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Woman takes weave of her senses, robs store of fake hair

Bad hair days call for drastic measures, it seems. A woman walked into a store on the 2300 block of 16th Street in the Mission at around 6:15 p.m. yesterday, pulled out a knife and “cut a hair product from its secure location,” police said. After a woman in the store confronted her, the hair […]

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Wanted: Mission burrito bandit

Talk about a hot burrito. A man robbed a Mission Street restaurant of a burrito early this morning, stabbing the person who tried to stop him, police said. According to authorities, the man ordered the burrito from a restaurant on the 2200 block of Mission Street around 12:30 a.m. then fled with his food without […]

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Nightmare on Capp Street

  Knife to meet you.

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‘Evil Eye’ to open on Mission Street

The former Coco Frio isn’t sitting cold for long. Soluna partner Matt Norris is opening a “cocktail-driven” restaurant and bar called Evil Eye in the Caribbean eatery’s old space near 25th and Mission Streets, possibly as early as the end of May. Norris, who was also Soluna’s former bar manager and a partner at the […]

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For the second day in a row, a fire in the Mission

A day after fire damaged two 17th Street apartment buildings, firefighters again found themselves battling a blaze in the Mission this morning. The two-alarm blaze broke out just after 9:30 a.m. in a four-story residential building on San Jose Avenue near 24 Street, according to a fire department spokesman. Two firefighters sustained minor injuries in […]

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Two buildings damaged in three-alarm fire in the Mission (updated)

On my way to work a bunch of fire trucks passed us up to help out with this… Mission fire on 17th and Guerrero pic.twitter.com/s2KR7OFyba — Katherine Toyoko (@PaperGatti) April 21, 2016 Firefighters battled a three-alarm fire this morning that damaged two apartment buildings near 17th and Guerrero streets. The fire, reported sometime around 8:34 […]

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Party of one

  Sooo … I found this bullet casing in the street the other day.   Previously: Dildon’t But why? Mission Secrets revealed

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(Zero) proof the neighborhood is changing

Capp Street, I feel like I don’t know you anymore.

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Armed robbers target Mission bar (updated)

UPDATE 4/19: While the men responsible for a takeover style robbery of the Rite Spot Café on Friday night also wore ski masks, they have not been linked to similar robberies last month in Noe Valley, police said. Armed robbers wearing ski masks held up a bar on the 1600 block of Dolores Street on […]

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Chair will not stand for hipsters

Finally, something unsolicited on Capp Street — advice. [Photo by darth_megatron_red via Instagram]

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