Joe Kukura
San Francisco Bayview Mission Tenderloin
The 2023 Sunday Streets schedule has arrived, and it’s the 15th anniversary season
Six Sundays of car-free community spaces and fabulous family fun are lined up again for 2023, so mark your calendar with the brand new 2023 Sunday Streets schedule for the event series’ 15th anniversary.
San Francisco Potrero Hill
Potrero Hill’s Jackson Park getting a $40 million makeover
The two-baseball diamond Jackson Park in Potrero Hill has just been approved for a $40 million facelift, with added park and playground space, sidewalk gardens, and bathrooms being modernized into a more deluxe “clubhouse.”
San Francisco Embarcadero North Beach Telegraph Hill
Controversial Telegraph Hill dispensary with smoking lounge gets City Hall approval despite vocal opposition
Despite a packed-house crowd of opponents waving “No Marijuana” signs, the SF Planning Commission approved a new Telegraph Hill dispensary with a smoking lounge, now coming to Broadway and Front Street.
San Francisco Embarcadero Financial District
Amazon is closing all four cashierless Amazon Go stores in San Francisco
Amazon thought it was disrupting the retail industry with its no-cashier Amazon Go stores, but five years into the concept, they’re closing a bunch of them, including all four SF stores.
San Francisco Inner Richmond
Inner Richmond live music club Neck of the Woods sued by music licenser over alleged copyright violations
The Inner Richmond nightclub Neck of the Woods was served a lawsuit by ASCAP over alleged unlicensed use of copyrighted music, highlighting an obscure legal aspect to the nightclub industry.
San Francisco Chinatown North Beach
Mr. Bing’s gets Legacy Business recommendation, along with Love On Haight, the Blue Light, and others
Cheap booze haven Mr. Bing’s was one of seven long-loved local small businesses that got SF Legacy Business recommendations Wednesday from the SF Historical Preservation Committee, along with Love On Haight. The Blue Light, the Hing Lung Company, and others.
San Francisco Golden Gate Park Inner Sunset
The Inner Sunset now has a cannabis dispensary, and it's called Solful
A new dispensary at Irving Street and Ninth Avenue has the distinction of being SF’s closest pot shop to Golden Gate Park, and Solful has just opened, and is recognizable with its fresh green coat of paint.
San Francisco Ocean Beach Outer Richmond
Storms and high winds blow walls off Camera Obscura at Land's End
The 77-year-old quirky attraction Camera Obscura had walls and parts of its exteriors blown off in the recent storms, and while repairs are necessary, the camera contraption itself is still in good working shape.
San Francisco Inner Richmond Laurel Heights SoMa
Hong Kong Lounge II reopens in SoMa, rebranded as HK Lounge Bistro, four years after devastating fire
It’s no longer called Hong Kong Lounge II and it’s no longer in Laurel Heights, but owner Annie Ho has rebranded the restaurant HK Lounge Bistro and it opened last week near Folsom and Seventh Streets.
San Francisco Lake Shore
11-acre Lake Merced park finally coming to former SF shooting range, after six-year delay
The plan to make the former Pacific Rod and Gun Club into an 11-acre Lake Merced public park was shot down in 2016, but the plans for the park are back on, promising boat decks, a skate park, and a ropes course.
San Francisco Bernal Heights
City Hall inexplicably declares war on lovely Bernal Heights sidewalk benches
These lovely sidewalk benches are now being declared "unpermitted encroachments" on Mirabel Avenue in Bernal Heights, with the Public Works department now demanding $1,400 permits for benches that have been there as long as 20 years.
San Francisco Mission Potrero Hill
SF SPCA celebrating 155th anniversary, offering free adoptions
As the San Francisco SPCA gears up for its 155th anniversary, we took a tour of their adoption facility, because for the next few days, the “fourth-oldest rescue society in the U.S.” will be furr-nishing the pet adoptions for free.
San Francisco Bernal Heights Mission
The former Good Frikin’ Chicken spot to become new Iranian restaurant from Calabash co-owner
The current pop-up restaurant Komaaj has posted signage that they’re taking over the former Good Frikin’ Chicken space at Mission and 29th Streets, so the location’s Middle Eastern food tradition will remain intact.
San Francisco Marina Presidio
Palace of Fine Arts lagoon’s 28-year-old swan Blanche has died
Following last year’s untimely death of her mate Blue Boy, 28-year-old mute swan Blanche has gone on to the great lagoon in the sky, as the swan who lived nearly her whole life at the Palace of Fine Arts died last Thursday.