The celebration starts at 6 p.m. and goes to closing.
2327 Mission Street.
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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I notice that they are calling this “St. Patrick’s at Chachacha/McCarthy’s”.
So for one day a year they acknowledge the origins of this bar as McCarthy’s.
Back in the day, say 1999, this was a real Irish bar and every night was Paddy’s night. There was a woman who used to sing requests – where is she now?
Yeah, we’ve all made serious scratch and all, but sometimes I miss the old Mission.