hef Luke Sung whips up French small plates combining the flavors of Provence and Californian cuisine.

Published by SF Weekly on June 23, 2008.

Chef Jonnatan Leiva is known for his modern American cuisine, farmer's market fresh ingredients, and balanced flavors.

Published by SF Weekly on June 23, 2008.

50 2nd Street

Published by Rincon Hill neighborhood blog on June 23, 2008.

Stacey’s Booksellers 581 Market Street

Published by Rincon Hill neighborhood blog on June 23, 2008.

Ask Us: “Have any of your readers seen this listing at 1011 23rd St #5?” 23 06 2008

Published by theFrontSteps on June 23, 2008.

Our piece on 1001 California resurrected the name Vincent Friia, a flamboyant fixture of a bygone era in San Francisco (and its real estate). A reader recollects (slightly edited for republication):

Published by SocketSite on June 23, 2008.

At 3:10 p.m., three men driving in the Excelsior District were shot on Congdon Street. Two died and one was taken to San Francisco General Hospital in critical condition, said San Francisco police spokesman Sgt. Wilfred Williams.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

At 6:55 p.m., a man in his mid-thirties was shot near the corner of 24th and Guerrero streets by a suspect who jumped out of a car and started shooting, according to San Francisco Police operations office.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Last month, Vollen, 44, turned to MyFarm, a new San Francisco business that took the family's local and organic diet to a new level: by designing and planting an organic vegetable garden in their Marina district backyard. The Vollens pay MyFarm a weekly fee to maintain and harvest the vegetables that have just started to mature. They can gaze at their garden and dig into just-picked lettuce without so much as touching dirt.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

In the past few years, San Francisco has seen several instances of so-called guerrilla gardening, when community organizers transformed abandoned private and public lots into minifarms in the Richmond District and Bernal Heights.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

San Francisco recently resurrected the idea with Victory Gardens 2008+, a project that will involve planting vegetables in backyards and in Civic Center Plaza as part of the Slow Food Nation event taking place over Labor Day weekend.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Founder Trevor Paque, 29, envisions what he calls a decentralized urban farm - a network of backyard organic vegetable gardens that will free urbanites from their reliance on food trucked in from the country. Clients who live in the sunny Mission District will grow tomatoes for denizens of the foggy Richmond, where broccoli and other cool-weather vegetables will thrive in customers' backyards. And bicycles, rather than gas-guzzling trucks, will be the main method of transport.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Jack and Gay Reineck, 64 and 65, also just had a garden installed behind their Cole Valley home. Although they grow vegetables and blueberries at their weekend house in Sebastopol, the busy graphic designers don't have time to do it in San Francisco, where they have lived for 30 years and normally shop at organic produce stores.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

A few of Paque's customers found out about MyFarm through the local chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a group dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to people's diets. Judy Bonhiver, 57, recently had MyFarm install a garden in her Noe Valley front yard.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Free Farm Stand. This volunteer-run organization offers produce grown in local backyards free to the public, especially to low-income people. Sundays 1-3 p.m., Parque Nińos Unidos at the corner of 23rd Street and Treat Avenue. freefarmstand.org.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Quesada Gardens Initiative. Community of Bayview residents who tend a vegetable garden on a city median. quesadagardensblog.blogspot.com.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Scherer's body was pulled out of the water near Pier 48 around 8 p.m. Saturday after someone spotted it and notified police. Rescue divers from the San Francisco Fire Department and U.S. Coast Guard located the body and called out a fireboat to bring the body ashore, authorities said.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

At 3:10 p.m., three men driving in the Excelsior District were shot on Congdon Street. Two died and one was taken to San Francisco General Hospital in critical condition, said San Francisco police spokesman Sgt. Wilfred Williams.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

At 6:55 p.m., a man in his mid-thirties was shot near the corner of 24th and Guerrero streets by a suspect who jumped out of a car and started shooting, according to San Francisco Police operations office.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

The men were driving south on Congdon Street and when they reached the intersection of Maynard Street someone from another car driving north fired shots into their car, Williams said.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Scherer's body was pulled out of the water near Pier 48 around 8 p.m. Saturday after someone spotted it and notified police. Rescue divers from the San Francisco Fire Department and U.S. Coast Guard located the body and called out a fireboat to bring the body ashore, authorities said.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

