OK, so it can’t be entirely secret if we’ve found out about it — but it sounds pretty amazing regardless.
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Here’s a roundup of a few Lower Haight news stories that didn’t quite make it to the front page this week.
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Based on the great response to our post yesterday about Two Jacks, we’re wondering what other businesses out there we should be profiling.
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Yesterday, a commenter on our Facebook page tipped us to a possible murder near Haight and Buena Vista Park:
You wouldn’t happen to know what happened this morning on the Buena Vista East and Haight steps of Buena Vista park? There was a dead body with yellow plastic over it, a bunch of police and a medical examiner. It was around 10-11am
Today, we’ve learned that there was in fact a murder in the park yesterday.
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For Nikki Cooper, it’s all about positivity.
Her restaurant, Two Jack’s, sits on the corner of Haight and Webster, which is about as far eastward as businesses get in this neighborhood.
As such, Two Jack’s doesn’t get the foot traffic that more centrally-located Haight Street eateries enjoy. And it’s at an intersection that, while safer than it used to be, still grapples with issues of drugs and crime — an atmosphere that doesn’t exactly attract new diners.
But Nikki is undaunted. With Two Jack’s, she’s determined to transcend the troubles of the neighborhood by creating a place where folks of all races, backgrounds, and lifestyles can come in, enjoy some comfort food, and stay for a while. She’s also striving to set a positive example for local African American youths, showing them that with hard work and the support of family and neighbors, a better life is possible.
And oh yeah– she’s serving up crazy amazing, insanely affordable southern-style food, too.
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Pop geography quiz!
What do you call the area just east of the Lower Haight and slightly south of Hayes Valley? You know — between, say, Buchanan and Market St? Do you call that area anything? Do you want to?
Well, the good folks at The Bold Italic do. They’re calling it Mint Slope, since it kinda/sorta slopes away from the U.S. Mint. And in honor of this newly-dubbed “microhood,” they’re throwing a block party of sorts tonight from 6-9pm.
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Yesterday, around 7:20am, a 25-year-old Stanford astrophysics student named Keith Bechtol crossed the 20-mile marker of the San Francisco Marathon, jogging his way into the Lower Haight. Bechtol would go on to win the race, setting a new course record. By the time he passed through our neighborhood, with only 6 miles to go, he must have sensed the victory was within reach.
Sadly, I was still asleep when that happened. So you’ll have to settle for these awful photos I took about three hours later.
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The Tenderloin Geographic Society posts this photo of a sign in the window of Madusalon on Divisadero, describing a recent robbery.
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