Arts & Entertainment The Levi's Thing on Valencia: Not As Shill-y as You Think So, the new Levi's pop-up thing (they're reluctant to call it a 'store,' and it's kind of not) in the former Slanted Door location on Valencia Street between 16th and 17th, is
SF News '90s Era Gay Club Fliers for Klubstitue There's more to the San Francisco queer scene than Harvey Milk, gay marriage kerfuffles, or exhausting penis-in-bottom jokes. Take, for example, the late '80s/'90s Valencia Street staple, Klubstitute. Harkening back to the
misc Photo du Jour 449 The latest trend in Valencia Street wear? Toy guitars, possibly this year's version of the lunchbox.
SF News Hit and Run: 18th & Valencia Yesterday morning, PT Cruiser allegedly plowed through a red light at 18th and Valencia streets, striking an "adult riding a grey steel frame bicycle which had a blue childrens add on tandem bike
SF News 7x7's Tackles Valencia Street 7x7 Magazine's Ert O'Hara and Jessica Battilana take on San Francisco's pricey yet independent Valencia Street. They tackle such topics as where to get the best coffee (which they describe as an "intensely
SF News American Apparel Planning Commission Meeting This Thursday Tomorrow's the big day. The planning commission meeting is this Thursday, starting at 1:30. The hearing goes down in room 400 at City Hall. Oh, and Stephen Elliot at Stop American Apparel
SF News Is the Mission Really Up in Arms Over American Apparel? Mission Mission, the one true voice of the Mission district as far as we're concerned, brings up the American Apparel brouhaha. If you recall, American Apparel is dropping a spore smack dab on
misc As God As My Witness You'll Never Go Hungry Again With Our New Kobe Steaks and Pomme Frites! So, the Old Gray Lady hauled out the printing press to publish a story about how "cool-hunting hipsters" love Valenica Street. Sure, it's a dated piece. Wildly so, it seems. The article goes
SF News Scene From a Valencia Street Apartment Fire Eeps! SFist received word this morning that Valencia Street fell victim to yet another apartment fire. Sigh. Reader Jeff Cleary tells us: Aye, there was an apartment fire this morning on Valencia street,
misc Close Reading of Yelp We enjoy the following review -- although we're only using part of it for it devolves into anti-Hillary rhetoric, San Francisco's latest form of socially-acceptable sexism -- because a) it turns out that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *CLUB: Check out Rock Out Karaoke over at Amnesia. What is Rock Out Karaoke? Well, it mean that you will hear neither a Righteous Brothers cover nor a note from everyone's least favorite
SF News Day Around the Bay Dear sky: Please stop raining. You're being a jerk. Sincerely, everyone. [SFGate] The Palms defended. Sort of. [Curbed] Weeeee: Q4 earnings fell at Google. [SFGate] Although all of their hair currently looks like
misc Hayes Valley Wins Neighborhood of the Year And the Curbed Cup award goes to: Hayes Valley. San Francisco's top hood took the crown with 262 votes (52.8%) over second-place Mission's 234 votes (47.2%). Total burn, Valencia Street! And
misc Jaywalking-- Smart or Darwinism? How many ways does this piss us off? Like the fact if she just crossed Valencia Street, there's an actual crosswalk there. Or the fact that she still has to jaywalk Market Street
Arts & Entertainment Let Your Curiosity Shop If you haven't made it to the Curiosity Shoppe yet, what are you waiting for? It's one of our new favorite shops on Valencia Street. After having an e-commerce site for a year
SF News Fugazi's Bassist Done Got His Gear Stolen Pitchfork has a rich article Fugazi's Joe Lally having thousands of dollars worth of equipment stolen from his touring van while it was parked on Valencia Street. Overnight. Fugazi's Joe Lally and Philly's
SF News It's Park(ing) Day It's Park(ing) Day, folks. Today's the day REBAR, a San Francisco-based art collective, thought of taking parking spaces and turning them into public ones by creating fun-sized parks. Now cities all over
Arts & Entertainment 8/26 Day Festival This Sunday The literary bash will feature live performances, cartooning, Everett Middle School's dance troupe, readings, local writers (pardon me, novelists), paper flower making, haiku writing, bon mots flying to and fro, and much, much,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Daft Punk's Electroma: Pinocchio-ish road movie about two robots -- played by Daft Punk members Peter Hurteau and Michael Reich -- and their quest to become human. Riot In Belgium, the Bang
SF News Meter Maid Assaults Escalate in SF The absurdity of SF's parking ticket-dispensing habits aside, this is awful. A year ago, we saw a couple of altercations on Valencia Street, with vile douche bags puffing up their flaccid feathers at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Dreamgirls: Jennifer Hudson's performance as Effie White won her an Academy Award, and her end of Act I nervous breakdown ("And I Am Telling You") blew audiences to the back wall of
Arts & Entertainment Ritual Roasters Event For Bikes To Rwanda This Saturday Ritual Coffee Roasters' two locations are only about three miles apart. Not so bad on a bike, right? Well, what if you're biking with 130 pounds of coffee? Yeah, a little tougher. This
SF News Busy 24 Hours At SF General At around 5:40 p.m. yesterday, there was a stabbing at Capp and 17th -- a guy was stabbed with an ice pick after getting out of a car. The stabber then
SF News Smelly Gas By St. Luke's The smell itself wasn't poisonous or anything (beyond to the nose, of course) -- it turns out the pipe, which hasn't been used since the 1940s, had retained, along with some stale water,
SF News Everybody's Gone Sidewalk Parking The issue, like most things, is that there's not enough enforcement out there. Must be those lazy Gen Xers again, to concerned with playing video games to want to be a parking officer.
