Obscure art pieces, buckets of XLR cables, stereo equipment, mixing boards, a camcorder, a tent and an old cooler were among the items on sale in early January at Mutiny […]

RIP: Pirate Cat/Mutiny Radio/Counterculture Clubhouse, 2006-2024

Because Supervisor Aaron Peskin terms out next January, five candidates have filed to run for the seat to lead District 3, which includes North Beach, Chinatown, Union Square, the Financial […]

Meet the District 3 candidates: ‘Do you support Proposition F? Why or why not?’

By a 24-2 vote, workers at the sex-toy chain Good Vibes voted to form a union today, according to a union organizer. The brand’s flagship store, formerly known as Good […]

Good Vibes workers vote to unionize

The long-awaited trial in the lawsuit filed by homeless San Franciscans against the city will have to wait until at least this summer to begin, per a ruling today by […]

Homeless sweeps lawsuit to be paused until U.S. Supreme Court ruling

Even though San Francisco has added several hundred residential treatment beds for people with mental-health or substance-use disorders in recent years, the city is far from meeting the needs of […]

SF adds hundreds of treatment beds, but need is far greater 

Because Supervisor Aaron Peskin terms out next January, five candidates have filed to run for the seat to lead District 3, which includes North Beach, Chinatown, Union Square, the Financial […]

Meet the District 3 candidates: ‘Do you support Proposition E? Why or why not?’

Would Proposition E make San Francisco safer?  The campaigns for and against the measure offered two diametrically opposed answers to that question on Friday, with Supervisor Matt Dorsey and Matt […]

Dorsey, ACLU clash over Proposition E, which puts SFPD policy to a vote 

Just after 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, nearly 100 people gathered at 701 Alabama St., forming a large circle, slowly turning to the south, west, north and east as directed. Some […]

Mission Covid-19 site, SF’s first hub, has its final day

Because Supervisor Aaron Peskin terms out next January, five candidates have filed to run for the seat to lead District 3, which includes North Beach, Chinatown, Union Square, the Financial […]

Meet the District 3 candidates: ‘What, in your past, qualifies you to lead this district?’

Antonio Malik Rodgers-Alcala, a 21-year-old man accused of killing 18-year-old Damien González at the Mission Recreation Center this past August, is now represented by private attorney Bill Fazio, who ran […]

Four-time DA candidate represents Mission Rec killing suspect 

In our “Meet the candidates” series, we are asking every supervisorial hopeful in the November 2024 election one question each week. Candidates are asked to answer questions on policy, ideology, […]

Meet the candidates: San Francisco’s District 3 supervisor race

As San Franciscol voters begin to receive their mail ballots for the March election, a group of medical professionals and treatment providers came out Thursday against Proposition F, a March […]

Medical professionals oppose Proposition F to screen for drug use

For the third year in a row, Balmy Alley is having its annual “Lovers Lane” festival this Saturday, celebrating love in all its forms. There’s one caveat: The Valentine’s-themed Lovers […]

‘Lovers Lane’ brings vendors, books & more to Balmy Alley Saturday

Because Supervisor Aaron Peskin terms out next January, five candidates have filed to run for the seat to lead District 3, which includes North Beach, Chinatown, Union Square, the Financial […]

Meet the District 3 candidates: ‘What is your number one issue this election?’

“Department heads in particular, if they’ve served over a certain number of years — maybe five years — they need to go,” said San Francisco mayoral candidate and District 11 […]

Mayoral candidate Ahsha Safaí reveals which city officials he’d fire

Dream Savers, a new plant and craft store located at 3150 18th St., had its grand opening on Jan. 25, barely two weeks after securing the space, according to Carlos […]

Mission openings and closures: Dream Savers, Detroit pizza, Echigo, La Playa and Chic n’ Time

Following Garry Tan’s seemingly alcohol-fueled rant over the weekend, in which he wrote on social media that seven progressive San Francisco supervisors should “die slow,” tech workers in San Francisco […]

‘Stupid,’ ‘shameful:’ Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s rant

Despite an offer of recognition from management late last week, the would-be union for Planned Parenthood Northern California said on Monday that it is not accepting a deal from their […]

No deal yet for Planned Parenthood NorCal union

By the end of the year, locals won’t have to pay twice when transferring between BART and Muni — if they’re using a Clipper card. Better than that: Any transfer […]

BART, Muni & other transit will offer $2.50 transfer discount by end of year

An all-out, five-day strike at all 23 California State University campuses ended abruptly Monday night, barely one day into the walkout, when the faculty union and management announced an unexpected […]

SF State union bristles at proposed Cal State contract. Again.

On the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood Northern California workers announced their unionization efforts today at all of the nonprofit’s 18 regional […]

Planned Parenthood Northern California workers move to unionize

Despite a recent surge in Covid-19  hospitalizations and deaths in California, San Francisco is set to close its six neighborhood vaccination sites, including two sites in the Mission, by mid-February, […]

SF to end neighborhood Covid-19 vaccine sites, shuttering six

The incident in which San Francisco rapper Chino Yang was forced to apologize to Mayor London Breed — after lambasting the mayor and her perceived inaction on crime — appeared […]

‘Does this Asian rapper belong here?’

Chino Yang recently wrote a rap — a diss track, to be specific — about his frustration with anti-Asian hate, the current state of San Francisco and Mayor London Breed. […]

Diss track or not, some Asian voters unhappy with Mayor Breed

Urban Putt, San Francisco’s first indoor miniature golf course, at South Van Ness Avenue and 22nd Street, closed Saturday after a 10-year streak.  “I was there that last night that […]

‘Heartbreaking:’ Urban Putt, SF’s first indoor mini-golf, shutters

Read in English Cada temporada navideña, Luis Quiroz y Fiorella Monteza de la Lotería de la Misión, visitan varias veces cada uno de los 400 locales de la calle Misión, […]

Personas que conocemos: La Lotería de la Misión de Luis Quiroz y Fiorella Monteza

Leer en español Every holiday season, Mission Lotería‘s Luis Quiroz and Fiorella Monteza visit each of the Mission Street corridor’s 400 storefronts several times, attempting to include more in the […]

People We Meet: Mission Lotería’s Luis Quiroz and Fiorella Monteza

Looking for a place to get in the holiday spirit? We’ve compiled a list of San Francisco holiday markets, many of which will be kicking off this weekend.  Check back […]

Where to go for San Francisco’s holiday markets

“It’s extremely busy,” said Lenore Estrada, owner of Three Babes Bakeshop, amid cartons of bourbon pecan pies and cookie samplers piled to the ceiling. The popular Mission pie business, which […]

People we meet: Three Babes Bakeshop’s Lenore Estrada, last ‘babe’ standing

Hundreds of faculty members at San Francisco State University joined the picket line today alongside three other California State universities in a statewide strike to demand a better union contract.  […]

SF State joins one-day statewide strike

Update: City College faculty officially ratified the new contract on Dec. 14, 2023, according to AFT 2121. Two years after the expiration of its last contract, the faculty union at […]

CCSF teachers’ union reaches tentative contract — strike forestalled