It was 30 years ago today: Trapped on the Bay Bridge during the Loma Prieta quake

Oct 17, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter

Oct. 17, 1989 — I had just felt what it was like to be clothes tumble-drying in the old Kenmore....

Artists ready themselves for open studios — a chance to gain more exposure

Oct 16, 2019 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

This year’s San Francisco Open Studios is set to kick off in the Mission District on the weekend...

Workers at Mission Neighborhood Health Center say clinic not paying them enough — and hit the streets

Oct 15, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Workers at Mission Neighborhood Health Center, a non-profit organization that provides health care services to low-income patients, hit the streets today. They, very publicly, demonstrated for higher wages and changes at their worksites — but say that the center’s management is refusing to address their concerns.

Dueling mental health reform plans emerge, as workers and patients claim victory at Behavioral Health Center

Oct 15, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Political brawl between mayor’s ‘UrgentCareSF’ ballot measure and Supervisors Hillary...

Compromise reached to save Adult Residential Facility, which mayor and Health Department had moved to gut

Oct 14, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The 55-bed Adult Residential Facility — which had been willfully kept largely empty for months,...

Restaurant Review: Great Gold – what’s in a name?

Oct 14, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Chef/co-owner Brandon Kirksey told me that “Great Gold,” the name of his newly rewired restaurant...

California’s cunning plan to bankrupt local pharmacies and keep drugs from AIDS patients

Oct 13, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

People’s lives will be ruined and the back-end costs will soar. And places like Mission Wellness will struggle to stay in business, which is also a net loss for the community.

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,...

Distillations: Barrel Proof is an odd hybrid, with dozens of TVs … and super high-end cocktails. And it works. Sorta.

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

“Hey,” I said, before he went to make it. “So, I’m trying to figure this place out, and here’s the story I’m telling myself about it. This bar was founded by two guys, business partners, and one of them wanted to own a sports bar that would show all the other sports bars up, and the other guy wanted a chill-but-hip whiskey cocktail lounge. And instead of not making a bar together they just each did what they wanted to do, and this is the result.”

The bartender thought about it. “I like that story,” he finally said.

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...

Suzy Loftus’ appointment as DA 24 hours before voting commenced was a crass political flex

Oct 7, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Mayor London Breed’s announcement that she would gift her preferred DA candidate, Suzy Loftus, the...

Otis the pug is stolen. Otis the pug is found. A homeless man refuses the $15K reward. And then things get weird.

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

Video footage points to inside job in theft of Otis the pug, a dog with 25K Instagram followers...

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.