Joe Kukura

The San Francisco Lowrider Council celebrates its 40th anniversary with a three-week art show at the Mission Cultural Center, and a Mission Street lowrider rally scheduled for Saturday, September 18.

Something called the Ocean Beach Climate Change Adaptation Project could render nearly a mile of the Great Highway car-free, regardless of what happens in the broader car-free Great Highway debate.

The city attorney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to four construction companies who are not only allegedly performing work without permits, but have been kicking up clouds of hazardous dust for more than a year.

A loudmouth rooster named King Henry IV wore out his welcome in the Tenderloin, but his new home 90 miles away is something to crow about.

While it won't be there forever, the long-empty Forever 21 storefront in downtown San Francisco will have the candy emporium It'Sugar occupying the place while the building converts to office space.

“King Henry IV” is the rooster whose cock-a-doodle doings have been ruining Tenderloin residents’ early mornings, but he’s now cooped up, and Animal Care and Control did not have to resort to fowl play.

Some significant redeployments in the ongoing Nashville hot chicken sandwich wars, as Twitter building food hall fave Hotbird heads to Uptown Oakland, and World Famous Hotboys has a new spot in Walnut Creek

The Tenderloin has the highest concentration of children of any San Francisco neighborhood, and the SF Board of Supervisors just approved a Yellow Brick Road to direct kids away from blight, and toward schools, parks, and community centers.

The new Valencia Street studio Ephemeral Tattoo is inking tattoos with a twist — their biodegradable ink tattoos will disappear from your skin within 9-15 months.

The SF Historic Preservation Commission has given the OK for the 109-year-old Clay Theatre to become an official landmark, but debunked a few rumors — and no, John Waters’ ‘Pink Flamingos’ did not premiere there.

After a $10 million upgrade four years ago, the Helen Diller Civic Center Playgrounds are now apparently crawling with rats.

Officials in Mountain View are relocating a rafter of wild turkeys which have been roosting at the Ames Research Facility for several years. The birds were initially seen as harmless, but have been impeding cars and have even disrupted flights at the nearby Moffett Federal Field.

The Palabok Fiesta is still on, though delayed until 2023, a Jollibee says they’re still going to open the Powell Street restaurant in the former Payless ShoeSource.

While the Valley Transportation Authority says the San Jose BART extension won’t be completed until 2030, the feds says it’s going to take until 2034, and a battle is looming over the project’s underground boring.

Friday night is opening night for Crybaby, which fills the big shoes and big neon guitar sign of the Uptown Nightclub.

Known for her pink-streaked hair and custom craft cocktails, Waterbar bartender Alexandra Tamez was left in a coma for weeks after a February hit-and-run, and her community is asking for support — and information.

A fire station, a church with a notable window, and a log cabin with a bawdy past are in the running to be the first Vis Valley building awarded landmark status.

Fans flocked to the enormous-portion Chinese restaurant for their final Yan Yan meal, but we’ve confirmed that effective March 1, Yan Yan Seafood has closed permanently.

Market Street dive bar Lucky 13 may be gone, but its legacy lives on as its sign (and bar stools!) have relocated to a highly appropriate new home at Bender’s Bar & Grill.

After two years of takeout only, celebrated Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse will start taking reservations again Monday for their March 8 reopening, but expect those reservations to disappear fast.

There used to be two Giordano Bros. sports bars in SF serving the famed “All-in-One Sandwich,” but as of Sunday night there will be none, as 16th Street sports bar Giordano Bros. will close permanently.

The new Whole Foods near Civic Center will be the largest Whole Foods in San Francisco, and will open March 10 to bring a much-needed boost to a corner that has lately been in the news for all the wrong reasons.

After two full years of no weekly Friday night food truck meetups at Fort Mason, the granddaddy of SF street food events, Off the Grid Fort Mason, is ready to roll back in this coming Friday, April 1.

Some 200 yards from the Great Highway, a cannabis dispensary is coming to what is currently Black Bird Bookstore. Meanwhile, Black Bird is just moving just a couple blocks up the street.

The Bi-Rite Café may not have been the right fit, so the Assembly Café and Beer Garden will give it a go at Civic Center, with dishes named after local rock acts including a Dead Kennedys chicken sandwich.