Visitacion Valley

Bonds' Steroids Satire Prompts Laughs, Snarls: New Stories Published

Man Dies Protecting Daughter From Gunfire Midday on New Year's Eve

Will black neighborhoods in S.F. support the gay marriage ban — again?

Not for Sale by Owner

Visitacion Valley might have its dream transit village in a few years, if only Ingersoll-Rand will get out of the way

Separate and Unequal

Hidden in the city's special day classes, like the roots of San Francisco's segregation itself, are disproportionately high numbers of African-American and Latino kids.

Acting Mayor

Summer's sylvan satire

Letters to the Editor

Week of December 17, 2003

It's a Twang Thang

Week of December 17, 2003

Letters to the Editor

Week of March 6, 2002

Letters to the Editor

Letters from November 22, 2000

Riff Raff

Might We Suggest Hype! II: Electric Boogaloo? and Listing Toward San Francisco

Honky-Tonk Angles

Western swing musician Johnny Dilks plays scholar to California's country music past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

Hear This

Western swing musician Johnny Dilks plays scholar to California's country music past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

The House of Tudor

Western swing musician Johnny Dilks plays scholar to California's country music past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

The House of Tudor

Western swing musician Johnny Dilks plays scholar to California's country music past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

The House of Tudor

Western swing musician Johnny Dilks plays scholar to California's country music past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

Bus to Nowhere

Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

The House of Tudor

Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

Letters

Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

Cleaning Slates

Superintendent Bill Rojas is pushing a simple solution for troubled schools: Get rid of everybody.

More Lotto Scams Take San Franciscans

We've written in the last week about two different convoluted lotto scams going down on the San Francisco streets. Well, they also come by phone, in a variation on the Nigerian scam.A victim in Visitacion Valley was contacted on her landline and told she'd just won the lottery. The only thing betwee ... More >>

Hitch In Cops vs. Community Softball Game: Community Doesn't Show Up

A long-publicized softball game between members of the San Francisco Police Department's Ingleside Station and members of the Visitacion Valley community struck us as a fun idea -- but one that could have unintended consequences. After all, you have folks start taking on the armed authority figures ... More >>

S.F. doesn't abide by its own translation requirements

A long-publicized softball game between members of the San Francisco Police Department's Ingleside Station and members of the Visitacion Valley community struck us as a fun idea -- but one that could have unintended consequences. After all, you have folks start taking on the armed authority figures ... More >>

Cops Who Shot and Killed Cleaver-Wielding Man in Visitacion Valley to be Nominated for Medal of Valor

​A group of San Francisco police officers who last weekend gunned down an apparently deranged man wielding a meat cleaver are to be nominated for a medal of valor by their station commander.SFPD Captain David Lazar, who heads the Ingleside station, said in his most recent newsletter that he plans ... More >>

The Meter Is Running: Municipal Transportation Agency Outlines Plan to Extend Parking Meter Hours -- Which Could Raise $9M for City

​Earlier today, the Municipal Transportation Agency unveiled the results of a study regarding its tentative plan to extend parking meter hours to weekday evenings and on Sunday. There's no shortage of details -- reporters were even handed a city map with "pink" and "teal" parking zones -- but whet ... More >>

Frantic Nude Man Flags Down Cops

Send help...​Everyone's mother warned them to wear clean underwear in case you suffered an accident and hospital workers were forced to strip your clothes off. Even at five years old, most kids know you've got bigger things to worry about if you're sans pantalones in the hospital -- but it's a dec ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Nicky B. of Gemini and Go BANG!

​Regardless of whether you over-indulged on turkey day, there's a place this weekend to work it off while you work it out. The city's beloved disco inferno, Go BANG! is celebrating one year of championing the diversity of sound and style in "70's/80's New York/Chicago/San Francisco nightlife." Hel ... More >>

Man, Shot in Head By Alleged Thieves, Clings to Life

View Larger MapA man shot in the head by alleged thieves he apparently interrupted while burglarizing his car in Visitacion Valley is fighting for his life this morning, despite the severity of his wounds. The victim, whose name has not yet been released by police, walked outside at around 4:40 Mond ... More >>

Every Young Husband's Nightmare Acted Out in Viz Valley

​Ideally, when you stare into your new bride's eyes, you may not be thinking it but you will be feeling it: I love thee, I love but thee; with a love that shall not die; till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old. That's Shakespeare. He was good. You never think that things will go so badly yo ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

They compared me to what?​Stabbing! Suing! Slashing Services! That's the week it was, here's the quiz it is. 1. What did kids discover Tuesday in a sandbox at the Visitacion Valley Playground? A. A bag containing 14 pounds of marijuanaB. Gavin NewsomC. A loaded gunD. Nothing -- someone had stolen ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Everybody's Doing the Eric Mar Dance of Futility

  Monday, Jan. 11   10:30 a.m. - City Operations and Neighborhood Services committee   There is so little going on at this meeting that physicists have yet to quantify an amount this small.  1 p.m. - Land use & Economic Development Committee When local small business ... More >>

Reality TV Contestant Jamal Trulove Found Guilty of Murder

Jamal Trulove, who enjoyed a brief bout of celebrity as an unsuccessful contestant on the VH1 reality TV show I Love New York 2 in 2007, was found guilty of first-degree murder in San Francisco Superior Court this afternoon.Jamal Trulove, a.k.a. 'Milliown'​Trulove, known on the show as "Milliown," ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz -- With 'Hot Tub Time Machine' Prize!

