Joe Kukura

A Sunday afternoon one-alarm fire spread to both the first and second floors of the Buchanan YMCA in Japantown, and the facility that serves mostly seniors will remain closed until further notice.

There are new images and plans just released for the possible 2,900-unit housing village and parks in what is currently the Stonestown Galleria parking lot, an ambitious proposal that would completely reimagine that section of the 19th Avenue corridor.

The OfficeMax that wouldn’t die has finally succumbed to online retail and pandemic business loss, with the SoMa office supply store’s signage now ripped down and tagging quickly sprayed all over the building.

More than 20 Black-owned retail businesses are getting a new home in the Fillmore District, as the new marketplace In The Black is moving in beneath the Fillmore theater at the end of this month.

North Beach strip club the Condor Club’s application for Legacy Business Status advanced Wednesday, but the SF Historic Preservation Commission told the club to do more legwork with regard to gender equity issues.

The bad news is that 24th Street Indian soul food spot Ritu just permanently closed. The good news is that replacement is already lined up, a new Greek food venture called Gyros and Tzatziki, from the co-owner of the Castro’s Gyro Xpress.

It may be four years late, $300 million over budget, and some people are still sore about the name, but a few members of the public were allowed inside the Chinatown-Rose Pak Station for the first time Thursday.

A 5,000 square-foot, city-sanctioned roller rink at Fulton Plaza opened Saturday, and will remain there until December 31, and possibly longer.

Plans for a six-story apartment building at Divisadero and Oak Street are now a wash, as the developer has surrendered the property back to the previous owners of Touchless Car Wash.

The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair was abruptly “postponed” in June, but it’s back (with beer!) this Sunday, and the renowned rapper Talib Kweli on the main stage.

Plenty of questions are swirling over a new viral video of a woman wearing nothing but a bikini and high heels walking out of a San Jose Fire Department truck and into an “All Nude Adult Entertainment Club.” Or at least, that's how it looks to the naked eye.

The popular Sunset-Parkside free outdoor movie series Movies in McCoppin returns Friday for the first time since 2019, with a free family movie every Friday night of October.

The new boss is the same as the old boss at the Outer Sunset’s popular organic brunch spot Outerlands, as general manager Riley Bartlett now owns the place, and he’s already reopened the restaurant.

Dolores Park has its first big Indigenous People’s event Saturday, with an all-day program of DJs and dancing, and some wild projections after the sun goes down.

The Alexandria Theater at Geary and 18th Avenue has been an empty eyesore since 2004, but a reported new plan could make it as many as 76 units of housing.

Tuesday was the last day in business for the Mission District mainstay Roosevelt Tamale Parlor, which celebrated its 100-year anniversary in November, but a new Mexican restaurant tenant has reportedly already signed a lease on the space.

The daily fresh-made bread of Outerlands has stopped coming out of the oven, but its owners say that a new ownership team is coming and will “continue the same” traditions at the restaurant.

The pastor who transformed Glide Memorial Church into a feed-the-needy powerhouse, and an early activist for LGBTQ rights since 1964, the Reverend Cecil Williams turns 93 years old today.

The Broken Record was more than a cult-hit whiskey bar, having shepherded pop-ups Gentilly and Chicano Nuevo into brick-and-mortar restaurants, but the 50-cent PBR destination is closing October 15.

Add another slice of cult-hit Bay Area food fandom to the emerging Stonestown Galleria food court, as Berkeley-based pizza slice hit Blondie’s Pizza is the latest big restaurant name the mall has pulled in.

Nearly 200 low-income families in Mountain View will get a free $500 a month cash infusion in a new guaranteed basic income pilot program, and the application portal opens Friday.

A fenced-off patch of land began its transformation Wednesday into the 10-acre, $140 million India Basin Waterfront Park, a crown jewel that will give Bayview a waterfront park, and build a bike and walking trail between the Embarcadero and Candlestick Point.

The corner of 24th and Mission Streets is less chaotic, cleaner, and free of stolen goods for the first time in about nine months, as a new vendor permitting system is off to a promising start.

The battle between a big private school and a little farmers market could end, as Supervisor Eric Mar has brokered a compromise deal, and the Outer Sunset Farmers Market has just won a ten-month extension either way.

Bouncing back from bankruptcy, the once-ubiquitous toy retailer Toys R Us will rear its giraffe head again in San Francisco, inside the Union Square Macy’s store, as early as October 15.