Category Archives: Dogpatch

PG&E: Make Your Own Fart Joke*

I got a robodial from PG&E letting me know that over the next couple of days they will be venting air from the gas pipes, and that if I smell gas I should call them. I’m sharing in case you didn’t get a call or don’t answer your phone for blocked numbers. We have some […]

Sunday Streets Dogpatch/Bayview: July 22nd

July 22 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday Streets / Bayview Music Festival Bayview/Dogpatch You have just three weeks to get your mobile dance party adult tricycle set up! No word yet* if local band Dogpatch will be playing in Dogpatch anywhere, but last year they played in front of Rickshaw. Here they are playing […]

Caltrain’s New Bullet Train

Ofc. E. Teper says: Shots Fired: On June 25th at 7:30 pm, officers responded to Pennsylvania and Mariposa on a call of shots fired. They met with several witnesses that saw a suspect on the overpass in the area shooting at a passing Cal Train. After shooting at the train, the suspect was seen placing […]

Anthony Myint Seeks to Open Restaurant in Food Bank

Anthony Myint, chef at the Mission Bowling Club, is not satisfied with helping to raise $125,000 for the San Francisco Food Bank — he wants to run a portable restaurant inside of the giant building. In a post on the Mission Street Food blog he says: For the last two years, Mission Chinese Food has […]

Police Station Fire Does $200,000 in Damage

What happens to a building like this? What is its disposition? I have some dubious credentials and a burning (haha) interest in this story. The first order of business is to see if there’s anything the SFPD still has to share. I contacted their public information office, Mindy Talmadge. She replied: The only additional information […]

Examiner Assays Dogpatch

The Dogpatch, an old industrial enclave, hums with fresh energy and commercial influx Andrea Koskey says: Piccino is just one example of the growth happening in the historically industrial are of The City that is east of Potrero Hill and is roughly boarded by Mariposa Street to the north, Cesar Chavez at the south and […]

Piccino Block Party June 3rd

Piccino Block Party Sunday, June 3rd 12-6pm 1001 Minnesota St. San Francisco Ca 94107 Hey! Piccino is having a block party tomorrow! It’s our first anniversary! One beautiful, intense, rewarding, inspiring year has gone by since we moved to the Yellow Building . . . and all of you made it possible. So come celebrate […]

Characternity Show at Treehouse Gallery

Ray Sumser – The Characternity and Other Funny Pictures by Ray Sumser Opening Night: Thursday, June 7th, 2012 Showing Through: June 28th Treehouse Gallery (facebook) 2604 Third St. San Francisco, CA 94107 Dig In Mag has an interview with the artist. The Characternity and other Funny Pictures by Ray Sumser – a month long installation […]

Coming Soon: Le Corbeau

Le Corbeau: (facebook) (twitter) (Kickstarter) 806 22nd Street San Francisco, CA 94107 The scuttlebutt in the neighborhood is that there is another new restaurant opening up, this time in the old detective agency. Wait. Pump the brakes. There was a detective agency in the DP? Amazing. It was O’Brien & Associates Investigations. In 1982 it […]

Total Eclipse of the Patch

I guess the moon and sun had a little party. I was a little under the weather, but convinced my fiancĂ©e to help me make a camera obscura — which also conveniently obscures my identity*. Weirdly, while we were standing around staring at the little projected eclipse-in-a-box, some older folks came over and asked if […]