“I never rode a bike before,” said Indira Urrutia, a Mission-based artist who pedaled over 15,000 miles from Alaska to Patagonia over the course of four years. During her trip from 2008 to 2012, Urrutia and her partner, photographer Marc...
Mission Local reporter Rigoberto Hernandez has been a pedicab operator for Golden Gate Pedicab for the past three years. Jordan Polythress came to San Francisco from North Carolina a few months ago for his dream...
Annie Jupiter-Jones sat on the floor in an auditorium inside John O’Connell High School, legs outstretched, as she shook her arms back and forth. Little kids around a circle followed Jupiter-Jones’ lead, laughing as they...
Mission-based artist Patrick Sean Gibson this week co-released an updated version of the mobile application Brain Snap. Created in collaboration with the iPhone app producer 99centbrains, the app allows users to apply Gibson’s original artwork to...
Former PC World editor and passionate mini golfer Steve Fox hopes to bring a former mortuary building back to life as Urban Putt, a combined indoor mini golf course, restaurant and bar. The building at...
Vivi Alterations occupies a small space inside the Mission Market Food Mall at 22nd and Mission streets. There, Vivi Hernandez Juarez attends to customers and alters clothing under a fluorescent light, surrounded by colorful threads,...
About half of all crime in San Francisco is now smartphone-related, according to the police department. The Mission is no exception to the increasing prevalence of phone theft. San Francisco police are urging phone users...
The Golden Gate Fencing Center first opened its doors in the Mission in 1997. Since then it has produced several national competitors and two Olympic coaches. Mike Penderson, a co-founder and head junior coach, started...
