SF News Valencia Merchants, Others, Honestly Surprised Jack Spade Is Not Afraid Of Them The move by Liz Claiborne-owned mini-chain Jack Spade to open on 16th Street has become, for many, a galvanizing symbol of the latest phase in the Mission's gentrification and potential loss of character.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cocktail Bar, ABV, Coming to Tokyo GoGo Space On 16th Street Three local bar dudes who have worked and/or created bar programs at the city's most notable cocktail establishments are teaming up to open a new spot in the vacant Tokyo GoGo space
SF News Mission Gun Buyback Draws Long Line, Nets 157 Guns The Mission's first gun buyback event happened last night in the bank parking lot at 22nd and Capp Streets, and a whole lot of people showed up to get some cash for their
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: A Pigeon Lover's Dream Come True A bicyclist and pigeons on Chula Lane come together in peanut butter-and-chocolate-like harmony in this photo shot by Gerard Livernois. Huzzah, pigeons! (Our apologies to those of you who, inexplicably, loathe the winged
SF News Four Girls Injured When Big-Rig Rams Into Traffic Signal Pole Four young girls -- ages 9, 11, 12 and 14 -- were hurt when a big-rig truck collided into a traffic signal pole at 24th and South Van Ness causing it to fall
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Spencer To Relocate In The Mission After May Fire The big food news of last week, besides the opening of The Cavalier and SF Chefs, is that much loved, 11-year-old French bistro Chez Spencer is going to reopen in a new location,
Arts & Entertainment Fecal Matter Matters: 'Poop Is Art And Vice Versa' At Public Works According to Freud, a child's delight in defecation (i.e., abjection) stems from his or her pleasure in creating something of his or her own. And while our personal beliefs in postmodernist revisions
SF News Police Seek Male Suspects In Brutal SOMA, Misson Attacks Police seek several suspects in a series of separate stabbing/beating attacks that took place early Sunday morning in SOMA and the Mission. "Five suspects, all described as Hispanic males around 23 to
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On 24th And Mission... The sun is out and even the 24th Street McDonald's looks cheerful at the weather forecast, which calls for temperatures in the 60s and clear skies through the weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: 'How To Make Money Selling Drugs' Crime isn't supposed to pay, but sometimes it does ... to the tune of something like $1 million a week. Screening at the Roxie Theater this week, How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)
SF News Mission Merchants Continue Campaign Against Jack Spade As we learned back in March, Jack Spade has signed a lease for the former Adobe Bookstore space on 16th Street. Since early May, neighborhood merchants have been battling to keep the chain
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: [Freespace] Art Opening Those crazy kids! What will they think of next? Leasing a 14,000 sq ft building for $1 for the month of June? Done and done. This month, a group of community organizers,
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: S.F. Scenes From Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine' Will it be another Midnight In Paris success? Or will it be an Anything Else train wreck? And just where in the hell is Dianne Wiest? Who knows. Check out these San Francisco-heavy
Arts & Entertainment What Is The Proper Way To Make A Right Turn? When it comes to le cycling and les cars, we don't know, really. No idea AT ALL, man. So we had to ask a couple of real-life cyclists. As a staunch pedestrian, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Spencer Badly Damaged During Fire Chez Spencer, 11-year-old French restaurant in the Mission, suffered "heavy damage" after a two-alarm fire early this morning. Laurent Katgely, owner/chef of Chez Spencer, sent out the following tweet today: There was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A New Bar With Hard French Roots, Virgil's Sea Room, Coming To the Mission Breaking news today on the Mission booze scene: Hard French DJ and Harvey Milk Club prez Tom Temprano announces that he's opening a new bar next door to El Rio called Virgil's Sea
SF News Mission Cyclist Killed By Truck ID'd The medical examiner's office identified the man killed in yesterday's bike accident as 21-year-old Dylan Mitchell. The fatal incident, if you recall, happened on Thursday morning at the intersection of 16th Street and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supes To Ease Limits On Beer And Wine Sales In Mission You may recall back in March how we learned of Supervisor David Campos's push to loosen Planning guidelines and the 17-year-old moratorium on certain types of liquor licenses in the Mission. One reason
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Dolores Park: Naked Yoga [NSFW] Jonathan Dixon sends us this image he snapped at Dolores Park this week. NSFW reveal below.
SF News Google Bus Piñata Attacked At Anti-Gentrification Rally A reported 30 to 40 people attended an anti-gentrification block party in the Mission on Sunday where, among other things, a Google Bus piñata was smashed to ribbons. "The scent of sage was
Arts & Entertainment Indian 'Vogue' Discovers Hipsters In San Francisco Oh, foreign magazines. They really never cease to elicit a chuckle except for French Vogue, of course, which is very, very serious. Behold this new piece in Vogue India in which a blogger
SF News Should The Mission Have More High-Rises? Everyone knows that the city is in the midst of a major housing crunch. It's nigh impossible to find a place if you're looking, people are crazy, and rents are way too damn