Noe Valley News

Weekends are for amateurs. Weeknights are for pros. That's why each week Stuart Schuffman will be exploring a different San Francisco bar, giving you the lowdown on how and where to do your weeknight right.

Jake Heggie was new to the neighborhood and not yet a world-famous composer when he discovered the Noe Valley Chamber Music series, in a church hall a few blocks from his Castro Street home.

On the opposite side of the master suite is a room illuminated by sunlight that looks toward the Golden Gate Bridge.

But the small group of Noe Valleyans trooping up the 800 block of Douglass Street one drizzly afternoon last month was not studying the neat rows of Victorians and Edwardians.

In this month's book list offered by Noe Valley librarians Susan Higgins and Catherine Starr, you will find a posthumous novel by singer Woody Guthrie, the Nolo guide to maximizing retirement, and a treasury of songs selected by actress Julie Andrews and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton.

"You don't have to give up one aspect of your life to have the other. I don't have to be just a mom or just a good consultant." "It's challenging, especially during the teenager years, to be both mom and dad.

Promising Authors: As part of this year's WordWeek festivities, kids from three Noe Valley schools read their stories and accepted their prizes at a March 17 event at the Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Library.

"Therefore, regardless of what law is enacted, marriage remains the union of one man and one woman - by the very design of nature, it cannot be otherwise." Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Anti-Gay Catholic Leader, Decries Rhode Island's Marriage Equality As 'Injustice' [ HuffPo ] "The Journal focuses on developing knowledge of pornographies past ... (more)

Residents in the Noe Valley neighborhood are being evacuated this afternoon after police detained a man and then called the bomb squad to the area, a police spokesman said.

You want to see something frightening on a lovely afternoon? Check out this amazing interactive map of Ellis Act evictions in San Francisco put together by Brian Whitty.

This must be a first -- in the first quarter of 2013 Noe Valley surpassed Pacific Heights in luxury home sales.

"Work on Phase II of the Cesar Chavez sewer upgrade streetscape improvement project began last month and like the sewer work will move east to west." Update: Cesar Chavez Streetscape Improvements [ Noe Valley ] "The fleet has long faced criticism for abuse and waste, a fact seen as a blemish on San Francisco's environmentally conscious image.

SIXTIES TOUR I had the good fortune to come of age in the most vibrant city in America during its counter-cultural apex.

And now, for some late-breaking news: The City Attorney's Office and the Mina Group have officially come to an agreement regarding surcharges imposed in response to San Francisco's Healthy SF ordinance, and the Mina Group will pay over $80K to past employees.