SF News 50-Year-Old Baller Robbed Of Fanny Pack A 50-year-old woman is recovering today after she was knocked out and robbed during an early-morning basketball game in the Western Addition. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the woman was playing
SF News SF's 29th Homicide For 2015: Western Addition Shooting Kills Woman, Injures Others Just days after planning began for a park spanning Buchanan Street between Grove and Eddy Streets to "help redefine the neighborhood’s identity," tragedy has befallen the site: on Saturday night, a 19-year-old
SF News The Case Of The Western Addition Housing Complex Sale Is One Of A Nonprofit Gone Rogue So, the story I brought you the outlines of yesterday about Frederick Douglas Haynes Gardens turns out to be just as odd as it seemed, and involves a church, a nonprofit it created,
SF News [Updated] Hayes Valley-Adjacent Section 8 Project Being Sold To Speculator, Flipped As Market-Rate With $7,000 Rents? We're getting word of a crazy story, without complete details, about a possible pending sale of a Section 8 housing project at 1049 Golden Gate Avenue, near Laguna, that was built with help
SF News Victim Shot As San Francisco's Home Invasion Wave Continues A man was sent to San Francisco General Hospital with gunshot wounds Friday, after he was shot as robbers raided his McAllister Street home. San Francisco's seen a large number of home invasion
SF News Have You Seen This Missing Western Addition Man? Police are seeking your help to find Gerald Penn, a 63-year-old Western Addition man who disappeared on Saturday afternoon. According to the San Francisco Police Department, Penn, who suffers from "a severe case
SF News One Man Dead, Another Injured After Shootings In NoPa, North Beach Two shootings in San Francisco this weekend have left one man injured, another dead, and no suspects in custody. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Gordon Shyy, police were called to
SF News Video Footage Shows Woman Who Allegedly Stole Money From 8-Year-Old Surveillance video from a Western Addition corner store might be the undoing of a woman suspected of robbing a tiny 8-year-old as the child sold candy for a school fundraiser. According to San
SF News Second Stray Bullet In A Year Zips Through Man's Webster Street Apartment A man living in a top-floor unit on Webster Street between Hayes and Fell saw the second stray bullet in a year come crashing through a front window Sunday night, lodging in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink While You Wait: Nopalito photo credit: Premshree Pillai via photopin cc People in San Francisco like waiting in line for food (a lot). Sometimes, that wait is worth it. While You Wait, SFist's guide for how to
SF News BREAKING: Gas Leak On Pine & Divis Prompts Evacuation [Update] A gas leak has forced evacuations and street closures near Divisadero and Pine in San Francisco. Please stay out of the area until further notice. This could, though we're not sure at this
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: The Cone For You, Pooch Photo of a man and his dog, snapped in the Western Addition by Lynn Friedman.
SF News Alleged Killer Driver ID'd, Posts Bail Jennie Zhu, 58, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing a 16-year-old boy and injuring five others after crashing her Mercedes into the rear end of a minivan at Pine and Gough on
SF News Brief Power Outage Hits 37,000 In S.F. Tuesday Night A power outage left 36,895 homes dark last night (including one of your SFist editors) for a brief period during which they might have otherwise been enjoying David Letterman, or President Obama
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Divisadero Watch: La Urbana Mezcaleria Coming Mid-July Although it initially looked a ways off, the 3,600 square-foot, 125-seat La Urbana could start pouring mezcal on Divisadero starting this July. As Inside Scoop reports, the massive complex inside the former
Arts & Entertainment 'North of NOPA' Now a Thing? The skidmarks at Coldwell Banker, hawking 2020 Ellis, have helped coin a new neighborhood name. And it's disgusting. Anza Vista/Western Addition is now allegedly called—are you sitting down?—North of NOPA.
SF News Sacramento Man Sprays Down Western Addition Home With An AK-47 A 42-year-old Sacramento man was busted early Monday morning after he chased down a Western Addition man to his home and opened fire with a fully automatic AK-47 rifle. The Chronicle reports the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nopa-Sized Restaurant And Mezcaleria Aiming For Divisadero [Update] On the up-and-made-it stretch of Divisadero between the Lower Haight and Lower Pac Heights, a new latin-themed restaurant and mezcaleria is looking to renovate a former horticulture store at the corner of Divisadero
SF News Late Night Western Addition Traffic Stop Ends In Gunfire, Car Crash Friday morning around 2 a.m., two men in a white, late-90s Cadillac El Dorado opened fire on San Francisco police officers in the Western Addition after the cops tried to pull them
SF News Shooting Near Friendship Court; 14-Year-Old Wounded In Drive-by A not-so friendly incident happened near the intersection of Friendship Court and Fulton last night. A man was shot in the leg during a bout of gunfire. SF Appeal reports, "Police said they
SF News Breaking: Suspicious Package Found On Central Avenue Though these things rarely turn out to be anything, last week's suspicious-package near AT&T Park story turned out to be a dummy shell. Still, we're getting closer. This morning's suspicious package
SF News Afternoon Shooting Injures Two In The Western Addition A man and a woman, both in their twenties, were shot in broad daylight a few blocks from Alamo Square in the Western Addition Thursday afternoon. According to Bay City News, the possible
SF News Two-Alarm Western Addition Fire Claims One Life, Damages Historic Development [Updated] Around 9:50 a.m. this morning a two-alarm fire broke out at an architecturally significant apartment building near St. Mary's Cathedral on Geary Boulevard in the Western Addition. The fire was under
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The DMV This Morning In Western Addition.... Beth Spotswood sent us harrowing images of her standing in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles this morning in Western Addition. Yuck. Though this is a city chockfull of people who love
SF News Teens Punched, Burned With Cigarette During Mugging A triplet of horrible men around the ages of "25 and 35" brutally mugged a pair of teens Monday night in the city's Western Addition. Near the intersection of McAllister and Laguna at
