SF News Teen Girl Stabbed Multiple Times Near Valencia Street Near the corner of 21st and Valencia Streets a little after 7 p.m. Tuesday night, a 17-year-old girl was stabbed several times in the torso. "Police have also discovered
Arts & Entertainment The Problem With 299 Valencia Mission Mission has done an excellent job of keeping us abreast of the hand-wringing graffiti at 299 Valencia. While nothing new to the city's elite yet gritty neighborhood of choice,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7 Scenes From Last Night: Beer-Biased Abbot's Cellar Opening Next Week "This is totally an Instagram type of place," Tighe Flatley, who escorted us to Abbot's Cellar, a new Valencia Street restaurant slanted toward a beer-drinking crowd, exclaimed when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eating Taqueria La Cumbre's Nacho Burrito More taquerias should be inspired by Taco Bell. No, not by the fast-food chain's suspect ingredients or testosterone-fueled ad campaigns, but for the unique gastronomic constructs that Taco Bell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heartbreaking Hamburger News: Spork, And Their Quirky Burgers, To Disappear Soon Spork, the Valencia Street establishment that has been elevating comfort food for five years now, has reached the end of their lease Ms. Tablehopper reports. Friday, December 23rd will be the restaurant'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Occupy Misguidedly Protests Small Business Tacolicious A group of Occupyists protesting Mission evictions on Saturday afternoon wrongly accused Tacolicious and its owner, Joe Hargrave, a small-business owner of evildoings. Brimming with Tea Party-like fervor, hope and confusion,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deemed 'Too Serious,' Ritual Coffee Bans Artist's Work In what could be seen as the continued Starbucks-ification of Valencia Street, brick-and-mortar coffee purveyors Ritual Coffee Roasters recently pulled the work of photographer Varese Layzer. It was considered "
SF News SFist Remembers: Lost Weekend Video While we haven't seen the inside of a video/DVD store in almost a decade, some of you still enjoy the whimsy of obtaining your movie rentals outside your property line.
Arts & Entertainment Little Otsu Says Good-bye Oh drats, this is too bad. Little Otsu, that charming store on Valencia Street that sells equally charming stuff (comics, wallets, DIY stuff, vegetable-based ink publishing), is closing its doors. "Eight
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
SF News 16th & Valencia Suicide Jumper Decides to Live Last night at 16th and Valencia around 7 p.m.-ish, a man climbed atop a building and threatened to jump. The incident stopped a Trauma shoot, which was filming in the area.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Book Signing Tomorrow Although some claim to dislike local scribe Dave Eggers -- probably because he is successful, something writers and alleged writers hate like holy hell -- you should read his new book. It's a
SF News American Apparel Apologizes OK. We lied. THIS will be our final American Apparel post. We know we said otherwise, but you'll thank us when you find out why we're bringing up the
SF News Scenes from American Apparel Meeting at City Hall, 2/5 What with Bush leaving office and local ire having no direct target, layoffs continuing to abound, and the recession devolving into something worse, American Apparel setting up shop on Valencia Street created the
SF News American Apparel Meeting at City Hall Since your editor is too busy looking for somebody with a vagina who likes other vaginas to take with him to Orson this evening, he couldn't possibly make it to City
misc Valencia Street: You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Chains We were happy to find a photo of ourselves -- or is it "ourself"? -- on Flickr the day after we went down to Ritual Roasters to type a letter registering our disapproval
SF News Switching Sides: the Great SF American Apparel Debate After venting on one of the many American Apparel threads we have going -- one a day keeps the cold pricklies away! -- SFist commenter Angrybat had a swell idea. He suggests that everyone switch
SF News 'Stop American Apparel' Meeting Tonight In struggle, the Stop American Apparel coalition will meet at The Makeout Room at 7 p.m. tonight to discuss their plans at stopping the clothing store from opening in the Mission. They&
SF News Elite Shuns "Big Box" American Apparel Store on Valencia In what's being billed as the retail "hipster wars" of the Mission, 988 Valencia will soon call sleaze designer American Apparel home. That is, if the scraggly elite of
SF News Valencia Voting The line isn't much longer than the down the street at Ritual Roasters every morning at this hour. Perhaps we'll go wait it that one first and then come
SF News Modern Times Bookstore Claims Moth Spray Will, In Fact, Continue Contrary to what court rulings say about the halting of the light brown apple moth spray, Modern Times Bookstore's recent window dressing claims otherwise. According to our pals over at Curbed,
