Author: cappstreetcrap

‘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 across the timeworn marquee of the former Tower theater at 2465 Mission St., declaring it the future home of Mission Cinema School. […]

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Better than San Fran? (Updated)

UPDATE 1/21: It turns out those “Call it Frisco” fliers aren’t some art school project after all. In a post today, SFist reveals it was all a promotional effort by BuzzFeed SF, which tweeted a URL this morning explaining a little more: For too long, the Bay Area has been torn apart by one very […]

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Excess carbs

One potato … Two potato

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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, were sitting at a stop at 18th and Mission streets when the group approached them around 8:30 p.m., […]

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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 finishing touches still left to be done and a sign yet to be hung out front. Even so, its transition from a themed […]

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Look at those jugs!

Sneakers over a wire is so passé.

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Mission Bowies

Someone I know put it well: “I had never imagined life without Bowie. Such a loss.” RIP sir. [Top photo via @malaikafraley, 2014; bottom photo via ktdrasky/Instagram, Mission Street, 2013]

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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 evicted. Earlier today, an eviction notice and no trespassing warning were posted on the door of 2949 Mission St., subleased in September by a couple who claimed they planned to […]

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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 enough business anymore for reasons that are unclear: Maybe all my customers have moved to the East Bay?  Maybe they all shop on […]

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High of the tiger

A big cat, syringe cap and port-a-potty.

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