All hail Mr. Ed and Captain Kirk. Today is the last day to view art honoring the television at Creativity Explored on 16th Street. The exhibit, “TV and Me,” features art that pays homage to TV greats as well as the simple pleasure of watching the tube.

Last night the Chronicle sent out emails announcing the launch of it’s new “e-edition.” What’s the difference between the “e-dition” and a website, you might ask? We tried the “e-preview” and, at first glance it seems to resemble a PDF version of the print edition but with added interactivity (though we couldn’t access those in the preview version). SFist points out that the Examiner has had one for some time.

Tomorrow ‘La Mission’ debutes at the San Francisco International Film Festival, so check back for reviews hot off the reels of that film and others.

Happy Earth Day! It’s a day celebrate the end of a brief spring summer, returning fur to the animals and deforestation.

I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.

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