Category: Local

  • Guess who’s back?

    No, not Eminem. Pica Pica’s tiger! Yes, a new mural featuring a big orange tiger has shown up on the side of Pica Pica sometime […]

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  • 18th Street Zoltron art wall

    Zoltron has covered a plywood wall on the long-boarded up space on 18th and Dolores. Eventually this space will become the new home of Bi-Rite’s […]

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  • Ed Lee for Mayor

    The Ed Lee for mayor campaign has to be one of the strangest campaigns in recent history. The guy hasn’t entered the race, and has […]

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  • Sharpie owners upset about closing of Hong Kong Express Cafe

    Hong Kong Express Cafe, also known as the absurdly cheap restaurant filled with hobos and pigeons, finally closed its doors to make room for Southpaw […]

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  • Mayonnaise commercial filming in the Mission

    These film production trailers showed up at 15th and Mission recently. But what for, you may ask? A new TV thriller? An exciting action-packed movie? […]

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  • City Lights

    I’m sure this conversation happens all the time: “Meet me at City Lights.”“Oh, the bookstore in North Beach?”“No, the light bulb store in SOMA!”

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  • The Treats of San Francisco

    A Quinn-Martin production! Wait… what? This is some kind of cheesy Muni ad for buying a Muni Passport and visiting Ghirardelli Square. It has nothing […]

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  • I Hella SF

    Spotted at some tourist junk shop at Union Square.

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  • Skull store dies

    Martin’s Emporium, aka the weird skull store on 16th and Dolores, now has a closing date: July 31st. Now that may sound like it gives […]

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  • Venga Empanadas

    A new empanadas joint is opening soon on Valencia. Well that’s not entirely true; it’s not really new. See, Venga Empanadas didn’t have a place […]

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