These Weeks in Noe Valley: La Lucha Launches, Rats Shut Down Walgreens, Getting Used to Living with COVID

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

• Living in a 70-square foot space in Noe Valley [Insider]
• Good morning, Noe Valley [@bats1234]
• La Lucha coffee shop on Sanchez is open [@SFjkdineen]
• Getting used to living with COVID: Interview with Noe Valley resident Bob Wachter, Chair of UCSF Dept of Medicine [Noe Valley Voice]
• Severe rat infestation temporarily closes Noe Valley Walgreens [SFGate]

[Photo: Simpler times on 24th Street via ardna65]

This Week in Noe Valley: Happy Halloween, Our Cool Library and a Stroller Spa Is Coming

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

• Cool: The Noe Valley library is one of the seven SF Carnegie libraries built 1901-1921 [@FromSF] 
• Get ready for costume cuteness: Sanchez Halloween Stroll on Sunday from 2-4 [Slow Sanchez]
• Sales at One Stop Party Shop on Church are booming [@SFChronicle]
• Noe Valley Pet Co and Maxwell's are hosting "Howl-O-Ween Pet Parade and Costume Contest" Sunday at 2pm [Bay Area Reporter]
• Noe Valley descends into self parody with the Stroller Spa [@twliterary]
• Nighttime on Slow Sanchez [@slowsanchez]

[Photo: Halloween via iamsabrina88]

This Week in Noe Valley: Noe Valley Eviction, Walgreens Closures - and Some Local Magic

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

• Walgreens closing 5 stores including one on Cesar Chavez – controversy ensues [SFGate]
• Throwback: Remember Steven Fowler? [Nicki Swift]
• Longtime SF housing activist now facing Noe Valley eviction [SF Chronicle]
• Artist pop-up at 3903 24th Street extended to Nov 15 [jamielovejoyart]
• The One Stop Party Shop is hopping [sarahromontoya]
• Candy colored house [elenaarielle]
• The Bell on Slow Sanchez goes next level for Halloween [@slowsanchezsf]

[Photo: Magical Noe Valley via lisawolfe.sf]

This Week in Noe Valley: Folio Books Changes Hands, Fleet Week and Halloween + Block Party Are Coming

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

• Oct NVV: Hate for the Diamond St apartments and love for Village Rotisserie [NVV]
• Folio books owner Paula Foley is retiring and handing over the reins to 3 passionate readers [Folio]
• How Video Wave, SF’s last video rental store, survives [SFExaminer]
• The Navy’s brass quintet in the Town Square [@TerryMcSweeney]
• A new Indonesian pop-up makes its debut at the Noe Valley Farmer's Market [Nusa]
• Cute: Halloween is coming [kimstragram_31]
• Next week: Block party on Sanchez at 26th on Oct 17 including art, music and more [Slow Sanchez]

[Photo: Fleet Week in Noe Valley via eyeofted]

These Weeks in Noe Valley: So Long BistroSF, Hello Cute New Uma Casa Parklet and (Soon!) La Lucha

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

• Uma Casa gets creative with a cool new parklet [@VerteAdelie]
• New coffee shop La Lucha at 29th and Sanchez is looking lit [@SFjkdineen]
• Opening date for La Lucha? “Next few weeks” [@DEEPRIPLEY]
• Yep, it’s decorative gourd season in the hood [chrispatil]
• The dogs of Sanchez [jeffwalksdogs]
• After a good run (and pandemic creativity) SF Bistro bows out [bistrosfgrill]
• Gallery of Jewels has been hit with theft 3 times in the pandemic [NBV Bay Area]
• Noe Valley resident and rock and roll journalist Ben Fong Torres reminisces [SF Chronicle Datebook]
• More frequency coming to the J Church [@jeffreytumlin]
• Fridays at 4:30 – Sanchez Cleanup & Happy Hour [@slowsanchezsf]

[Photo: Sunrise via patoviejo]

This Week in Noe Valley: Rotisserie Chicken Arrives and a Car Wrecks Gallery of Jewels Storefront

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

• Sanchez Slow Street permanently going slow! [@slowsanchezsf]
• Australian-style Village Rotisserie opens, then closes, and will reopen for real on Sept 14 [Eater]
• Gallery of Jewels storefront gets wrecked by a car [@shaketini]
• In addition to Wink, When Modern Was is taking over other half of Rabat [NVV]
• Bernie’s makes Eater’s Best Coffee Shops list [EaterSF]
• The season of beautiful sunsets [ithenightowl]
• Burning Man, Noe Valley style [@cathyaster]

[Photo: Heat relief via sanfranciscoworld]

These Weeks in Noe Valley: Popsicle Stories, Robotaxis and the Bay Area's Best Under-the-Radar Lunch Spot

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs as we all weather the coronavirus fallout - and now the tentative reopening.

• The popsicle was allegedly invented in Noe Valley? [SFGate]
• More about Birch & Rye, a new Russian restaurant headed for Noe [Thrillist]
• All those Waymo cars in the neighborhood? Here come the robotaxis [TechCrunch]
• Billingsgate adds custom poke bowls to the menu [Billingsgatesf]
• Noeteca at lunch: “the Bay Area's best under-the-radar space serving top-notch Brazilian food” [@SFChronicleFood]
• Coming to 24th St: Custom scent blending [@NoeValleySF]
• Where SF celebs get their burritos. Mysteriously Casa Mexicana makes the list [@LizHIVHep]
• Wink is moving into half the Rabat space [@NoeValleySF]
• Magic bus [mikekukreja]

[Photo: Hazy views of the Bay via urbanenvynyc]

These Weeks in Noe Valley: Just for Fun Sold, Duncan Slow Street Cancelled, Full Bar Coming to Uma Casa

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs as we all weather the coronavirus fallout - and now the tentative reopening.

• Robert and David have sold Just for Fun – planning to retire [@shaketini]
• Duncan slow street cancelled [NVSF]
• Full bar coming to Uma Casa [Tablehopper]
• The stunning Mayor’s Mansion at the top of Sanchez [3690 21st St]
• SFPD Arrest Noe Valley attempted armed robbery suspect [CBSlocal]
• Sob [@omnivorebooks]

[Photo: 24th at Chattanooga via sanfranciscoist]