Have You Seen the ‘Anti-BART’ Mural at BART?
About 14,000 people a day enter or exit through the 24th St. BART terminal....
The MissionA collection of 124 posts
Rare Look: Remnants of Valencia St.’s Past Lives
When the first round of urban settlers came to the Mission in the 1850s, the landscape was not flat....
Go Here If You Love Iced Coffee
Heath Kessler, owner of Tiny Warrior Coffee, checks his smart watch before shaking up one of his signature iced coffees....
The Giants Won And The Mission Lost
For a minute there, I actually thought it wouldn’t be that bad. In the 7th inning, everyone in the bar was singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and the atmosphere was friendly and jubilant....
Update: What’s Going on with the Elbo Room
As has been widely (and a bit hysterically) reported, the owners of the Elbo Room space might want to turn the historic bar into condo room....
You’re Gonna Wanna Go to Kink’s Haunted House
Sex and fear are well known bedfellows at the world’s largest producer of BDSM pornography: SF’s own Kink.com....
Go to Weird Fish Before It Closes!
Dante’s Weird Fish, the eight-year-old beloved oddball restaurant on Mission at 18th, will close up shop at the end of the year....
This Golden Hydrant Saved The Mission
The real devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as history buffs never tire of noting, didn’t come from the quake itself....
Photos: Dolores Park PDA, Up Close & Personal
Anyone who’s spent some time in Dolores Park has probably seen couples making out in varying degrees of exhibitionism....
If Dolores Park Had a Menu
Kicking back at Dolores Park is an SF institution, and with this weekend’s weather, it’s almost mandatory....
What Is SF w/o Sunflower’s “Young Man” Waiter?
When a mainstay like Mission’s Sunflower Vietnamese Restaurant shuts its doors — even briefly — a pall is cast over the blogosphere....
Remember This ’98 Anti-Gentrification Poster?
While some San Franciscans will recall all too clearly the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project of the late’90s, young transplants who lack such institutional memory might be struck afresh by the historical resonance of a flier from the first tech boom/bust....