Tag: mission district

Fancy new Mission Street store has interactive display

On Saturday, Sennheiser opened a high-end headphone/DJ equipment store on Mission between 18th and 19th streets which says a lot about how the street is changing. (One pair of their headphones sells for $1,500 on their website). Not a gadget person myself, but their display is kind of fun to play with.

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Bearly upright

And then foolishly I said, ‘make it a double.’

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Cocktail fail

Not a martini, no matter how many olives you throw at it.

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Twin tribute

So sad to hear that Marian Brown, the remaining San Francisco twin died today. In tribute, here is a friend and I on Halloween dressed as Marian and Vivian walking down Capp Street.

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Another change for Mission Street: Guatemalan restaurant getting the boot

Even ‘palaces’ are down on their luck in the Mission. Guatemalan restaurant El Palacio Latino, at 2240 Mission Street, has been asked to pack up. A notice taped to the restaurant’s window and signed by landlord Armando Molina says El Palacio Latino’s lease has expired, won’t be renewed and that the restaurant must be out […]

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Computer lesson

Capp Street says: The machines are coming to crush us all.

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Recent selections from Capp Street’s artist in residence

Capp Street’s note writing guy left these on the sidewalk a couple weeks back. If you’re not familiar with prior work you can see it here, here, here, here, here and here.

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Cold cut and run

No baloney.

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Yoga studio to building’s new owners: Let us namaSTAY

Recent news in the neighborhood has hot yoga fans sweating outside the studio. Two weeks ago, Mission Yoga’s building at 2390 Mission Street sold, leaving students of the popular Bikram studio worried about its future. Juicy Sanchez, who owns the studio with husband Steve23, said she’s staying positive and that there’s been no indication they […]

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Saturday morning regret

Jose Cuervo, you aren’t a friend of mine.

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