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.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Wagyu Beef Aficionados Will Love Afici, Opening Saturday In the Former ALX Gastropub Space In SoMa

The Alexander's Steakhouse group’s newest concept Afici swears it’s “not an offshoot of Alexander’s Steakhouse,” but instead a fine dining destination for pasta, housemade charcuterie, and “whole-animal utilization.”

SF News

Now Residents of Flooded 33 Tehama Report Contractors Are Stealing Items From Their Rooms

Displaced tenants of the flooded 33 Tehama say that items are being stolen from their rooms — including, allegedly, $1,500 in stolen checks — as their saga drags on into its third month.

SF News

Tennis Enthusiasts Serve a Lawsuit To Block Sale of SoMa Property That Had Promised Them Tennis Courts

A real estate conglomerate is trying to unload an unfinished property where they’d agreed to rebuild a tennis club they’d previously razed. Now a local tennis group is saying, ‘We’ll see you in court.’

SF News

SoulCycle Is Shutting Down One Of Its San Francisco Locations Amid Full-Scale Downsizing

Once mega-popular spinning gym SoulCycle has taken a hit from pandemic at-home workouts, lingering anxiety around group fitness, and widespread sales of Peloton bikes, and it means that the company is shutting down 25 percent of its U.S. studios and laying off around 75 employees.

SF News

One Month In, New SoMa ‘Drug Sobering Center’ Gets Mixed Reviews

More than 300 visitors have accessed the new SoMa Rise sobering center in its first month open, but it’s still unclear whether it's producing any good outcomes, or justifying its $4.2 million-a-year price tag.

SF News

Huge New Housing Development With 45% Affordable Units Approved for Former Transit Hub Site In SoMa

The block-sized property in SoMa that became home to the temporary Transbay Transit Center in the last decade will become a three-tower complex with the tallest tower around 40 stories.

SF News

Brazen Theft of SFPD Vehicle Ends In Crash at Mission and Duboce

An East Bay man is in custody following the brazen theft of an unmarked police vehicle at Union Square on Thursday, which ultimately led to a chase through SoMa and a crash at Mission and Duboce.

SF News

Flooded SoMa High-Rise Cutting Off Tenants' Hotel Reimbursement, as They Learn They Can’t Return for Months

Hotel assistance is being rescinded next month for the nearly 500 displaced residents of the flooded 33 Tehama building, just as they learn they can’t move back in "until late 2022 or even early 2023.”

SF News

SFPD Offering $100,000 for Information In 21-Year-Old SoMa Cold Case Homicide

Paula Brien was last seen alive outside a SoMa bar in June 2001. Now SFPD is reopening the cold case of her killing, and offering $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of her killer.

SF News

The Stud’s Former Home Got Thoroughly Tagged On Pride Weekend, and Then Countertagged On Top of That

In what may became an annual Pride Weekend tradition, the SoMa building that formerly housed The Stud got slathered in graffiti over the weekend, but then took more graffiti from someone apparently not pleased with the “queer revolt” messaging.

SF News

Flooded SoMa High-Rise Tenants Say They Had Hotel Rooms Revoked, Now Forced to Fend for Themselves

SFist has exclusive pictures and video from inside the flooding of apartment tower 33 Tehama, but more troublingly, emails showing that several tenants’ temporary hotel accommodations have already been rescinded.

SF News

SoMa Luxury Apartment Building Totally Flooded Friday, Residents All Displaced at Hotels

Tenants at the swanky 33 Tehama apartment complex will not be tenants at 33 Tehama Street for at least the rest of the week, as a roof-level pipe burst flooded every floor below and forced the evacuation of all of the building's 383 leased units.

SF News

Eighth & Mission Still a Dangerous Place as Two More People Are Shot

The corners around the intersection of 8th and Mission streets in San Francisco's SoMa district are an increasingly dangerous place to be, and two more people were shot there early Wednesday.

SF News

SF Gay Man Shot In Apparent Hate-Crime Incident In SoMa

A man who says he was just heading home after being out for drinks with friends last week in SF's SoMa district was shot in the hip in a random attack that he says was motivated by homophobic hate.

SF News

Former Country-Western Gay Bar Property In SoMa Back on Market

A building that housed a longtime gay bar devoted to country music in SF's SoMa District, which was proposed for redevelopment as both a nightclub and a condo building going back a decade, has hit the market again at a reduced price.

SF News

New Details Around Suspected Overdose Death of 16-Year-Old in SoMa Show Evidence of Sexual Assualt

In February, a 16-year-old girl was found dead in SoMa; the teenager was suspected of having died from a drug overdose. Now, new details point to the possibility she was sexually assaulted near the time of her death, per information procured from a recent autopsy report.

SF News

Four Shootings and Two Stabbings Over the Weekend In Tenderloin and SoMa

There were four separate shooting incidents over the weekend in San Francisco's Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods, though none of them were fatal.

SF News

Vacant Minna Street Hotel to Become 75 Units of Transitional Housing

A new transitional housing and treatment program in SoMa aims to help people who struggle with homelessness, mental illness, and addiction, leading them to stints in the criminal justice system.

SF Politics

Former SF Supervisor Jane Kim Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Lobbying Against Controversial SoMa High Rise

That 27-story residential tower slated for a Nordstom’s parking lot, which the supervisors shot down last October, has now generated a complaint with the SF Ethics Commission that the district’s former supervisor Jane Kim improperly lobbied against it.

SF News

15 People Rescued From One-Alarm Fire in SoMa; at Least 8 People Injured and 7 Pets Saved

San Francisco firefighters responded to a structure fire at 1000 Howard Street Saturday afternoon that left fifteen residents of the building in need of rescue, as well as at least seven dogs and cats; all the saved humans and animals are said to be "okay."

SF News

SF Police Investigating Suspicious Death of 16-Year-Old In SoMa

On Friday, San Francisco police were called around 6:33 a.m. to assist on-site paramedics in a possible drug overdose on the 600 block of Minna Street. Upon arriving, the victim — a 16-year-old female — was found dead, and the death has been deemed suspicious.

Arts & Entertainment

Gemini, a New Monthly Queer Day Party In SoMa, Aims to Bring Everybody Back to the Dancefloor

A group of friends got together last year to imagine a new, post-pandemic LGBTQ party that would be ready to liven the scene at just the right moment. And they're hoping that's Gemini, which has its first outing at Holy Cow on Saturday.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

The First of Two New Rooftop Japanese-Peruvian Restaurants Arrives Downtown Next Week

Kaiyo Rooftop is opening Wednesday, February 16 at the new Hyatt Place Hotel near Oracle Park, and it's a swanky new rooftop dining and drinking option in slowly reviving SoMa.