SF News SFPD Confiscating Buskers' Instruments Ahead Of Holiday Shopping Rush Counting on some nice chunks of change from holiday shopping foot traffic, buskers set up in force around Union Square this time of year playing everything from drum kits, to trumpets, to keyboards
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Proposed BevMo! Near Union Square Gives Hope To Shoppers Everywhere If you're looking to drop $12 to ice-skate or doing a round of holiday shopping at Macy's, Union Square has you covered. Otherwise, the chain store-filled blocks surrounding that public plaza don't tend
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kuleto's To Close After 30 Years, Opening Up Prime Powell Street Location Longtime Union Square tourist trap Kuleto's (221 Powell Street), which opened along with the Villa Florence Hotel in 1986 and was one of the first restaurants in prolific designer and restaurateur Pat Kuleto's
SF News Watch These Adorable Kittens Brawl On The SF SPCA Macy's Window Livestream Kittens. Who doesn't love watching them do things? This universally beloved pastime is made easy every holiday season by the SF SPCA and Macy's, two organizations that team up to put puppies and
Arts & Entertainment Let The Holidays Begin: Union Square And Embarcadero Ice Rinks Open Today I know Halloween is barely over and your bathroom sink probably still has evidence of grease paint in it, but the ice rinks at Union Square and Justin Herman Plaza both opened for
SF News Britex Fabrics Negotiating Deal With New Landlord To Remain In Union Square Home Although the store wouldn't open until 10 a.m., holiday shoppers began to form a line for Britex Fabrics at 9 a.m. on Monday, a queue that soon wended its way around
SF News Britex Fabrics May Move After 64 Years, But Will Remain In SF Asked to share her go-to recommendation for maker-folk from out of town, Project Runway star and local designer Emily Payne shouted out Britex Fabrics, describing it to SFist as "a family-run luxury fabric
SF News Fashion Crime: Union Square 'Rainbow Crew' Robbers Finally Busted The retail bandits once known as the Rainbow Girls and later rechristened the Rainbow Crew have been busted after six years at large, District Attorney George Gascón reports to KRON 4. Originally consisting
SF News Late Night Arson Strikes Maiden Lane A late-night fire that sent crews to San Francisco's tony Maiden Lane was arson, officials said Tuesday morning. According to the San Francisco Police Department, it was 11:40 p.m. Monday when
SF News Macy's To Shutter Its Union Square Men's Store Among the 100 Macy's stores that are set to close, as the retail giant announced today, will be the hulking, nearly windowless men's store across the street from their Union Square flagship, at
SF News Harley-Davidson Rider Fatally Strikes Union Square Tourist A man who was visiting San Francisco from New Zealand was killed Monday afternoon, after a motorcyclist struck him on a Union Square street. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the collision
SF News SFFD Fights Smoky Blaze At Union Square Macy's 0041 Hrs #Yoursffd extinguished a small equipment fire on the roof of Macy's. No injury or displacement 0044 hrs pic.twitter.com/9cDTNkaCty— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) June 29, 2016 A fire on
SF News Two Suspects Sought In Major Jewelry Heist Near Union Square The SFPD has released surveillance images of two men they believe stole as much as $3,000,000 worth of jewelry from Grace Jewelry at 121 O'Farrell Street. As KRON 4 reports, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Pacific Cocktail Haven, The Replacement Bar For Cantina Back in December many lamented the news that Latin-inflected cocktail spot Cantina, which has been going strong for most of the last decade just off Union Square, had been sold and would likely
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tratto, A Modern Italian Trattoria, Is Coming To Former BDK Spot At Geary And Taylor We first heard word about the upcoming arrival of Tratto a few weeks ago, and today the team shared a full release with all the details about what's going to be "a spirited,
SF News Newsweek: Apple's New SF Flagship Store Is A 'Fancy Crypt' The gleaming new Union Square Apple store, unveiled and opened this month, is its "first global flagship," which is to say that stores that come after it will follow in its mold. Designed
SF News New Union Square Apple Store To Open Gigantic Sliding Glass Doors Saturday Apple fanboys and girls will want to set their iCals and synchronize their Apple Watches, because Apple's gleaming new Union Square retail store at 300 Post Street will open this Saturday, May 21st,
Arts & Entertainment Sorry, You Can't Get Gwyneth's $15K Dildo At The Union Square Goop Pop-Up. We Asked. "Hi, I'm looking for a $15,000, 24-karat gold massager," I asked an attendant at the Union Square pop-up shop for Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop. Cutting me off before I could mansplain
SF News Good Samaritan Thwarts Market Street Phone Snatching A phone theft in the middle of one of San Francisco's busiest areas had a happy(ish) ending Friday, when a good Samaritan who saw the robbery tackled one of the thieves. A
SF News Police: 'Operator Error,' Not Faulty Brakes, To Blame For Union Square Tour Bus Crash The San Francisco Police Department this morning announced their findings in the case of the tour bus that this past November careened wildly out of control and crashed into the Apple store. Despite
Arts & Entertainment Your Drunk Inner Child Can't Wait For Next Week's Boozy Ball Pit San Franciscans, deservedly or not, have a reputation for falling prey to Peter Pan Syndrome, as anyone who skipped Easter Mass in favor of careening wildly on tricycles down a perilous hill can
SF News New Photos From Union Square Tour Bus Crash Show Mangled Interior New photos depicting the post-crash interior of the sightseeing bus that careened out of control this past November were released on Friday. At this time it is believed that mechanical failures were likely
Arts & Entertainment Rasputin Music Closes Powell Street Store Sad but fairly unsurprising news today: One of the city's last big holdouts, record-store wise, has given up the ghost, and that is Rasputin's Union Square store. The deceptively large, five-story location at
Arts & Entertainment Union Square Bar To Become Pop-Up Ball Pit In March It's often been said that SF is a place for perpetual Peter Pan Syndrome, what with our goofy costumed foot races and annual adult pillow fights. And though that adult Slip-N-Slide thing got
SF News CHP Releases Its Report On City Sightseeing Buses, Finds Multiple Mechanical Problems As expected and hinted at yesterday, the CHP has just released its report following a surprise audit of City Sightseeing, the local tour bus operator whose double-decker bus seriously injured multiple people when
