Carlos Santana, a graduate of Mission High School, and Cesar Chavez, who visited the Mission during different protests, hang side by side at the Smithsonian Gallery of American Art

It’s 7 a.m, 44° and headed to 65°. Details for the next ten days are here. They will be good ones.

And so the end of the year and best of lists begin: Here’s one from The Wire on the best charts. My favorite is the visualization of the age of every building in New York. Your’s?

Bike lovers who want to purify the air as they ride? Here’s the bike for you from Grist.

And, who’s a good girl? We Built This City has the answer. 

Today’s Possibilities

12 p.m. – Winter music celebration and the Community Music Center.

5 p.m. to 9 p.m. – Pop Up Vintage Holiday Sale at the Knockout

5 p.m. – Small Press Traffic at ATA.

A listing of what’s happening in the neighborhood’s bars can be found here at SF Weekly.

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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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