Google Pins: II
By STEFANIA ROUSSELLE The Google pins that hurtled to earth last week, gaining 800 pounds along the way, will mark the favorite spots of Google trendsetters for only three weeks, according to the...
View ArticleAna Teresa Fernandez: Art on Valencia
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VIGNETTES: Carlos’s Bar
An occasional series on immigrant life in the Mission District. By STEFFANIA ROUSSELLE
View ArticlePeña del Sur Turns 16
Friday July 31st, the Peña del Sur celebrates it’s 16th anniversary at Florida Street Cafe. Alfonso Maya from Mexico will join local artists MamaCoAtl, Alfredo Gomez, Jesus Magana, Francisco Ferrer and...
View ArticleMission Streetscape Workshop
By STEFANIA ROUSSELLE Some 30 Mission District residents attended a Wednesday night meeting at the Women’s Building to give feedback on about twenty projects to improve the Mission District...
View ArticleLeaving the Gang: Tattoo Goes First
By STEFANIA ROUSSELLE This time last year, the murder rate was just heating up, but as the SF Chronicle reported today, it’s slowed to zero and seems like a good time to rerun a piece on how young men...
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Hundreds Get Free Care at the Armory
On Wednesday doctors and dentists from the Seventh-Day Adventist Church treated patients for free at the Armory. The volunteers will continue to offer free treatment today. We talked to some of the...
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May Day Protest Marches Down Mission to 16th
UPDATE 7:18 p.m. The entrance to BART is still closed on the southwest side. UPDATE 7:12 p.m. There are still a lot of police on the scene. Protesters have started to sit down on the BART station...
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24th Street Businesses Talk About Business
Much has been said about the newcomers on 24th Street and in the Mission District. As part of our effort to chronicle the changes, we decided to go out and have some conversations with those doing...
View ArticleMichael Jackson: Gone Too Soon
Mission Loc@l reporters talked to residents and shop owners about their favorite Jackson moments. Click for the Movie michaeljackson
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The Dyke March Started Here
Huge, Hot gathering today at Dolores Park for Gay Pride weekend. By STEFANIA ROUSSELLE & LOLA CHAVEZ
View ArticleMisako Inaoka, Competitor for Art on Valencia
On June 13th, Mission Loc@l announced — even before the winners knew!— the three finalists chosen to present a proposal for the public art project to go along with the Valencia Street improvements....
View ArticleBrian Goggin: Valencia Streetscape Project
BY STEFANIA ROUSSELLE Brian Goggin, the final artist chosen to compete for the Valencia Streetscape art project, has already created numerous public art works. “Language of the Birds” is in North...
View ArticleMission Eyes: Artillery Gallery
By AMANDA MARTINEZ and STEFANIA ROUSSELLE With help from his parents, Ivan Lopez, who attended the Pratt Institute in New York but grew up in the Mission District, opened Artillery Apparel Gallery at...
View ArticleMichael Arcega, Competitor for Art on Valencia
BY STEFANIA ROUSSELLE Michael Arcega, who is known for his humor and work on immigration, is one of four artists the city chose to compete for the Valencia Street public art project. The first...
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Google Art? or Google Gorilla?
Did you notice those giant structures in front of Foreign Cinema or Tartine Bakery? They are about 50 inches high, and have a big black concrete base stuck with a large, upside down drop. Alice Waters'...
View ArticleMission Eyes: Bicycle Film Festival
Mission Eyes brings you to the Bicycle Film Festival, an event that pays homage to all styles of bikes and biking. BY AMANDA MARTINEZ AND STEFANIA ROUSSELLE
View ArticleN.Y. Artist Plays All @ CELLspace
BY KIMBERLY CHUA AND RIGOBERTO HERNANDEZ Mud wrestling, craft shows and a roller disco costume party are business as usual at CELLspace, but on Saturday the art venue did something out of the...
View ArticleForeign Cinema Celebrates 16, Supports News
After 16 years of serving fine wines and elegant dinners in the Mission, Foreign Cinema celebrated another milestone last night and was generous enough to share a portion of the proceeds with Mission...
View ArticleActivists Hold Vigil For Police Shooting Victims
Activists, community members, clergy members, and family and loved ones of people shot by police gathered in front of San Francisco’s Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street yesterday afternoon to...
View ArticleMission Eyes: 10th Annual Sake Day
Mission Local visited the Armory on Saturday to take part in Sake Day, a sort of Oktoberfest for the Japanese rice wine. Sake aficionado and sommelier Beau Timken is the event’s mastermind, as well as...
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Shop local disrupted: Valencia Cyclery
We talked to Paul Olszewski, 64, owner and general manger of Valencia Cyclery in the Mission since June 1, 1985, about his business and it didn’t take long for the topic of the internet’s impact to...
View ArticleThe Strawberry Vendors, Part 2
"We are all human," said one legal vendor. "Hunger hits us all." En Español
View ArticleThe 11 a.m. Sunday Mass
Juan Pablo Duran, 9 years old Juan was on his way with is mother home from the 11 a.m. mass at St. Peter’s. After mass, his mom bought him cotton candy. “My favorite color is blue.” More People We Meet!
View ArticleThe Kids Could Not Believe It
Frank Lara, teacher. “The week after Trump got elected, we organized a march against hate here at our school. Families came. It was something like 700 people. “One of the conversation with the kids...
View ArticleNew Dandelion Chocolate factory set to open on 16th Street
Dandelion Chocolate ceremonially opened its new chocolate factory on 16th and Harrison streets Thursday, inviting hundreds of guests revel in its grandeur and (literally) bittersweet tastes and aromas....
View ArticleVero Majano remembers Los Siete
In 1969, seven Central American young men were accused of killing a white police officer in San Francisco’s Mission District. Latino youth organized to free “Los Siete” and a movement flourished. To...
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Mission People: Kurt Scott says panhandling gives him a daily fix of humanity
You know him. You have seen him on Valencia and 16th streets, calling out, “Spare change, spare change!” Read More
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