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Now SF Has a Graffiti Flash Mob; More Than 100 Taggers Coated Mission and 18th Streets Friday Night

It may be an isolated incident gone wrong, or could be yet another new form of emerging petty crime, that “more than 100 people" thoroughly tagged a Mission District corner’s storefronts and vacant buildings Friday night.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Downtown Restaurant Boulevard Has Windows Smashed, Suspect Has Caused Trouble There Before

Someone in San Francisco seems to have an issue with recently reopened Parisian-themed restaurant Boulevard, smashing its windows with a wine bottle, and on another occasion assaulting a manager.

Skateboarding Brand HUF Missed the Memo That Sidewalk Stencil Ads Are Illegal Here

HUF, the skateboarding and apparel brand, just opened a new store on Valencia Street, and they went around the Mission spray-stenciling their logo on neighborhood sidewalks — apparently unaware that SF has a law against this and others have been fined for this.

Castro Store Owners Say They've Paid $120,000 to Repair Windows Smashed By Vandals In the Last Year

The Castro is hardly the only neighborhood dealing with rampant crime in recent months, but merchants in the neighborhood hope the city will reimburse them for what has largely been out-of-pocket expenses incurred because of petty vandalism and theft.

SF Armenian School and Adjacent Community Center Vandalized With Curse Words, Ethnic Slurs

Members of San Francisco's Armenian community were dealt an appalling sight Friday when they discovered the KZV Armenian School and its shouldering community center were painted with hateful, racist graffiti by vandals in the night.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Vandalism and Thefts Hit Lucky 13, Harvey’s, Countless Other Bars and Restaurants

A wave of vandalism and theft is smashing and grabbing what little revenue or peace of mind our favorite restaurants can cobble together while the streets are emptied for shelter-in-place.

'Purple People' Sex Commune In Lafayette Hit With Racist Graffiti

A 52-year-old communal living curiosity in the East Bay is making news again for an unfortunate reason this week after vehicles and buildings on the property were hit with racist graffiti.

Union Square Vandal Knocks Out Guy Who Tries To Interrupt His Work

A man who was vandalizing a sign at a Union Square intersection didn't take kindly to being interrupted Sunday, brutally beating the man who tried to stop him. Police say the crime went

Berkeley Student Who Alleged Police Harassment Arrested Again For Vandalism Spree

Remember this month’s tale of a Berkeley student who claimed he was racially profiled and detained illegally, held in jail for almost two days without being able to see a lawyer, and

Vandal Melts Slides, Causes $1 Million Damage To Popular Golden Gate Park Playground

An early-morning arson fire destroyed a popular Golden Gate Park playground Sunday, an act that will cost a million dollars to repair. NBC Bay Area reports that firefighters were called to the Koret

'By The Way, I Am Satan,' Says Alleged Bay Area Vandal To Judge

A man accused of "a drug-fueled rampage" inside a North Bay school earlier this week didn't do much to defend himself in court this week, instead announcing that he was the Prince of

Artist Arrested In Bayview Vandalism Involving Swastika Apologizes, Says He Was Drunk

An incident of what appeared to be racist graffiti on a business in the Bayview, complete with a swastika and charges of a hate crime, turns out to have been just the misguided

Thousands Protest Trump In Oakland For Third Night As Vandalism Harshly Criticized

Protesters covering their faces, preparing to get gassed in Oakland pic.twitter.com/mumCAeGdmJ— Ellen Cushing (@elcush) November 11, 2016 "As the Mayor of one of America's most diverse and progressive cities, I

Santa Clara University Students Caught On Camera Painting Swastika With Their Own Blood

What is going on with Santa Clara University? The Jesuit college to our south has been host to two incidents of hateful vandalism recently, the latest a particularly disturbing one in which a

Arts & Entertainment

Today In Defaced Super Bowl 50 Statuary: 'Up R Bowel'

Let's see...we had a Super Bowl sign that announced "Lee Robs" at the Palace of Fine Arts, one that said "Sup Bro" at City Hall, and Alamo Square had to give up

Prolific Tagger Fined Over $200K By City

A tagger taken to civil court this past summer by the city of San Francisco learned her fate last week, and it is an expensive one. The City Attorney's office announced that it

Video: Vandals Tag Francis Ford Coppola's Dome

San Francisco's historic Sentinel Building is one of North Beach's most iconic structures, a great green tower owned by director Francis Ford Coppola. Now home to (among other tenants) Coppola's American Zoetrope studio

Transient Sex Offender Busted For Vandalism At SF School

The day after some mysterious graffiti roiled San Francisco's French American International School with fears of an ISIS message, police say that they've nabbed the tagger, and determined that the spray-painted message was

'No On F' Headquarters Defaced By Anti-Airbnb Graffiti

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'Business Consultancy' Defaces SF Sidewalks Then Lies About It

Wonder how @bluewolf got to spraypaint ads all over SF downtown sidewalks near #Dreamforce: required to remove later? pic.twitter.com/DR8UxwQPb3— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) September 14, 2015 A New York based business

62-Year-Old Man Arrested For Spray-Painting 'NO MORE CHINESE' All Over Bayview

The SFPD is thanking the public for their help after an arrest was made Tuesday in a vandalism case that is being considered a hate crime. 62-year-old John Schenone of San Francisco has

San Francisco Sues Prolific Graffiti Artist For $88,000 In Damage To Public Property

If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em. That's what San Francisco is doing in an effort to stop one of the most prolific taggers in the city. In a lawsuit filed last week

Lands End Labyrinth Completely Disappears, Vandals/Goblins To Blame

Created by Eduardo Aguilera in 2004 and meticulously maintained by Colleen Yerge, the Lands End Labyrinth, which SFist profiled in a list of seven just last month, has vanished. Though the stone pattern

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Vandal With Vocabulary Tags Twee New Business In Bernal Heights

Shocking news from pleasant Cortland Street on the south side of Bernal — or should I say "Banal"— Hill. A vigilante with a vocabulary has tagged a new business, Epicurean Trader — or per the

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Issues Mea Culpa Following May Day Vandalism Spree

Newly elected Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her police chief Sean Whent admitted in a press conference Saturday that they weren't exactly prepared for the level of destruction that was wrought around downtown