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Man accused of harassing Zuckerberg guards arrested for restraining order violation

UPDATE 7/15/15: Kinzer’s friend William Kennedy has provided Capp Street Crap with a copy of the lease he said Kinzer signed in late April. ORIGINAL POST: A man accused of threatening members of a security detail guarding Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Liberty Hill home was arrested last week after violating a restraining order preventing him from going near […]

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Weird Fish goes urban

Well, this is fishier than expected. Despite plans to reopen it as a French bistro called Bistro Le Bon Vivre by summer, Dante’s Weird Fish looks to have been renamed “Urban Fish.” Recently, a new wooden sign went up. The Urban Fish menu posted outside looks to be full of vegan and pescatarian items, including […]

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Capp Street child pornography investigation leads to man’s arrest

A Capp Street resident is facing felony child pornography charges after a search of his computer yielded more than 600 lewd images of children, police said. According to the San Francisco Police Department, Juan Crisanto-Ramirez, 35, also had videos depicting young children in sex acts with adults and engaged in explicit Internet chats with a […]

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Zuckerberg security updates neighbor’s status

Tensions between Mark Zuckerberg and his neighbors over the Facebook founder’s massive renovations to his Liberty Hill home have reached new heights now that a security detail has obtained a temporary restraining order against a local resident. In court documents filed on behalf of Facebook, members of its Global Security Operations Center team claim that […]

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Splinter group protests displacement with ‘Take Back the Dyke March’

Angered by evictions and changes that brought the annual San Francisco Dyke March down 17th Street this year, hundreds of queer women and their supporters broke off Saturday, surged past police and traveled the march’s original route. Dyke March organizers cited a number of reasons for the route change including safety issues, the recently completed renovations […]

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Savanna Jazz undergoing renovations, appears to have been sold

SECOND UPDATE: Information provided by an ABC official suggests the new owner may not be planning to continue to operate the Savanna Jazz space as a live music venue. John Carr, an ABC spokesman, said looking at their file there doesn’t seen to be any restriction on entertainment for that space. However, the applicant on […]

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Lounging out: Sugarlump adding happy hour, DJs to bring in nightlife

Known as a quiet place to enjoy coffee and work during the day, Sugarlump wants to be your nighttime hangout too. The 24th Street cafe is reinventing itself — in the evenings, at least. Starting last week, Sugarlump began having nightly beer and wine happy hour nightly from 7 to 8 p.m. Co-owner and friend of Capp […]

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Amnesia bar has been sold

UPDATE 6/12/15: Caught up with Shawn Magee of Amnesia and learned a bit more about his decision to sell the Mission bar. He said his reasoning was simple: he’d been doing the same thing for 15 years and wanted to do something different. “And although I love everything about Amnesia, it will always be the […]

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Woodworking studio for kids opening on Mission Street

Abandoned by its former tenant after a fire last year, a one-time butcher shop on Mission Street is being reinvented as a woodworking studio for kids. The Butterfly Joint, slated to open next month at 2640 Mission St., will host woodworking camps this summer and, soon after, classes for children four and up. Named for […]

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What a relief! City working to boost bathroom options near 16th and Mission

Breathe easy, the Mission’s poop problem might soon be a thing of the past. Last week, with help from employees from the San Francisco Clean City Coalition, the city began staffing the green self-cleaning toilet outside the 16th and Mission BART station and installed used needle and dog waste receptacles nearby. Like the similarly named […]

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