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.
SF News The Armory Building In the Mission Set to Return as Concert Venue With Additional Smaller Jazz Club Inside The former Kink.com Armory, which Kink moved out of and sold five years ago, is set to return to being a concert and event venue — which it was briefly before the pandemic — but the new owners have also submitted plans to add a jazz club inside.
SF News Monkeybrains Purchase of Mission District Warehouse Provokes Hostilities With ‘Guerrilla Garden’ A vacant lot on Treat Avenue near 22nd Street has no owner, but has a community group who’ve occupied the space with a garden, and a new next-door owner in Monkeybrains who are effectively doing the same with parking. Their conflict is quickly growing like a weed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Seafood Spot Ancora, In Former Locanda Space, Closes After Just Eight Months In a sign that the market for new restaurants in San Francisco may not be as ravenous as it was a few years back, a high-end seafood restaurant that opened last summer on Valencia Street is already calling it quits.
SF Politics Supervisors Might Spike Plan for Temporary Tiny Homes for Homeless at 'Monster In the Mission' Site A plan to put up 70 temporary tiny homes/cabins in the former Walgreens parking lot behind the 16th and Mission BART plaza, ahead of a planned affordable development, may be getting killed after negative community feedback.
SF News Mission District Couple Describes Brutal Attack Near Dolores Park on Super Bowl Sunday A couple walking on 18th Street outside Mission High School on Sunday says they were set upon and assaulted by two female suspects, allegedly for no reason, or because they were blocking the path of the suspects' electric scooters.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Irish Pub The Phoenix to Close Next Week, and a Six-Story Apartment Building Will Rise In Its Place The swan song of the 22-year-old Irish bar, The Phoenix, arrives on Super Bowl Sunday, and the owner has permits to demolish the single-story building and construct an 18-unit apartment building in its place.
SF News The New, Big Bissap Boabab Has Big Problems With Condo Neighbors’ Noise Complaints The condo-dwelling neighbors of the new Bissap Baobab are now trying to get the Senegalese restaurant and dance club’s alcohol license revoked, with complaints over the club’s fully legal and permitted live entertainment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chezchez, Valencia Street's Aperitivo Spot, Is Closed After 16 Months What had been a pretty popular pandemic-era spot for Negronis, spritzes, and tinned fish, Chezchez, is now closed, and it remains to be seen if the Bon Vivants/Trick Dog team will be having another go with another concept in the space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closure of Hawker Fare Adds to Darkened Restaurant Storefronts in the Mission Hawker Fare, chef James Syhabout's often bustling, casual Northern Thai and Lao restaurant at Valencia and 18th, served its last meals on Sunday, adding to a string of closures across the Mission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Night Market-Inspired Restaurant From Former Aina Chef Debuts In the Mission Fans of chef Chris Yang and his popular former Hawaiian spot Aina (RIP), and/or pop-up projects like El Chino Grande, will be excited to hear (if they haven't already) that he's opened a new brick-and-mortar spot on Mission Street.
SF News Back-to-Back Early Sunday Morning Collisions In the Mission Leave Two Injured, One Dead The suspect accused of crashing his vehicle into a pedestrian and another vehicle — fatally — on 16th Street is reportedly in custody and an investigation is ongoing.
SF News Large Fire In the Mission Friday Night Displaced 22 People, But No Injuries Reported A two-alarm fire started at a Mission District residence around 7 p.m. Friday, and spread to the building next door, but all residents were safely evacuated, with no injuries reported according to the SFFD. The fire was contained by 9 p.m.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two Peninsula Men for August Mission District Quadruple-Shooting That Left One Dead Four people were shot and one of them killed in an early-morning shooting last summer at 19th and Mission Streets, but police have finally arrested a Daly City man and a Colma man who they think are responsible.
