The old pet store at 696 Valencia Street will soon reopen as Freemans Sporting Club, a clothing store for men and a barber shop.
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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It blows me away how the hipster trends from Brooklyn migrate over to the Mission with such speed. Pick any stupid trend in SF and I guarantee you it originated in Brooklyn, with a NY Times article about it a good 6 months before it hits here…
We just our love our little trends don’t we. I must now have a men’s babarbshop to get a shave with the little shaving cream brush and a mustachier (mustache specialist to oil and trim my mustache)…. stuffwhitepeoplelike.com must be just going over nuts over this one!
Hahaha! I love it. We are totally absurd…