SF News High-Speed Chase Ends With Pickup Truck Slamming into SF Furniture Store Friday Afternoon A driver collided with four cars, some occupied, in a high-speed chase in SOMA on Friday evening before crashing into furniture store Roche Bobois.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud, When It Reopens, Plans to Host SF's First School of Drag The Stud Collective wants to teach the children well who are coming up in SF's drag scene, and they just announced that when the bar reopens in new digs this winter (or spring?), it will be hosting The Stud School of Drag.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The SoMa Building That Houses Marlowe Might Get Torn Down to Build a Five-Story Building, Complicating Life for Marlowe Plans surfaced last week to tear down the 500 Brannan Street building that’s home to the decade-old bistro Marlowe, creating some uncertainty for Marlowe, which may have to become a pop-up or even move.
SF News SFPD Chase of Murder Suspect Ends With Van Crashing at Third and Folsom Streets, During Moscone Center Conference The California Highway Patrol started a pursuit of a reported Oakland homicide suspect in Redwood City Thursday, and the chase didn’t end until the suspect crashed his white van into the wall of the Moscone Center parking lot.
SF News SFPD in Standoff Following Fight and Stabbing in SoMa Area Police are urging people to avoid the area after the suspect in a stabbing that hospitalized one sought refuge in a residence near Essex and Folsom streets and is refusing to come out.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Owners Confirm Reopening at New Location on Folsom Street Legendary SoMa nightclub The Stud is indeed reopening a few blocks from where it lived until 2020, and the drag shows are set to begin again maybe by early next year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Hotel Investor Reopening Three Long-Closed SoMa Hotels CA Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a school district over its policy surrounding trans students; Santa Clara police have made an arrest in a stabbing at an In-N-Out following a Niners-Raiders game; and a hotel investor is reopening three SoMa hotels that have been closed for three years.
SF News Federal Agency Tells SF Workers to Work From Home Due to Unsafe Conditions Outside Federal Building While multiple federal agencies and departments have offices in the federal building at Seventh and Mission, one has issued a directive to its staff to work remotely for the foreseeable future due to ongoing safety issues with drug dealing and use happening on the sidewalks outside.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stud May Find New Life a Few Blocks Away From Its Former Home In SoMa It looks as though the Stud Collective has landed on a potential new space for the legendary bar and nightclub that tragically closed at the start of the pandemic. And it's just a few blocks away, on Folsom Street.
SF News SF Delivery Drivers Targeted In Crimes Twice In Two Days A Friday carjacking of a delivery driver in SoMa was followed by a Saturday shooting of an Amazon driver in Potrero Hill, making a rough weekend for delivery drivers in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Downtown Business Goes Down: Farewell, HRD Coffee Shop A longtime SFist favorite and a stalwart on Third Street that's been there since the 1950s, HRD Coffee Shop, is closing up shop, and the owner says it's because he didn't get enough help from his landlord or the city.
SF News 32-Year-Old Man Convicted In SoMa Mugging In Which Victim Was Shot In Leg A jury in San Francisco this week convicted a 32-year-old man in a brazen attempted armed robbery on a SoMa street last summer in which the victim was shot in the leg.
SF News Planning Commission Approves New Plan For Infamous, Rejected 27-Story Residential Tower In SoMa That 27-story residential tower on a Nordstrom parking lot that the SF supervisors infamously rejected in October 2021 had its revised plans approved Thursday, along with plans for a controversial six-story development near Dolores Park.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sigh. SoMa Bar Uses ChatGPT to Create Cocktail A bar/nightclub in SoMa has used an AI chatbot to design a new cocktail, and they are using this to market themselves on local television. Maybe San Francisco *is* doomed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Mexican Restaurant Don Ramon's Closing After 41 Years In SoMa Ugh. Two and a half years after we learned that longtime 11th Street stalwart Don Ramon's was in some financial trouble, the family that owns the restaurant announced that it is closing as of Friday, March 31.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Former Office Max at 14th and Harrison Could Become a Big-Box Liquor Store, Total Wine & More The Board of Supervisors apparently approved a liquor license transfer for the big-box booze retailer Total Wine & More to move into the now-vacated Office Max at 14th and Harrison Streets, though the state ABC has not approved the license yet.
Business & Tech Pinterest Offloading Yet Another Office Building In SoMa, This Time at Fourth And Brannan Streets Another office space haircut for a downtown SF tech firm, as Pinterest is bailing on 505 Brannan Street ten years before the lease is up, following rounds of layoffs in both December and February.
SF News Bed Bath & Beyond Is Closing Its SoMa Store You knew it was coming, with all the bankruptcy rumblings in the news, but yes, Bed Bath and What's More is closing its only San Francisco store.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District Bars Get Their Zoning Restraints Loosened Leather bars on Folsom and 11th streets have been tied up by zoning rules that deny their entertainment permits because of an old “200-foot buffer” rule, but the SF Board of Supervisors removed those handcuffs Tuesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Felicia Spinoff Wine Bar, Called Sluts, Opens In SoMa The promised wine bar offshoot of Oakland's "vulgar fine-dining" outfit Hi Felicia has just opened in the former Terroir wine shop/bar space on Folsom Street — and they're serving Lean Cuisines and Chips Ahoy to accompany your natural wine.
SF News Dozens of Shots Fired Into SoMa Building, Two Men Injured A shooting Monday evening in SoMa was heard by many in the area, as dozens of shots rang out in the vicinity of Bryant and Ninth, near Dore Alley, and two men were reportedly injured, one of them seriously.
SF News Infamous, Rejected Plan for 27-Story Residential Tower in Nordstrom’s Parking Lot Has New Plans Submitted Reports of the death of the 469 Stevenson high-rise were greatly exaggerated, as the developer has submitted a new plan with stronger retrofitting, and this new version is even one story taller.
SF News Nearly Four Months In, Neighbors Complaining of Violence and Chaos Around SoMa Rise ‘Sobering Center’ Originally billed as a ‘meth sobering center’ and then simply as a ‘drug sobering center,’ the new facility SoMa Rise is raising tensions among neighbors who think it’s only making the area near Seventh and Howard Streets worse.
Arts & Entertainment Bearrison Street Fair Barrels Back on Saturday In SoMa Things are going to get hairy Saturday, as Harrison Street turns into a real bear trap for the second annual Bearrison Street Fair, with plenty of live wrestling and weightlifting, but perhaps not so much shirt-wearing.
SF News Still-Flooded Out 33 Tehama Residents Sue Property Manager, Alleging Mismanagement and Dishonesty Four months into an ordeal where their building was flooded (twice!), replacement hotel accommodations were abruptly canceled, and contractors apparently pilfered a number of their possessions, more than 50 tenants of the beleaguered SoMa high-rise 33 Tehama are suing the property manager Hines.
