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Lydia Chávez
It’s 7:25 a.m., 46° and headed to 57°. Rain is expected by 2 p.m. Let’s see how accurate that is. Details for the next 10 days are here.
SF Weekly has an interesting interview with French Street artist Blek le Rat, a Banksy rival.
Eater SF has news of Hapa Ramen at Bar Tartine and more cooking classes at La Cocina.
It wasn’t in our territory this time, but since it generally is, here’s a tale from Muni Diaries on an iPhone theft gone wrong.
Stay dry, 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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