This Week in Noe Valley: Pizza Progress and Why the Town Square Is in the Dark

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

• The pizza oven is delivered to Sassi’s in the old Fattoush space [@NoeValleySF]
• A look inside a rare “sister” Victorian on Elizabeth St. [Curbed]
• A whimsical illustration of night time in Noe Valley by a local artist/stylist [oliviakaneley]
• Oh hai [suki_the_regal_shiba]
• Noe Valley couple uses technology to enable 1 million calls to Congress (and counting)[Hoodline]
• Here’s why PG&E won’t turn on the lights in the Noe Valley Town Square [SFChronicle]

[Photo: Noe Valley cherry blossonms via vpiombo]

This Week In Noe Valley: Similar SF Neighborhoods, Noe Valley Stereotypes, And War Breaks Out On Vicksburg St

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

• Photos of Billy Goat Hill [7x7]
• Google Shopping Express has arrived [@timpapandreou]
• Gas leak on 25th St [SF Appeal]
• OH: horrific travel story [@kevinchlo]
• Curbed's new associate editor thinks Noe Valley is like Sesame Street [Curbed]
• "Noe Valley is a poor man’s Russian Hill" [Anson Whitmer]
• Philz Coffee wants to be a good neighbor [via @Percysperson]
• An uprising on Vicksburg - #WarOnRats [@jane_e_nevins]

[Photo: Mosaic at Cradle of the Sun, by deemanator]

Noe Valley Power Outages

Neighbors have reported multiple power outages in Noe Valley over the last month. We're curious: is the power going out more often than the historical norm or does Twitter magnify small outages? Here are examples of some Tweets from the last few days:

@noevalleysf @rle Electrical pole fire on 27 street takes the power out for neighborhood. PGE said that it was caused by fog
— Curtis Smolar (@csmolar) May 26, 2013

@noevalleysf is there public data on power outages in SF? My power on Clipper has been out for 3 hours in the last month.
— Nelson Minar (@nelson) May 24, 2013

@noevalleysf 4 power outages this month in Noe.Each take out several recessed lightbulbs. Today's killed our Tivo/XFinity/TV set-up. FAIL
— Rebecca Eisenberg (@rle) May 28, 2013

Yet another power outage in Noe Valley #SF - actually a brownout, grid at 66.0v
— Jim Constantine (@jgc94131) May 28, 2013

PG&E tracks current outages, but as far as we can tell doesn't make public data on power outage trends by neighborhood. So we're asking for your input - send us reports of power out within Noe Valley via email or Twitter and we'll map all data. Maybe there's a trend we can talk to PG&E about.

[NVSF: Map of Noe Valley Power Outages]
[PG&E: Outage Map]