Arts & Entertainment Is This Polk Street Pad The Next 'Real World' House? After yesterday's announcement that MTV's The Real World would be returning to San Francisco for its 29th (and possibly final) season, our initial reaction was, "Where will they be living so we can
SF News SFMTA Backpedals On Bike Lanes In Polk Street Revamp Reversal In the SFMTA's continued efforts to please no one with their Polk Street Corridor Improvement Project, a new plan (PDF) was unveiled yesterday that would backpedal on separated bike lanes but still remove
SF News Polk Street Parking Evangelists May Squash Bike Lane Plan A contentious clash between cyclists, car-parkers and business owners over the Polk Street Corridor Improvement Project has caused the SFMTA to go back to the drawing board and offer some decidedly less bike-friendly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thank God: Polk Street Bar Ban Approved On lower Polk Street the neighbors have finally won a campaign to halt any new drinking establishments from crowding up their corridor. Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban new bars
SF News Knife Crime 2013: Stabbed Man Has No Idea Who Stabbed Him A 22-year old man told police he was stabbed outside of Noble, a nightclub on Polk Street which no one has ever heard of. According to the victim, he was standing on the
SF News Overwrought Fringe Group Wants To Stop Polk Street Bike Lanes An effort is underway to stop 20 blocks of much-needed bike lanes from possibly being installed along Polk Street. It's a tentative plan under serious consideration from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and
SF News Two Good Samaritans Stabbed Trying To Save Woman Two men attempting to save a woman from being attacked both received stab wounds for their brave behavior. On Sunday night on Polk near Civic Center, two guys, ages 33 and 22, were
SF News Man Shot In Back In Tenderloin Early this morning on the 600 block of Polk Street, a man was shot in the back. The shooting occurred at around 2 am. The victim was whisked away to San Francisco General
SF News Septuagenarian Punched During Wig Store Robbery A couple of hair thieves are on the loose after robbing a wig store on Polk Street Sunday afternoon. The two suspects in their late twenties were trying to make their escape with
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: My Big Fat Greek Movie Title Pun "Myconos Greek Restaurant" by Demetrios Lyras.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Official: Hi Lo Club (Formerly KoKo's) Now Open On Polk After nearly a year of nail-biting anticipation for Hi Lo Club, formerly known as KoKo Cocktails, to reopen at Polk and Pine (1423 Polk Street), the bar officially — and very quietly — opened its
SF News Men Arrested After Polk Street Shooting Outside Bar; White SUV Involved Two dirtbags outside a Polk Street bar were arrested after one of them fired a gun into the air. The shooting was reported at around 1:45 a.m. in the 600 block
SF News Have You Seen These Jokers? They're Wanted By SFPD For A Polk Street Assault The three (non-blurry) men you see before you are being sought out by the San Francisco Police Department for taking part in a brutal 2 a.m. assault on Polk Street back in
SF News Man Throws Chemicals In Cashier's Face, Stabs Another Man After Robbing Polk Gulch Market 54-year-old John Ellis was arrested and charged after robbing a market on the 1400 block of Polk Street Friday evening. Ellis allegedly waited in line for the cashier, and when the young woman
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kimo's to Become Cocktail Lounge. Maybe. Not that we have any right to complain (it's been over five years since we last blacked out at this fine music venue), but Polk Street rock 'n' roll/hustler staple Kimo's (1351
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour Unidentified drag queen at Polk Street Blues festival. Photo by Josh Sullivan.
SF News Man Shot, Killed Inside at Cafe On Polk & Geary An unidentified man was shot multiple times and killed Thursday afternoon at a cafe on Polk Street. "A 25-year-old man was fatally shot at Tevena Coffee and Tea Company at 900 Polk Street
SF News Prostitutes Protest 'Sit-Lie' at Noon The US PROStitutes Collective, a local group "campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers, organized a "stand-in protest at noon today at Polk and Sutter. Why? Well, SF
SF News Polk Street Residents Angry Polk Street Is A Lot Like Polk Street Polk Street corridor residents are fuming/titillated over an increase in prostitution affecting the notoriously gritty neighborhood as of late. CBS 5's Joe Vazquez has a great story on a new wave of
misc Lower Polk Neighbors Unite Tonight Hey, it's another Polk post, folks! We're thankful to Flickr user Lulu Vision for giving us a heads-up in the SFist Contribute section regarding tonight's Lower Polk Neighbors meeting with SF Fire Department
SF News SFist Blotter -- On Saturday Friday at around 10:40 p.m., Jan. 26, 24-year-old Ernesto Williams was shot and killed while standing outside his car at the Chevron station at Sixth and Harrison streets.
SF News SFist Blotter Well, we thought your usual SF criminals were getting all Christmas-y into the spirit of the holiday season what with so little crime reported this past week. the festive spirit is not as
