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] 

This Week In Noe Valley: Real Foods Redo, Fire At 23rd At Douglass And A Memorial For Greg Gutknecht

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

• View of the blackout in Noe Valley Friday night [@brianhollinger]
• One alarm fire at 23rd and Douglass corner market – everyone’s ok [@esbale]
• Supervisor Scott Wiener’s January 2015 Newsletter [Scott Wiener]
• ICYMI: Notes from this week’s community meeting about the future of Real Foods [NVSF]
• The Wizard of Oz comes to James Lick Middle School [NVSF]
• Six reasons to shop local in Noe Valley [SF Gate]
• A well-maintained sidewalk garden on Sanchez [insidesfrealestate]
• Bummer: It will take 600 years to underground all the wires in San Francisco [ABC7]
• Sobering: A map of all the Airbnb and VRBO units in SF [Bold Italic]
• Suspected Castro arsonist (and your basic nut job) in custody [SF Appeal]
• Streetlight Records is leaving Castro too, after leaving Noe Valley in 2008 [Hoodline]
• Memorial and potluck for Greg Gutknecht at Valley Tavern 3pm Sunday 1/25 [NVSF]

[Photo: Artful Noe Valley steps via boldcursive]

This Week In Noe Valley: More Package Thieves Caught on Camera, Real Reindeer, And Other Holiday Mischief

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

• More grinchy package thieves caught on video – have you seen this couple? [KTVU]
• And here's a video of some a**hole destroying a tree on Noe St [SFist]
• A water main broke this week – and flooded the intersection in front of Rin's Thai [@krowney and @netzardfan]
• Noe Valley's Wishing Tree continues to warm hearts around the holiday [NBC Bay Area]
• Another rave for Bom Dia market at the corner of 29th and Sanchez [SF Weekly]
• An arsonist torched 4 cars in 40 minutes in the Mission Dolores on the edge of Noe Valley – just a month after a similar incident [SF Gate]
• Insurance didn't cover this guy's Jeep – here's his sweet and sad story [Fundly]
• Despite news reports, none of the burned vehicles were in Noe Valley [@BungerKCBS and @NoeValleySF]
• Hell's Angels, Noe Valley chapter [esbale]
• In Bayview vs. Noe Valley, Bayview wins (#whatever) [Curbed]
• A clever solution to poop on the sidewalk (seen on Church St) [@cappstreetcrap] 
• 6 picks for where to shop on 24th Street [SF Gate]
• Spin City hits its Kickstarter goal to expand and improve the space [Kickstarter]

[Photo: Reindeer in front of Just for Fun via han_cholo23]

Crime Beat: Arson

Information is from Mission and Ingleside District San Francisco Police Station newsletters.


2009 saw twenty-some-odd porta potty fires in the northern part of the City, then there were two last year in the Castro. Now Noe Valley:

April 14

Arson -- 2:53am, 200 Blk Duncan St. Officers Dominguez and Carrasco were conducting traffic control on an unrelated incident when they were flagged down by a citizen regarding a fire. The officers responded to the scene and found a portable toilet on fire. The fire had spread to a nearby vehicle, which also caught fire. SFFD responded and extinguished the fire. The owner of the vehicle was notified. No one was injured during this incident.

[Photo: erikgibb, Flickr]