This Week In Noe Valley: La Bou Redux, Attempted Rape Report and a Week of Wild Skies

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

• La Boulange to return as a more “rustic” La Boulangerie de San Francisco in 6 locations – including the one on 24th Street [SF Business Times]
• Wildfires bring a week of wild, colorful, and fiery pink skies [erikawas, okaminyc, williedills, @pierre_vannier, catrionabalfour]
• In Noe Valley, laundromats are also a swanky jazz bar… [@stevenplatt]
• St Philips Parish Festival is the weekend – with sports and beer [@ESBAle]
• Spotted: Succulent plant pot with baby doll legs [rollthebarrel]
• Yep, that was AC/DC you heard from AT&T park this week [@discomaz]
• A foreclosure in Noe Valley for $1.8M: Is the market cooling off? [SocketSite]
• Technicolor dream house for sale on Cesar Chavez [Curbed]
• ICYMI: Common Scents is closing [NVSF]
• Noe Valley now just an overpriced Google bus stop [@KristinHenry]
• Attempted rape reported at Spring Pilates & Yoga Saturday AM; thwarted by civilian hero [@mysticflavor]
• It’s still tomato season at the Farmer’s Market [cifilove]
• An interview with Noe resident Zarah Saleh, owner of Café International [Hoodline]

[Photo: Fire skies via mbd2]

NVV Oct 2014: 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.

October 2014

Front Page: Noe Valley Ministry will reopen in November; A must-read piece about the tech shuttle buses and the new routes that are outraging residents of 26th St and Duncan (other streets could be next); Harvest Fest (coming on Sat Oct. 18) turns 10 this year.

Letters: The mystery Alvarado tree pruner fesses up and defends his pruning of YOUR trees; A plug for Prop F and against Prop I; RIP Bruno, "a dog who loved food."

Cost of Living in Noe: A house on Fountain sells for $5.15 million; condos are moving briskly and average $1.1 million.

Rumors: 24 HoliDAYS celebration starts this year on Dec 1 with events through Christmas; The SFMTA has agreed to postpone bulbouts on 24th St until after the holidays; The former Joshua Simon spot will become Lazeez, a Middle-Eastern food spot that will serve shawarma, falafel, hummus and sandwiches - it will be operated by the owners of Savor and expects to open this spring; Shufat got a health score of 100 for its deli; Real Foods is still stalled; Whole Foods named James Lick Middle School the beneficiary of its Nickels for Non-Profits Program; Valley Tavern's limited entertainment license was approved for live music - and you can also catch buses to the 49ers games there; Elizabeth Street Brewery donated beer to this year's St. Philip Parish Festival; The steam-cleaning of streets on 24th St has some residents worried about water use during the drought (the NV CDA has an exception for water use); The Noe Valley Ministry is re-opening and throwing a party with local chefs; The construction on Mark Zuckerberg's $10 million house at 21st St and Fair Oaks is annoying neighbors - and just outside the Liberty Hill Historic District designation; The fortress-like home at 801 Sanchez which hasn't been occupied for 40 years has reportedly been sold for $10 million.

[The Noe Valley Voice]

Noe 8th Grader: Reduce Crime, Root for the Giants

The Chronicle has a fun story about an 8-year-old's science project at Noe Valley's St. Philip School:

A budding young Nancy Drew at Noe Valley's St. Philip School has come up with this finding based on her research for a science fair: Thefts of cars and auto break-ins went down in San Francisco last fall while the Giants were marching their way through the playoffs to their World Series crown.

Eighth-grader Ella Chatfield-Stiehler went on the city Police Department's computerized crime data site, crunched comparisons of October 2009 and October 2010 and found that car thefts and auto burglaries dipped significantly last year when the hometown baseball heroes were doing their thong-panda-beard thing.

Not clear if there's a real link, but it's a great theory. It's also not clear if the crime dip extended to the raucous full day ticker parade on Nov. 3 (above right). But in the words of Ella: "This study also supports another reason to say, Go Giants!"

[SF Gate: Crime fell during Giants' title run, eighth-grader finds]

Tidbits: Curator Opens And Other Happenings

Opening today: Curator at 1767 Church St. Co-owner Deirdre O’Boyle of She-Bible told us in May "we will be stocking our line and some other hard to find lines and special editions."

Nomad Rugs is hosting an art show beginning September 25th featuring local artist Marc Ellen Hamel. Meet the artist opening night (Friday) from 6-8pm at 3775 24th St. More information here.

Next weekend is the 71st annual St. Philip Festival at Diamond and 24th Streets. It's also the Centennial anniversary of the Parish. Photos from last year's festival are here.

Finally, start thinking about what you're going to prepare for the first annual Noe Valley Farmer's Market Bake-Off on October 24th. Details, rules and entry forms are available at the market and at sponsor businesses: Cooks Boulevard, Omnivore Books on Food and Phoenix Books.

[NVSF: Rumor: She-Bible To Take Over 1767 Church Street]
[NVSF: St. Philip Festival 2008: Food, Fun & Free Beer]