SF News Those ‘Anti-Sex Work’ Barriers Are Now Coming to Shotwell Street After street bollards and barriers chased the sex work scene off of Capp Street, but merely moved that activity over to Shotwell Street, the SFMTA has voted to bring the barriers to Shotwell Street too.
SF News Renderings Show Proposed New 100% Affordable Housing Project at Burned-Out 29th and Mission Building What used to be the 3300 Club, El Taco Loco, and a Mission-Bernal SRO is now slated to become 35 units of all-affordable housing, and we now have new renderings of plans for what has just been a burnt-out eyesore for seven and a half years.
SF News The Former ‘Monster In the Mission’ Project, Now Slated to Be Affordable Housing, Gets Even Bigger Mayor London Breed is ordering a supersize increase in the number of units to the affordable housing complex going into what used to be the Burger King and Walgreens buildings at 16th and Mission, at the once-derided “Monster in the Mission” site.
SF News SFMTA Installs Anti-Sideshow Speed Bumps on Three SF Corners Hoping to hit the brakes on the recent increase in San Francisco sideshows, SFMTA has installed speed bumps at certain, specific corners in the Mission, Oceanview, and the Excelsior.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whoa! El Rio Almost Closed This Summer, but Was Saved by a Housing Nonprofit The nightlife scene dodged a bullet as El Rio was at serious risk of shutting down in recent months, but thanks to a city program, Carmen Miranda’s huge head is not going anywhere.
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Foolz ... Are Making Valencia Unchill' "F**k these foolz that are making Valencia Street unchill and destroying the Mission 4 every1 who lives there," sings Kevin Patrick, AKA Field Medic, in a scathing social critique that targets "these
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Roosevelt Tamale Parlor Set To Close This Sunday After 93 Years On 24th Street Photo via Instagram. After nearly a century years in business, it seems time is finally up for Roosevelt Tamale Parlor. An announcement posted to the exterior of the restaurant claimed that the one-two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brunch Spot Boogaloo's Is Closing Their Doors Because Of 'Whacked Out' Rent Everybody's favorite place to stand in line for hours to get brunch might soon be going out of business. Boogaloo's, known not just for the lines but also their famous vegetarian herb cream
Arts & Entertainment Janelle Monáe To Perform At Rally Against Police Violence In The Mission R&B star Janelle Monáe will be performing Sunday afternoon in the Mission at a concert and rally against police violence. Monáe will be joined by Jidenna and fellow Wondaland Records artists
SF News Giant Drill Court Inside The Armory To Become Full-Time, Non-Porn Event Space Get ready to spend more time in the general vicinity of fetish porn production! A new event space is opening full-time within the Armory, the Mission District sanctum of the premium fetish pornographers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Mission Coffee Shop Warned Of 'Yuppie Infestation' According to a tip received by SFist, Haus, a coffee shop on 24th Street, was recently privy to an important and strongly worded warning. A "Yuppie Infestation" is just now sweeping the area,
SF News New Homeless 'Navigation Center' Will Seek To Move Whole Encampments, Pets And All The former site of the Phoenix Continuation High School at 1950 Mission Street has been abandoned for years. Soon, it will see 125 below-market-rate housing units, but for now, it is to serve
SF News Boy, The SFPD Sure Had One Busy Friday Evening The weekend got off to a rocky start for San Francisco, as San Francisco Police responded to two tricky situations last night: a woman barricaded in China Basin and a bomb scare in
SF News Man Beaten By Plainclothes Officers For Riding Bike On Sidewalk Is Suing The City A photo posted by Travis Jensen (@travisjensen) on Nov 11, 2013 at 3:35pm PST A man who was viciously beaten over a year ago by three plainclothes San Francisco Police Department officers
SF News Drones To Start Making Drugstore Runs In The Mission Beating Amazon to the punch in their area of drone-delivered goods, local startup QuiQui says they will start offering drone-based deliveries of prescription medication and other sundry drugstore items to the Mission district
Arts & Entertainment Realtor Creates 'The Quad': San Francisco's Most Appalling/Intriguing New Neighborhood Paragon realtor Jennifer Rosdail has created a new neighborhood called The Quad, and it will make you want to rip off your eyelids. But before you start tearing off ribbons of your own
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pizzeria Delfina Launches Wait List Webcam Because every good idea that we had in the first dotcom boom will inevitably make a comeback: here is a webcam aimed directly at the chalkboard wait list of noted Mission district pizza
SF News Arrest Made In Early Monday Mission Homicide San Francisco Police announced Tuesday that they have made an arrest related to the fatal shooting that occurred around 4:30 a.m. Monday morning near 21st and Bartlett Streets in the Mission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Tonight In The Mission: The Vestry The restaurant attached to The Chapel music venue (777 Valencia Street), dubbed The Vestry, debuts tonight after some lengthy delays. The Chapel, as you may recall, opened last fall around this time in
Arts & Entertainment ¡Help Save Esta Noche! Another gay bar is in trouble, folks. Esta Noche, one of the few remaining LGBT clubs in the increasingly homogeneous Mission District is facing closure. And they need your help. "Last year the
SF News Running Into Your Boss At Folsom Street Fair, And Other SF-Specific Fears Today on the Bold Italic they've got a funny bit from Dave Gordon covering a host of very San Franciscan phobias, such as the fear of forgetting your reusable bag and being shamed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Remembering San Francisco's Hostess Cake / Wonder Bread Factory If you lived in the Mission along Bryant and 15th and 16th prior to 2005, as we did for many years before evacuating to SOMA, you might recall that magical odor emanating from
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Dia De Los Muertos In The Mission Dia de los Muertos (or the preferable Romeroesque English translation, "Day of the Dead") had its annual procession in the Mission on Friday. Scores of people showed up dressed in white face to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Watch the World Series At Hog & Rocks Welcome to the World Series. Again. Ha. Mwa ha ha. And with another shot at the World Series title comes another week of eating too much and drinking too much. Let us help