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Valencia Street’s DEMA is closing (updated)
UPDATE 5:45 p.m.: In an email, Grim talked about her future plans and said that DEMA would be open until the end of the month. As for her decision to close the shop, she wrote that she wasn’t getting...
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Party over: Club that moved into Fizzary space ousted (updated)
The party has ended for an alleged gambling den on Mission Street. After a shooting and months of police calls, the operators of an after-hours club inside the former Fizzary soda shop have been...
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Take this Wooden Nickel
The Wooden Nickel wants to be the neighborhood’s living room. The Mission’s newest bar celebrated its soft opening last weekend in the former Truck spot at 15th and Folsom streets, despite some...
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Bus stop stabbing caps violent day
A group of as many as 10 people attacked and stabbed two men at a bus stop Tuesday night, leaving one of the victims with life-threatening injuries, police said. The men, ages 34 and 41 years old,...
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‘Cinema school’ could bring movie making to Mission Street
Less than a month after the new Alamo Drafthouse movie house opened, plans are getting underway to bring another old Mission Street theater back from retirement. In recent weeks, signs have been hung...
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Owner reflects on recently closed motorcycle shop
Werkstatt Motorcycles, one of the first woman-owned motorcycle repair shops in the country, closed its doors last month after 21 years in business. The shop’s old building, on 17th at Capp Street,...
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Dolores Park then and now
In honor of Dolores Park’s grand re-opening celebration tonight (can’t wait!), here’s a cool photo from the park’s less polished days in the early 1990s. Friend of Capp Street Crap Megan tells us this...
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Dolores Park aglow
Dolores Park was packed with revelers last night who celebrated the park’s grand reopening, bringing along glow-in-the-dark items in all colors of the rainbow. Here are some scenes from the big party....
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Near beer: Second brewery proposed for Mission block
Mission Street near 18th is poised to become the most, um, hopp-ening spot in the neighborhood. Plans are in the works to convert what’s now the New Starlight Furniture store into a restaurant and...
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Another pit stop
Mission Pit Stop, the city program that has been bringing public toilets to problem areas of the neighborhood, has expanded to a third location. As of Monday, portable toilets are being brought to the...
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Changing tastes: Valencia Street Thai restaurant shuttered
Four-year-old Thai House 530 appears to be the latest business exiting the revolving door that is Valencia Street these days. Local blogger Mr. Eric Sir spotted the below sign in the restaurant’s...
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Bar done: El Tin Tan is closed
El Tin Tan, the last old school Latino bar in the neighborhood west of Mission Street, has closed. A walk by the 16th Street bar Wednesday evening found signs removed, the door locked and an...
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Beer here: Valencia Street brewpub opening this week
Reno based brewpub Brasserie Saint James is set to open on Valencia Street this week, bringing award-winning beer and, hopefully, filling the void of late-night food in the neighborhood. Owner Art...
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Little Baobab set to reopen
Shuttered by a fire, Senegalese restaurant Little Baobab is preparing to open this week, repaired and reinvented. Owner Marco Senghor said barring any hiccups, Little Baobab will reopen for business...
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A cooking school simmers in the Mission
A new business is cooking in the neighborhood — in more ways that one. Jen Nurse and Chris Bonomo are working to turn an office space near 25th and Mission streets into a cooking school slated to open...
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Needled by competitor, acupuncture clinic is closing
After 20 years of helping patients in the Mission District, The Lotus Center is having a health crisis of its own. The acupuncture and naturopathy practice has lost its lease on its Valencia Street...
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Mission building burns for the second time
Lightning may never strike twice, but it seems fire can. Late last night, flames broke out in what remained of a three-story building at Mission and 22nd streets, which had sat vacant since a deadly...
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Man acquitted of felony charges for Capp Street fracas
The Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, where the two men began fighting. A man who faced life behind bars for fight last year on Capp Street has been acquitted of most of the charges against him,...
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Months after rebranding, Valencia Street’s Nostra is for sale
The drama continues at 280 Valencia St. Roughly seven months after its predecessor Plin closed and was rebranded as Nostra Spaghetteria, the Italian restaurant is up for sale. A Craigslist ad posted...
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Vegan bakery now open inside Mission camping store
Months after a popular coffee shop there said goodbye, a vegan bakery has opened its café inside the Alite Outpost camping store. One of the first all-vegan bakeries in the city, Wholesome Bakery...
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