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It’s 7 a.m., 50° and going to 65°. Details are here.
If you wondered whether La Lengua existed, Burrito Justice points out that it’s now official, at least according to the Internet.
You know who does meat ice cream? The Mission’s very own Humphry Slocombe, SF Eater says.
With five months of cancer treatment ahead of her, Martha from Estudio Martita writes, “It’s jewelry time — enough already — let’s get back to work.”
Enjoy the sun, lc
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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