SF News Pedestrian Struck By Tour Bus Sunday Morning Just after 8 a.m. Sunday, a man in his sixties was struck by a Gray Line tour bus while crossing Mission Street at Seventh Street in SoMa. According to one witness speaking
SF News ABC7 Reporter Exposes SoMa Parklet Gone Awry ABC7's Dan Noyes has produced what could possibly be the most fascinating/depressing story yet on a San Francisco parklet. The neighbors of Tutubi Plaza (located at Russ and Minna near Sixth Street)
SF News Man Inexplicably Found Inside Wall Of SoMa Office Building Yesterday afternoon, a man in his twenties wearing shorts was pulled out of an enclosed drywall facade just outside the lobby of 55 Hawthorne Street in SoMa. It's always the guys in shorts
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Bar Bans Google Glass Who are these people who don't enjoyed being filmed? What's the matter, can't find your light? Can't watch your hootchiness? Well, the Willows has you covered. After last month's gadget-related brouhaha at Molotov's,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend: Oscar Viewing Parties At The Balboa Theatre, SoMa StrEat Food Where are you watching the Oscars? Probably at home in something cozy, if you're smart. But should you find the willpower to venture out this weekend, here are two options for watching them
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Gets Its Own Burger The already blessed citizenry of eastern SoMa score yet another choice burger to cram down their throats, this one from the Umami Burger on King Street. The Caprese Burger, billed as SoMa's very
SF News Two Construction Workers Seriously Injured After Scaffolding Collapses In SoMa One construction worker fell 40 feet and another fell 30 feet while installing a scaffolding at a construction site at 350 Mission Street in SoMa this afternoon. According to San Francisco Fire Department
SF News South Park Gas Leak Prompts Evacuations, Street Closures [Updated] Following a gas line rupture in the city's SoMa neighborhood, in South Park near Third and Bryant, several street closures and evacuations are currently in progress. "The leak was reported at 127 South
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Alumna Heading To Saison The star-chef wattage in SoMa just got brighter, at least for those of you who consider chefs celebrities. Grayson Schmitz, who appeared on season 9 of Top Chef's Texas cycle, can now be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chris Cosentino Coming To Former Zuppa Space In SoMa Eater has word that brazen carnivore and Top Chef Masters winner Chris Cosentino will take over the recently shuttered Zuppa space on Fourth Street. "His reps are tight-lipped, saying only that they'll confirm
Arts & Entertainment Here Are Some Historic Photos Of SoMa, Before Yerba Buena Existed Photographer Janet Delaney moved into SoMa as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1978. At the time, the place she found at 62 Langton was some of the cheapest rent
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Troy Holden's 'Neighbors' Portrait Exhibit Opens Last week, SFist showed you Troy Holden's Neighbors, the San Francisco-based photographer's breakthrough portraiture series. Working with the North of Market-Tenderloin Community Benefit District, he snapped 50 portraits of individuals and families at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink G Food Truck Lounge To Bring Lounge-Room Experience To S.F. Techies Under the bridge downtown, a new food-truck lounge will open on Thursday to serve hungry worker bees and passersby all day. Concocted by a gaggle of self-declared foodies, G Food Truck Lounge, located
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Old & New A rusted tin hovel stands in front of a (gorgeous) Saitowitz residential building in SoMa. Photo by Gerard Livernois.
Arts & Entertainment Troy Holden's 'Neighbors' Captures The Faces Behind Three Changing S.F. Neighborhoods SoMa, the Tenderloin, and Mid-Market (two of them real, the latter freshly conceived and coined) received heaps of ink over the last year. Some good, some bad, most of it controversial in one
SF News Tow Truck Driver Hits Cyclist Going Wrong Way On Folsom At around 5 p.m. Wednesday, a 40-year-old female cyclist was hit by a tow truck driver. The incident happened at Seventh and Folsom Streets. According to reports, the cyclist was going the
SF News Three Men Kidnap Woman Waiting For Bus Near Gap HQ [Updated] Ugh. On Saturday, a woman was reportedly kidnapped by a group of unknown men while waiting for a bus at Folsom and Spear. After being driven to a second location, she was fortunate
Arts & Entertainment Photos: SoMa Art Installation Boasts 12 One-Ton Pianos Defenestration, Brian Goggin's longstanding "falling furniture" art installation at Sixth and Howard Streets, may be coming down, but the artist is busy raising another new piece of architectural public art. On Feb. 23,
SF News New SoMa Development Is Like a Fancy SRO For The Middle Class The developers of a new communal-living development at Harrison and 12th consisting of 235 studio units divided into nine separate "houses" insist that it won't just be for students and young tech workers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fifth Floor To Shut Its Doors In January After 14 Years Fifth Floor, the hushed and sophisticated fine dining venue at the Palomar Hotel that's earned many accolades over the past decade and a half, is shuttering after the new year to make way
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Downtown Autograph Hounds Autograph seekers in front of the St. Regis waiting for Warriors players (and, hopefully, for their sake, not Sean Penn). Shot by Gerard Livernois.
SF News Seventh & Brannan: Pedestrian Hit-Run In SoMa Here we go again. A car hit a pedestrian in the South of Market neighborhood this morning, and then fled the scene. SF Appeal notes, "The hit-and-run collision was reported shortly before 11
SF News Suspect Wanted In Senseless SoMa Homicide San Francisco Police are currently searching for this man, 23-year-old Michael Sione Green, identified as the suspect who shot two women, killing one early Sunday morning near Sixth and Jessie Streets in SoMa.
