Finding Mission District pupusas that take me back to my mother’s kitchen

Sep 15, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Restaurant Reviews

The sight of freshly cooked Pupusas warms my soul. I’m the child of Salvadoran parents, so pupusas were served for every occasion. Breakfast, lunch, dinner—pupusas are an all-day kind of food. Mexicans and Hondurans make pupusas too, but El Salvador is credited with creating the beloved disk-like treat.

A day at La Pulgita, the Mission’s free outdoor street market

Sep 14, 2019 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter

La Pulgita is a city sanctioned outdoor market place where vendors can come on Saturdays to sell their goods.

Mural of police shooting victim Amilcar Perez-Lopez blessed at ceremony

Aug 27, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Police Shootings

The day marked the four and a half anniversary of the night that the 20 year-old Lopez, an immigrant from Guatemala, was killed by the San Francisco Police Department.

Zaytoon Mediterranean restaurant to set sail from Mission after 10 years

Aug 23, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics, Valencia Street

Owner Christopher Totah said a combination of a staffing shortage and a rent increase caused him to rethink staying.

People We Meet: No place like Dolores Park

Aug 21, 2019 | People We Meet

Nithya Sambasivan slid her bow gently across the strings of her violin before looking up. “I’m here chilling in the park, playing music,” she said with a smile on her face.

Building inspector tears into owner of illegally razed Florida Street home at hearing

Aug 20, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Building owner Matthew Miller, who owns a Florida Street home that was last year partially demolished without any notice to the neighbors — or city permits to do so — was put in the hot seat at a Department of Building Inspection hearing Tuesday morning.

People We Meet: Speaking through music

Aug 18, 2019 | People We Meet

The Argentine native Gustavo sat on a concrete bench, banging on his drum in Dolores Park with gusto.

“I cannot speak English [very well], but I can communicate with music,” he said as he played an afro-Caribbean style of drumming that he learned at the Community Music Center on 21st and Capp St.

Gustavo, who moved to San Francisco in 2000 and currently cleans houses and lives with a friend in Bernal Heights, said this style of was new to him and part of the neighborhood’s past.