SF News Mission Pedestrian Pepper Sprayed As He Attempts To Flee Girl Gang A man walking on a busy Mission District street was mugged at knifepoint this morning by a group of three women and one man. It all went down at 4 a.m., police
SF News Following Homicide On South Van Ness, Residents Are Left To Clean Up Blood Themselves A pool of blood belonging to Lisa Williams, 21, who was shot and killed in the early morning hours of Wednesday December 7 on South Van Ness Avenue between 18th and 19th Streets,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RIP Smoking On El Rio Patio: Landlord Enforcing Ban, Says Bar San Francisco smokers may be an overall minority, but more often than not they're a well represented group on the back patio of El Rio. That space, a grotto behind the queer-leaning bar
SF News Mission District Neighbors Are Now Opposing Nuns Trying To Feed The Homeless It was right out of a Lifetime movie plot; A group of nuns, facing eviction from their Tenderloin soup kitchen and home, are saved when a charismatic multimillionaire self-help guru purchases them a
Arts & Entertainment Benny Gold Now Open Softly On Valencia As Construction Continues In Former Mission Creek Cafe Space Mission Creek Cafe, which left its storefront at 968 Valencia in January, will be missed for its free wifi, cheap coffee, copious outlets, and fault-finding employees who took every opportunity to scream at
SF News Mission Housing Development Dropped After Auto Shop Deemed Historically Significant Developers initially intending to turn a Mission District auto shop into 20 units of housing have backed away from that plan following a ruling by the city that the building has historical significance.
SF News Mission District 'Hacker House' Struggles As Even Techies Can't Afford The Rent The story of the long-time resident getting priced out of the Mission District is so common as to be cliché, but the latest twist on the tale proves that even the tech set
SF News Former Fancy Soda Shop Once Again A Late-Night Gambling Den The former site of an upscale candy and soda shop, The Fizzary, is once again in the news following reports that the location's current tenant is still running an illegal, late-night gambling and
SF News Man Shot From Behind In Clarion Alley An early-morning shooting in San Francisco's iconic Clarion Alley set a man to the hospital Monday, the second act of violence in the tourist hot spot in recent months. According to the San
SF News Housing Protesters Shut Down Mission Street Thursday @jrivanob Some 150 people here at 22nd and Mission listening to poetry on gentrification, eviction pic.twitter.com/jY5I5F1CDu— Joe Rivano Barros (@jrivanob) November 4, 2016 Traffic came to a halt last night
SF News Six Complain Of Injuries (Maybe?) After Driver Strikes Muni Bus Six people complained of minor injuries Thursday afternoon, after the driver of an SUV struck a Muni bus traveling through the Mission District. According to San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Jonathan Baxter, the
Arts & Entertainment Día De Los Muertos 2016: Lively Scenes From The Mission District The air was cool and thick with the smell of burning sage near Garfield Square in the Mission District last night, where Día De Los Muertos celebrants gathered following a neighborhood procession as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tiny New Mission Bar Is Tucked Inside A Liquor Store Even fans of the Royal Cuckoo Organ Lounge, an at once divey and swanky spot known for great music, may not realize there's a second Royal Cuckoo: The bar expanded from its Bernal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink FiveThirtyEight Burrito Bracket Judge Claims El Castillito Should Have Won (But He Messed It Up) The year was 2014, and FiveThirtyEight's Burrito Bracket had elevated data journalism to new heights. Just kidding, that was a waste of time and money, as the winner, La Taqueria, was a pretty
SF News Fly Above The Mission With This 3D Drone-Made Map Have you ever dreamt you're a bird, flying over a familiar city now foreign with new perspective? Operators of first-person-view drones often talk of experiencing a similar feeling — being "out of body" as
SF News Police Reportedly Search Hospital Garage After 13-Year-Old Boy Is Shot On Valencia Street A San Francisco Police Department Special Investigations Team is searching for suspects Monday, after a 13-year-old boy was shot Sunday night in the Mission District. SFPD spokesperson Sergeant Michael Andraychak says the shooting
SF News Family Of Luis Gongora, Homeless Man Killed By SFPD, Files Federal Suit The family of Luis Gongora, the 45-year-old homeless man shot and killed by SFPD in April of this year, followed through this past Friday on its promise to file a federal civil rights
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mission District Residents Oppose 100 Percent Affordable Development Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Counterfeit painkillers containing fentanyl, similar to what officials believe
SF News Zeitgeist Ejects Men Wearing Trump T-Shirts For Sexist Comments, Attitude Problems Getting kicked out of Zeitgeist is super easy — especially if you do it on purpose. The ever-popular, punk-leaning Mission District bar and beer garden is, after all, well-known for its gruff, no-nonsense service
SF News Nearly All Of The Affordable Housing Budget For The Mission To Be Spent On One Building Just to illustrate the difficult economics of building affordable housing in a time of great need for it, Mission Local is reporting that nearly all of the budget from an affordable housing bond
SF News SFPD Seeks Video Of Naked Man Who Allegedly Attacked Officer During 25th Street Arrest A naked man who allegedly attacked a police officer remains behind bars today, as investigators seek video taken by members of the public who witnessed the incident. San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer
SF News Campos Promises To Rid Mission District Of Homeless Encampments Within 4 Months Following statements last week by the Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing indicating that officials intend to remove all homeless encampments within the city once and for all, we now get confirmation that
SF News Neighbors Put Parking Over Housing In Fight Against 6-Story Mission Development The latest housing development to incur the wrath of neighbors is proposed for Cesar Chavez near Guerrero Street. Mission Local reports that the six-story building would replace what is now a one-story office
SF News Facing Loss Of Lease, Doc's Clock To Move Down The Street When news broke earlier this year that Doc's Clock would be forced to close following a decision by the new building owner not to renew the bar's lease in 2017, devotees of the
SF News Turn This Nine-Bedroom Dolores Street Home Into An Ersatz Hotel, Says Broker On Craigslist "Dolores Park, Whole Foods... everything's around here," says real estate Broker Bill Harkins as he introduces possible tenants to 283 Dolores Street in a video tour of the space. But what's going on
