SF News Two Men Arrested In Early Morning SoMa Slaying The San Francisco Police Department say that they've tracked down the suspects in one of two fatal shootings on Sixth Street Tuesday night, but are still seeking witnesses to the slaying. As previously
SF News Man Shot To Death Near President Obama's SoMa Lodgings In the area's second fatal shooting in as many days, a man was shot and killed on San Francisco's Sixth Street this morning, just a block or so away from where President Barack
SF News Hugo Hotel's Iconic 'Defenestration' Furniture Is For Sale When the abandoned Hugo Hotel is finally demolished this September, the 35 quirky pieces of furniture that make up artist Brian Goggin's "Defenestration" installation won't be thrown out with it. The leaping tables
SF News Two Women Shot Early Sunday Near 6th and Jessie, One Dead In an incident about which details are still few, two women were shot at around 2:10 a.m. Sunday on Sixth Street near Jessie, one of them fatally. Both women were taken
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tu Lan: Cleaner, Still Cheap During your evening prayers, please give thanks that Tu Lan, Sixth Street's notoriously cheap and formerly stank-ass vietnamese restaurant of choice, has returned. After being forced to close due to rampant barforama, it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tu Lan, Iconic Vietnamese Eatery, Reopens Today Hark! The Sixth Street treasure, once known as much for its imperial roll divinity as it was for its lack of cleanliness, reopens today. If you recall, the gritty eatery had to close
SF News Shooting Rattles SoMa Thursday Night Over at Sixth and Natoma streets around 10 p.m. Thursday, an unidentified man was shot twice. "The victim sustained two gunshot wounds and was in stable condition when he was transported to
SF News Knife Crime 2013: Cabbie Robbed By Sixth Street Fare A taxi passenger was determined to ruin one local cabbie's night, apparently. The driver was robbed after picking up a passenger and bringing him to the notorious knife crime corridor along Sixth Street,
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Set To Get Rid Of Public Art Piece 'Defenestration' After 16 years spent adorning the exterior walls of SoMa's old Hugo Hotel at Sixth and Howard streets, a planning commission is deciding the fate of the "falling furniture" art installation, along with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tu Lan Might Reopen Soon Cheap Vietnamese staple Tu Lan had to close its doors earlier this year due to major health violations. Not surprising. But Inside Scoop has word that they might reopen. When? Soon, we hope.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Jesus Spotted Bearing Cross At Sixth And Mission In New York, the good lord might be blocking bike lanes, but here in San Francisco local photographer Austin Kamps snapped this photo of the Man apparently on a mission to clean up
SF News Another Sixth Street Stabbing, This One Over $5 Our extra-stabby city can claim yet another non-fatal stabbing incident over the weekend to go with this fatal one in the Mission: An unidentified male victim leaving a convenience store on Sixth Street
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sketchy Sixth & Market Intersection Dubbed "Comfort Corner" Today's exercise in unnecessary neighborhood naming comes from the heart of Mid-Market where the recently arrived Dottie's True Blue Café and Pearl's Deluxe Hamburgers are doing wonders to rehab the area's stabby reputation.
SF News S.F.'s First Murder Victim Of 2012 Was On 'Intervention' What was that thing Andy Warhol said? The victim in San Francisco's first homicide of the year, the stabbing we mentioned last week at the corner of 6th and Stevenson, turns out to
SF News Sixth Street May Be Getting Its Own Police Substation The City is in negotiations with the landlord at 72 6th Street to create what could become a new mid-market station for the SFPD called the Sixth Street Substation. As the Examiner reports,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A <em>NYT</em> Reporter Calls Sixth Street a 'Gourmet Ghetto' With Bad Parking Citing the opening of Passion Café, along with the presence of Split Pea Seduction and Tu Lan, NYT reporter Scott James (who's listed as a local novelist and Emmy-winning TV journalist) declares Sixth
SF News Passion Cafe Allows Diners To Look Down On Starving Sixth Steet Urchins Over at San Francisco's ninth circle of hell, Sixth and Stevenson streets, Eater reports that a chic French bistro/bakery/cafe will move into the area's old pawnshop. Calling itself Passion Cafe, the
SF News Muni Bus Strikes, Kills Woman at Sixth and Market Streets Early this morning at 8:24 a.m., an "adult female" was struck a 60-foot 71-Haight-Noriega bus on Market and Sixth Streets. She was transported to SF General Hospital, where she later died.
Arts & Entertainment Grateful Dead Grateful for Obama Those goddamn, dirty, lovable hippies known as the Grateful Dead -- i.e., Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Phil Lesh -- reunite tonight in honor of (our future president) Barack Obama. Looking to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (Spooktacular Edition) Boo. And behold: Halloween happenings for Saturday night, 10/27. -- Karla LaVey's Satanic Halloween Party & Unholy Variety Show: Satan reigns supreme tonight "thrashing black-metal bands, theremin warblers, psychobilly greasers, cruel electronic-noise
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Magic Bullets: Along with Bonde do Role and JuiceBoxxx, this local outfit (heavy on the bass lines, rhythmic keyboards, and melancholic vocals) performs tonight at 9 p.m. at The Independent, 628
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Exorcist: Linda Blair, pea soup, 360-degree head turn, Satan, "the power of Christ compels you...," blah, blah -- whatever, it's still a great movie. And besides, it stars Ellen Burstyn, who
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Sixth Street did not explode. [Chron] -- Neither did Hayward. [CBS5] -- Friday's party for Barry, Bonds/Newsom connection. [GNS] -- Pigeon crap on bridges falling down, falling down, falling down... [Chron]
SF News Tenderloin Housing Clinic Moving to Evict Documentarian? Update: See Paul's comment below about why they had to do what they did, and what they're doing about it. Are there quiet, law-abiding people on Sixth Street? Sure, but it's hard to
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