Tag: mission district
Tiny Warrior Coffee calls it quits, talks split with Alite Outpost
May 27, 2016
There had been hope of reopening, but Tiny Warrior Coffee has given up the fight. The popular coffee shop, which lost its lease in the Mission on its one-year anniversary in October, has officially called it quits after Heath Kessler decided he did not want to continue the business, said his former business partner Glenn […]
Two buildings damaged in three-alarm fire in the Mission (updated)
April 21, 2016
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 […]
Help wanted!
August 14, 2015
With amazing restaurants and an array of shops and boutiques, the Mission has no trouble attracting high-paid tech workers. Finding people who can afford to live here and work in the businesses serving them is, of course, another story. Curious to see just how high the demand is, I spent a week checking job ads on […]
Mission startup wants to disrupt your sex toys
April 28, 2015
Noting that “sex is becoming more and more mainstream,” a Mission-based hardware startup has plans to revolutionize the sex toy industry – or so it seems from this unusual Craigslist ad. For a mere $25,000, the ad says, you can invest in a “human sexuality” product that not only “challenges the existing toy market,” but could soon […]
Learning to improv: Mission Street takes a comic turn
March 17, 2015
Something funny is happening near 17th and Mission streets. Behind the paper-covered windows of a former Sprint cellphone store, a new comedy training center has opened, offering improv classesfour nights a week and occasionally on weekends. Endgames Improv has been around since 2010 and also holds classes elsewhere in the city and in Oakland, but its […]
The Royal (Gate) treatment
March 5, 2015
Not medically necessary.
Mission brawl leads to severed finger
March 3, 2015
A fight in the Mission early this morning ended with one of the men involved biting another man’s finger off, police said. The gruesome incident occurred around 1 a.m. on the 3100 block of Mission Street. After severing the 27-year-old victim’s finger, the suspect took off on foot, according to police. He is believed to […]
Tech company offers ousted Mission nonprofit a new home
February 26, 2015
Despite weeks of uncertainty, cancer support organization Círculo de Vida won’t have to look for a new address after all. Thanks to adeal inked with the help of Supervisor David Campos, the non-profit will be able to stay in the BayView/US Bank building and rent from its tech neighbor DoubleDutch. The building’s landlord decided not to renew Círculo’s lease […]
Later, bras
February 24, 2015
Thanks for the support!