We were very excited to find out that we won a Webby award! And with only a couple of days to go until our photo show, we hope you can come down to 24th Street and Bryant and celebrate with us as we check out photos of Mission Loc@l photographers at L’s Caffe.

Today is also Cinco de Mayo. Considering that this day commemorates the victory of Mexico over the French army, as you can imagine, there isn’t much celebrating going on in France. Nonetheless this French person would like to wish you a great Cinco de Mayo! SFist tells us that there will be some partying at the Elbo Room tonight. La Colectiva and Manicato will be playing at 9 p.m.

Care Not Cash recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. In an article, Randy Shaw, editor of Beyond Chron and director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic takes us back to the beginnings of the program.  And Tyche Hendricks at the Chronicle takes us through some of the history of the Mission murals.

And because we just can’t stay away from food too long, here’s our editor’s food review of the week: The Corner, a recent addition to the Weird Fish family.

We started off with pieces of focaccia bread with pine nuts. The bread came with a very good fresh pesto dish. We then ordered a great bottle of Côtes du Rhône to go with several dishes to share including the citrus salad with mission arugula and pomegranate syrup complete with big slices of oranges, and sweet sugar snap peas with lemon crème fraîche.

The Corner uses ingredients grown at Amyitis Gardens in the Mission and any veggie lover will be able to tell the difference. We absolutely loved the mission kale gratin with creamy chai spiced béchamel. The béchamel was light and had a touch of nutmeg which we like… a lot. The kale was cooked just right and the bread crumbs on top were just the icing on the cake. The veggie and meat pizza weren’t as popular at our table. We found the focaccia bread a little too thick and wished the slices would have been served hot enough for the mozarella to completely melt. However, the sweet caramelized onions and slices of beef were great toppings.

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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/executive 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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