Entries from SFist tagged with 'littlesaigon'
March 5, 2008
Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier sues City Hall over wheelchair ramplessness. [Curbed]Beth Spotswoodle [sic] hits up SFO's gay night. [SFGate]Valleywag 's happy hour watering hole, Moose's, comes to an end. Might we suggest the St. Regis or Ginger's Trois as a replacement? No? Okay. [Valleywag]In a staunch effort to remain dull, San Jose kills "Little Saigon." Again. [Mercury News]Gay celebrity babies outed. [The Sword]......
Continue Reading "Day Around the Bay"March 3, 2008
Reiser takes the stand. [SFGate]71 MIles goes to Tijuana, interviews pimp. [71Miles]XOXO, God Damn [Nature abhors a vacuum]Sweet Melissa has a request. [SM]Hilary Swank Horseface bandannas are adorable. [SFBG]Sea salt-glazed chocolate tile, anyone? [CHOW]The heat is on in Little Saigon. (Sorry, but you saw that coming.) [SJ Merc]......
Continue Reading "Day Around the Bay"February 8, 2008
Well, whaddya know. No sooner did we lavish praise upon the SF County Transportation Authority than Nat Ford, head of Muni, decided that he might be interested in committing a hostile takeover of the SFCTA... thereby making the TA as flawless as Muni. Good idea! If our agency was melting down, and there was another one making us look bad, we might want to buy it and run it into the ground, too! (That's......
Continue Reading "Giant Hulking Muni Takes a Terrifying Interest in Small, Innocent Transportation Authority"February 4, 2008
The 12th Annual Tết Festival Ceremony occurred yesterday all around Little Saigon in San Francisco...
Continue Reading "Have a Happy Year of the Rat -- Tết Festival in Little Saigon"October 12, 2007
According to this map we saw right near the Ferry Building, it looks like the borders are Taylor, Bush, O'Farrell, and Van Ness, shrinking the Official Tenderloin to a mere twenty-ish square blocks. But wait...isn't Larkin Street now Little Saigon? How'd we miss the official renaming of NoMa? Is it going to have an incestuous relationship with NoPa? Would the kids be heroin-addicted H&M shoppers feasting on rotisserie chicken? The mind reels.......
Continue Reading "What is this NoMa Neighborhood?"February 12, 2007
Yesterday morning, photographer Matt Cohen went to the Tet Festival in Little Saigon. The Tet Festival is a celebration of the Vietnamese New Year and is the biggest Vietnamese holiday. Happy Year of the Boar, everyone....
Continue Reading "SFist Goes to the Tet Festival"February 11, 2007
--The tap dancer at Powell and Market's hanging up his shoes. --Jerry Yang golfs with a 10 handicap. We have absolutely no idea what that means. Come back soon, SFist Jon! --Gay penguins in love. Awwwww. --Gavin Newsom's going to Japan for a week or so. SFist Jim notes that Gavin's cousin and indie rock star Joanna Newsom is going to be there at the exact same time. Family reunion, or mixup at the......
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