August 07, 2025

🟧 Camping-Themed Cafe Opens // Huge Mural Underway

Plus: Sexual battery suspect sought by City College police.


In this week’s newsletter, we detail the soft-opening of Ingleside's new cafe. Plus:

Mural Transforms Huge Wall
Police Seek Sexual Battery Suspect
Charm Coffee's Cynthia Fresnoza
The Listing, Things To Do and Worth Reading

On to the news.

Homegrown Coffee Chain Opens Fourth Location In Ingleside

Man.

headshot of person By Anne Marie Kristoff

Outfitted with a camping-themed interior, the new cafe offers a range of house-made drinks and pastries. Read more »

New Mural Transforms Huge Alemany Boulevard Wall

Mural on wall.

headshot of person By Anne Marie Kristoff

Members of the community came together to beautify a drab 200-foot retaining wall and staircase. Read more »

City College Police Seek Suspect In Sexual Battery Of Student

Grainy photo of a man.

head shot of writer By Alex Mullaney

The suspect drove the wrong way on a one-way street to park and then ran to a student walking on Frida Kahlo Way, whom he then groped. Read more »

Charm Coffee's Cynthia Fresnoza Serves Good Vibes and Great Drinks

Barista.

headshot of person By Anne Marie Kristoff

The 24-year-old Outer Mission native left corporate coffee for the independent Ingleside cafe earlier this year. Read more »

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Balboa Reservoir Project Work Schedule And Meetings Announced

By Alex Mullaney • Read more »

Man Viciously Stabbed On Ingleside's Ocean Avenue Dies

By Alex Mullaney • Read more »

Q&A: Jerry Day Organizers On Bringing The Biggest Event Yet

By Anne Marie Kristoff Read more »

Walk The Block Lakeview Highlights Black Culture, Resilience

By Anthony Myers • Read more »

Retro Spec Night Revs Up Cold Summer With Golden Era Cars

By John R. Adkins • Read more »

THE LISTING

Pictures of a home.
19 Farallones St.

Built in 1907, this two-bedroom, one-bath home features an updated kitchen with stainless steel appliances, an updated bathroom, a new furnace and a back deck. It’s a five-minute walk to Minnie & Lovie Ward Recreational Center and a two-minute walk to the M-Ocean View light rail. View The Listing »

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THINGS TO DO

🌿 Walking Tour of Edible Plants Activity at Hawk Creek Farm | Thuesday, 4 – 5 p.m. | Free | Mission Terrace

🎤 Manifest Chorus Performance at Ocean Ale House | Friday, 7 – 10 p.m. | Free | Ingleside

⛑️ Hands-Only CPR and AED Training with Via Heart Project at Lakeside Landing | Saturday, noon – 1 p.m. | Free with RSVP | Lakeside Village

💃 Pistahan Festival at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts | Sunday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Free | South of Market

⚕️ SF County’s Safe Medication Disposal Services at West Portal Branch Library | Monday, 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Free | West Portal

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WORTH READING

  • Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia has childhood street named for him in San Francisco Associated Press
  • SF’s Speed Cameras a Good First Step, but Bittersweet for Families of Speeding Victims KQED
  • San Francisco contractors learning new skills as city moves toward net-zero emissions CBS Bay Area
  • Why Apple has sued San Francisco’s newest movie theater San Francisco Chronicle (Metered Paywall)
  • Raid of illegal San Francisco nightclub tied to FBI probe KTVU
  • A ‘public medicine chest’ grows by I-280 Mission Local
  • New offices, stores fuel optimism in Union Square San Francisco Examiner
  • Homegrown coffee chain Philz to be taken over by private equity firm San Francisco Standard (Metered Paywall)
  • SF Sunset District poised for new night market in September after previous event's cancellation ABC7

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