This Week in Noe Valley: Burning Man Roots, Time Capsules and Summer in the City

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Now open in the old Common Scents space: Shop Monroe [ShopMonroeSF]
• SF’s most expensive home sale was at 150 Vicksburg last week [Curbed]
• The Peak2Peak walk is happening Sept 10 [Examiner]
• Bits of Burning Man were born in a Noe Valley basement in 1986 [Mixmag]
• And here's what Noe Valley looked like in 1986 [eamonka]
• Why do techie homes all look the same? [@Bartzebest]
• Last day of the Castro cable car into Noe Valley 1941 [@DavidGallagher]
• More about Uma Casa – opening end of Oct (fingers crossed) [Zagat]
• Rumor: Tataki South reboots? [@rosewinebar]
• It’s not your imagination [@omnivorebooks]
• 24th Street in 2006 [mitchphotos]

[Photo: Summer in the city via jkushner04]

This Week In Noe Valley: Hamlet Reboots, RIP Drewe’s Meats, And Don’t Call It "The Noe"

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Hamlet gets a mini makeover and a new menu [Hoodline]
• What a $1 million home in Noe Valley looks like [Socketsite]
• Drewe’s / E&J Meats– one of the oldest butcher shops in SF and in operation since 1899 – is evicted for non-payment of rent [Inside Scoop]
• A story about Guerra Meats also talks about the demise of Drewe’s [Chronicle]
• Speaking of history: Mitchell’s ice cream started as a small dairy farm in the hills of Noe Valley in 1865 [ABC]
• And speaking of rent increases, Spring Pilates is out on Castro St [@dabit]
• Why the Mission is burning [Curbed]
• LaPanotiQ is open [Bob Cut]; Grand Opening party on August 27 [@LaPanotiQ]
• Ordinary people can’t afford a home in SF. How it came to this… [Guardian]
• Tacolicious has to move on Church St; it’s not zoned for office space [@omnivorebooks]
• "4th generation Noe Valley, 3rd generation in my house” [@eparillon]
• Noe Valley resident Patrice Sandoval at the Tony Bennett statue unveiling [Hoodline]
• NV Town Square on schedule to open in late October [SF Rec & Park]
• Taking the NY Times to task for the Tenderloin to Noe Valley UberPOOL math [Bill Moyers]
• Noe, Noe Valley …. but don’t call it The Noe [@sashax]

[Photo: the415guy]