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.

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.

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.

Wise Surfboards founder Bob Wise ran his surf shop for a staggering 51 years, and changed the culture of surfing in San Francisco, but we now learn he passed away in late December.

Meet the Mills Bow-Front Violano Virtuoso, a 350-pound, 110-year-old antique musical apparatus that self-plays a piano and violin at the same time, now performing regularly at the always-quirky Musée Mécanique.

San Francisco’s latest Shake Shack addition had its ribbon-cutting and grand opening Thursday, as the Stonestown Galleria welcomed SF’s third Shake Shack to crowds clamoring for ShackBurgers and crinkle-cut fries.

Mission District bar Kilowatt is changing hands, and its new ownership team won a Place of Entertainment permit at Tuesday night’s SF Entertainment Commission meeting to bring live music back to the bar’s storied stage.

On the heels of a dressing-down from the SF Historic Preservation Commission, North Beach’s Condor Club was still awarded entry into SF’s Legacy Business Registry, 58 years after becoming the first topless dance club in the U.S.

Things have gone sour for the milk tea shop at 19th and Valencia Streets, as the original Boba Guys store that opened in 2011 has permanently closed amidst a spate of labor strife and bad publicity.

Effective December 21, one of SF’s favorite homegrown grocery chains Gus's Community Market will take over operations at Glen Park’s Canyon Market, and not one single employee will be losing their job at the Christmastime transition.

The SFPD station at 18th and Valencia Streets was not looking or smelling good Monday afternoon, as a Recology garbage truck was forced to dump a load of steaming trash there after suffering an apparent truck fire.

The SFMTA will decide the fate of nearly two dozen Slow Streets on Tuesday, and it’s pretty clear how they’re going to vote on all of them — except for one, the highly contentious Lake Street, and it’s anybody’s guess what will happen with that one.

The 4 Star Theater has been closed for nearly three whole years, but the scrappy little theater at Clement Street and 23rd Avenue will rise again this week, with movies plus pizza and bagels provided by nearby neighbor The Laundromat.