SF News Eight-Hour Standoff Between SFPD and Vietnam Vet Ends With Suspect Forcibly Detained Around 11:30 a.m. Friday, SFPD officers responded to call that a man — who would later be identified as Vietnam War veteran James Craft — was brandishing a metal pipe near 18th and San Carlos streets. After a lengthy standoff, SFPD managed to push the suspect against a wall to detain him.
Arts & Entertainment Latinx Film Festival CINELOA Moves Online, Ticket Sales Go Toward Supporting Local Nonprofits Pedestaling Latinx short films, CINEOLA's cinematic lineup aims to connect audiences with diverse representations of Latinoamérica on screens (big and small), with funds made through ticket sales benefiting SF institutions like the Roxie Theatre and Artists’ Television Access.
SF News Curbside Retail Begins in SF With Noted Lines at Sex Shops, Bookstores Curbside retail sales and pickup began in SF on Monday. But because of the tight restrictions placed on local retailers by the city, it was met with a muted drum roll and short, sparse lines — for some merchants, if any at all — across the seven-by-seven.
SF News UCSF Finds 2 Percent of Residents and Workers In Mission With Active COVID-19 Infections, Half Show No Symptoms We now have the first data to come out of mass testing of Mission District residents and workers last week, and out of 4,160 people who were tested both for COVID-19 infections and for antibodies, just over 2 percent tested positive for an active infection.
SF News Two Injured in Mission District Shooting Near 14th and Guerrero Streets According to San Francisco police, two men were wounded in a shooting near 14th and Guerrero streets around 8:22 p.m. Friday night, with one of them currently in critical condition and the other recovering from non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News Three Arrested for Al Hamra Shooting on ‘Shelter-In-Place’ Eve A 26-year-old social worker was shot just hours before shelter in place went into effect last week, and SFPD now arrested has three suspects.
SF News Photos: Mission District and Haight-Ashbury Shops Boarded Up — With Notes of Solidarity in Tow Non-essential businesses still sit vacant throughout San Francisco amid the coronavirus crisis, with many now boarded up, as if expecting a hurricane. But between the long stretches of plywood canvassing window panes across the city, irrefutable signs of unity and hope prevail.
SF News 25-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot in the Mission District Wednesday Night The deadly shooting of a twenty-something man — near 21st and Shotwell streets — Wednesday evening became the second suspected homicide in the Mission District this past week, alone.
SF News Photos: The Mission District on the Eve of Sheltering in Place Hours before San Francisco's shelter-in-place order was enacted, a nonchalant stroll through the Mission District proved eerily quiet, void of heavy foot traffic, and peppered with signs explaining why various restaurants or businesses were closed amid city-wide coronavirus concerns.
SF News Two Pedestrians Critically Injured After Prius Runs Red Light In Mission District A 62-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of felony hit-and-run after his burgundy Prius allegedly plowed through the intersection of 23rd and Mission, clipping a Muni bus and hitting three pedestrians, critically injuring two.
SF News Kansas Based Developer Wants To Build 65 Affordable Housing Units In The Mission District, Underground Unless you've been living under a rock, it's no news that San Francisco is in the midst of a housing crunch. One proposed solution? To (ironically enough) build housing beneath the bedrock.
SF News SF Police Shoot Homeless Man After Alleged Attack On Officer Early Saturday morning, SFPD officers shot and critically injured an assumed homeless man in the Mission District after he allegedly struck one of two on-duty officers.
Arts & Entertainment Seven Ways To Celebrate Día de Los Muertos In SF With the sexy nurse costumes and half-price Party City wigs put away till next year, the Day of the Dead (Día de Los Muertos) can now finally bask in its afterlife glow, sans any Halloween hoopla.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whoa! El Rio Almost Closed This Summer, but Was Saved by a Housing Nonprofit The nightlife scene dodged a bullet as El Rio was at serious risk of shutting down in recent months, but thanks to a city program, Carmen Miranda’s huge head is not going anywhere.
SF News Disturbed Man Detained By SFPD After Leaping Across Roofs In Four-Hour Standoff in the Mission A shirtless, shoeless man with what appeared to be white hospital ID bands on his wrist and ankle spent about four hours Sunday morning jumping from roof to roof in the Mission District as police tried to get him to come down.
SF News Two Men Shot On Mission Street Near Cesar Chavez Wednesday Night Two men were shot and seriously injured Wednesday night on the 3100 block of Mission Street, between Cesar Chavez and Valencia.
SF News So-Called ‘Historic Laundromat’ Property Sold, But High-Rise Still Likely to Replace It The Wash Club lavanderia has a new owner who will probably attempt to develop a similar eight-story complex to the one its previous owner proposed that will generate the same criticism.
Business & Tech New Startup Hopes to Fill Your Living Room With Lonely Freelance Workers Yet another startup wants to cram more co-working into Mission District homes, Airbnb style, but city officials are already questioning whether this is even remotely legal.
Arts & Entertainment Clarion Alley Mural Project Turns 25: A Historical Primer The onslaught of gentrification has been blitzkrieging the Valencia Street Corridor for the better part of 30 years now, yet one little patch has always maintained the neigborhood’s old-school, punk-rock, outlaw roots.
SF News Neighborhoods Are Up In Arms Over Ford GoBike Installations Critics of the new Ford GoBike bicycle-sharing kiosks grabbed at an opportunity to voice their concerns at Tuesday evening's San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors meeting. Ford, if you'll recall, took
SF News Deplorable Teens Mount Paintball Attack On Bus, Woman Police are seeking three teenage males today, after the trio shot a bus parked in the Mission District with paintballs, then turned their weapon on the woman inside it. According to the San
SF News Mysterious Mission Beating Sends Woman To Hospital Witnesses alerted police to an early-morning attack Thursday, in which a woman was reportedly suffered injuries to her head. Police say that witnesses heard a woman screaming for help at 6:45 Thursday
SF News Latest Mission Homeless Navigation Center Stalled By Construction Delay A new homeless Navigation Center was scheduled to open Monday at the 1515 South Van Ness location at 26th Street, providing 120 beds just a few blocks from the persistent homeless encampment beneath
SF News Attacker Wordlessly Stabs Man In Mission District A male suspect seemingly stabbed a man without provocation in the Mission this week, and is still on the loose as of Thursday morning. The San Francisco Police Department says the attack happened
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dolores Outpost, The Bi-Rite Of Corner Stores, Opens Within Park-Stumbling Distance Where you could once buy cigarettes and 40s, now shoppers on their way to Dolores Park may purchase kombucha on tap and mochi muffins to go, and I don't make that factual statement
