It would be lovely to see Jaina Davis’s house, but you can also look at the photos on SF Gate.
It was an inheritance windfall in her late 20s that allowed Davis to purchase a lot with not one but two freestanding houses. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, she couldn’t resist the urge to let her imaginative cohorts draw all over the walls, so she created a Shangri-La for artists. Every room was a canvas to be claimed. SEE MORE
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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