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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.
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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.
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New Inner Richmond restaurant claims to be the first Mexican wine bar in the U.S.
Despite having some of the best wines in the world 50 miles away in Napa and Sonoma, a new high-end restaurant coming to San Francisco’s Inner Richmond District is focusing on hard-to-find wines from Mexico.
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Controversial Washington High mural to stay after school board vote
The SF school board didn't necessarily vote to keep the controversial “Life of Washington” mural at Washington High School, but they did vote to give up on a legal appeal, so the mural will stay.
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Judge rules racially controversial mural at Washington High must remain uncovered
The very contentious mural featuring a slain Native American will be uncovered and again on full display as a Superior Court judge rules the school board did not follow the appropriate process in covering it.
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The 31-Balboa (partially) returns August 14, and the M-Ocean View will roll at full power
A couple more additions to the late summer Muni service reinstatements, and the M-Ocean View gets its trains back, and the 31-Balboa returns on a limited route.
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Richmond District sees huge uptick in burglaries during first weeks of 2021
There's been a massive jump in burglaries in the Richmond District, year over year, according to new data from the SFPD's Richmond Station. And while burglaries are reportedly up in multiple neighborhoods, we're only hearing a definitive report on the first five weeks of 2021 from the Richmond.
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Russian Jewish community center coming to what would have been a High Times dispensary
A former Richmond District art and framing shop that almost became a cannabis dispensary will now be the permanent home of the Russian-Speaking Jewish Community of SF Bay Area.
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'It's a boiling point': City ignores District 5 encampments as COVID-19 threat rises
40 of the Haight's unhoused have found safe shelter at the Stanyan Street tent village. But there appears to be no plan for hundreds of others sleeping on the street.
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City pushes forward to identify park lands for future homeless tent villages
The city's parks and real estate departments have two weeks to identify land where homeless people can camp at a social distance.
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With hotel program stonewalled, city supervisors work to launch outdoor 'safe sleeping sites'
As Mayor Breed continues to defy hotel room legislation, many city supervisors are hunting for vacant properties to use as tent camps.