In San Francisco, the two men were killed at 3:10 p.m. as they rode in a vehicle in the Excelsior district when someone in another car opened fire, said San Francisco police Sgt. Wilfred Williams. Another person in their car also was hit by gunfire and was taken to San Francisco General Hospital in critical condition.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

The shooting occurred as the men drove south on Congdon Street and reached the intersection of Maynard Street. The suspects' vehicle was heading north on Congdon.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

San Francisco police also were investigating a shooting Sunday night of a man in his mid-30s who was attacked near the corner of 24th and Guerrero streets by a person who jumped out of a car and started shooting. The shooter then jumped back into the car and fled with a driver, according to police.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

San Francisco police Sgt. Wilfred Williams said the incident took place at 3:10 p.m. in the intersection of Maynard St. and Congdon St. in the city’s Excelsior District.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on June 23, 2008.

It happened just before 2:30 at London Street and Brazil Avenue. Officers say they found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound and took him to the hospital. There's no word on his condition at this time.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on June 23, 2008.

In San Francisco, the two men were killed at 3:10 p.m. as they rode in a vehicle in the Excelsior district when someone in another car opened fire, said San Francisco police Sgt. Wilfred Williams. Another person in their car also was hit by gunfire and was taken to San Francisco General Hospital in critical condition.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

The shooting occurred as the men drove south on Congdon Street and reached the intersection of Maynard Street. The suspects' vehicle was heading north on Congdon.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

San Francisco police also were investigating a shooting Sunday night of a man in his mid-30s who was attacked near the corner of 24th and Guerrero streets by a person who jumped out of a car and started shooting. The shooter then jumped back into the car and fled with a driver, according to police.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

955 Grove St #3

Published by San Francisco Schtuff on June 23, 2008.

1261 Grove St #3

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260 Mullen Ave

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1530 Jones St #3

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2345 Jackson St #4

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61 Whitecliff Way

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700 Dorado Ter #56

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1 Daniel Burnham Ct #1608

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300 3rd St #516

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3550 Market St #201

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403 Main St #117N

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400 Beale St #613

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175 Coleridge St

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4351 17th St

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2256 Bryant #B

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5003 Diamond Heights Blvd

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2417 Bryant St

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1374 Alabama St

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1460 Broadway

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1326 Greenwich St

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41 Valparaiso St

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4057 19th St

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1468 Broadway

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1388 Gough St #401

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533 Duboce Ave

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3729 17th St

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2405 Folsom St #1

Published by San Francisco Schtuff on June 23, 2008.

66 Cervantes

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943 North Point St

Published by San Francisco Schtuff on June 23, 2008.

690 Market St #1805

Published by San Francisco Schtuff on June 23, 2008.

Weekly Fluj: “I don’t know that they’re trippin’ either!” (2145 18th Street @ Kansas)

Published by San Francisco Schtuff on June 23, 2008.

Ask Us: “Have any of your readers seen this listing at 1011 23rd St #5?”

Published by San Francisco Schtuff on June 23, 2008.

2801 Lake returns, new price, new look

Published by San Francisco Schtuff on June 23, 2008.

BERNAL HEIGHTS, SUNDAY: After three people were shot in broad daylight at Maynard and Congdon streets, two of the gunshot victims died. It seems the men were driving southbound on Congdon Street at 3:10 p.m. yesterday when they encountered another car going northbound on the same street. A suspect in the second car then fired, shot three and killed two, and fled. No arrests have been made.

Published by SFist on June 23, 2008.

MISSION, SUNDAY: A Man was brutally shot over on Guerrero and 24th streets "by a person who jumped out of a car and started shooting." The victim is currently in stable condition. It goes without saying, no arrest have been made.

Published by SFist on June 23, 2008.

Last week #1805 at San Francisco’s Ritz-Carlton Residences (690 Market) closed escrow with a reported contract price of $1,300,000. Not too shabby considering it’s a one-bedroom. But perhaps a bit concerning considering the sales office was asking $1,505,000.

Published by SocketSite on June 23, 2008.

For $6.5 million, of course, you can buy the Beaux Arts 1 bedroom for $2.45 million at 1001 California, and still have money left over to buy the old "Sunny Jim" Rolph place at 3690 21st Street, for $3.5 million (if it's still available).

