SF News SF Billionaire's 17-Story Condo Proposal Appears Dead In the Water, Which Partly Explains His Feud With Aaron Peskin SF Standard owner Michael Moritz trashed Supervisor Aaron Peskin in the NY Times yesterday. Today we get some insight into why, as a Telegraph Hill condo project Moritz is backing just had its applications canceled, though mostly because of a missed deadline.
SF News Iconic SF Documentary, 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill,' Is Back In Theaters For Its 20th Anniversary The Roxie is hosting the remastered film for a limited release this week, and you can still get tickets.
SF News Parcel Sadness: Small and 'Challenging' Cliffside Property On Telegraph Hill Hits Market For $150,000 A small but enticingly affordable piece of land over on Telegraph Hill just hit the market for the fifth time in 15 years, with the biggest question being whether it will ever be useful to anyone, for anything.
SF News Coit Tower Will Reopen on Thursday San Francisco’s favorite phallus, and home to arguably the best 360-degree panoramic view in the city, Coit Tower, is open again Thursday with masks required only in the elevators.
Arts & Entertainment After Years of Protest and Vandalism, Columbus Statue Is Removed From Telegraph Hill As recently as October, Supervisor Aaron Peskin was vowing to prosecute the vandals who tossed red paint all over the statue of Christopher Columbus near Coit Tower. But now it's gone. Will Columbus Avenue be next?
Arts & Entertainment SF's Wild Parrot Flocks Still Going Strong, But Non-Profit That Cares For Injured Birds Needs Help Nearly a decade and a half after San Francisco's wild parrots gained wide fame via a book and a documentary about them, the noisy but beloved, non-native green birds have only increased their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Julius' Castle May Finally Reopen On Telegraph Hill, Despite NIMBY Objections The historic restaurant on the cliffs of Telegraph Hill, Julius' Castle, in operation from 1924 until a decade ago, may finally be reborn as a restaurant with the help of a development team
SF News Mystery Solved: 1950's Telegraph Hill Raccoon Man Identified A few weeks ago, via a fascinating archive of historic SF color photos that I'm still not done with, I posted a few photos of a man only identified as a random "oldster"
Arts & Entertainment Who Was This Man With A Pet Raccoon On Telegraph Hill In The 1950's? Among the trove of historic photos SFist has been sharing from the Charles W. Cushman Collection at the Indiana University Archives, there are several that Cushman took on an afternoon stroll up Telegraph
SF News Video: Telegraph Hill Coyote Chills With Coit Tower Tourists Usually described as "lone" or "solitary," the coyote believed to be the sole representative of its species to live atop Telegraph Hill may have been feeling, well, a bit lonely this morning. Fortunately
Arts & Entertainment The Steps Of San Francisco: All About The Filbert Steps On Telegraph Hill This marks the inaugural piece in a series about the stairway streets and various hidden steps of San Francisco. Though they're familiar to some tourists with guidebooks in hand, and those who watched
SF News SFPD Expresses Concern Over String Of Armed Robberies, Warmer Weather San Francisco Police are a little edgy, the local Fox affiliate reports, after a string of armed robberies happened in a span of about three hours Tuesday night night in Russian Hill and
SF News Driver Hits Pedestrian Near Telegraph Hill Another day, another pedestrian hit by a car. According to SF Appeal/BCN, a woman's leg was injured after she was hit by a car at Sansome and Vallejo. "The collision happened at
Arts & Entertainment Coit Tower Closed Until Spring 2014 For today's local tourism public service announcement: Coit Tower, the towering landmark we all prefer to enjoy from a safe distance, is closed for renovations as of today and won't be open to
Arts & Entertainment Best 11 Tourist Spots That Locals Should Also Enjoy Tired of your neighborhood already? Well, it's time to throw on a coat, march out the door, and venture out. Hundreds of thousands of tourists come to this city each year to behold
SF News Man Arrested In Telegraph Hill Rape Jovan Jones, 25, of Marin City was arrested on Saturday night after allegedly forcing his way into the apartment of a Telegraph Hill woman and then raping her. According to the Chronicle, "The
SF News Major Coit Tower Restoration Announced All the of drama surrounding Coit Tower, as well as June election's Prop B, are over after Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor David Chiu announced a $1.7 million fund to repair Coit
SF News Boulder Crushes Car As Telegraph Hill Continues To Fall Apart The slowly crumbling face of Telegraph Hill lost another chunk of rock this morning as some boulders set free by weekend rains apparently slid down the hill and crushed a parked vehicle near
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Ballad of the Burglar of Telegraph Hill We live in an age when a news story can become the stuff of legend and fodder for balladeers within days. And yes, the story of the wily burglar of Telegraph Hill, who
SF News Telegraph Hill Burglar Escapes! Er, scratch that. The (alleged) robber perched on a Telegraph Hill cliff escaped at around 10 p.m. Wednesday night, soon after SFPD left the scene per the suspect's request. SFPD sent out
SF News Burglar Stubbornly Remains on Telegraph Hill Cliffside [Updated] That (allegedly) thieving dude we discussed yesterday, the one who was chased until he jumped a wall and found himself on a sheer, brush-covered cliff on the eastern side of Telegraph Hill, remains
SF News Silly Burglar Gets Himself Stuck on Cliff on Telegraph Hill [Updated] A bumbling cat burglar managed to get himself trapped, and surrounded by cops, while trying to escape down a brush-covered cliff on the eastern face of Telegraph Hill last evening. The drop is
SF News Sobbing Victim Gets Wallet Back From Mugger Tis the season for muggers to return crucial pieces of identification to their victims. Take, for example, a Telegraph Hill mugging victim who has his wallet returned to him after sobbing during a
misc MUNI Underground We don't usually read the Op Ed pages of the Chronicle, because it's always either rehashed columnists from other papers or something like "give birth control pills to deer in Point Reyes" --
SF News Did You Feel The Earthquake? No, you didn't dream it! There was a 4.2 temblor this morning at around 4:42 a.m., centered two miles east of Oakland on the dreaded Hayward Fault. It knocked out
