Category: news
Capp Street assault leads to man’s arrest
May 14, 2015
A San Francisco man is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly punching another man and beating him unconscious. According to authorities, Darren L. Cubie, 38, got into an argument with the victim at around 7:30 a.m. Monday on the 100 block of Capp Street. The fight turned physical and Cubie punched the victim, stomping […]
The Fizzary’s Mission Street store is for sale
May 7, 2015
Earlier this year, The Fizzary shuttered its Haight Street location. Now, it looks like the soda shop’s Mission Street store is on the market. Here are some details from an ad posted today on Craigslist: Greeting Craigslist world! We are excited to announce the legendary Fizzary is for sale! The ownership is focusing exclusively on […]
Filmmakers document history, stories of iconic bar
April 30, 2015
As the city’s only lesbian and queer bar prepares to go dark tonight after 18 years, a pair of San Francisco filmmakers is helping ensure that memories of the Lexington Club live on. Friends Susie Smith and Lauren Tabak have spent the past four months collecting dozens of photographs, old flyers and other bar mementos, […]
Ice cream shop regains its footing after big Mission fire
April 29, 2015
When Luis Abundis heard from his brother Jose that the building that housed his ice cream shop was on fire, he thought it was a joke. “I didn’t believe him,” said Abundis, who soon confirmed there was nothing to laugh about when his daughter, with him at their store in Oakland, checked the news on […]
New street lights for Capp Street, 17th
April 17, 2015
Capp Street is getting prettier – well, at least as far as its streetlights are concerned. PG&E crews have begun to repaint or replace dozens of lamp posts along Capp and a section of 17th Street and outfit them with more energy efficient lights. In all, PG&E plans to swap 98 incandescent lamps with more efficient high pressure sodium […]
Some 24th Street merchants calling for more cops
April 11, 2015
Recent incidents on 24th Street in the Mission have some business owners questioning whether police are doing enough to patrol the busy corridor. On March 29, a group of men allegedly throwing glass bottles and wielding a baseball bat attacked two 24th Street restaurant employees. Just after midnight that same day, several blocks away, police […]
Facing higher rent and construction delays, Mission venue seeks help
March 27, 2015
Mission gallery and all-ages music venue Sub-Mission is on the cusp of signing a new lease with its landlord but is asking for help from the public to make it happen. Unexpected delays in the approval process to bring 2183 Mission St. up to code have left Sub-Mission’s planned closure for construction up in the […]
Mission protest marks one-year anniversary of Alex Nieto’s death
March 23, 2015
Demonstrators shut down a section of Valencia Street Monday morning and chained themselves to the gate of the Mission police station to protest the March 21, 2014 police shooting of Alex Nieto in a Bernal Heights park. Last month, prosecutors cleared the four officers involved in Nieto’s death of wrongdoing.
Learning to improv: Mission Street takes a comic turn
March 17, 2015
Something funny is happening near 17th and Mission streets. Behind the paper-covered windows of a former Sprint cellphone store, a new comedy training center has opened, offering improv classesfour nights a week and occasionally on weekends. Endgames Improv has been around since 2010 and also holds classes elsewhere in the city and in Oakland, but its […]