SF News Valencia Merchants, Others, Honestly Surprised Jack Spade Is Not Afraid Of Them The move by Liz Claiborne-owned mini-chain Jack Spade to open on 16th Street has become, for many, a galvanizing symbol of the latest phase in the Mission's gentrification and potential loss of character.
SF News Jack Spade Cleared For 16th Street (For Now) Wednesday evening, the Board of Appeals voted 3-2 to allow a Jack Spade store to continue building out their controversial new store on 16th Street in the Mission. Despite an aggressive campaign from
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 Mission Merchants Continue Campaign Against Jack Spade As we learned back in March, Jack Spade has signed a lease for the former Adobe Bookstore space on 16th Street. Since early May, neighborhood merchants have been battling to keep the chain
Arts & Entertainment What Is The Proper Way To Make A Right Turn? When it comes to le cycling and les cars, we don't know, really. No idea AT ALL, man. So we had to ask a couple of real-life cyclists. As a staunch pedestrian, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supes To Ease Limits On Beer And Wine Sales In Mission You may recall back in March how we learned of Supervisor David Campos's push to loosen Planning guidelines and the 17-year-old moratorium on certain types of liquor licenses in the Mission. One reason
SF News New Plan Would Convert Valencia Street Gutters Into Delightful Urban Gardens In their ongoing efforts to soften the city's hard concrete edges, the San Francisco Planning Commission and the Public Utilities Commission are putting together a new plan that would create even more green
Arts & Entertainment Best 5 Bike Rides In San Francisco With scenic vistas at nearly every turn and more bike lanes being built every day, San Francisco is well-known as a two-wheeled haven. Brave the notorious hills around the bay and you'll be
SF News SFPD Officers Shoot Two In Air Gun Altercation Two people were left in critical condition after an altercation sprung up early Sunday morning between two groups across the street from SFPD's Mission Station at 17th and Valencia Streets. A bystander alerted
Arts & Entertainment Friday: 'Call Me Home' At Gallery Carte Blanche It only seems as if every storefront in the Mission is becoming a trendy restaurant as gentle waves of VC and IPO money continue to lap upon our shores. In fact a new
SF News Hospitalized Victim In 20-Person Valencia Street Brawl Identified As Serpentine Cook The victim who ended up on life support after a huge, 20-person street brawl broke out at 16th and Valencia Streets after last call Tuesday morning has been identified as 39-year-old Caesar Chuc,
SF News New Valencia Street Music Venue, Preservation Hall West, To Open Early October Preservation Hall West, an expansion of the historic New Orleans Jazz hall, will become San Francisco's (and the Mission's) newest music venue when it opens its doors just in time for the annual
SF News Damaged Valencia Street Businesses Might Be Fined By City, Receive Bank Donation [Updated] Following Monday night's splinter group mini-riot that befell parts of the Mission (most notably on Valencia Street), Wells Fargo donated a whopping $25,000 to aid the more than 20 small businesses that
Arts & Entertainment Return Of Valencia Swing Sparks Outcry For More City Sidewalk Swings You guys, the Valencia swing is back! And this time it comes affixed with streamers! What fun. Mission Mission has been chronicling the plight of the swing on Valencia Street ever since a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Fancy Taco Store Forced Into Manual Labor The kids over at Mission Local spotted this sign noting today's closure of Valencia Street's tasty yet unfortunately named taco shop for white people. Apparently, due to some problem with the local utility
SF News Nobody Shot At 16th And Valencia Around 12:50 a.m. last night a 911 caller reported six to nine shots fired at the intersection of 16th and Valencia in the Mission. Police checking out the scene found six
SF News Dastardly Woman Hates Whimsy, Calls Cops Over Tree Swing On Valencia street, one woman — presumably afraid of the danger a simple tree swing could bring to the streets of San Francisco — has taken it upon herself to rid the block of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Summit, Noted Artisan Valencia Street Cafe, Will Close Its Doors This Month Posh tech cafe The Summit will close its doors on January 28. Decried by some as a "masturbatory business fantasy," the creatively-minded Valencia Street space served coffee and pastries to "free thinkers, craftsmen,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fourth Wave Coffee Roaster Foils Thugs' Valencia Street Getaway A brawl outside of a Valencia street liquor store Saturday afternoon ended inside of Four Barrel Coffee after one employee — coffee roaster working in the back room — denied two thugs an easy exit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist Finally Removes Vile Backyard Porta-potties Adapting to the new Valencia Street, budding gastro pup Zeitgeist finally yanked their backyard porta-potties in exchange for comfier thrones recently. The new "wood, concrete, and sheet metal bathrooms" will now play host
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Locanda Expertly Described by Willie Brown If we may Brown-block Andrew Dalton's excellent Friday feature on former SF Mayor Willie Brown, the noted power player-cum-freebie king just published yet another seamless post at Inside Scoop. It's genius. Sheer genius.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan Announces Plans for Old Slanted Door Space After closing the Mission locale over nine years ago -- has it really been nine years?! -- Charles Phan recently told Tamara Palmer what he plans on doing with the old Slanted Door
SF News Modern Times Books Needs Your Help Modern Times Books, the Valencia Street bookstore that carries a wide variety of new and used books on "globalization, politics and media, as well as an array of graphic novels, fiction, and criticism"
