SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Tasting Menus At AL's Place After three years off the scene and presumably out of practice, it might have been tempting to assume that chef Aaron London was going to need some time to reacclimate to having his
SF News Video: This Guy Is Out To Destroy These 16th Street Bushes, But Why? They say that torturing animals is how serial killers get their start in the business of homicide. But what about torturing plants, what kind of...release might that offer a person? That's just
SF News Super High-End Sports Car Showroom Attempts To Move Onto Valencia Two years after formula-retail protestors drove off a proposed Jack Spade store in the Mission's former Adobe Books space, another luxury goods dealer has applied for space in another former arts hub. This
SF News Suspects Shoot Men In Dolores Park, Flee On Muni Tracks The San Francisco Police Department is seeking three vaguely-described suspects after a shooting in Dolores Park sent two men to San Francisco General Hospital early Sunday morning. According to SFPD spokesperson Officer Albie
SF News Dolores Park Predictably Littered With Trash On July 4th Though the message may have made it out to some like most of the people who partied in Dolores Park during the day on Saturday, July 4th the people who lingered on in
SF News Jack Halprin, 'Google Lawyer' And Target Of Anti-Eviction Protests, Dies Of Cancer At 46 Jack Halprin, head of eDiscovery at Google, has died according to the Examiner. According to an announcement from his brother on Facebook, Halprin "lost his short but difficult battle with cancer." He was
SF News [Update] Hateful Vandals Deface Mission LGBT Mural For The Fourth Time By Setting Fire To It Essentially spewing hate speech and threatening LGBT people in effigy, vandals have for the third fourth time defaced the "Por Vida" mural depicting gay, lesbian, and transgender Chicanos on 24th Street in the
SF News Pride Saturday's SFPD Activity By The Numbers According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Carlos Manfredi, Saturday was a busy day for police officers watching over the throngs of folks celebrating Pride. In addition to last night's shooting, Manfredi
SF News Tourist From LA Killed In Fall Through Mission Skylight A 36-year-old visitor to SF is dead after plummeting through a skylight on a Mission District building. Bay City News reports that at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday, medics and officers from the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trailer: <i>Crafted</i>, A New Documentary Short By Morgan Spurlock Featuring Bar Tartine The co-chefs of the soon-to-be-renamed Bar Tartine, Nicolaus Balla and Cortney Burns, are two of the featured stars of a new documentary about what it means to be an artisan, titled Crafted. The
Arts & Entertainment Tons Of You Showed Up At Dolores Park This Past Weekend, But Where Were The Recycle Bins? People have packed #DoloresPark to enjoy some sun on this first weekend of newly finished renovations. pic.twitter.com/qTe2O6IF4d— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) June 22, 2015 The opening weekend of the north side
SF News Building Trades Council Takes Stand Against Mission Developer Over Lack Of Affordability A group representing various construction trade unions has taken a surprising stand against one large market-rate rental development slated for 2000 Bryant Street in the Mission, stating in a resolution submitted to the
SF News Please Watch For Pedestrians: Driver Kills Chinatown Woman, Hit-And-Run Cyclist Strikes Woman In Mission Wednesday was not a great day for pedestrians in San Francisco. Not only was an elderly woman hit and killed by a driver while in a Chinatown crosswalk, but another elderly woman was
SF News Video: Step Inside The New Homeless Navigation Center In The Mission We heard a lot about this pilot project over the last year called the Homeless Navigation Center, which is an innovative shelter concept that allows homeless people living in communities with others, pets
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starboard SF, A New-Style Hofbrau, Headed To 16th Street Is everybody familiar with the concept of a "hofbrau"? No? Well let's start there. A hofbrau, as we know them in California, is a bar that serves food, usually cafeteria-style. Unlike some other
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Newly Unveiled, Newly Refurbished New Mission Theater Sign In the last day or so, the scaffolding and tarps have come down around the historic New Mission Theater sign and marquee at Mission and 22nd, revealing a brightly painted version of the
SF News Warriors Victory Celebrations Remain Mostly Peaceful, But Oakland Street Parties Lasted Into The Night The utter mayhem that many expected in the wake of a Warriors victory in the NBA Finals failed to materialize Tuesday night, despite thousands of fans drunk and partying in the streets on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Myriad Gastropub Opens In Former Nombe Space Wednesday The Mission is getting a new eating and drinking spot this week from former Ramblas chef-owner Trish Tracey (also of Thirsty Bear), and it's called Myriad Gastropub. We first heard word of the
SF News Suspect At Large Following Shooting In Mission District Playground A 19-year-old man walking through a Mission District playground was shot "multiple times" Sunday night, and as of today the suspect remains at large. The James Rolph Jr. Playground, located at Potrero Avenue
SF News Alleged Mission Mugger Shoots Himself In Leg As He Flees From Cops A trail of blood might have helped the San Francisco Police Department make an arrest in an armed robbery in the Mission District this morning. But in an unusual twist, the blood didn't
SF News Campos Called To Task For Saying He's 'Proud' Of 100-Percent Non-Affordable Vida Development Supervisor David Campos was on a KQED radio program recently discussing the proposed moratorium on market-rate housing development in the Mission Scott Wiener was on the program too, arguing the con side. And
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Gay Bar Truck Closing After Eight Years Sad news! Scrappy, automotive-themed, often very dirty gay bar Truck is shutting its doors later this month, as owner Paul Ringhofer-Miller confirms to SFist today. Ringhofer-Miller says that the bar has been sold
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Bought By Mission Beach Cafe Owner Big news over in the Mission, where we've known that longtime stalwart Luna Park (694 Valencia Street) has been up for grabs for months now: It's being sold to Mission Beach Cafe owner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission & 16th McDonald's Closes With the Van Ness McDonald's already gone and the Third and Townsend McDonald's highly likely to to disappear soon, Egg McMuffin and Big Mac aficionados are going to be even sadder about the
Arts & Entertainment The Roxie Theater, SF's Oldest Cinema, Gets A Three-Year Reprieve From Landlord Small, independent, neighborhood movie houses are of course an endangered species pretty much everywhere besides Los Angeles, but San Francisco's oldest continually operating cinema, The Roxie (3117 16th Street) which also bears the
