Neighborhood Notes: HOMEY returns, activist bus ads, Brava sneak peek
HOMEY is returning to the Mission! After spending years tucked away in the upstairs space of a building in SoMa, the originally Mission-based nonprofit Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower...
Beloved grocer, namesake of Gus’s Market, killed in hit-and-run
A 57-year-old grocer who brought a strong sense of community to his markets was killed by a driver in the Bayview Friday morning, leaving his family, staff, and customers to...
Life of Mission mentor in the making cut short by...
The death of Abel Enrique Esquivel Jr. more than a month ago has the 23-year-old’s current and former mentors reeling from the loss of a young man on a trajectory...
SF Fix-It team can beautify a park, but prostitution resistant...
Jose Coronado Playground at 21st and Shotwell streets will soon be getting new trees, signage, and resurfaced athletic courts, but the prostitutes, johns and pimps that neighbors have long complained...
SFPD Officer arrested, charged with filing false police report
An Internal Affairs investigation has led to the arrest of an SFPD officer, Joel Babbs, according to a police statement. The probe was examining a June 2017 report of an...
City to assist with and pay for DACA renewals this...
When federal officials announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly known as DACA, they did leave room for some limited renewals for eligible recipients. This...
Shimmering sculpture invites San Franciscans to “DREAM”
Drivers coming into San Francisco where the 101 and 280 freeways merge have been greeted for the past few days by shimmering 12-foot-tall letters spelling out the word, “DREAM.” “You’re...
Cannabus brings weed on wheels to Valencia Street
Think food truck, but for cannabis. That’s the concept behind the CannaBus you may have seen parked on Valencia and 19th streets Tuesday. Cannabus launched just a week ago, and...
Residents wonder at second hearing on Tasers whether they will...
There were those who came with questions, those who came to lecture and those with prepared notes that they held between their trembling hands as they spoke. Some 80 residents...
SNAP: A good question
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SF musician removes York street trees — and faces nearly...
The owner of a house on York and 25th streets where trees were removed in the days leading up to Sunday’s Fiesta De Las Américas block party will be fined...
Asian American family honored for standing by Black Lives Matter
Covering the Police is an effort to look more closely at how police work in the Mission and elsewhere in the city. It is a collaboration with U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School...
Tasers in SF: The view from North Beach and Russian...
Covering the Police is an effort to look more closely at how police work in the Mission and elsewhere in the city. It is a collaboration with U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School...
Mission Style: Friday casual meets the unexpected
It was a chill Friday in The Mission when we gathered interviews for this edition of Mission Style. The fashionistas who caught our eye this week wore casual looks, but...
Rash of crimes, including homicide, strike SF Mission over the...
Homicide A 52-year-old man died from multiple stab wounds at around 1:53 a.m. on Saturday morning at Hampshire and Alameda streets, police report. The San Francisco Medical Examiner identified the...
Developer’s “I am not a Monster” ad blitz makes few...
Maximus Real Estate has poured $363K and counting into a “grassroots” effort to push the so-called “Monster in the Mission” proposal. San Francisco is a city in which a man...
Latin Rock rocks at Mission District fiesta
Four stages with music and entertainment took over the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District on Sunday from 11 p.m. to 5 p.m. featuring rock as well as traditional Mexican music...