The Mission News

Ike Shehadeh of Ike's Place is about as big a local food success story as the Bay Area's got: only a decade ago, he was broke and homeless , but these days, he commands an empire of sandwich shops in Northern California, has appeared on numerous TV shows, and has now found a lovely bride to share it all with.

San Francisco is changing so much that New York Magazine suspects that the city may now be New York.

You can take the New Yorker out of New York, but evidently, you can't take the kvetching out of a New Yorker.

A shopping blogger who lives by the beach sounds like a character lifted from a Cecily von Ziegesar novel , but for Racked SF's Kristen Philipkoski, it's real life.

Two works by Truong Tran: "Or I Meant to Say, Please Pass the Sugar," above, and "All My Marbles in One Confined Space."

Officers process evidence on Florida Street between 25th and 26th Streets on March 8, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.

As winter gives way to spring, and as SF-born ice creamery Humphry Slocombe celebrates the opening of their new Ferry Building shop , we bring you this list of the five essential, must-try, and most San Franciscan ice cream scoops you can find in town.

Potrero Hill has emerged as an important node in San Francisco's vibrant art scene.

Over the past year a community of art galleries has emerged on 16th Street, Utah Street, and Potrero Avenue, with roughly a half-dozen exhibit spaces now on offer.

The final weekend of March will be another one that will require serious listeners to make some hard choices as to how they will be spending their time.

An officer who police initially said was shot in San Francisco's Mission District by a suspect who later led police on a high-speed chase may actually have been wounded by a fellow officer, a police spokesman said Monday.

Today SFist has learned that her lease is, indeed, signed for a space near 16th and Mission, construction has begun, and she'll be having a press conference in the coming weeks.

Sarah Gilbert walks down the central spiral staircase of a Mission District apartment building with property management representative Rafael Davis.

An officer looks into an open window on Florida Street between 25th and 26th Streets while other officers collect more information on March 8, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.

Summer and Molly, who are homeless, change their clothes in a restroom at the Main Library in San Francisco.

Ah, the classic city feud. You've heard this argument one hundred times before. Which is better: Los Angeles or San Francisco? Well, the time has come to settle the score.

There's a wealth of information in this month's nonfiction new releases by Bay Area authors, from David Sedlak's fascinating history of public water systems to a concise introduction to quantum mechanics co-authored by Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman.

The three developers bidding are Millennium Partners , Related California , and Golub .

Marc Huestis says he likes the flower boxes at Cafe Flore because he can feel the friends he lost to AIDS in the '80s.

For decades, Mission Street has resisted gentrification. Even as parallel Valencia Street has become permanently yuppified and high-end shops have crept onto staunchly Latino 24th Street, Mission Street has remained the city's largest and densest proletarian boulevard, a multicultural equivalent of Chinatown's Stockton Street.