You can gripe about a new dot-com boom, but the last store here — X21 Modern, one of my favorite to browse in — was also ridiculously (or maybe fairly if you know your antiques) expensive. This one is supposed to open sometime in October.
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 and an 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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I met the owner last week who tells me it’s the extension of the kid’s store south of there and across the street, Aldea.
Thank god it’s not another restaurant.
Who, what, where, and all that. I’ll keep an eye open for it.