Chino, the new place being constructed at 16th and Guerrero where Andalu used to exist, promises that they are on schedule to open in late April or early May.
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/executive 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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What about La Rondalla?
I always thought that La Rondalla was some kind of lard laden drug front.
It was…remember it got shot up? That place was no good at all
You went there for the cheapest margaritas in town. And not for the food or the hopelessly gaudy “ambience”.