...molds are inexpensive ($1.50-$3) and are available at Japanese stores including Ichiban Kan (1625 Post St., San Francisco) in Japantown. Traditionally these rice balls are filled with pickled plums, fish roe...

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 3, 2008.

...molds are inexpensive ($1.50-$3) and are available at Japanese stores including Ichiban Kan (1625 Post St., San Francisco) in Japantown. Traditionally these rice balls are filled with pickled plums, fish roe...

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 2, 2008.

Further schedule reductions are planned for streets in the Diamond Heights, Forest Hill, Glen Park, Ingleside, Japantown, Lakeside, Noe Valley, Parkside, Park Merced, St. Francis Wood, Sunset and West Portal neighborhoods.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 26, 2008.

1581 Webster Street

Published by SF Weekly on August 20, 2008.

You're almost ready to publish your political manifesto, but need a little help with editing and promotion. Come to an all-day conference and get some help from writers who have lived to see their vision all the way to press.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on August 14, 2008.

Police are investigating the fatal street shooting of a man late Monday night in the Western Addition neighborhood less than two blocks from City Hall.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 12, 2008.

Police are investigating the fatal street shooting of a man late Monday night in the Western Addition neighborhood less than two blocks from City Hall.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 12, 2008.

...more on Saturday and Sunday, August 16 & 17. This event takes place at Hotel Kabuki, 1625 Post Street, San Francisco. Registration fees and other information is available at www.sfwritingforchange.org...

Published by Mission Dispatch on August 9, 2008.

Maki Restaurant. 1825 Post St. (near Webster, in Japan Center), San Francisco; (415) 921-5215.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 30, 2008.

Maki Restaurant. 1825 Post St. (near Webster, in Japan Center), San Francisco; (415) 921-5215.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 29, 2008.

Karaoke, free chicken wings, and $3 cocktails? Sounds like a plan to me. Starting tonight, Thursday, July 24, Japantown newcomer O Izakaya Lounge (1625 Post St. at Laguna) in the Hotel Kabuki is kicking-off the first of what promises to be a great Thursday night scene: All night happy hour with $3 cocktails, karaoke, and a late night menu (served until midnight) devised by Chef Nicolaus Balla.

Published by SF Weekly on July 24, 2008.

Hayes Valley housing still varies widely by block and becomes more unpredictable as the neighborhood merges into Wester Addition. A geographically large and economically and ethnically diverse area, Western Addition encompasses the famous “painted ladies” of Alamo Square, the busy commercial district along Divisadero, the lively African-American neighborhood of lower Fillmore, and the shopping and dining enclave of Japantown.

Published by SFHotlist on July 18, 2008.

Hayes Valley housing still varies widely by block and becomes more unpredictable as the neighborhood merges into Wester Addition. A geographically large and economically and ethnically diverse area, Western Addition encompasses the famous “painted ladies” of Alamo Square, the busy commercial district along Divisadero, the lively African-American neighborhood of lower Fillmore, and the shopping and dining enclave of Japantown.

Published by SFHotlist on July 18, 2008.

Supporters hope Little Saigon will now join Japantown and Chinatown as must see destinations in San Francisco.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 16, 2008.

"We should maintain the cameras that exist," said Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who supported the cameras at first in his Western Addition district but has since become a skeptic.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 14, 2008.

"We should maintain the cameras that exist," said Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who supported the cameras at first in his Western Addition district but has since become a skeptic.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 14, 2008.

"We should maintain the cameras that exist," said Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who supported the cameras at first in his Western Addition district but has since become a skeptic.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 13, 2008.

"This is breathtaking art and why shouldn't kids from Bayview Hunters Point and the Mission, why shouldn't seniors from the Western Addition and Viz Valley get opportunities to have access to such a wonderful cultural institution?" said Alex Tourk, Fisher spokesperson.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 5, 2008.

That's why teenagers at this conflict resolution program in the city's Western Addition personally approached the mayor at an event a few weeks ago asking for jobs.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 4, 2008.

There are people who think it's cool to go shoot a pig or a turkey or a duck and take it home for supper: since I think it's one of the world's great experiences to catch a bass or a trout and do the same thing, it's hard to be critical. But the United State Supreme Court decision last week wasn't about my nephew's .22 or my friend Rich's hunting rifle. It was about whether cities can do anything remotely at all meaningful to keep 14-year-olds from shooting each other on the streets.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on July 2, 2008.

Car break-ins are down slightly from last year, but they are still epidemic in several places in the city, police said. Those include the Embarcadero from Fisherman's Wharf to Howard Street, the Western Addition and along the beach near the Great Highway.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 24, 2008.

Location: Sundance Kabuki, 1881 Post Street at Fillmore

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

Within hours after Louvier left court, Washington was gunned down in the city's Western Addition.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on June 20, 2008.

FILM: Starting tonight, the San Francisco Black Film Festival, entering its 10th year, will be in full swing. Kicking of the week-long film fest is Ngozi Onwurah Shoot the Messenger (2006). Messenger is about "a black teacher who has to steer his careening life back on track after he is fired." Clinical depression and racism in England follows. This film screens at 7 p.m. at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post. (Open bar party at Rasselas to follow!)

Published by SFist on June 4, 2008.

