This Week in Noe Valley: Great Local Eats, What’s Up With Sutro and Other Reasons to Love Noe Valley

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

• New Yorker food writer crowdsources a fun collection of restaurants for dining solo in SF including some gems in Noe Valley [@hels]
• Great thread on what’s up with Sutro [hknightsf]
• 5 insights about the One Medical IPO (founded in Noe Valley) [SF Biz Journals]
• Beautiful morning [nikkidowns]
• Study in brown on Sanchez St [nadege_motley]
• Gorgeous Victorian on the hill [oldsoulhouses]
• Beautiful day in the parklet [lena_gru]
• In praise of Novy’s dolmas [Eater]

[Photo: Adorable bookstore scene via @omnivorebooks] 

This Week in Noe Valley: Smoke From Camp Fire in Far Away Butte County and How to Help Victims

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

• Contigo to close this weekend after nearly 10 years [SF Chronicle]
• Noe Valley seniors thwart Ellis Act evictors [BeyondChron]
• An interview with Amos Goldbaum who painted his first mural outside CardioTone in 2014 [SF Chronicle]
• Who knew? The Green Cross dispensary started in Noe Valley in 2004 [Dope Magazine]
• Drone’s eye view of the smoke from Noe Valley #nofilter [bertibenbanaste]
• Disappearing sutro [insidesfrealestate]
• Sign of the times [centerhardware]
• Making light of a sad reality [_qrispy]
• How you can help the Camp Fire victims [7x7]
• And how you can help the animals [SFSPCA]

[Photo: Blade Runner sunrise via @djfsteve] 

This Week In Noe Valley: Sutro Love, Burners Bug Out, And The Power Outage Explained

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

• Sutro Tower: From Eyesore to Icon – awesome historic video [Exploratorium]
• Spotted at Whole Foods Noe Valley: Camel’s milk for $24.99 per bottle [brettb]
• If you’re wondering why you can park this weekend and brunch spots are empty: Burning Man is on [@cowperthewait]
• Want a job at Google? You might want to consider going to Burning Man too [SFGate]
• The commute from Noe Valley to the new Levi’s Stadium? Under an hour… [@JoeArellano]
• Has your neighborhood become upscale? A gentrification quiz and article reprint from 1985 (croissant shops! fern bars!) [Inside Scoop]
• Op ed: Are children parasites on cities’ finances? [StreetsblogSF]
• Monday’s mass power outage was due to “underground equipment failure” [SFAppeal]
• Noe Valley tech entrepreneur Jim Greer is putting his money into fixing dark politics [SFGate]
• The least expensive home in Noe Valley [SFGate]
• From $1.4M four years ago to $2.3M today [SocketSite]
• And a listing touting the “outskirts of Noe Valley” [SocketSite]
• Visitors are loving our little village on Instagram [thx nopalzin, oysterearth, suziefoo, frishchmilch]

[Photo: #streetsofsf by yo_avery]

Photo: Sutro At Sunset

Photos of last night's spectacular sunset lit up Twitter last night. This one is our favorite from neighbor Tamar Hurwitz.

[Photo: Tamar Hurwitz]

Photo: Sutro Tower Work At Night

If you were up late last night you may have noticed some activity on Sutro Tower. Noe Valley resident trophygeek sent the above photo with this explanation:

Was headed to bed at 3am when I noticed strange lights coming from Sutro Tower. Guess they were doing work up there. The shot is of the mid-platform all lit up. First time I've seen it since moving to this neighborhood 3 years ago.

So what sent workers up the Tower on a cold night in December? Trophygeek heard from friends around the City that "they heard a massive bang last night from all over town. I think it was related to this work." Can anyone point to more info or speculation? Google isn't helping.

Regardless, we think the comments posted about this GIF provide the most likely explanation: epic lightsaber duel.



[Flickr: trophygeek]

Perseid Meteor Over Sutro Tower

[Photo: Sent to us by trophygeek]