Potrero Hill News

Turkey Bowl a San Francisco football tradition Sam Whiting, Chronicle Staff Writer When Jack Scramaglia's extended family was living along 11th Avenue in San Francisco, they knew exactly what to do on Thanksgiving mornings.

Public officials held an open house celebration in San Francisco yesterday to announce the opening of a local census office in the city's Potrero Hill neighborhood.

Plenty of openings this week: ~PINKIE'S BAKERY~, a wholesale operation from Cheryl Burr as of yesterday has a new retail storefront, right next to Pizza Nostra at the base of Potrero Hill.

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Changes are afoot in the Chez Papa empire. Head honcho Jocelyn Bulow , whose holdings include Chez Mama and Pizza Nostra , has sold his share in San Francisco's Chez Papa Resto to his investors.

Weekly highlights from the most interesting Chowhound posts on the San Francisco Bay Area board, including restaurant and bar reviews, best-of lists, and hidden local spots for eating and drinking.

Mission Bay Drive, the short, stubby road connecting Seventh and Berry streets across the Caltrain tracks, opened on Oct.

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A sampling of the costumes on offer during this weekend's San Francisco Opera Costume Shop sale.

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'The one who does not suffer does not live' by Carlos Castro , oil on canvas, video SF ARTS COMMISSION GALLERY: Recipients of the 2009 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts will showcase their recent works in Immediate Future, the SFAC Gallery's biggest event of the year.

Two men are recovering this morning after being shot in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood.

For reasons yet undisclosed, a car somehow jumped the curb last night on Potrero Street between 23rd and 24th Street around 11 p.m. One neighbor who was returning home from work after the after the accident occurred said that it "looked like every cop in San Francisco was there." The footage above was captured by a nearby resident.

San Francisco: It's always fun to watch pro football players being shoved into the pool to be rescued by bikini-clad lifeguards.

Avi Brosh cuts a wide swath in the hipster enclaves of Los Angeles, where he has catered to actors and film industry workers with some 20 housing and hotel developments.

The toques are being passed at three high-profile San Francisco restaurants. At the Cliff House , four-star chef George Morrone , who was brought on in December as a consultant to bump up the food at Sutro's , has left.

SUPEREGO I had absolutely no idea that there was a hysterical '90s gay dance hits mashup scene! This was just one of the many, many worlds that opened up for me as Hunky Beau and I girded our burgeoning loins and embarked one recent Saturday on a whirlwind Castro bar crawl.

AT a recent dinner party at Project One, an art gallery and D.J. lounge in the Potrero Hill design district here, guests were instructed to bring an organic dish to share, along with their own plates.

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