SF News Activists Want to Rename South Van Ness Avenue as ‘Dolores Huerta Boulevard’ An online petition hopes to honor the labor movement icon by naming South Van Ness Avenue after her, but the logistics are perhaps a little overwhelming.
SF News [Update] Suspicious Rice Cooker Shuts Down South Van Ness Causing Huge Commuter Headache Hearing S Van Ness is closed btw Mission and Market due to police activity. pic.twitter.com/cg4YxhMCfM— Alexis Smith (@AlexisABC7) September 22, 2016 The sound of a news chopper overheard in the
SF News Hazmat Situation Closes Northbound S Van Ness Just in time for your evening commute, northbound South Van Ness Ave from Mission Street to Market Street has been close due to a hazmat situation. (Unconfirmed reports suggest a chemical leak.) The
SF News Transamerica Windmill, Musical Greens: A Peek At Urban Putt's Forthcoming Playland Urban Putt, the Mission's forthcoming 18-hole indoor mini-golf course, is a few putts closer to becoming a reality this week. The city's Planning Commission will review the designs this Thursday, which means we
SF News Mission District Spoil Sport To Rain On Indoor Mini-Golf Roughly 24 hours after news broke that the Mission District would soon be adding 18 holes of indoor mini-golf to its list of attractions, and at least one neighbor spoke out against the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Mini-Golf News: 18 Holes of Putt-Putt Coming To The Mission Former CNET editor and longtime miniature golf aficionado Steve Fox has just signed a 10-year lease on a space at South Van Ness and 22nd Street, where he intends to transform the former
SF News Vespa Rider Seriously Injured After South Van Ness Accident At first, before reading this story, we were ready to shake our finger at the Vespa rider in question. Lord knows we worry about you kids. But it seems she wasn't at fault.
SF News Mission Murder Misses Media Radar While Oakland received tons of press over the weekend for its recent spate of murder, this Mission murder, which happened near 25th and South Van Ness (be careful, Phone Booth patrons!), went all
misc Muni Citations: Now Slightly Less Awful Attention criminals: as of this week, your swashbuckling days of villainy and misbegotten Muni rides have become easy and breezy. Muni has "decriminalized" citations, which means that you won't have to go to
misc Ask a Muni Security Guy How do you handle food on MUNI? Technically it's not allowed but everyone kind of does it. It's basically ignored. We've had good luck with cooperation for the most part. We tell the
SF News 100 Alas. We hit the 100th murder mark over the weekend. And this big 1-0-0, as you know, is not a cause for celebration. Early Saturday morning at around 5 a.m., Jose Alberto
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UPDATE: Being Prepared for Not Being Prepared: Grocery Stores Open Late? Every year at Thanksgiving, you're bound to forget one or two critical items. A shallot, cooking twine, mushrooms, Ketel One -- something will slip your mind and you run the risk of having
SF News Muni Loves To Count There's a money room in the basement of 1 South Van Ness, where the Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, is headquartered. Workers literally count by hand bags of cash and coins taken
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Film School, Pela, Union Trade: What's your flavor? Tell me, what's your flavor? (Damn you, earworming Popeye's Chicken commercial!) Windswept indie and psychedelic rock are served up beautifully tonight at this Potrero
SF News SFist Blotter Those activists living in the trees at UC Berkeley admitted that okay, maaaaaaybe they cut off the tops of the trees they were complaining about the university damaging. The leader of the tree-sitting
SF News SFist Blotter The SFPD arrested the guy who murdered the anti-crime activist in the Haight, Joe Konopka, in an S&M session gone wrong. They believe Konopka, who was found handcuffed, choked to death
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Ever misplaced a grocery or to-do list? Your lost note could appear in Lost and Found in the Mission, a play based on true stories salvaged from scraps of papers found around the
SF News SFist Blotter A gay African-American high school English teacher at the private Urban School is recovering from three stab wounds he received a few weeks ago while eating at the Taqueria Cancun down near Mission
SF News Go To The Third Fake Question Time For Us! Man, we can't believe Team Newsom scheduled Third Fake Question Time at the last minute like that -- your Political Junkie is out on vacation so we can't make it to the Cesar
SF News Political Junkie: Watching The Watchers As the political season starts to heat up, there's so many bloggers monitoring politicians' activities that we're thinking we need to start a new column, the _____Watch. There's so many people needing to
SF News Let None Escape Muni's Grasp With your support, the physically disabled will someday ride Muni with the same freedom and comfort that the mentally disabled already enjoy.
SF News Muni's Equipment Troubles Extend Even Further Than We Thought "It has come to our attention that the restroom hygiene of some tenants is less than stellar," begins the memo, with the subject "RESTROOM MANNERS." Apparently, some folks at the MTA offices at
SF News Political JunkiEE If you think the Ma v. Ja race is content-free, you should try the State Senate District 8 race between Leland Yee and Mike Nevin. Yawn, unless you like trying to figure out
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising, Part Three There's so many 1906 earthquake related events, we've gotta do a third post rounding up your tourism options! Keep sending those events on in! Previous posts here and here. Additional events listings here,
Arts & Entertainment Thirtysomething not so "Thirtysomething" Fortunately, the essays within soothed the sting of our failures past. From Ashley Warlick's meditation on the significance of a stuffed animal to her daughter, to Flor Morales' tale of her escape from