Anti-abortion activists outside Planned Parenthood’s Valencia Street clinic vowed to fight on Thursday despite initial approval this week by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors of an expanded 25-foot buffer zone around reproductive healthcare facilities...
By Stevanie Wazna-Blank Local online clothing company Betabrand will open its first storefront this weekend at 780 Valencia Street, previously 780 Cafe. The company’s headquarters have been at Cesar Chavez and Mission streets since 2010,...
Local author Michelle Tea’s new book, “Mermaid in Chelsea Creek,” will be released by McSweeney’s McMullens May 14. A film of her book “Valencia” (2000) will be released this summer. Tea founded an imprint of...
By Dan Hirsch A baile folklórico troupe in colorful costumes and traditional Mexican dress, dancers hanging from trees, a drum ensemble and a throng of spectators disrupted the usual brunch scene on 24th Street this...
Mission residents can anticipate seven more months of open trenches and orange vests as city agencies prepare to add one more street to the neighborhood’s growing portfolio of aging roads and sewers getting an overdue...
When Colleen Nguyen left her home in Vietnam 30 years ago, she landed in San Francisco. Fifteen years ago she began a career in cosmetology. “I like beauty because it makes people happy,” she explained....
Law enforcement officials reported that shortly after 2 a.m. on Thursday, police heard gunshots coming from a vehicle in the Mission. Officers located a victim at 19th and Mission streets who had a gunshot wound...
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan paid a visit Wednesday to 826 Valencia, the Mission-based writing nonprofit founded by educators and authors Níneve Calegari and Dave Eggers. “This is [like] coming home,” Duncan told the volunteers, teachers, parents...
