http://missionlocal.org News From San Francisco's Mission District Fri, 24 May 2013 22:00:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://missionlocal.org/2013/05/mission-artist-releases-wacky-art-app-to-customize-photos/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/05/mission-artist-releases-wacky-art-app-to-customize-photos/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 14:00:32 +0000 Claudia Escobar http://missionlocal.org/?p=233141 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 their personal photographs. The new version includes even more of what he calls “my wacky, wacky art” — including fonts, faces and designs — to decorate photos. Watch our video to learn more about the man...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/05/mission-artist-releases-wacky-art-app-to-customize-photos/feed/ 0 http://missionlocal.org/2013/05/emigre-entrepreneur-makes-beauty-her-mission/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/05/emigre-entrepreneur-makes-beauty-her-mission/#comments Sat, 04 May 2013 14:00:11 +0000 Alicia Avila http://missionlocal.org/?p=232151 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. After receiving a license in cosmetology, Nguyen teamed up with a colleague to open a beauty school in Oakland. Despite her success, Nguyen felt that her heart was in San Francisco. In 2005, Nguyen decided it...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/05/emigre-entrepreneur-makes-beauty-her-mission/feed/ 2 http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/the-man-behind-basa-seafood-express/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/the-man-behind-basa-seafood-express/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:45:52 +0000 Claudia Escobar http://missionlocal.org/?p=231880 Scott Lie emigrated to the United States from Vietnam 30 years ago. He landed in Dallas, where he worked in the seafood business. A decade later he moved to the Bay Area. Lie worked for several years at Sun Fat Seafood Co., a seafood market on Mission Street. In 2009 he opened his own business, a restaurant called Basa Seafood Express, at 3064 24th St. Basa sells fresh seafood retail...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/the-man-behind-basa-seafood-express/feed/ 5 http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/vivi-alterations-from-veracruz-to-mission-street/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/vivi-alterations-from-veracruz-to-mission-street/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:00:10 +0000 Claudia Escobar http://missionlocal.org/?p=230680 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, several old sewing machines, and pants, shirts and jackets of all shapes, styles and textures. Juarez moved to San Francisco from Mexico in 2003 and opened her own business three years ago. This video is...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/vivi-alterations-from-veracruz-to-mission-street/feed/ 0 http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/my-mission-nick-jones-puppeteer/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/my-mission-nick-jones-puppeteer/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:15:31 +0000 Alicia Avila http://missionlocal.org/?p=230933 Every Sunday, just before 11 a.m., a slender man with jet-black hair hauls plastic bins, a speaker, white PVC pipes, black cloth and a couple of cardboard signs to the northeastern corner of the 24th Street BART plaza and unpacks. Nick Jones, 35, transforms this BART stop into a puppet stage. Jones performs all over San Francisco and decided to put on a show in his own neighborhood in October...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/my-mission-nick-jones-puppeteer/feed/ 0 http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/learning-to-fence-in-the-heart-of-the-mission/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/learning-to-fence-in-the-heart-of-the-mission/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:45:47 +0000 Alicia Avila http://missionlocal.org/?p=230180 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 his fencing career as a teenager. At 50, he now has over 30 years of experience coaching students at all levels, from beginners to the 2004 U.S. Olympic Fencing team. Penderson says the Bay Area...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/learning-to-fence-in-the-heart-of-the-mission/feed/ 0 http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/dig-in-at-pica-pica-venezuelan-cuisine-in-the-mission/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/dig-in-at-pica-pica-venezuelan-cuisine-in-the-mission/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:45:51 +0000 Claudia Escobar http://missionlocal.org/?p=229295 Adriana Lopez moved to the Mission District from Venezuela nine years ago. In 2010, she opened Pica Pica Maize Kitchen, a Venezuelan arepas restaurant at Valencia and 15th streets. Lopez told Mission Local about the history of arepas, the South American version of tortillas or pupusas. Last week Pica Pica opened a second restaurant in the Castro and unveiled a new menu. This video is part of an ongoing series by Mission...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/dig-in-at-pica-pica-venezuelan-cuisine-in-the-mission/feed/ 4 http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/the-dating-files-a-unique-mission-date/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/the-dating-files-a-unique-mission-date/#comments Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:00:05 +0000 Andrea Valencia http://missionlocal.org/?p=229089 As part of Mission Local’s Dating Files series, we asked Missionites where in the neighborhood they would go for their ideal date.]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/the-dating-files-a-unique-mission-date/feed/ 2 http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/salvadorian-chef-tells-the-story-of-her-mission-market-restaurant/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/salvadorian-chef-tells-the-story-of-her-mission-market-restaurant/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:45:38 +0000 Claudia Escobar http://missionlocal.org/?p=228599 Inside the Mission Market Food Mall is a small restaurant that customers say will transport you to El Salvador with its authentic cuisine. The restaurant’s master chef and owner, Aminta Calderon, migrated to San Francisco from El Salvador 12 years ago. She has been cooking and selling Salvadoran food ever since, and opened Antojitos Salvadoreños (2590 Mission St.) in 2006. This video is one in an ongoing series by Mission Local videographer...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/salvadorian-chef-tells-the-story-of-her-mission-market-restaurant/feed/ 0 http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/national-pi-day-at-mission-high-school/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/national-pi-day-at-mission-high-school/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:45:10 +0000 Claudia Escobar http://missionlocal.org/?p=228363 One way to get students excited about learning math is to create a holiday for one of the discipline’s most iconic numbers: pi, or 3.14. March 14 was National Pi Day, and Ann Lyon’s ninth-grade math class at Mission High School celebrated with pi-centric poems, pie eating, jewelry-making and recitations of the seemingly infinite number. Pi is a staple of many geometric formulas. When multiplied by the radius of a circle...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/national-pi-day-at-mission-high-school/feed/ 0