People We Meet: The rents are exceedingly high

Oct 13, 2019 | People We Meet

Loading up his car on with fresh cases of food picked up on Shotwell Street, Marcos Medina was...

Cheers! El Rio patrons drink to its survival after nonprofit buys Mission Street building.

Oct 12, 2019 | Business, Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

El Rio, the Mission’s celebrated LGBTQ dive bar, is nearing its 41st birthday — and on Wednesday,...

Neighborhood Notes: El Rio celebrates 41 years in the Mission and Day of the Dead galleries

Oct 11, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Voss Gallery Loves You Voss Gallery at 3344 24th St. opens “P.S. I Love You,” a solo...

Slice of life: The Barberhood is a full-service shop replete with complimentary ganja, beer and massages

Oct 10, 2019 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

At Barberhood, you can get smoked out before you get your hair faded Working late into the...

Ascend Body training studio closes, owner blames high rents and ‘thin margins’

Oct 9, 2019 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

A three-page notice posted to the front door at 2415 Mission St. and, signed by Ascend’s owner Shane Young, said the business had experienced “several significant financial hardships.”

People We Meet: Finding our way in the new Bay Area

Oct 9, 2019 | People We Meet

Walking home from work on a recent Wednesday evening, America Whitten was lost in thought....

People We Meet: Keeping in shape

Oct 6, 2019 | People We Meet

Out on the southwestern corner of Franklin Square Park, Terrence Lee stretched and vaulted himself...

Neighborhood Notes: ‘Dolores’ film screening, MAPP heads to Jardin Secreto and a bake sale for Planned Parenthood

Oct 4, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Though there are a slew of events all over the city for Hispanic Heritage month, the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library will be hosting a free viewing of Dolores on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 3 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium. Dolores, a 2017 film by director and San Francisco native Peter Bratt, tells the story of activist Dolores Huerta. It originally aired on PBS.

Indoor cannabis cultivation business green-lit for Duboce warehouse

Oct 3, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

A new indoor cannabis cultivation business is slated to come to the Mission, opening across the street from Zeitgeist and SoMa West Skatepark at the site of a former aquarium shop. The project, located at 49 Duboce Ave., features 3,600 square feet for indoor growing across two floors of an industrial warehouse, and was approved at Thursday’s Planning Commission hearing.

People We Meet: We came here to work

Oct 2, 2019 | People We Meet

Juan Jimenez generally works five days a week as a butcher at Casa Guadalupe at 2999 24th St. But...

Three cannabis businesses proposals in the Mission set for hearings in October

Oct 2, 2019 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Two more aspiring Mission cannabis outfits are heading before the Planning Commission this week, with a third slated to appear later this month.

Eight former St. Luke’s patients have died since unit was transferred — supes grill Sutter Health

Sep 27, 2019 | Mobile

Safai said that, during a recent visit to the facility, he saw a white board marked with red X’s next to the names of patients who had died. Safai said he had been taken aback by the experience, and grilled Macksood about it.

“It seemed like a countdown. I was stunned by it. Is that a practice you normally have in your facilities?” Safai said.