Published by SocketSite on June 23, 2008.

For $6.5 million, of course, you can buy the Beaux Arts 1 bedroom for $2.45 million at 1001 California, and still have money left over to buy the old "Sunny Jim" Rolph place at 3690 21st Street, for $3.5 million (if it's still available).

Published by SocketSite on June 23, 2008.

As an interesting aside, I visited the Mission Bay library branch yesterday to skim the latest San Francisco Business Times and read that Menlo Park-based Sequoia Capital has agreed to lease the top floor of the new office building at 555 Mission Street in Rincon Hill. The primary appeal of the building is that the building is an environmentally friendly development.

Published by Rincon Hill neighborhood blog on June 23, 2008.

- A person was injured this morning in a shooting at Brazil and London Streets, at 2:00 a.m., in the Excelsior District.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on June 23, 2008.

- Four men were arrested in the Tenderloin on Sunday for a 12:45 a.m. shooting at Turk and Laguna streets, in the Wester Addition. No one was injured, but some cars were damaged.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on June 23, 2008.

- On June 7th, 2 a.m., night club Bouncer Germane Harris was shot to death after he got off work at the Holy Cow in the South of Market. He was walking with two female friends when an assailant in a VW Jetta shot and killed him at 12th and Harrison Streets.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on June 23, 2008.

The S.F. Skate Club, a youth skateboarding program dedicated to providing children with skateboarding lessons and mentoring, hosted an art show last Friday in Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s office at City Hall. The show featured a series of hand-painted skateboard decks by local youth skateboarders, ages 8 to 13. Although none of the artwork was for sale, the club was hoping the show would help raise awareness about the need for a skateboard park in Golden Gate Park, near Stanyan and Waller streets.

Published by SFist on June 23, 2008.

San Francisco currently has one skate park, which is basically an empty swimming pool in a remote corner of Crocker-Amazon Park. Built in 2001; the park is rarely ever skated because of its old-fashioned design and out-of-the-way location. A second park is scheduled to open this Saturday, June 28 in Potrero Del Sol at 25th and Utah streets. (Continued after the jump.)

Published by SFist on June 23, 2008.

You’ll Have To Pardon Us If We Avoid Swapping Any Spit (125 Mono)

Published by SocketSite on June 23, 2008.

9 p.m. // The Fillmore (1805 Geary) // $25

Published by SFist on June 23, 2008.

9 p.m. // The Stud (399 Ninth Street) // free

Published by SFist on June 23, 2008.

Location: Sundance Kabuki, 1881 Post Street at Fillmore

Published by Rincon Hill neighborhood blog on June 23, 2008.

Last month, Vollen, 44, and her husband, Gary Vollen, 45, turned to MyFarm, a new San Francisco business that took the family's local and organic diet to a new level: by designing and planting an organic vegetable garden in their Marina district backyard. The Vollens pay MyFarm a weekly fee to maintain and harvest the vegetables that have just started to mature. They can gaze at their garden and dig into just-picked lettuce without so much as touching dirt.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

In the past few years, San Francisco has seen several instances of so-called guerrilla gardening, when community organizers transformed abandoned private and public lots into minifarms in the Richmond District and Bernal Heights.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

In some ways it's a throwback to the Victory Gardens, a World War II government-sponsored program in which as much as 40 percent of the country's nonmilitary produce was grown in urban and suburban backyards. San Francisco recently resurrected the idea with Victory Gardens 2008+, a project that will involve planting vegetables in backyards and in Civic Center Plaza as part of the Slow Food Nation event taking place over Labor Day weekend.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

A few of Paque's customers found out about MyFarm through the local chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a group dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to people's diets. Judy Bonhiver, 57, recently had MyFarm install a garden in her Noe Valley front yard.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Jack and Gay Reineck, 64 and 65, also just had a garden installed behind their Cole Valley home. Although they grow vegetables and blueberries at their weekend house in Sebastopol, the busy graphic designers don't have time to do it in San Francisco, where they have lived for 30 years and normally shop at organic produce stores.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Urban agriculture resources: Free Farm Stand. This volunteer-run organization offers produce grown in local backyards free to the public, especially to low-income people. Sundays 1-3 p.m., Parque Nińos Unidos at the corner of 23rd Street and Treat Avenue.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Urban agriculture resources: Quesada Gardens Initiative. Community of Bayview residents who tend a vegetable garden on a city median. quesadagardensblog.blogspot.com.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

