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Schmidt’s, our neighborhood restaurant at Folsom and 20th Street recently opened up for dinner and got quite a write up here on Bay Area Bites. Murat’s been trying to get Mission Loc@l there for dinner, but so far no luck. He too repeats, rabbit, rabbit.

We must try it, but it’s already a favorite for lunch even without the rabbit. Sadly, however, now that it’s open for dinner, they’re closed on Mondays.

What is it about Zeitgeist, which turned up a lot in a totally random survey, about what Mission Residents like to do with their time?

Some at ML have a new favorite: Margaritas at the Latin American Club on 22nd Street just east of Valencia. It must be the size of those drinks and the fact that no one bothers you when you bring in food from elsewhere to nosh on.

Okay, since we’re on a food/drink riff, SF Appeal says residents here love Fernet, an Italian bitter. Mission Mission second’s that. We must try, but the gang at ML seem really happy with Lillet. (Ed: some of us are still also happy with cheap beer and straight bourbon.)

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Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019 when I retired. 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 there.

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.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how you make that long-held interest in local news sustainable. The answer continues to elude me.

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