Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse Cinema To Finally Open This Fall In The Mission The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema project that promised to open by late 2014 is finally taking shape in the old New Mission Theater at Mission and 22nd. They've got a big "COMING 2015" banner
SF News 18th Street Duplex Sells For 114 Percent Over Asking We already know that everything from teensy condos to hoarder hellholes are selling for well over their asking prices in this sizzling real estate market we're in. But watch what happens when a
SF News Silicon Valley Fashion Week: So Hot Right Now In San Francisco we're more slaves to technology than to fashion. But a new fashion technology summit called "Silicon Valley Fashion Week?" hosted by Mission-based Betabrand and held not on the Peninsula but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Old Man Bars In SF A neighborhood really isn't complete without an old man bar. Sadly, in places all over town like the Mission and Hayes Valley, you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere that a wizened older
Arts & Entertainment Here Are The Roles Being Cast For That Mission-Based TV Pilot '94110' The in-production TV pilot 94110 that was casting in the Mission recently has been relatively hush-hush about its vision, allowing rampant speculation. Many have expressed their distaste for the project Mission Local even
SF News Both Campos And Guy Vying For His Seat Push To Halt Market-Rate Development In The Mission Dueling paths toward to a potential moratorium on market-rate development in the Mission moved forward this week. One is a two-year, temporary measure that Supervisor David Campos wants to pass via a vote
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Story Behind Those Creepy Door Hangers (It's An Art Project) Yesterday Eve posted a query about these strange, metallic-shiny door hangers that have recently been appearing around the Mission, all bearing the Miranda Rights warning, "Anything you say can and will be used
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] Strange Mission Door Hangers: 'Viral' Marketing Ploy Or Something Creepier? Sent in by a tipster, the door hanger to the right was reportedly hung from the doorways of "many" Mission residences this week. What's the deal, does anyone know? The only words on
SF News Rec & Parks Produces Goofy PSAs To Encourage Proper Trash Disposal, Bathroom Use The Rec & Parks Department hosted a pair of meetings Tuesday to engage concerned neighbors about their new "action plan" for dealing with the park's ongoing popularity, and its trash problem. And as
Arts & Entertainment Mission-Based Sex Toy Startup Seeks Seed Money The blog Capp Street Crap caught this Craigslist ad in which a Mission-based startup is seeking investors for some kind of sex toy business that they're being a bit cagey about. They say
SF News Fire Breaks Out In Apartment Building at Guerrero And 18th Huge fire right behind my apartment on Gurrero... @SFist pic.twitter.com/J0g67hrXVG— Jessica Kennedy (@artjcake) April 29, 2015 Welp, I guess we have a fire day on our hands. An apartment fire
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Goodbye To The Elbo Room, For Real, Come November As SFist discussed well over a year ago, prompting fast denials from the bar's owners, the Elbo Room is indeed headed for closure to make way for a condo building. As Mission Local
Arts & Entertainment Rex Ray's Former Lofts Up For Sale, Could Include Art And Furniture The late artist Rex Ray, who passed away in February at age 58, purchased two lofts in the Allied Box Factory building (2169 Folsom near 18th) back in 2001, one of which was
SF News TV Pilot '94110' Posts Mission Casting Call, Knee-Jerk Haters Gonna Hate Casting call for "94110" a TV drama set in the Mission. pic.twitter.com/v1TfSr9e0K— Doctor Popular (@DocPop) April 19, 2015 There's an open casting call for a TV pilot to be held
SF News Mission Slumlord Locks Tenants Out Of Building A landlord in the Mission locked 23 tenants out of a building this week that had been deemed unsafe and uninhabitable by a city building inspector. The building at 938 Hampshire Street, as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sigh: Well Loved, Quirky Mission Japanese Spot Minako To Close Friday UGH. It's one thing after another this spring with the abrupt closings, and after last week's news about longtime stalwart The Orbit Room, now we get word that there are only three nights
SF News Rec & Parks Hires Extra Trash Guy For Dolores Park Since we're all very concerned about the trash-pocalypse that occurs weekly, and sometimes daily, at Dolores Park, here's a very important update: Rec & Parks appears to have added a job to the
SF News Poll Shows 65% Support For Halting Development In The Mission According to a late February survey of 602 likely voters conducted by David Binder and Associates and reported on by the Examiner, 65 percent favor a time-out on “new project approvals in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Blondie's Bar In The Mission Is Endangered Too Bars in the city where you can still drink on the cheap are slowly getting picked off, one by one, and the latest that appears to be in the sights of potential developers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Burritos In San Francisco: A Definitive List If you want to start a fight in this town, try bringing up the burrito thing. Everyone's got a favorite, and Mission boozehounds will go to the mat over the relative superiority of
SF News Notorious Landlord Accuses 70-Year-Old Grandmother Of Dealing Drugs In Mission Eviction Fight A 70-year-old woman who has enjoyed the same rent-controlled Mission apartment for four decades is now facing some newly aggressive tactics from a landlord who wants her out. As CBS 5 is reporting,
SF News Here's Why Everyone Needs To Stop Bemoaning A Vanishing San Francisco And Move On When you first fall in love with someone, during that first dizzying, marvelous honeymoon phase, however long it lasts, you and your new love feel like you're always on the same page. You
SF News More On The 'Small Herd' Of Guinea Pigs Living In Dolores Park Yesterday we briefly noted the discovery of some guinea pigs that were abandoned in Dolores Park, and are now making a go of it on their own, in the urban wild. Now we
Arts & Entertainment Valencia's Clothes Contact Readies For Closure, Starts Half-Off Clearance Sale Many Burners' favorite Mission thrift spot Clothes Contact, which has been selling by-the-pound (sometimes musty) used clothing at Valencia and 16th since the wild days of 1986, is getting ready to close as
SF News Capp Street Showdown Leaves Two Clinging To Life An argument on the Mission District corner of 17th and Capp Streets took a potentially deadly turn Wednesday night, when a suspect shot two men, critically wounding them. According to San Francisco Police
