Author: cappstreetcrap

Fight the frizz

Bad hair days suck. Luckily, someone thought to leave a giant tub of hair gel by the BART station.

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Violent man baby on the loose in the Mission?

Hand selected from the logs of the Mission Police Station. Talcum powdered thug: Just after noon on Sept. 23, a man in his 30s walked into a store in the 4000 block of Mission Street and put two bottles of baby powder in his backpack. When the clerk confronted him, the thief punched him several […]

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Winged rat convention

Pigeons engage in awkward conversation, enjoy party platters at Capp Street meetup.

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Restroom out of order — indefinitely

  This toilet is done with your shit. [Before and after pictures spotted near 19th and Lexington by @stahburst and @jeffnhunt.]

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Once a big player on Mission Street, a clothing store prepares to shut its doors

It announces the store’s closing, but the bright yellow banner hanging in front of House of Jeans could easily be seen as another sign: that Mission Street is shifting from a district of bargain and produce stores catering to Latinos and the working class to a play land for the well-heeled. A little over three […]

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Neighborhood improvements paid off?

Mission Street has never been sexier.

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Public transit please!

Huh, I had no idea.

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Not the original sin: North Beach store opens Mission location

First Mission News Mission Secrets porn store goes all girly and now this: Lingerie shop Sin Cherry, which bills itself as a “One Stop Romance Shop,” is opening a store on Mission Street, near 16th. The manager would not let me take pictures of the interior (he said he wants everything to look perfect first) but gave me […]

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Dissed tress

Hair I go again on my own.

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Royal Gate: San Francisco’s vodka

You see the cast-offs so often in the Mission, on the sidewalks, gutters or hiding in bushes, that you might start to believe the whole neighborhood was drinking it. But don’t let those empty grab-and-go bottles of Royal Gate Vodka fool you. The dirt-cheap vodka has a very rich San Francisco history. Royal Gate’s owner […]

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