SF News It’s Official: Valencia Street Bike Lanes Moving Back to the Curbside, Starting in January The 15-month experiment of moving Valencia Street’s bike lanes to the center of the street has just been officially reversed, as the SFMTA just voted to move Valencia's bike lanes back to the curb in early 2025.
Arts & Entertainment Valencia Street Nightclub Amado’s Has Closed Permanently, Owner Blames New Center Bike Lane Eight-year-old Valencia Street bar Amado’s apparently closed for good over the weekend, with the owner blaming the street’s new center bike lane. To add insult to injury, the SFMTA just delayed its evaluation of possible changes to that bike lane.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Sicilian Gelato Shop Hila Now Open In Valencia Street’s Former Xanath Ice Cream Store The Batman and Mr. Potato Head of Valencia Street ice cream shop Xanath are gone, but in their place is a new Sicilian gelateria called Hila, and the newlywed owner has a real sweet story.
Arts & Entertainment Clarion Alley Mural Project Turns 25: A Historical Primer The onslaught of gentrification has been blitzkrieging the Valencia Street Corridor for the better part of 30 years now, yet one little patch has always maintained the neigborhood’s old-school, punk-rock, outlaw roots.
Arts & Entertainment Borderlands Books Looks To Buy Building, Relocate To The Haight In Bid For Survival The Borderlands Books saga may well be turning a page to a novel solution that ensures the sci-fi and fantasy bookstore’s permanent survival. Not long after announcing the closure of the Valencia
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room Buys Another Year, Extends Lease Until 2019 The development boom has lowered the boom on the late, great Lexington Club, displaced the iconic Doc’s Clock, and taken the lives of many beloved longtime Valencia Corridor restaurants and bars because
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Team Takes Over Former Wo Hing/Urchin Bistrot Space On Valencia There's some movement finally on the vacant space at 584 Valencia Street that once housed the original Slanted Door location, and in recent years was home to Wo Hing General Store and, briefly,
Arts & Entertainment Benny Gold Now Open Softly On Valencia As Construction Continues In Former Mission Creek Cafe Space Mission Creek Cafe, which left its storefront at 968 Valencia in January, will be missed for its free wifi, cheap coffee, copious outlets, and fault-finding employees who took every opportunity to scream at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Valencia & Kebab Closed After Just 10 Months Valencia & Kebab (525 Valencia Street), the relocated business formerly known as Hayes & Kebab that opened in the Mission last November, is fully papered over and appears closed as of today, though
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla To Open Third Location On Valencia, In Former Grub Spot Rapidly expanding fast-casual Greek sandwich spot Souvla, which just opened its second location on Divisadero in June, has snapped up the recently vacated Grub space at 758 Valencia. As Eater reports, owner Charles
Arts & Entertainment Beloved Mission Record Store Aquarius Records To Close And Reopen Under New Name, Management It's kinda sorta the end of the line for Aquarius Records, the independent Valencia Street shop that's been in continuous operation in various locales since at least 1970 as they say on their
SF News Video: Thief Steals Bike On Valencia In Broad Daylight Surveillance cameras outside of Valencia Street theater Stage Werx captured a distressing scene this past Friday, wherein a thief cut the lock off a bike with some sort of power tool — making a
SF News Artists' Television Access (ATA) Renews Lease, Hope On Valencia "Time To Party" wrote Artists' Television Access, more commonly known as ATA, to Facebook last night in a post picked up by the Weekly that heralded their renewed lease at 992 Valencia Street.
Arts & Entertainment Dub Mission Hosts 1000th Show Sunday, DJ Sep Waxes Nostalgic The long-running weekly dancehall reggae club Dub Mission has its 1000th show on Sunday night at the Elbo Room, with Subatomic Sound System and LUV FYAH joining DJ Sep and residents Vinnie Esparza
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Restaurant Shakeout Continues As Urchin Bistrot Calls It Quits After just under a year in business, Urchin Bistrot is closing on July 31, having never quite drawn the crowds it hoped to on the busy restaurant corridor of Valencia. As Inside Scoop
SF News SFPD Investigating Homicides In Tenderloin, Mission The San Francisco Police Department are investigating two homicides from the last few days: a stabbing in a Geary Street hotel, and a shooting at 16th and Valencia. According to SFPD spokesperson Officer
Arts & Entertainment Shake Your Fist At This 2BR Rental On Valencia Going For $10,500 [Updated] UPDATE: As some commenters have pointed out, this ad could be a hoax. How very political theater! Alas, no, via Uptown Almanac, it's not. Allow the exceptional TK of 40 Going On 20
SF News Panic: Chain Stores Threaten Valencia Street's Preciousness Yet Again Over in the city's elite Mission District, rue de la Valencia might play host to a couple of chain stores. (Heh.) According to Mission Local, two retailers hawking widely-available goods might worm their
SF News Man Shot Late Friday Near Valencia And Duboce In an incident that may have been gang-related, a man was shot in the vicinity of Valencia and Duboce Streets Friday night/Saturday morning around 1 a.m. and transported himself to S.
SF News Activism Wins: Jack Spade Backs Out Of The Mission In a coup for the anti-formula-retail contingent and Valencia merchants, Jack Spade has backed out of trying to move into the former Adobe Books location on 16th Street, bowing to neighborhood protests. The
SF News New T-Shirt Draws Attention To The Mission's Eviction Crisis Mia Gonzalez, owner of Encantada Gallery in the Mission, received an eviction notice from the darling little store she's run for more than 16 years. She responded by designing this powerful shirt. Friend
SF News Adobe Books To Be Resurrected On 24th Street Good news for fans of aged wood pulp: the financially strapped Adobe Books will avoid disappearing completely by moving to the Mission's next new hotspot along 24th Street. After some aggressive rent increases
SF News Final Death Knell Tolls for Adobe Bookshop Way back in 2010 things weren't looking that great for 16th Street stalwart Adobe Bookshop, and it's only gotten worse. We'd heard in January that owner Andrew McKinley was going to try to
Arts & Entertainment Black Friday Alternative: Paxton Gate Described by Time Out London as Martha Stewart Meets David Lynch, Paxton Gate turns 20 this year. So, why not head over to Valencia Street to buy spider webs under glass, venus flytraps,
SF News Teen Girl Stabbed Multiple Times Near Valencia Street Near the corner of 21st and Valencia Streets a little after 7 p.m. Tuesday night, a 17-year-old girl was stabbed several times in the torso. "Police have also discovered that there was
