Joe Kukura
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.
The Condor Club becomes SF’s first topless club to get Legacy Business status
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.
Slow Street on Lake Street is the controversial wild card as SFMTA decides the Slow Streets’ fate
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.
Richmond District’s 4 Star Theater set to reopen, will be a movie house again
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.