It’s 7:30 a.m., 59° going to the mid-70s, and I swear those were raindrops on the deck this morning.

As you check the health department’s scores for restaurants in your zip code here, consider the piece by the NYT.

Hold on, no link yet. New York recently started requiring restaurants to post scores where diners can view them, and a Times reporter invited an inspector over to rate his kitchen. Rigo, how would your kitchen fare?

Tonight’s the Mission Arts and Performance Project night — free art, dance and scene at how many venues? Well, here’s the thing about MAPP: It never posts the venues until the day of, and often late.

Pick up a schedule at the Red Poppy on Folsom and 23rd. It starts around 6 and goes to midnight.

Huh? What’s MAPP? Read this. Or watch this.

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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.

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