SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Civic Center Whole Foods Employees Say Store Didn't Close Just Because of Crime Much like Walgreens before them, Amazon-owned Whole Foods may be scapegoating San Francisco's petty crime problem and feeding into a narrative in order to avoid talking about the economics of the store they just shut down.
SF News Market Street Muni Shelter Lecture Ends In Beating With Cane A man who took on a group of Muni shelter partiers Tuesday paid a difficult price for his activism, after one of the celebrants interrupted his diatribe by striking the scolder with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Suvir Saran's NEMA Joint Finally Gets A Name Suvir Saran's restaurant at the impossible, the inexplicable NEMA finally has a name. It'll be called American Masala, which, according to Inside Scoop, "is meant to refer not only to the Indian spice
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Heart Shot by acclaimed photog Troy Holden, in the city's eve-shifting MidMarket arrondissement.
SF News Two Arrested In Sunday Night Tenderloin Shooting SFPD made an arrest in the shooting of eight (initially reported as seven) people on Sunday night at Taylor and Turk. Curtis Warren, 25, and Verle Jones, 24, of Emeryville were both taken
Arts & Entertainment Twitter Headquarters To Install Old, Terrifying Log Cabins Continuing with San Francisco's unyielding love of reclaimed wood, Twitter will install log cabins at their Mid-Market headquarters. Two homestead cabins, dating back to the late 1800s, will soon become a place where
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crestfallen Cafe Responds To SFist's Criticism See, now that's funny. Almost. Two-year-old Mid-Market cafe and eatery Machine — who, last week, poked fun at area addicts and homeless, among other characters in the changing neighborhood — responded to SFist's criticism via
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market Cafe Pokes Fun At Area Drug Addicts, Homeless [Updated] Call it click bait. Say that SFist is trying to rile you up. But this cafe/deli's sign, smack on Market and Sixth, is in poor taste. Crazy? No, not really. But tone
SF News Mid-Market Tenants Win Another Reprieve From Eviction Last we heard about the embattled tenants of 1049 Market Street, the remaining group of them who have not moved of their own accord (it remains unclear just how many there are, but
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Troy Holden's 'Neighbors' Portrait Exhibit Opens Last week, SFist showed you Troy Holden's Neighbors, the San Francisco-based photographer's breakthrough portraiture series. Working with the North of Market-Tenderloin Community Benefit District, he snapped 50 portraits of individuals and families at
SF News Market Street Cinema To Become Yet Another Condo Building Historic, seedy and possibly haunted Market Street Cinema at 1077 Market Street has joined the march to oblivion, as its owners have agreed to sell to a developer who will raze the 101-year-old
SF News Concerned Tenant Responds To Awful NEMA Promotional Video NEMA, that luxury high-rise mammoth on Mid-Market, just released another promotional video. Oh, brother. It's not good. This one has so many white heterosexuals splashing around a sun-drenched pool, you'll need SPF 55
SF News Mid-Market Shooting Injures 1 Gunfire erupted Monday afternoon on Market and Jones following fisticuffs in the street. According to CBS SF, "At 1:33 p.m., police began receiving 911 calls from people reporting shots fired in
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: MidMarket Style Troy Holden snapped this shot of a dapper dude, vertical stripes and all, on Market Street. We like.
SF News Mayor Ed Lee To Walk MidMarket This Morning Talking Twitter IPO Twitter's initial public offering is set to happen as early as this Thursday. It's also set to make some people rich and some people unhappy. Naturally. In an effort to sooth concerns on
SF News Bank Robbed At Mid-Market Over on the 1300 block of Market near 9th Street, a bank (possibly a Wells Fargo) was robbed. The culprit used nothing more than a few words on paper. "The suspect entered the
SF News New Twitter HQ Signage Pays Tribute To Old SF Mart Sign While some might argue that the modern design doesn't necessarily match the building, we are swooning over Twitter's new signage outside their headquarters. You like? Well, we do. So sleek, so fresh, so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AQ To Open TBD This Fall, FYI With an emphasis on open-fired, grilled, smoked, rotisserie, and hearth-baked vegetable and meat preparation, the team behind the wildly successful AQ, Chef Mark Liberman and Owner Matt Semmelhack, will open TBD in SoMa
Arts & Entertainment Tech Writer's BART Strike Perspective Might Make You Put Your Fist Through This Screen Quick, everyone, freak out! Sarah Lacy's PandoDaily article ("And you thought SF cabs were bad? BART strike is crippling fledgling mid-market tech corridor") is the online version of a drunk Missionite who stumbles
SF News MidMarket: Man Nearly Beaten To Death By Half Dozen Men Yet another example of San Francisco's unnerving lack of police presence in areas of concern: A 49-year-old man was found half-conscious "and possibly having a seizure" at Market and Mason Tuesday night at