The defendants were members of the Page Street Mob in the Western Addition and were charged under the federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations law, which was created to crack down on organized crime.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on May 31, 2008.

The defendants were members of the Page Street Mob in the Western Addition and were charged under the federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations law, which was created to crack down on organized crime.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on May 31, 2008.

7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. // Sundance Kabuki Cinemas (1881 Post)

Published by SFist on May 30, 2008.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Peterson admitted he was a member of the Page Street Mob, a violent drug gang operating out of San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood, and assisted with Hearns' murder to better his status in the gang.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on May 30, 2008.

A San Francisco man was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in federal prison for aiding and abetting a 2002 gang murder, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Friday. Aquil Peterson, 24, pleaded guilty in January to committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering, admitting that, armed with an AK-47, he helped kidnap and beat Joseph Hearns before Hearns was shot in the head on Aug. 23, 2002.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on May 30, 2008.

A woman escaped injury in San Francisco early Wednesday when a bullet from a shootout outside her Western Addition home struck her television set, police said.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on May 29, 2008.

A 24-year-old San Francisco man has been sentenced to 77 years to life in prison on a first-degree murder conviction in an attack that authorities say was part of a running feud in the city's Western Addition four years ago.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on May 29, 2008.

Johnson was killed in broad daylight in the parking lot of a Safeway at Geary and Fillmore streets. The killing came minutes after the victim had attended a funeral for his 17-year-old cousin Raymon "Ray Ray" Bass, a standout athlete who was also killed as part of a gang feud in the Western Addition.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on May 29, 2008.

It happened at about 3 am on Eddy Street in the city's Western Addition District.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on May 28, 2008.

The first time I ate Japanese food was in the Japan pavilion at Epcot Center in Disney World, when I was 9. It was here among the koi-filled ponds and the Japantown-esque architecture that I slurped my first bowl of fat, slippery udon. I still remember the steamy broth loaded with seaweed and vegetables, and the chewiness of the thick white udon. Watching my father try to use chopsticks had me roaring with laughter.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on May 28, 2008.

Bobby Joe Lamascus was last seen at around 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Japantown, where his group had stopped for a bathroom break. Lamascus left the group and didn't return. Staff at the San Bruno group home contacted police about two hours later, and informed the family of his disappearance the following day.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on May 11, 2008.

Bobby Joe Lamascus was last seen at around 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Japantown, where his group had stopped for a bathroom break. Lamascus left the group and didn't return. Staff at the San Bruno group home contacted police about two hours later, and informed the family of his disappearance the following day.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on May 11, 2008.

On Monday, detectives took prints from an NBC11 news van after a thief ripped a laptop computer right off of Cheryl Hurd's lap in the city's Western Addition.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on May 7, 2008.

Veteran NBC-11 reporter Cheryl Hurd found herself the star of her own story on San Francisco's plague of car robberies the other day when she had her computer snatched right out of her lap as she sat in her camera truck working on a story about "smash and grab" robberies in the Western Addition.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on May 6, 2008.

Hurd was doing a story in San Francisco's Western Addition about smash-and-grab robberies and was sitting inside an NBC11 news van when she became a victim of a smash-and-grab robbery herself. The Western Addition is a hot spot for smash-and-grab robberies, Hurd reported.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on May 6, 2008.

Ajason Black, 32, of Oakland, shot to death on the 1600 block of Geary Blvd., 10:15 p.m., Western Addition/Japantown.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on May 5, 2008.

Ajason Black, 32, of Oakland, shot to death on the 1600 block of Geary Blvd., 10:15 p.m., Western Addition/Japantown.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on May 5, 2008.

According to the newly installed shot-spotters system, which consists of gunfire-detecting microphones set up in the Western Addition and Hunters Point, the vast majority of gunfire in those neighborhoods goes unreported.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on May 5, 2008.

Man Shot to Death In Western Addition

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on May 4, 2008.

He was killed near his mother's apartment in the parking lot of a housing complex in the Western Addition.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on April 29, 2008.

San Francisco police were investigating two homicides Sunday just hours apart, one in which a man fatally stabbed his brother in the Sunset District, the other a fatal shooting in the Western Addition, the department said Monday.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on April 29, 2008.

San Francisco police are investigating two homicides Sunday just hours apart, one in which a man fatally stabbed his brother in the Sunset District, the other a fatal shooting in the Western Addition, police said today.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on April 28, 2008.

San Francisco police are investigating two homicides Sunday just hours apart, one in which a man fatally stabbed his brother in the Sunset District, the other a fatal shooting in the Western Addition, police said today.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on April 28, 2008.

Man Shot to Death in the Western Addition.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on April 27, 2008.

As reported by the SF Examiner SFPD has made “a major strategy adjustment … concentrating police resources in five geographic areas that have seen the most violent crime in recent years.” The five high crime-prone zones are: The Tenderloin, The Western Addition, The Mission, Bayview-Hunter’s Point and Visitation Valley.

Published by Mission Dispatch on April 22, 2008.

Considering dropping by the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival at Japantown this weekend? We checked it out on Saturday just as the lines started building up at the nonprofit-run food bazaar, and boy were the snacks worth the wait.

Published by SF Weekly on April 15, 2008.