SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission NIMBYs Force Fun Deli to Change Name Misguided and borderline xenophobic Mission residents, fooling themselves and others into the grand illusion that they're caring and creative ilk, recently NIMBY'd out all over their new surroundings. Again. This time it had
SF News Potential NIMBY Fight: Neighbors Not Keen On Lower Haight SRO Conversion Just off of the main drag in the Lower Haight, property owner David Nale's attempts to convert 15 rooms in three Fillmore street addresses he owns to an official Single Room Occupancy hotel
SF News Signs of Impending Apocalypse: Whole Foods Finally Approved for Market Street After three years of meetings and discussion the Planning Commission has unanimously decided to move forward on construction of a Whole Foods location on Market Street at Dolores. Per the Examiner, the corner
SF News Meet the Neighbors Aw, this is cute: new homeowner Maureen Futtner seems excited to be moving in to her freshly-built home at 555 Bartlett, in the North SoCha neighborhood. So excited that she's throwing a Meet
SF News NIMBY Watch: Paul McCartney, Noise Threat? Our mother's grandmother was right: The Beatles are nothing but trouble. According to the Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association, tomorrow's Paul McCartney concert at AT&T Park might prove too rock 'n' roll
SF News NIMBY Watch: Neighbor Sues The Attic Over Rad DJ Grooves Because 24th Street and Mission exists as a bastion of soft-eject tranquility, living anywhere near the intersection means a peaceful night's sleep, right? Not so. One neighbor near popular dive bar the Attic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Happy Hour Spotlight: Cup A Joe Coffeehouse, Sign the Petition We've been avoiding posting about the sweet happy hour deal at Cup A Joe Coffeehouse for fear of it getting too popular, but we need your help to keep the deal going (read
SF News NIMBY Watch: Ike's May Be Forced to Close, Café Du Soleil Wins Music Permit Some of you may have heard the news, via the Chron's Inside Scoop yesterday, that Ike Shehadeh, owner of the ever-popular Ike's Place, has been served with an eviction notice. The owner of
SF News Tell Bevan Dufty You Want a Public Plaza In Noe Valley When your Editor lived in the Historic Mission District for many, many years, it was a lot to take. Not standing in line Bugaloos, asking for the whereabouts of the closest American Apparel,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NIMBYs Freak Out Over Crowds at Ike's Place We figure most of you have tried a sandwich at one of SF's latest sandwich meccas, Ike's Place (but OMG if you haven't you need to try, like at 11 a.m. on
misc Beale Street High Speed Rail Terminus? "Mmmm, yeah, no!" say South Beach Residents CurbedSF is reporting that the denizens of San Francisco's South Beach neighborhood are damn mad at the California High Speed Rail Authority and, as typical, they're not going to take it anymore. The
SF News Billions and Billions for High Speed Rail? Yes, Please! by Chris Jones Keep your fingers crossed, folks. Governor Schwarzenegger, with the blessing of the California High Speed Rail Authority, will soon be filing an application with the federal government seeking $1.28
SF News Union Street NIMBYs Win Cow Hollow merchants are rejoicing after crushing Muni's new terminal bus idea. If you recall, Muni wanted to "establish a 291 feet long Bus Terminus at Union & Fillmore." But after merchants threw
SF News SF Sex Club To Hopefully Re-Open Soon Power Exchange, the 13-year-old sex club formerly located at 72 Otis that shutdown last year due to financial difficulties, wanted to open again, this time at 44 Gough. All was going according to
SF News New B2B Rules Prompt Outcries of Anguish, Anger Now that boozing, urinating, and nudity have been banned from the ING Bay to Breakers race, a run famous for boozing, urinating, and nudity -- seriously, we're sorry; this is partially our fault