Author: J.J. Barrow

Artists, Residents Sculpt Gentrification as They See It

Jun 8, 2015 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Photography, Today's Mission

The Mission’s housing crisis was on center stage at the Red Poppy Art House on Saturday evening,...

Read More

At 30, SF Gallery Looks Back on Changing Valencia

May 29, 2015 | Art, Business, Events, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Valencia Street

Servio Gómez remembers when renting a 1,000-square-foot space on Valencia cost about $700 a month....

Read More

SF Mission Youth See Their Future (and Rent) in Tech

May 27, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Technology, Today's Mission

Four millennials huddled at workstations, bent on solving the mysteries of malfunctioning...

Read More

With Doc, Mission Residents Go Inside High School In Jail

May 14, 2015 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

Four years after approaching the subject, filmmakers Annelise Wunderlich and Richard O’Connell...

Read More

Residents Meet Proposed Medical Neighbors and Say, Move Elsewhere

May 12, 2015 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Today's Mission, Valencia Street

The appropriateness of Sutter Health’s plan to open an affiliate medical center on the corner of...

Read More

The Line: Housing Costs Put Retirement in Question

Apr 29, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

This is our third in a series examining who’s in line at Valencia Street’s Social...

Read More

La Policía Disparó al Joven de 20 Años por la Espalda, Dicen los Abogados

Apr 28, 2015 | En Español, Mobile

Los abogados de Amilcar Pérez-López dijeron, en una demanda civil federal presentada el viernes,...

Read More

Lawyers Say Police Shot 20-Year-Old in the Back

Apr 24, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Trouble

In a federal civil lawsuit filed Friday lawyers for Amilcar Pérez-López said they have an autopsy,...

Read More

Ellis Act Evictions Fall, Illegal Use Evictions Jump

Apr 20, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Today's Mission

A handful of activists and tenants stood on the blustery corner of Mission and Cesar Chavez...

Read More

Stolen Bike Wheel Brings Police Presence to Flea Market

Apr 16, 2015 | BART, Bikes, Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Transportation, Trouble

Items that shouldn’t be sold at Arriba Juntos Flea Market: food, booze, pornography, and stolen...

Read More

Changing Management Gives Public Housing Tenants New Hope

Apr 13, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Housing, Mobile, Today's Mission

Public housing in the city as we know it is coming to an end — that is, it will become largely...

Read More

Mother Seeks Justice and to Remain in a City that Claimed Her Son’s Life

Apr 4, 2015 | Bayview Station, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Trouble

At Parque Niños Unidos on 23rd and Treat Streets, Sala-Haquekyah Chandler delivered an impromptu...

Read More

Garfield Park Has a New Book Corner for Kids

Mar 25, 2015 | Front Page, Mobile, Parks, Today's Mission

About 40 kids visited the Youth Community Center at Garfield Square Park on Tuesday for the grand...

Read More

The Line: On Disability, Fearing Eviction

Mar 25, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Valencia Street

A view of the realities of city life from the line outside the Social Security Administration...

Read More

Police Shooting Anniversary Brings Community, Lowriders to the Streets

Mar 23, 2015 | 24th Street, Featured, Front Page, Mission Street, Mobile, Multimedia, Today's Mission, Video

On the first anniversary of Alejandro “Alex” Nieto’s death, more than a hundred people...

Read More

The Line: Seniors Here Struggle to Stay

Mar 12, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Valencia Street

A view of the realities of city life from the line outside the Social Security Administration...

Read More