What do you say to someone after you've shot them for no reason? See question No. 3.​Boy howdy, do we have a prize for you this week! Get us a perfect score first and you win your choice of a Hot Tub Time Machine backpack, or the über-1980s soundtrack to the forthcoming film. You want it? Get eve ... More >>

A Lack of Conviction

As D.A. Kamala Harris campaigns to be attorney general, her success rate in felony trials has dropped below that of any big-city prosecutor in California.

Teacher Accused Of Lewd Acts Is A Hit With Students Online

Accused of doing more than teaching music...​A Visitacion Valley Middle School music teacher is accused of being the teacher from hell for three students whom prosecutors allege he touched and invited over to his residence. But in cyberspace, kids love him. On ratemyteachers.com, Terry Braye is cu ... More >>

Mystery Feces Spur Police Call

Help! Police! ​Sooner or later every cop has to take that call. You think about it when you button up the uniform in the morning and when you shut off the light at night. But it's inevitable. And, yesterday, it came for the Ingleside Station: The dreaded feces-related vandalism report. At 8:30 a.m ... More >>

Gang Injunction Includes Three Men Acquitted Murders This Year

Forty-one more men are now forbidden from flashing gang signs​Three men acquitted of first-degree murder charges earlier this year aren't out of the legal spotlight. Emon Brown, Joc Wilson, and Floyd Jackson are among the 41 alleged gang members listed in the gang injunction that City Attorney Den ... More >>

Woman in Pajamas Slaps Muni Bus Driver

Put on some goddamn clothes, Doris! ​One of the cultural eccentricities of Shanghai -- and one that hardly fits with its current sleek, modern image -- is a propensity for older people to walk around in pajamas, at any hour of the day. San Franciscans don't have the excuse of longstanding traditio ... More >>

Marlene Tran's success shows strength of Asian voters

Put on some goddamn clothes, Doris! ​One of the cultural eccentricities of Shanghai -- and one that hardly fits with its current sleek, modern image -- is a propensity for older people to walk around in pajamas, at any hour of the day. San Franciscans don't have the excuse of longstanding traditio ... More >>

Branch Libraries Host Free Gingerbread Parties

davecobb/FlickrThings can get gory.​It's not till you're older, with a 420-fueled freakout over that late-night session with Chucky under your belt, that things like gingerbread men can seem sinister. When you're a kid gingerbread men are charming ― something you can verify by watching the l ... More >>

Juice Thieves Walk Among Us

Can't buy me love ... but can steal me juice​Taking candy from a baby is still a crime in San Francisco -- and, the way things are going, soon giving candy to a baby will be actionable here as well. But stealing healthful beverages from children is definitely against the law. And kitchen staff at ... More >>

Man Tries to Buy Item With 'Play' Money

This is not green​We knew the economy was depressing, but not bad enough to steal toy money.Police are looking for a man who ripped off a local retailer when he stole play money from the store -- and then tried to use it to buy something. At about 11 a.m. on Tuesday, the man came into a shop on th ... More >>

S.F. Man Beats Up Guy for Dating His Mother

Don't go there, guys​It's never a great idea to date your friend's mother, if anything because you might end up as his father. One San Francisco man tried to put an end to that possibility when he started a fight with his mother's new boyfriend. Police were cruising through Visitacion Valley on Tu ... More >>

U-Visa: Illegal Immigrants Become Legal Residents Via Crime Victimization

Don't go there, guys​It's never a great idea to date your friend's mother, if anything because you might end up as his father. One San Francisco man tried to put an end to that possibility when he started a fight with his mother's new boyfriend. Police were cruising through Visitacion Valley on Tu ... More >>

Asian Boom: Demographic Map Reveals Growth in Southeast S.F.

​Last week, SF Weekly wrote about how the Asian-American ascendancy in San Francisco politics is reflected in demographic trends revealed by the latest census -- specifically, a growing proportion of Asians in the city.The above map gives us a quick but detailed snapshot of that change. Incorporat ... More >>

Illegal Immigrants: More Hate Crime Victims Could Get Visas

​Last November, three white males attacked two Mexicans in the Tenderloin neighborhood. Those men are now facing felony assault and hate crime charges -- a relatively unreported case that District Attorney George Gascón will detail today. If there is a silver lining to this alleged hate crime, it ... More >>

Michelle Obama Makes a Deal with Walgreens

Michelle Obama proves that the White House is not in a food desert.​ According to the Obama Foodorama blog, Michelle Obama announced at a press conference yesterday that Walgreens, Walmart, and SuperValue, as well as several regional grocers, have agreed to open 1,500 stores in regions designated ... More >>

Teen Shot to Death in Visitacion Valley; Homicide No. 31

Homicide in Visitaction Valley ​An 18-year-old man was shot to death while standing on the sidewalk in Visitacion Valley, police said. The man -- who has not yet been identified -- was standing at the 200 block of Rey Street at about 10 p.m. when two men approached him and fired several shots befo ... More >>

Terry Braye, "Creepy" Teacher Banished from School District, in Concert

​In this week's cover story, we write about the fascinating case of the banished San Francisco music teacher, Terry Braye, who built a guitar rock program at Visitacion Valley Middle School from scratch. Last May, he was ousted from his job following allegations that he'd had inappropriate contact ... More >>

Terry Braye, Teacher Exiled From School District for 'Creepy' Behavior, Defends Himself on Camera

Today we published a cover story on Terry Braye, the once-praised music teacher at Visitacion Valley Middle School who was banished from the San Francisco school district following allegations that he'd had inappropriate contact with female students. In this on-camera interview, Braye plays us ... More >>