Geneva (Switzerland)

Kid Koala Has Turned His DJ Concert Into a Vaudeville Show

Eric San is best known as Kid Koala, an adorable DJ, producer, and author who hails from Montreal and is signed to the Ninja Tune label. He renders himself even cuter by turning the idea of what a mixmaster can do on its ear. While many DJs are pretty boring to watch, Kid Koala has the staggering te ... More >>

Two Men Shot in Ingleside, One Critically Injured

Police had a rude awakening in the Ingleside neighborhood this morning where there were two separate shootings, just a few miles apart from each other.At 4:15 a.m., a 50-year-old Hispanic male was waiting at the bus stop at Geneva and Cayuga avenues when he was approached by two African-American mal ... More >>

Bomb Squad Investigates Shady Package; Streets Closed, Muni, BART Slowed

San Francisco police are warning drivers to avoid the area near Geneva and San Jose avenues, where a suspicious package was found on the sidewalk late this afternoon.According to Sgt. Michael Andraychak, the bomb squad was called to the intersection at about 2:50 p.m., and is currently on the scene ... More >>

Number 22: Pupusas at Cafe and Restaurant Montecristo

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Just a few streets down from McLaren Park, on a stretch of Geneva that takes you from San Francisco to Daly City and then Brisbane in a matter of blocks, is Cafe and Restaurant Montecristo, whose exterior is draped in ... More >>

San Francisco's 10 Best Sandwiches

​Given the care that San Francisco cooks lavish on the humblest of vegetables, it's no surprise that sandwich-making in this town qualifies as an artisanal pursuit. Even journeyman makers hunt down the perfect bread for their masterpieces and whisk together small-batch mayonnaise. In fact, we're s ... More >>

Number 38: Broken Record's Crawfish Grits

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​On New Year's Eve of 1973, the Allman Brothers put on a legendary, marathon show at the Cow Palace. Nearly four decades later, up Geneva at The Broken Record, Georgian Shane LaValley creates something just as unapologe ... More >>

DJ Toph One: Benefits to be Held for Cyclist Hurt in Hit-and-Run

​While San Francisco's Christopher Evans, better known as DJ Toph One, remains in the intensive care unit with a broken pelvis, the community has already come to his side, arranging benefits to help the popular DJ who was hit by a car over the weekend. Friends have created a Facebook page, where ... More >>

DJ Toph One: Drink and Dance to Help Hit-And-Run-Injured Christopher Evans

Christopher Evans, aka DJ Toph One​This past Sunday, San Francisco DJ and cyclist Christopher Evans, best known as DJ Toph One, was struck by a car while riding his bike at the corner of Ocean and Geneva in the Ingleside neighorhood. The car sped off -- nearby firefighters saw the crash but di ... More >>

Cyclist Seriously Hurt in Hit-and-Run Accident

​Police are asking for the public's help in finding the driver who struck a cyclist in the Ingleside neighborhood Sunday morning before speeding off. According to police, the cyclist was hit shortly after midnight on Sunday as the victim was pedaling on Geneva and Ocean avenues. The driver left th ... More >>

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With Stefano Restaurant, Guatemalan Pizza Becomes a New Anti-Fusion Meme in San Francisco

Little Did You Know: Guatemalan Pizza Is Now a Thing

​ For years, I've driven by Naples Pizzarella on Geneva, which has a banner proclaiming "Guatemalan Food," and promised myself to come back one day. Then last month I was walking by Stefano Restaurant, a neighborhood pizza-pasta place in Bernal Heights that never seemed to have enough customers, ... More >>

Five Shocking Claims About Bill Graham From Rock Promoter Barry Fey's New Memoir, Backstage Past

In the late '60s, Barry Fey became of one of America's biggest rock music promoters. He says he was the first to book Led Zeppelin in this country, and claims to have sold more concert tickets than any other independent promoter in history. The Denver-based Fey is out of the live music game now, but ... More >>

Gun Violence Continues: Man Shot in Ingleside District

More gun violence​A 18-year-old man is in critical condition after he was shot yesterday morning while driving through the Ingleside neighborhood. Police say the victim and another man were driving along San Jose and Geneva avenues at about 11:17 a.m. yesterday when two men in another vehicle drov ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Snow Ice in Sunset, Tortas for Two

Muni Driver Cusses Out Passenger, Shuts Train Door on Him

supernivek/FlickrTell us how you really feel ... about Muni ​We all love to hate Muni. In fact, we spend more time lamenting the city's troubled transit agency than we do waiting for the next delayed train to arrive. And apparently this lack of love goes both ways. Police were called to the Muni s ... More >>

Muslim Photographer Surveils His Own Life in a Post-9/11 World

Cattle Stampede Planned for San Francisco Streets Tonight

Stop! You're violating the city charter! ​Here's the difference between Daly City and San Francisco: In the former, they'll have cows on the streets. Here we have people who think they're cows. Actually, tonight San Francisco will have cows trotting through its city streets as well. In order to co ... More >>

Brazen Diaper Theft on Bus

''ll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash ya got...'​In the closest we've seen to the signature scene from Raising Arizona being recreated on Muni, a woman reported to police she was forcibly robbed of a package of diapers. The incident, which took place at Geneva and Santos -- a stone's thro ... More >>

Off the Grid, Urban Wine Experience, Street-Food Birthday: Your Weekend Planner

John BirdsallFriday: Happy Dumpling cheers up Fort Mason Center.​Can you believe it's almost August? Before summer advances into downed foliage and the sun starts setting before the end of happy hour, there's no better weekend to head out and enjoy yourself. Fri., July 30: • Feeling a littl ... More >>

Cow Palace Farmers' Market Starts Quietly

Urban Village The Cow Palace Farmers' Market takes place Saturdays through mid-October.​What would happen if there was a farmers' market and nobody showed up? That's sort of what happened last Saturday, when a first-ever market debuted at the Cow Palace, with just about zero fanfare. Organize ... More >>

Fresh Eats: SFoodie recommends fried chicken, tortas, and pre-Prohibition beer

Is That's It's Torta Cubana Really the World's Largest?

​This sign has been taunting SFoodie for months, and not just because the adjective doesn't accord with the noun it modifies. We've been feeling the pull of the Mexican-style Cuban sandwich, which is The Thing of cubanos, exposed to cosmic rays while out on a routine space expedition and mutated b ... More >>

Bicyclist 1, Car 0

​It was nearly 9 p.m. last night when a douchebag on a bicycle decided he wanted to make a right turn. He was at the intersection of Alemany and Geneva streets, which cars also frequent. On this night, a car happened to be blocking the exact turn that the douchebag on two wheels wanted to make. Ra ... More >>

Baby Thugs Accused of Pilfering Muni Driver's Jacket and Transfers

  Driver-passenger relations aren't always so chummy.   Muni drivers have image problems these days, so it seems a stretch that anybody would actually want to dress up like one. Yet, the Excelsior baby thugs who steal Muni jackets struck again  ... More >>

From Russia With Diamonds

In 1995, Golden ADA Inc., a San Francisco diamond-importing firm, collapsed, unveiling an international trail of theft and betrayal that embarrassed San Francisco luminaries involved with the company. Now, newly unsealed court files show that high-level m

The Art of the Steal

Harcourts Gallery was at the center of S.F.'s serious art scene for decades. Now, with serious money missing, the gallery's at the center of a criminal investigation.