Author: cappstreetcrap

Doc’s Clock trying for legacy status

Already beloved, Doc’s Clock is on track to becoming a legacy business, a move that could mean more money to help the dive bar navigate its uncertain future. Last week, the city’s Historical Preservation Committee voted to approve the bar for the city’s legacy business program, which offers financial incentives to protect the city’s older […]

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Authorities: Marijuana candy may be to blame for illnesses at Mission party (updated)

UPDATE 3:10 p.m.: A health department official said the candies were tested this morning and found to contain THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. ORIGINAL POST: More than a dozen partygoers sickened while attending a Quinceañera in the Mission Saturday night ate may have eaten pot candy, authorities said. While final test results on the gummy […]

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New art space “The Laundry” unfolds in the Mission

The Laundry, a new gallery and soon-to-be cafe in the Mission, wants to give artists a space to work without actually taking them to the cleaners. Opened two months ago inside the former Lacrouts French Laundry on 26th Street near Capp, The Laundry offers monthly memberships for artists, crafters and other creative types that provide […]

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Party in a box

 “The ‘Hey, let’s go to The Mission and drink Tecate’ starter kit,” according to Shaun O., who spotted this box of fun on 16th Street between Dolores and Guerrero. Good times.  

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Video: Politicians chase Pokémon in the Mission

Not content to wait until the polls close in November, state senate opponents Scott Wiener and Jane Kim duked it out this weekend in a pre-election Pokémon Go contest. Kim, who challenged her fellow San Francisco supervisor to play the ridiculously popular game via a tweet last month, was the winner, according to the San […]

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Clown-faced toy terrifies 23rd and Florida

Friend of Capp Street Crap Malaika recently chronicled the goings on of a terrifying children’s toy as it moved around the intersection of 23rd and Florida streets. Look at its smeared lipstick! Seriously, this is why we need 311. The next day, it had moved ever so slightly closer to the “RIP Neil” stencil. And here […]

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Pokémon? No!

  Pokemon Go smh. A photo posted by Lando Uno🔊🔊🔊 (@djlando1) on Jul 31, 2016 at 9:54am PDT UPDATE 8/2/16: The above Instagram photo appears to have been taken down. But you can still view it Capp Street Crap’s Facebook page. ORIGINAL POST: Is this Mini, on its side in the street in the Mission, the […]

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I’ll just weave these here

Unbraided at Capp and 22nd streets via 0xEugene   Locks lurking near 18th Street.

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Deady bear

On Monday, reader Avi sent me the above picture of this grisly — not grizzly, obviously that is some species of blond bear — scene at 18th and Capp streets. I happened on more carnage later that day. Previously: Bear down BearAlict Bearly upright Bungee bear

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Modern landscape of the Mission

Beauty is everywhere — even in a great big hole in the ground, it seems. [Photo taken Monday at the site of the big 22nd and Mission fire by Beth Winegarner]

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