SF News Washington Square Parkgoer Mugged At Gunpoint A man enjoying an early-morning visit to North Beach's storied Washington Square Park had his reverie brutally interrupted Sunday, when an armed man robbed him as he sat. According to the San Francsico
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Most Delicious Pasta Spots In San Francisco Italian Americans helped build this city, and it's Mexican, Chinese, and Italian cuisines that inform most of the dishes we'd consider San Francisco classics. And while North Beach isn't totally where it's at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mr. Bing's Is Saved! I have some excellent news. Back in July we heard the ominous news that beloved sh*thole dive bar Mr. Bing's had been sold to new owners, the owners of Ireland's 32 in
SF News Attorney For Woman Paralyzed By Tree Branch Says City Was Negligent In Its Tree Trimming Technique The 36-year-old woman who was paralyzed by a falling tree branch while she sat on a city park bench watching her children play has filed a claim against San Francisco alleging negligence. The
SF News Suspects In North Beach Axe Attack Remain On The Loose A hang-out time between acquaintances turned horrific Saturday afternoon, when an argument escalated into an attack with an axe. According to the San Francisco Police Department, at 3:19 p.m. Saturday, five
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved North Beach Dive Specs' Gets Legacy Status, New 10-Year Lease Hoorah! I wasn't even aware that crusty, well loved, 48-year-old North Beach watering hole Specs' was in any danger of closing, but it turns out it may have been, as the Chronicle's Esther
SF News Woman Injured By Fallen Branch In City Park Still Waiting For City To Cover Medical Bills The couple whose lives have been permanently impacted by the failure of a tree in Washington Square Park are continuing to speak out and hold the city responsible for the accident. As the
SF News How Worried Should You Be About Falling Branches In SF Parks? San Francisco's Recreation and Parks Department is now under scrutiny after a woman walking with her two children on Friday in North Beach's Washington Square Park was struck and seriously injured by a
SF News 100-Pound Tree Branch Falls And Critically Injures Woman In Washington Square Park A large tree branch fell and seriously injured a 36-year-old San Francisco woman on Friday in Washington Square Park. The woman was in the North Beach park at the time with her two
SF News Teen Busted For North Beach Cab Attack A 19-year-old man who was refused a ride by a North Beach taxi driver ended up behind bars late Sunday, when the confrontation escalated into a violent attack. According to the San Francisco
SF News Rally Thursday For 81-Year-Old North Beach Poet Fighting Eviction Since 2013 Diego Deleo was first threatened with an Ellis Act eviction in 2013, a year after the death of his wife. He's been fighting ever since, and this week a rally in North Beach
SF News North Beach Tenant With Rent Hiked To $8000 Gets Help From Peskin Due to the world's obsession with San Francisco and its crazy rents, a story about one North Beach tenant's rent hike from $1,800 to $8,000 for a rent-controlled one-bedroom has made
SF News North Beach Tenant Facing Eviction After Rent Increase From $1,800 To $8,000 With rent increases and evictions all too commonplace in the Bay Area, it's now the most extreme examples — last year's massive rent hike on a Bernal Heights apartment, to name just one — that
SF News Chevy Driver Busted For North Beach Hit-And-Run A day after hit-and-run drivers killed two cyclists in San Francisco, yet another driver has hit a pedestrian then attempted to evade the consequences. Details on the collision are scarce, but here's what
SF News Two Injured In Double Shooting In North Beach A double shooting occurred at 10:04 p.m. Saturday night near the intersection of Francisco and Taylor Streets in North Beach. As KRON 4 reports, two victims were injured, but details are
Arts & Entertainment Immersive Theater Piece <i>The Speakeasy</i> Returns This Summer In Permanent North Beach Home Boxcar Theatre's hit immersive theater experience from 2014, The Speakeasy (see SFist's review here) is being revived this August in a new space in North Beach/Chinatown and like its first incarnation, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Specs' In North Beach Turns 48 On Sunday; Learn More About The Storied Dive Bar And Mini-Museum The tucked-away, categorically authentic North Beach dive known simply as Specs', the full name of which is Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, stands nearly alone in its intact, dusty, old-man-bar diveyness despite being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ask A San Francisco Native: On North Beach And Italian Food Dear Rain, Best Italian restaurant in North Beach? Signed, Hungry Dear Hungry, Until you asked me that question I hadn't really realized that when I'm looking to get some Italian food, North Beach
Arts & Entertainment You Can Rent This Guy's North Beach Pad For Super Bowl Weekend For $43K I know you didn't need one more thing to make you hate the Super Bowl, but here's one more anyway. This guy, Cal, is renting his three-bedroom North Beach apartment on Airbnb for
SF News Fatal Beating Of North Beach Artist Takes SF To 49 Homicides For 2015 @HoodlineSF @gerikoeppel So upsetting. Stu was such a kind person, a real gentleman. He captured me more than once. pic.twitter.com/aQ1iUpxXWU— The Dregs (@DeanVolker) December 16, 2015 The San Francisco Police
SF News Hot Cop Of The Castro Officially Charged With Two Felonies, Had Two Passengers As expected, the District Attorney's Office officially charged Officer Chris Kohrs with two felony counts of hit-and-run late Tuesday, per the Chronicle and ABC 7, and one new detail has emerged in the
SF News Surveillance Video From North Beach Crash Scene May Show 'Hot Cop' Running Away A brief, blurry, far-away snippet of surveillance video from a parking lot beside which Sunday's pedestrian hit-and-run occurred may show the Hot Cop of Castro Christopher Kohrs fleeing the scene on foot. Meanwhile,
SF News 'Hot Cop Of The Castro' Reportedly On Leave For Medical Condition The SFPD sent out an update statement Monday regarding the status of Officer Chris Kohrs, who stands accused of two counts of felony hit-and-run after his car plowed into two pedestrians in North
SF News Video: Vandals Tag Francis Ford Coppola's Dome San Francisco's historic Sentinel Building is one of North Beach's most iconic structures, a great green tower owned by director Francis Ford Coppola. Now home to (among other tenants) Coppola's American Zoetrope studio
Arts & Entertainment Feminism And Carol Doda, 'The Susan B. Anthony' Of Stripping By the time Carol Doda died from complications of kidney failure in San Francisco on Monday, the woman who described herself as having "started a sexual revolution that spun as fast as twirling
