Update: Person fatally struck by BART train at 24th and Mission station; station now reopened

Sep 12, 2019 | BART, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

A BART train fatally struck a person at the 24th and Mission station at around 6:30 p.m. Thursday,...

Mission People: Kurt Scott says panhandling gives him a daily fix of humanity

Sep 11, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Video

You know him. You have seen him on Valencia and 16th streets, calling out, “Spare change, spare change!”

Dueling events in Mission Bay fail to move transit passengers to 16th Street BART

Sep 11, 2019 | BART, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Despite dueling events Tuesday at Oracle Park and the newly minted Chase Center, the increase in passengers to the 16th Street BART Station wasn’t the expected tsunami of bodies, but more of a trickle that resembled any busy day.

Two family-owned businesses arrive in the Mission: District Tea and Eterna Primavera

Sep 11, 2019 | 24th Street, Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Topics

Two family-owned businesses owned by first-generation immigrants opened this summer in the Mission District – District Tea, a Boba tea shop on Mission Street and Eterna Primavera, a Guatemalan bakery in the spot on 24th Street that was once occupied by Dominguez Bakery.

SFPD wants to better respond to racially motivated calls to police. It’s not so easy.

Sep 11, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Chief Bill Scott has now specifically requested changes to how his officers respond to racially biased police calls.

Anne Kihagi, San Francisco’s ‘cruelest landlord,’ is sued by her longtime attorney

Sep 9, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

In bizarre twist, lawyer Karen Uchiyama now simultaneously suing and defending Kihagi LLC Anne...

Muni red lanes on 16th Street would hurt us, some businesses say

Sep 9, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Transportation, Valencia Street

Nearly a dozen businesses along 16th Street said that the addition of transit-only “red carpet” lanes along the two-mile stretch between Church and Mission Bay will lead to increased congestion, drive customers away and make it difficult to accept deliveries.

The laundromat is a modern-day river. Its patrons are today’s village.

Sep 9, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

How a laundromat became a community hub in the Mission It’s Tuesday morning at Planet Clean...

Video: Mexican artist makes his mark on Valencia street art wall

Sep 8, 2019 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, Video

Cova tries something elaborate on the ephemeral art wall.

AL’s Deli: Mash-Up or Mish-Mash?

Sep 7, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

AL’s Deli is the offspring of AL’s Place – yes, that AL’s Place, the one voted Best New Restaurant...

Neighborhood Notes: 25 years of Women’s Building mural, ‘Maestrapeace’

Sep 6, 2019 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Mission’s biggest mural, the Maestrapeace that covers the Women’s Building at 3543 18th St. Now the seven artists who created the mural are releasing a book.

Documentary captures the ‘Twitter tax break’ years in Mid-Market

Sep 6, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

How did the Twitter tax break change mid-Market? A new documentary reveals: it’s...

Report: Officers who shot Amilcar Perez-Lopez acted within policy and were not disciplined

Sep 5, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

The two San Francisco Police officers who fatally shot 21-year-old Guatemalan immigrant Amilcar Perez-Lopez in the Mission District in February 2015 acted within department policy, according to a report released Wednesday. They were not disciplined for the incident.

Despite fears of an end to the Mission art scene, an influx of galleries indicates a boom

Sep 5, 2019 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Despite fears that rent hikes and the influx of the younger tech community would push out artists and diminish their core audience, galleries in the Mission and lower Potrero are popping up at a pace not seen for years.

Art spaces now number 37 compared to 27 in 2017 when Mission Local last did a count.

Stabbing at 15th and Valencia leaves man in critical condition

Sep 4, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics, Trouble

A man was transported to the hospital in life-threatening condition after he was stabbed at 15th and Valencia streets around 10 p.m. Tuesday night.

Supervisors spar over solutions to SF General’s mental health bed fiasco

Sep 4, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday condemned the Department of Public Health’s decision to repurpose 41 permanent mental health beds at San Francisco General Hospital into temporary beds for the city’s mentally ill homeless population.

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