Portland’s Food Carts Thrive, While SF’s Languish
Can San Francisco learn a thing or two from Portland, a city with a food cart scene that has flourished since the early 1990s? Ever...
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Abarrotería La Plaza Pide Zona de Estacionamiento
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Posted
¿Podrá ser que una zona de estacionamiento de diez minutos mejore la base de clientes que tiene? Pedro Rojas, el nuevo gerente de Delicateses La...
Major Fire on Mission Between 22nd and 23rd Streets
By Andrea Valencia, Daniel Hirsch, Laura Wenus, Leslie Nguyen-Okwu and Cristiano Valli Posted
First filed at 1:13 p.m., updated at 5:30 p.m. Firefighters battling a five-alarm fire on Mission between 22nd and 23rd Streets that broke out at 1:05...
Photos and Video from the 5-Alarm Fire
By Andrea Valencia, Cristiano Valli, Laura Wenus, Leslie Nguyen-Okwu and Daniel Hirsch Posted
Video of the fire at around 2:17 p.m. Patrick Sean Gibson, resident from Mission Local on Vimeo. Resident Patrick Sean Gibson, who lives on 119 Bartlett. His...
Burning Man Leaves (Some) Room at the Table
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Posted
The so-called “Burning Man exodus” that occurs every year when some 70,000 people gather in the Nevada desert has meant more tourists and families at the...
Reflecting On The Mission
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Posted
Reflections abound on Mission and Valencia Streets.
Mass Birthday Party Today at Dolores Park
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Posted
Ankit Shah’s birthday party is coming up — and he wants everyone in San Francisco to celebrate with him. On Saturday, August 30 from 1...
8th Annual Mission Pie Baking Contest This Saturday
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Posted
Hankering for some homemade pie? This Saturday, Mission Pie will hold its annual pie baking contest from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at its bakery on 2901...
La Conservación de las Voces Latinas de San Francisco
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Posted
Si los urbanistas de San Francisco hubieran sabido más sobre el alguna vez próspero barrio latino de North Beach cerca de la iglesia Guadalupe, hubieran...
La Plaza Groceries Asks City for a 10-Minute Parking Zone
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Posted
Will a 10-minute parking zone help improve his customer base? Pedro Rojas, the new manager at Delicateses La Plaza on Folsom is hoping for a...
Preserving San Francisco’s Latino Voices
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Posted
If San Francisco city planners had known more about the former thriving North Beach Latino neighborhood near Guadalupe Church, they would have done more to minimize...
Google to Teacher: We Can’t Help You With Eviction
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu and Laura Wenus Posted
Google’s Public Policy Manager Leslie Miller recently told Claudia Tirado, a teacher and one of six tenants being evicted by Google lawyer Jack Halprin, that there was...
Protesters March Against Speculation
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Posted
On Saturday, nearly 100 people took to the streets in support of Proposition G, a proposed anti-speculation real estate tax on short-term flips of multi-unit...
Alex Nieto March—Why People Joined It
By Joe Rivano Barros, Leslie Nguyen-Okwu and Lydia Chavez Posted
Some 200 supporters of Alex Nieto, a 28-year-old Bernal man who police shot to death on March 21, gathered today on Bernal Hill to march...
Un Nuevo Propósito para la Plaza McCoppin
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Posted
Shaping San Francisco es un proyecto de historia de participación comunitaria que creó una galería al aire libre el pasado domingo por la tarde para...