Dennis Kernohan, a reader and a photographer, sent in this photo of an earlier mural at the Revolution Cafe.
In the piece, Drama at 22nd and Bartlett, where Sirron Norris talks about painting over a mural of an American Indian chief, Norris said he remembers there being an earlier mural on the northeast facade of Revolution Cafe . He called it a “tight -ass revolution scene” by CUBA, a spray-can muralist. This is it.
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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