SF News Teen Falls Asleep In Muni Shelter, Wakes Up Injured In Alley A youth who fell asleep in a Muni shelter has a rude Christmas Day awakening, when he found himself in an alley with wounds to the head. According to the San Francsico Police
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink BrainWash Cafe May Be Forced To Close As Nearby Construction Kills Business BrainWash Cafe is in trouble. The SoMa laundromat/cafe and frequent host to open-mic nights has seen a precipitous drop in business over the past several months, and its owner says that unless
SF News Motorist Assaults Pedestrian Who Tapped His Car A driver who beat a pedestrian for making contact with his car remains at large today, following a SoMa confrontation that sent the victim to the hospital. Police say that the 50-year-old male
SF News RayKo Photo Center, Largest Such Operation In The West, Plans To Shutter For Good In May The darkrooms at RayKo Photo Center, a 26-year-old photography institution that's spanned the medium's major transition from film to digital with copious resources in each discipline, will go proverbially dark at the end
Arts & Entertainment DNA Lounge Facing Imminent Closure As Owner Asks For More Patrons DNA Lounge is hemorrhaging cash, and is on the verge of closing its doors for good. So writes the owner of the SoMa nightclub, Jamie Zawinski, in a lengthy blog post published this
SF News Fancy SoMa Condo Reproduces Local Artist's Work Without Permission Even if you don't know his name, you've likely seen his work. Jeremy Novy's stencils of spotted koi fish dot San Francisco sidewalks, and the queer artist's work has become synonymous with SF's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe/Park Tavern Team Takes Over Les Clos In SoMa, Will Transform It Into Petit Marlowe After two years in business at 234 Townsend, Les Clos is going to close in January and get a major makeover at the hands of Anna Weinberg and her Big Night Restaurant Group,
SF News Ancient SoMa Water Main Breaks, Flooding Central Subway And Snarling Traffic Water main break causes some flooding in the Moscone Center and unfinished MTA subway. https://t.co/Y3kEfdsgLN pic.twitter.com/zwmgoJpeRi— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) December 9, 2016 A South of Market
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces New Two-Year Lease, And Plans To Move To New Location After That SoMa’s longest-surviving gay bar The Stud looked cooked this summer, when a 150% rent increase threatened the continued existence of the 50-year-old San Francisco institution. But a newly-formed Stud collective founded late
SF News SFPD Nabs Muni Metro Laptop Thief A thief who stalked her victim on Muni's light rail system was arrested Monday night, shortly after she swiped a fellow passenger's laptop. The victim, a 25-year-old woman, says the noticed a 30-year-old
SF News Five Injured In Separate Hit-And-Run Collisions This Weekend Five people were hurt in collisions with motorists who fled the scene this weekend, at least one of them left with injuries police say are life threatening. The first crash, says the San
SF News Errant SoMa Parker Turns Pedestrian Collision Into Hit-And-Run A man parking a vehicle in SoMa has made himself the target of police ire, as he fled after striking a pedestrian Thursday night. The collision occurred at 8:40 last night, police
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Endangered SoMa Bar The Stud Gets Legacy Business Status At a hearing at City Hall Monday, The Stud was approved by the Small Business Commission for Legacy Business status, hopefully boosting its chances of survival following a rent hike and the property
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sajj Brings Falafel, Wraps, And Fast-Casual Mediterranean Bowls To SoMa The taker for the recently vacated Merigan Sub Shop space has just been revealed by Eater, and it's called Sajj a previously truck-based Mediterranean concept that's opening its first SF location in the
SF News Wave Of Stabbings Strikes San Francisco The city of San Francisco was the site of at least three serious stabbings in the last day, police say, with two victims fighting for their lives and a third refusing to speak
SF News [Update] Bomb Scare At AutoReturn Briefly Shuts Down SoMa, Hall Of Justice Evacuated A suspicious item that was being treated as a possible bomb was found in the back of a car at AutoReturn, the city-contracted company that handles towed vehicles. The discovery was made before
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Bar Owner Declares SF A Happy Hour Town, Late-Night Drinking Dead Maybe because San Francisco hardly kicked its drinking habit during Prohibition — the 18th Amendment was rather loosely observed by local law enforcement here — or perhaps because Anthony Bourdain once called San Francisco a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Lone Star Saloon Being Sold To Two Of Its Longtime Bartenders It appears that the once endangered Lone Star Saloon on Harrison Street is in the process of changing hands just months after the 27-year-old gay bar was granted Legacy Business status by the
SF News Saturday Shootings Kill One Man, Leave Two Others Injured Precita at Alabama. Two shot after drive-by gunfight. Victims transported to hospital. pic.twitter.com/hfrB7MEEQU— Bernalwood (@Bernalwood) October 9, 2016 Just hours after a shooting in SoMa killed one man Saturday, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deli Board Uses Twitter Account To Post Photos Of Homeless, Drug Use What's completely out of control? @mayoredlee pic.twitter.com/HN4SrG0F2R— Deli Board (@deliboard) October 2, 2016 Deli Board owner Adam Mesnick, who last year gave an interview to C.W. Nevius on the
Arts & Entertainment Beatbox To Be Reborn As Halcyon, A Nightclub And Multi-Purpose Venue Beatbox, the former gay nightspot on 11th Street that called it quits after five years in July, will get new life under the ownership of longtime SF impresario Gina Milano, formerly of Bambuddha
SF News After Mid-Market Beating Victim Dies, SFPD Arrests Suspect In His Slaying It was August 23 when Evaristo Rocha-Rodriguez was badly beaten in a Mid-Market altercation. Three weeks he was dead, succumbing to his injuries the following month. And about two weeks after that, police
SF News Again, Don't Try Driving Through SoMa: Dreamforce Kicks Off Today Salesforce's answer to Oracle's Openworld conference, which itself recently shut down/effed up traffic in part of SoMa as it annually does, happens all this week, and given all the rest of the
SF News Violent Weekend For San Francisco: Four Homicides, One Suspicious Death Three men and one woman died violent deaths in separate San Francisco incidents this past weekend, while a fifth perished under conditions police characterize as "suspicious" pending further investigation. Here's the rundown of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Citizen's Band And Pinkie's Bakery Abruptly Close In SoMa The bakery Pinkie's and its co-tenant and sister restaurant Citizen's Band, a casual, diner-style operation serving contemporary comfort food, have both closed. A tip to SFist revealed that staff had been notified last
