This Week in Noe Valley: Noe’s Cantina Rises, Plus Holiday Festivities

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

• A new fixture on the Noe Valley skyline [antoinette8904]
• Noe’s Cantina at 24th and Church looks promising [@jkdineen]
• 84.9% of registered voters in Noe Valley turned out in the midterms [SF Chronicle]
• Ominovore’s Celia Sack shares her favorite Bay Area cookbooks [SF Chronicle]
• Rain and a downed power line leaves 10,000 Bay Area customers without power for hours the day before Thanksgiving – including most of 24th St. [NBC]
• Noe Valley tree lighting and caroling coming Dec 1 [SF Rec and Park]
• Noe Valley Wine Walk also returns on Dec 1 [24on24th]

[Photo: Friendsgiving via base1yugichi] 

This Week in Noe Valley: Smoke From Camp Fire in Far Away Butte County and How to Help Victims

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

• Contigo to close this weekend after nearly 10 years [SF Chronicle]
• Noe Valley seniors thwart Ellis Act evictors [BeyondChron]
• An interview with Amos Goldbaum who painted his first mural outside CardioTone in 2014 [SF Chronicle]
• Who knew? The Green Cross dispensary started in Noe Valley in 2004 [Dope Magazine]
• Drone’s eye view of the smoke from Noe Valley #nofilter [bertibenbanaste]
• Disappearing sutro [insidesfrealestate]
• Sign of the times [centerhardware]
• Making light of a sad reality [_qrispy]
• How you can help the Camp Fire victims [7x7]
• And how you can help the animals [SFSPCA]

[Photo: Blade Runner sunrise via @djfsteve] 

This Week in Noe Valley: Firefly Turns 25, Halloween Scariness and the Enduring Greatness of La Ciccia

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

• Firefly turns 25 - yay! [@FireflySF]
• Arsonist on 29th and on the 200 block of Day Street [@kidbombay]
• ICYMI it was Halloween this week [Isflashbacks and shewalksinheels]
• More Halloween scariness - RIP [@yurikojewett]
• The opulent Pritikin Mansion on the edge of Noe Valley gets a price haircut from $12.5 million to $5.5 million [SFGate]
• La Ciccia makes best Italian restaurant in SF and the U.S. [SF Chronicle and Thrillist]

[Photo: Halloween 2018 via Isflashbacks] 

NVV November 2018: We Read It So You Don't Have To

The Noe Valley Voice is published ten times a year and has been a neighborhood fixture since 1977. Here are notable highlights from the latest issue. Links are to stories we've covered here on NVSF or other resources. Follow the NVV link at the bottom for full articles and all the ads.

November 2018

Front Page: A roundup of places to volunteer in the community and give back for the holidays; four Noe Valley residents join a citywide lawsuit against a predatory landlord; the recent corporate use of the Town Square by Apple draws scrutiny and complaints from neighbors; the SF Planning Commission has given the green light to developers to turn the old Real Foods space into retail with no housing.

Letters: Support for a cannabis dispensary in the old Mill space; letters for and against Prop 10 on the ballot.

Features: There's a new mural outside NoVY at 4000 24th St. that celebrates the restaurant's heartwarming multi-generation story; a neighborhood group is proposing a green benefit district around Dolores Park to make it safer and more welcoming.

Cost of Living in Noe Valley: Just two single family homes sold this September in Noe Valley and both were for less than $2 million.

Store Trek: Little Artistas, 1513 Church St. at 27th

Rumors and Tidbits: The Gold City Greenery has applied for a lease in the Old Mill space as a cannabis dispensary but it's not a done deal - the owner is entertaining other offers; the headquarters of GlobeIn will be opening a retail store at 4175 24th St. (the former home of Cliche Noe) on Nov. 16; the former Noe Valley Cyclery space is being rented by Real Management Company for 8 months as it renovates its offices at 1234 Castro St.; sadly, vandals have broken the glass window at Video Wave two times over the last 3 months; Philz on 24th at Diamond is now cashless and customers are expected to pay for their java electronically; Little Folkies on Church has vacated 1515 Church and a hair salon called Poppy & Finch has replaced it; a computer school is moving into the former campaign office of Rafael Mandelman on 24th St.; One Stop Party Shop reports that the most popular costumes were Black Panther for boys and witches and princesses for girls.

[The Noe Valley Voice]