Arts & Entertainment History Lesson: A Privileged Panorama Of Nob Hill, Circa 1878 In 1878, roughly a tech entrepreneur's lifetime after gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, and just as long before the Great Earthquake leveled much of San Francisco in 1906, the city was smack
SF News Nob Hill Neighbors Finally Chill Out About Concert Venue Upgrades On California Street in Nob Hill, Live Nation has been pushing to develop the Nob Hill Masonic Center into a proper concert venue and not just an auditorium with a couple folding tables
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trader Joe's Opens Today In Nob Hill [Updated] San Francisco's fourth fifth Trader Joe's outpost opens today in the lovely former Cala Foods space at California and Hyde Streets in Nob Hill. We expect traffic waiting to get in to the
SF News Mentally Ill Woman Rides Muni To Poop At Nob Hill Bus Stop Today in the local news beat, ABC7's Dan Noyes has uncovered an unfortunate problem plaguing one Nob Hill bus stop: a local woman has been using it as her own public outhouse with
SF News Nob Hill Stabbing Victim Run Over By Middle-Aged El Camino Driver A fight between some middle-aged goons and a 40-year-old victim almost turned in to a case of vehicular manslaughter in Nob Hill Wednesday evening. According to Bay City News, the victim suffered life-threatening
Arts & Entertainment Remembering The Beauty Of Nob Hill Cala Foods Come early December, the Cala Foods on California will close. Which is too bad if only because its architecture, swooping ceilings and jarring fluorescent illumination represented one of the few pre-Whole Food supermarkets
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nob Hill's Cala Foods Closing December 3rd Back in June, news broke that Nob Hill's loved/hated/occasionally pigeon-inhabited neighborhood grocer Cala Foods would be disappearing to make way for a Trader Joe's. At the time, the neighborhood was positively
SF News Condos Out, Trader Joes In at Former Nob Hill Cala Foods Developer plans to replace Nob Hill's aging, dusty Cala Foods with roughly a hundred condos and ground floor retail have been scrapped in favor of a new Trader Joe's location, the San Francisco
SF News Fairmont Hotel Up for Sale The city's Fairmont hotel is being put on the market "after city officials failed to approve a proposal to convert some of the building to condos," reports Business Times. The hotel is currently
SF News Nob Hill Denizens Think Concertgoers Are All on Heroin Live Nation, well-known for their evil ticketing practices, have been trying to do something decent by giving the Nob Hill Masonic Center a proper rock venue upgrade ever since the event promoting company
SF News Beware of Pepper Spray Muggings In S.F. Police are investigating a series of robberies involving pepper spray throughout San Francisco. The first attack happened on the 200 block of Florida Street in the Mission District around 9 p.m. on
SF News Nob Hill Robbers Grope Cashier, Plunder Store Police are looking for a pair of thirtysomething African American men who robbed a liquor store on the 1100 block of Leavenworth last night. As the Examiner reports, the two threatened the 27-year-old
SF News Photo: Yesterday's Two-Alarm Fire on Nob Hill A friend of SFist shot this photo of the two-alarm fire that took place yesterday afternoon on Bush Street between Mason and Powell. It was contained in one apartment (although it looks like
misc Nob Hill Gazette Releases Annual Singles List What with Valentine's Day around the corner, Nob Hill Gazette (a local publication whose motto, "...an attitude, not an address," lets you know that Nob Hill is the neighborhood in SF) released its
SF News Huntington Park Dog Owners And Cynophobics To Face At Community Hearing After a woman was attacked by a dog in Nob Hill's Huntington Park, residents of the swank arrondissement grew heated over the park's leash law enforcement, or lack thereof. Before that presumably horrific
SF News More On Nob Hill Pizzeria Murderess Maryam Achekzai Yesterday, if you recall, an employee of Bellissimo Pizza in Nob Hill was stabbed to death. Police arrested Maryam Achekzai, the woman they suspect of killing 38-year-old Lassaad Bokri. Back in 2006, however,
misc Ask SFist: Parking in Nob/Russian Hill On viscous news days such as today, we reach into our inbox to see what readers have on their minds. Here's something: I’m now a car owner living in Russian Hill and
SF News Nob Hill Cala Foods To Get Replaced By Condos While some Valencia Street merchants and Geary Boulevard business owners would have you believe that San Francisco is a bastion of overpriced boutique stores and inaccessibility, respectively, most of you are too smart
misc Photos: Huntington Park On Nob Hill Nestled amongst the former mansions of the old railroad tycoons and silver kings on Nob Hill and directly across from the beautiful Grace Cathedral, Huntington Park is an urban oasis for retirees, freelancers,
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: Mar 3 - 9 Wednesday night is when things get real exciting. Division Day, who released their debut album, Beartrap Island on Eenie Meenie Records (Scissors for Lefty, Wallpaper, Great Northern) at the end of last year
misc Single and Loving It...With an Attitude Oh good. Valentine's Day is just around the corner. And if the thought of next Thursday's approaching fillet mignon-for-two-free evening doesn't make you want to slice open an artery followed by nap-time in
SF News Madeleine Albright Speaketh in Nob Hill Tonight Madeleine Albright, it seems, "will also share her recommendations for the next president." There will be more than one recommendation? Oh joy. Part of her tour to promote her new literary effort, Memo
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 14 What? Come on, cats are %100 swell. (Crazy cat lady syndrome be damned!) In fact, felines kicking it in windowsills should have its own site as far as we're concerned. Very SF. This
