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]

NVV: 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 highlights from the latest issue. Links are to stories we've covered at NVSF.

June 2009

• Front page: Noe Valley is for sale - lots of homes and rentals on market. 68 homes listed for sale in April, which is about double last year. "Bargains" are still over $1M. Rental rates are down about 10% from last year.
  
• Op-Ed: Misha Weidman, RE broker and attorney, says Noe Valley is no longer immune from the housing slump. Good news: Noe is off only 13% from last year.
• Letters: People are still outraged about arbitrary parking enforcement (4 letters); Someone wants you to send stimulus money to On Lok on 30th St; Thanks given to Noe Valley Auto Works for taking care of a recently laid-off client's car.
• Photo: 7 people waiting for train confirms that J Church is still the worst.
  
• Short Takes: FUF planting Saturday July 11 in Noe Valley; Celebrate the Solstice at Noe Valley Ministries; Got a problem with services at City parks? Parkscan.org will now route all calls to 311 [Ed.--better than calling: check them out on Twitter]; Noe Valley Quest Fest will celebrate winners on June 17th at Upper Noe Rec Center from 5:30-7:30PM, drawing at 6:15--more deets at noevalleyquest.com.
• Crime: Only covers first half of May, so no mention of armed robberies on Church near 26th (be careful out there); And...the Peace Blotter is back. [Ed.--If you're a crime watching sort of person, we've posted instructions for subscribing to regular updates here.]
• Rumors: Bevan Dufty considering run for Mayor [Ed.--can Noe get a pink cloud too?]; Dufty also denies he's endorsing anyone running to replace him; 28.6% of Noe Valleyans voted on May 19; Rumor becomes fact when checking police reports - many vehicle break-ins lately; Empty storefronts: AAA space for $12k/month, Riki landlord looking for retail (not food), Streetlight rent reduced to $8k/month, Simply Chic asking $4k/month, Wells Fargo's old ATM closet wants $4k/month, Successories opening, Noe Knit closing, Phoenix moving in; last month's Store Trek feature Arara changing name and moving to 1513 Church (NV Buzz); She-Bible opening; Noe full of babies; Also: "you can put a lock on a rumor" that Locksmith Central is moving--they changed their mind.
  
• Traveling Voice: Noe residents carried the voice to such far off places as...nowhere. The NVV is on staycation.
  

[The Noe Valley Voice]

NVV: 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 highlights from the latest issue. Links are to stories we've covered.

April 2009

• Front page: Cesar Chavez redesign; local artists turn art into cancer therapy; profile of Pollen Princesses; Book Week starts April 20th with local authors' readings.
• Cost of Living in Noe: slow market, slightly cheaper; rents down a little from last year (same as every month recently). The average single family home price in Noe Valley is still $1.5M.
• Letters: more on the evil priest; unleashed evil dogs; the evil Whole Foods better serve the community.
• Obits: E'nam Fatima Abu-nie, wife of Shufat Market's owner.
  
• Store Trek: Contigo (including a menu from March 22); Brown & Co Noe Valley (local realtor Pete Brannigan).
• Rumors: No one answered all NV history quiz questions correctly; Streetlight Records' landlords wanted $12k a month; restaurant for sale; Glare re-opened; Noeteca opening "by end of April;" rolling brownout fears once again "threatening" firehouse budgets; Elizabeth Street Brewery wasn't expecting the Inquisition.
• Traveling Voice: Rio de Janeiro and the Philippines. Whee.
• Back Page: April Fool's Day headlines (delivered on April 2nd).
  

[The Noe Valley Voice]

Photo: Streetlight Record's Last Day in Noe Valley

[NVV: Streetlight Set to Close Local Store]