Today's Mission

TODAY’S MISSION: 02.27.09

by Lydia Chávez February 27, 2009, 10:24 pmSeptember 28, 2020, 11:32 pm

For those of us who weren’t philanthropic enough to throw down for tickets to see “Voices of a People’s History of the United States”, Mission Mission makes us jealous and fills us in on what went down at Mission High when Howard Zinn, Benjamin Bratt, Josh Brolin, and other thinking celebs were in the house Thursday night. Fortunately, we’ll all get to watch the performative version of Zinn’s seminal A People’s History of the United States when it comes out as a film, The People Speak.

Speaking of empty pockets, Youth Outlook (YO!), via New American Media, offers a helpful “guide to dining on the cheap” in San Francisco. Words of wisdom to remember: Find a girl who’ll pay for the drive-thru.

For pretty images and conceptual mapping, check this Streetsblog post about digital mapping of a neighborhood’s walkability. We’re not entirely sure what it means, but the Mission scores a 96 of an excellent 100 points on the walkability scale—No. 5 in San Francisco.

Lydia Chávez

lydia.chavez@missionlocal.com

Founder/Executive Editor. 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.

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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