SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved West Portal Dive Portals Tavern is Closing After 82 Years Another cherished relic of Old San Francisco is biting the dust as news arrives that Portals Tavern in West Portal is closing its doors at the end of August.
SF News Entire Muni Subway Is Closing Nights And Weekends For Four Weeks To Test New Trains The SFMTA can't just shut down one entire Muni subway for an entire month just to test five new trains. Or can it? Streetsblog brings us word of the San Francisco
SF News Inner Sunset Man Accused Of Attempting To Kidnap And Rape 13-Year-Old Pleads Not Guilty The Sunset District man who allegedly attempted to abduct and rape a 13-year-old girl has pled not guilty, even though his attorney has said that the suspect will not request to
SF News Inner Sunset Man Identified As Suspect In Teen's Attempted Kidnapping Apparently aware that everyone sounds more like a dangerous suspect when their middle name is in play, the San Francisco Police Department has identified the man accused of attempting to kidnap a teen
SF News Man Arrested After Allegedly Attempting To Kidnap Teen In West Portal San Francisco police arrested a 26-year-old man this morning, after he allegedly attempted to force a 13-year-old girl into his car Wednesday afternoon. San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer
SF News SF's Smash-And-Grab Wave Continues With West Portal Heist First the smash-and-grabbers came for our outerwear. Then it was our gold. And now, in San Francisco's latest thieves-drive-into-a-business-and-steal-their-stuff heist, it&
SF News Violent Morning: Head And Back Stabbings In North Beach, Knife Attack On Muni Bus It's been a stabby week in San Francisco, and it's only Wednesday. In addition to a knife attack over the weekend and a slashing on Tuesday, three more men
Arts & Entertainment Photo: West Portal Homeowner Clearly Wants To Frighten Children A tipster sent in this photo of a mock guillotine, complete with severed and bloodied mannequin head, that's been installed in the front yard of a West Portal home for the
Arts & Entertainment Sunday: Judd From 'The Real World S.F.' Giving Away His Entire Comic Book Oeuvre Speaking of Real World: San Francisco, Judd Winick, a noted comic book writer/artist in his own right, will give away his entire collection of books that he's written over the
SF News Early Morning Water Main Break Leaves Giant Sinkhole In West Portal [Update] Around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, a ruptured water main at 15th Avenue and Wawona Street in West Portal sent a "waist high wall of water" rushing down the street,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cockroach Problem Shuts Down Cafe For All Seasons West Portal's Cafe For All Seasons, which looks positively darling from the outside, has been temporarily closed by the Department of Public Health for housing one too many cockroaches. Which is
SF News Operator in '09 West Portal Muni Crash Had Been Suspended Four Previous Times As if it weren't abundantly clear that 30-year Muni veteran Henry Gray probably still shouldn't have been behind the joystick of a train when he caused that crash
SF News Auto Crash On Monterey Boulevard The other day, while walking up Monterey Boulevard, we noticed makeshift "Slow Down" signs posted along the street. They're there for a good reason. Today, according to Picasa user
SF News Have You Seen This West Portal Car Jacking Suspect? If so, you might want to call the fuzz immediately. According to SFAppeal / BCN, police are asking the public for help in finding this "27-year-old man wanted in connection with
SF News MuniCrashWatch 2K9: Blackout Boy According to "a source close to the probe" over at , the driver in Saturday's West Portal Muni smashup "told investigators he blacked out shortly before the accident."
misc ALL OF THEM: West Portal Ave & Ulloa ALL OF THEM: West Portal Ave & Ulloa -- David Letterman after the final McCain/Obama debate via the absolutely critical at-these-times politicalirony.com. This one's from inside the venerable
misc Muni Playing Catch-Up with West Portal Fix-Up "Underinvestment in the Muni system has brought us to a point where we cannot postpone this work," says Muni boss Nat Ford. Apparently, while they were replacing the decrepit wiring in
misc Ride Muni for Free All Night Long On New Year's Eve Mayor Gavin Newsom says that one of his "top priorities is to ensure that every San Franciscan has a safe and happy New Year. Riding Muni is a smart and green way
SF News Your SF Halloween Night Closures Why aren't you hiding under the covers yet? The city doesn't want to so much as hear you breathe come tomorrow. So, start upending those floorboards and crawling into
SF News Going To Oceanview Tonight? At three o'clock today we tried to take the M out to SF State. The overhead sign at Church Station switched from showing only "K in Seven Minutes" to
SF News Your Commute: Meltdown! (Sorry, We're Not MattyMatt) Well, first and most importantly! -- SFist MattyMatt's started a new job so he's been pretty busy at work and hasn't had time to post lately, for all
SF News Muni Soon to Get EVEN BETTER The point is, Muni's announcing some service changes. You're just going to have to take our word for it, though, because as usual the information isn't on
SF News Bay to Breakers Approaching; Bring Your Rollerskates in Case You Can't Catch a Bus Remember how effed-up Muni was at last year's Bay to Breakers, with no signs and riders vomiting and drivers getting lost and nobody having any idea how to get anywhere?
SF News Family In The City The articles profiled a couple who live on Guerrero Street and their two kids (5 and 1) -- on the one hand, an affordable area because of the high-density housing and street traffic,
