SF News Jewish-Owned SF Ice Cream Shop Smitten Vandalized, Tagged With Pro-Palestine Messages A 3 a.m. vandalism job on the Valencia Street ice cream shop Smitten left windows broken and “Free Palestine” graffiti on the storefront, and it may not be a coincidence that the store is Jewish-owned.
SF News The Stud’s Former Home Hit With Pride Weekend Graffiti Again, But Vandals Also Trashed Four Cars What’s become a Pride Weekend tradition returned with the annual tagging of the former Stud, but this weekend’s taggery spready to a half-dozen adjacent buildings, and four cars were thoroughly vandalized.
SF News SF Public Works Will (Finally!) Clean Off Building Graffiti and Tagging For Free In a long-overdue move, SF Public Works will stop charging small businesses and building owners for having graffiti on their buildings, and instead come out and clean off the tagging for free.
SF News Property Owners Back on the Hook for Graffiti Fines, as Supervisors End Pandemic Graffiti Citation Amnesty Tagging and graffiti can once again result in fines on property owners, as the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to end a year-long amnesty on fines for properties that don’t clean their graffiti off quickly enough.
SF News Now SF Has a Graffiti Flash Mob; More Than 100 Taggers Coated Mission and 18th Streets Friday Night It may be an isolated incident gone wrong, or could be yet another new form of emerging petty crime, that “more than 100 people" thoroughly tagged a Mission District corner’s storefronts and vacant buildings Friday night.
SF News Berkeley Student Who Alleged Police Harassment Arrested Again For Vandalism Spree Remember this month’s tale of a Berkeley student who claimed he was racially profiled and detained illegally, held in jail for almost two days without being able to see a lawyer, and
SF News Serial Vandal Advertising Bad Website Stalks The Upper Haight Want to see an endless stream of garbage and graffiti on San Francisco streets and walls without getting anywhere near it? Just go on Twitter and follow @SF311Reports, where you can get an
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Bernal Rock Abandons Politics For Prince oh, Bernal Rock, you're in more dire need of a Twitter account than any rock in history #prince #purple @Bernalwood pic.twitter.com/oV0KYPwx5G— cristiano valli (@cristi4nov4lli) April 26, 2016 You know how
SF News Prolific Tagger Fined Over $200K By City A tagger taken to civil court this past summer by the city of San Francisco learned her fate last week, and it is an expensive one. The City Attorney's office announced that it
SF News City Attorney Threatens To Sue Record Label Over Bieber Graffiti Hey, Biebs, looks like it is too late to say sorry. In a letter addressed to both Def Jam Records and Universal Music Group, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera today demanded the
SF News Video: Vandals Tag Francis Ford Coppola's Dome San Francisco's historic Sentinel Building is one of North Beach's most iconic structures, a great green tower owned by director Francis Ford Coppola. Now home to (among other tenants) Coppola's American Zoetrope studio
SF News Transient Sex Offender Busted For Vandalism At SF School The day after some mysterious graffiti roiled San Francisco's French American International School with fears of an ISIS message, police say that they've nabbed the tagger, and determined that the spray-painted message was
SF News Judge Deems Alleged 'NO MORE CHINESE' Tagger A Threat To Public Safety When a tagger gets caught in San Francisco, the miscreant is typically released on his or her own recognizance as they await trial, even if they face a massive number of charges. Not
SF News Cautionary Graffiti Spray-Painted Onto Jaw-Droppingly Expensive Duboce Park Apartment Building The Lower Haight building with the $6,500 1-bedroom already got tagged. 🚫💲 “Don’t Waste Your $” A photo posted by Andrew Dalton (@dolfapedia) on Aug 13, 2015 at 11:04pm PDT On Wednesday,
SF News Video: Alleged Vandals Get Stuck On Cliff, Require Massive Rescue Effort Two men suspected of vandalizing a historic military battery in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area ended up needing to be saved by the same law enforcement officers they tried to evade. According
Arts & Entertainment Who Is Zamar, the Serial Street Artist Behind the Mischievous Squid? A tagger/street artist going by the name Mar or Zamar, and mr_tentacool on Instagram, has been covering surfaces all over San Francisco and Oakland with an image of a squid, sometimes
SF News PBR, Tecate Blamed For Mission Dive-Bar Tagging Owners of divey Mission bars where people like to tag bathroom (and exterior) walls are increasingly sad about this culture of tagging that they seem to be a part of. As Uptown Almanac
misc Photo du Jour 591 Tagger caught in the act on the 33-Stanyan, shot by The Perpetual Cold (via Mission Mission). Read all about it here.
SF News SF Man Arrested After Santa Cruz Tagging Orgy A 25-year-old San Francisco man was tossed in the Santa Cruz County on Saturday morning, accused of allegedly tagging a cop car and "vandalizing property across the city and causing $8,000 worth
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Cement Tagging As many an art theory professor will tell you, painting is dead. Everything that one can do with paint on canvas or a wall, arguably, has been done. But maybe that's not so
misc Kezar Pub Owner Chides Tagger/Lakers Fan With Taunting Letter Oh wow. We are starting to enjoy the angry missives written in response artistic license of taggers. Take, for example, the owner of Kezar Pub in the Haight. (Which is a fantastic sports
misc Graffiti Report Card: Muni Taggers Gone Wild As Tangobaby put it, "What?! Ewww. And cool." Grade: D+
Arts & Entertainment What Happened to the SNIFF Paintings? by Lisa Hix The beauty and frustration of the art of tagging is how completely democratic it is. In the world of graffiti, art is temporary, and whoever can put down a few
SF News Graffiti Reporter For those of you who don't think smiley face tagging is positively whimsical, be sure to use 311's Graffiti Reporter. You can help erase mischievous displays of graffiti you find in public parks
