This Week in Noe Valley: New Muni Seats Coming, IPO Angst and a Hidden Urban Jungle

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

• Noe Valley Farmer’s Market pho maker a contender for a James Beard Award [ABC7]
• It’s not your imagination: The new Muni seats are uncomfy [SF Chronicle]
• 228 units have been part of Ellis Act evictions in District 8 since 2008 [@RafaelMandelman]
• KCBS’s Foodie Chap talks to KCBS about his restaurant, Noe’s Cantina [KCBS]
• New pizzeria opening in ex-Fattoush space and a skin clinic coming to former Real Foods retail [Noe Valley Voice]
• Blatant clickbait and tech IPO angst: Thousands of new millionaires are about to eat SF alive [NYTimes]

[Photo: Urban jungle via jillywilly] 

This Week In Noe Valley: Maggots At Whole Foods, Judgemental Maps, And Springtime Fun

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Maggots at the Noe Valley Whole Foods meat dept; cleared by the DPH [KRON4]
• San Francisco reflected in puddles – gorgeous [The Bold Italic]
• Composite aerial map of San Francisco in 1938 [David Rumsey]
• The NV library will now be open 7 days a week [City Insider]
• Ana Kamin’s Noe Valley guide on Steller [Fluxi on Tour]
• Mission group really doesn’t want to become like Noe Valley – or Valencia St. [SF Gate]
• The San Francisco map that everyone will hate [Judgemental Maps]
• Followed by the SF Stereotype Map and the Judgemental SF Map 1860s Edition [Burrito Justice]
• Spring through the eyes of a local photographer [Cindy Loughridge]
• Noe Valley Pet Co’s 15th Birthday on May 10: "A Quincinera party w/pinata of dog treats!" [@omnivorebooks]
• What the...? Mother nature window display on Vine [Tapata]
• A thought-provoking perspective on the gentrification of SF from a progressive who’s evicted tenants [SF Magazine]

[Photo: via Chrissaulx]

This Week In Noe Valley: The Soda Tax War Kicks Off, Remembering The Winter Of Love, And More Photos Of Snow In The City

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Scott Wiener and other supes support the Soda Tax ballot measure [scottwiener.com]
• Opponents of the Tax argue it makes SF more expensive; 6 people hired to canvass neighborhoods, including Noe Valley [SF Gate]
• Why housing costs keep rising in SF (short version: there isn't enough of it) [Michael Rhodes]
• Ellis Act perpetrators are the evil ones, not the Google bus riders says this op-ed [Beyond Chron]
• To be fair, the Ellis Act was a "problem" long before the Google Bus [NYTimes]
• It's the 10th anniversary of the Winter of Love [Bay Area Reporter]
• The Cesar Chavez project is wrapping up - and neighbors already feel safer [SF Gate]
• More reader photos of the great 1976 San Francisco snowstorm - including fun ones of Noe Valley [SF Gate]
• A profile of Noe resident Christine Schmidt, author of Yellow Owl's Little Prints and some photos of her charming apartment [SF Gate]
• The Tech Search Party returns to Noe Valley on Feb 8 [Tech Search Party]

[Photo: #blossom #spring via oiseaul]