A third victim has died from a shooting in San Francisco's Excelsior district, police said today. The shooting happened about 3:05 p.m. Sunday when a group of men in a car traveling north on Congdon Street approached three men in a car that was going in the opposite direction.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

A third victim has died from a shooting in San Francisco's Excelsior district, police said today. The shooting happened about 3:05 p.m. Sunday when a group of men in a car traveling north on Congdon Street approached three men in a car that was going in the opposite direction.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Edgewood, the San Francisco residential treatment facility for severely disturbed children, will keep its doors open to city kids for at least another year after receiving enough city and private money. Leaders of the 157-year-old facility had threatened to accept only children from other counties unless San Francisco ponied up $661,000 in the 2008-09 fiscal year.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

San Francisco transit officials said today that a June 14 Muni train crash near the Giants ballpark, which injured 16 people, was not the result of a mechanical failure.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

On Monday morning at California Street and Van Ness Avenue, tourists stood and studied the tall photographic display that trumpets San Francisco's cable cars. The pictorial lauds the ingenuity and colorful history of the transportation system, but the ticket machine that's inches away is broken and defaced with graffiti and street stickers, one of which advertises "counterfeit sneakers ... only $49.95." Apparently, the machine hasn't worked for years.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Muni officials issued a brief update today on the agency's investigation into the incident, in which a one-car T-Third train rear-ended a two-car N-Judah train stopped at a traffic signal at Fourth and King streets just south of AT&T Park.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on June 23, 2008.

San Francisco Municipal Railway was still trying to resolve a switch problem as of 10:45 Monday morning near the Embarcadero station, a Muni spokesman said. The problem affected the Muni Metro system, particularly in the outbound direction from Embarcadero.

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on June 23, 2008.

Muni officials issued a brief update Monday on the agency's investigation into the incident, in which a one-car T-Third train rear-ended a two-car N-Judah train stopped at a traffic signal at Fourth and King streets just south of AT&T Park.

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on June 23, 2008.

A third victim has died from a shooting in San Francisco's Excelsior district, police said today. The shooting happened about 3:05 p.m. Sunday when a group of men in a car traveling north on Congdon Street approached three men in a car that was going in the opposite direction. Someone opened fire, hitting all three men in the car that was traveling south near Maynard Street, police said.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

A third victim has died from a shooting in San Francisco's Excelsior district, police said today. The shooting happened about 3:05 p.m. Sunday when a group of men in a car traveling north on Congdon Street approached three men in a car that was going in the opposite direction. Someone opened fire, hitting all three men in the car that was traveling south near Maynard Street, police said.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Edgewood, the San Francisco residential treatment facility for severely disturbed children, will keep its doors open to city kids for at least another year after receiving enough city and private money. Leaders of the 157-year-old facility had threatened to accept only children from other counties unless San Francisco ponied up $661,000 in the 2008-09 fiscal year.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

San Francisco transit officials said today that a June 14 Muni train crash near the Giants ballpark, which injured 16 people, was not the result of a mechanical failure.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

A man was sentenced today to one year of probation for threatening to kill a member of the Egyptian consulate in San Francisco. On Feb. 11, Fredrick Green rattled the gates of the consulate in the city's Marina district and threatened to kill a consulate employee and family members after being denied access, a Diplomatic Security Service special agent wrote in an affidavit.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

A man was sentenced today to one year of probation for threatening to kill a member of the Egyptian consulate in San Francisco. On Feb. 11, Fredrick Green rattled the gates of the consulate in the city's Marina district and threatened to kill a consulate employee and family members after being denied access, a Diplomatic Security Service special agent wrote in an affidavit.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 23, 2008.

Muni officials issued a brief update on the agency's investigation into the incident, in which a one-car T-Third train rear-ended a two-car N-Judah train stopped at a traffic signal at Fourth and King streets just south of AT&T Park.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on June 23, 2008.

Muni officials issued a brief update on the agency's investigation into the incident, in which a one-car T-Third train rear-ended a two-car N-Judah train stopped at a traffic signal at Fourth and King streets just south of AT&T Park.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on June 23, 2008.