencia Street space served coffee and pastries to "free thinkers, craftsmen,
SF News Car Hits, Injures Cyclist In The Mission A little after 8 p.m. on Wednesday night, a four-door Toyota sedan hit a cyclist riding at 17th and Valencia streets. "The full extent of the bicyclist's injuries was not immediately known,
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In The Sky... Gerard Livernois snapped this shot of the vivid sky as seen from the city's Mission District. Awe-inspiring, yes? Yes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Occupy Misguidedly Protests Small Business Tacolicious A group of Occupyists protesting Mission evictions on Saturday afternoon wrongly accused Tacolicious and its owner, Joe Hargrave, a small-business owner of evildoings. Brimming with Tea Party-like fervor, hope and confusion, "hundreds" of
SF News Suspect Sought In Mission District Sexual Assault, Beating Police are on the hunt after an early Friday morning sexual assault and beating in San Francisco's Mission District. Sometime between 3 a.m, and 4 a.m., a man followed a woman
Arts & Entertainment Martha Stewart Vexes Mission Cycling Sect Mission Mission brings word that Martha Stewart, one of the most critical yet underrated philosophers in these our modern times, fell prey to San Francisco's sensitive cycling community over the weekend. It seems
SF News Teen Suspect Sought in Early Morning Mission Homicide Police are searching for a male suspect, believed to be between the ages of 16 and 18, who fled the scene of a Mission district homicide just before 2 a.m. last night.
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour Dolores Park from above by Castle Numbskull, via Mission Mission. (Click pic to enlarge.)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan Announces Plans for Old Slanted Door Space After closing the Mission locale over nine years ago -- has it really been nine years?! -- Charles Phan recently told Tamara Palmer what he plans on doing with the old Slanted Door
SF News Cyclist Runs Red Light, Crashes Into Taxi Early Sunday morning in the city's Mission District, a cyclist reportedly ignored a red light, which then prompted the late-night peddler to collided with a passing taxicab. The crash was reported a little
SF News Kidnapping, Attempted Rape In Mission District A woman on 18th Street and Lexington in the Mission District was allegedly kidnapped and almost raped by two men on Sunday afternoon. "A 22-year-old woman was approached by a man who pulled
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink R Image Market Knows What's Up In a neighborhood rife with $14 wine-filled mason jars or bartenders who give you the stink-eye upon ordering unhip vodka cocktails, it's nice to see a bit of the old Mission District shining
SF News Mission Local Reveals the Mission's 10 Most Dangerous Blocks Using crimemapping.com data, Mission Local's Octavio Lopez Raygoza reveals the top 10 most crime-ridden spots in Mission, the city's Latin-American/artisan boutique district. They are: 10) 17th Street between Mission and Valencia
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Warns Users of 'Hipster' Establishments The indetitagible Allan Hough at Mission Mission brings us news that Yelp now offers a 'hipster' (e.g., people who call themselves 'nerds') denotation in the ambience field. As the image here shows,
SF News Witnesses Sought In Cyclist's Hit-Run Speaking of cyclists, one was hit by a car on Christmas Day while heading west on 25th Street "when a gray sedan traveling east on 25th turned north onto Bartlett Street and reportedly
SF News Bowling Coming to the Mission? San Francisco's elite Mission district could be the lucky recipient of a high-end-ish bowling alley, just like SoMa. According to Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi, "New York's acclaimed Brooklyn Bowl has been the subject
SF News Hit-&-Run Melee In Mission District A little after noon today, an alleged case of road rage happened in the city's historic and so very richly-textured Mission District. A reader who asked to remain anonymous told us what went
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar Bambino Cafe at New ODC Space Gets New Name Bar Bambino, the little 16th Street Italian joint that could, is opening a second location. And, according to Inside Scoop, that new location, smack-dab in the under-construction ODC Theater at 17th and Shotell,
SF News NIMBY Watch: S.F.'s Only Gun Store Comes--Wait for It--Under Fire Guns. They're bad. Or good. Depending. They kill people, sure; but Shockwave, our first Transformers action figure, turned into a gun. Obviously, like a profound game of chess played at an East Coast
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lady Gaga Visits Rosamunde Sausages Over in the Mission, a little known entertainer named Lady Gaga visited Rosamunde where she enjoyed some of their signature meat. Mission Mission has more: [W]e finally spoke with the staff and
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mission Street's Dancing Cellphone Todd Lappin of Telestar Logistics (via Laughing Squid) posted this joy-inducing clip of a cell phone -- a Metro PCS phone, to be exact -- delivering garden fresh grooves on Mission Street. That
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: S.F. Street Food Festival On Saturday, the fine folks at La Cocina put on the second annual Street Food Festival in the Mission. The thousands who attended were fed and imbibed with local grub. People waited in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Over on the proverbial railroad tracks of the Mission, near 24th and Valencia, you will find a slew of local artists showing off their work tonight at 200 Yards, a "photography experiment conceived
Arts & Entertainment Mission District-Based Comics Wanted for New Book by Laura Beck You guys, this a totally brilliant idea. The Mission is already saturated with every type of media, so why not make it the most interesting kind? A comic book! Lauren
