Today’s Mission

Walgreens on 16th Street BART Plaza shutting down after Christmas

Dec 6, 2019 | BART, Business, Featured, Front Page, Inequality, Jobs, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The Walgreens at 1979 Mission St., next to the 16th Street BART Station, will close its doors for...

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Fire damage closes Bernal Cutlery and Mission Bicycle

Dec 6, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mission Fire, Mobile, Today's Mission, Topics

Bernal Cutlery, Mission Bicycle and other tenants at 766 Valencia St., near 19th Street,  are...

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Cannabis lounge wins approval, set to open at Mission and 16th

Dec 6, 2019 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

With cheers, hugs and smiles, a team of city natives celebrated on Thursday evening as the...

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Fried Chicken showdown visits the Popeyes apocalypse

Dec 6, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Julian, 30-something, and Mark, 70-something, are on a journey to find the Mission’s best fried...

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Planning Commissioner Dennis Richards decries Department of Building Inspection as ‘a cancer on this city’ in contentious hearing

Dec 5, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Prior to Wednesday night’s lengthy hearing before the city’s Board of Appeals, Planning...

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SFPD investigating bizarre hit-and-run on 15th and Valencia — man dragged by truck is hit by car

Dec 4, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Valencia Street

In a troubling Tuesday rush-hour incident, a man being dragged by a speeding truck collided with...

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Picketing Outer Mission nursing home workers threaten strike, bemoaning low wages and benefits

Dec 3, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Update Dec. 4: Strike vote complete. See below.   More than a dozen employees from the San...

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Good news, everybody: Mission Local to be a ‘Report for America’ newsroom — come work for us

Dec 2, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Mission Local, this here website you’re reading, prefers to write stories, not be the story. But...

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‘The Grid,’ a new tool to connect artists and technology stakeholders, set to be unveiled at Gray Area on Wednesday

Dec 2, 2019 | Art, Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Technology, Today's Mission, Topics

A new initiative to map out and analyze the intersections of art and technology in the Bay Area is...

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Mission native’s short film ‘Static’ set to get city debut at Another Hole in the Head film festival

Dec 2, 2019 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Topics

Dustin Pearson likes to say that the Mission helped him become who he is today. One of the friends...

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In search of lost time: One woman’s quest to read all of Proust — out loud, in French, in subway stations

Dec 2, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure …  Swann’s Way, the first installment of Marcel...

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Neighborhood notes: Holiday mercado, Xmas concerts and more

Nov 29, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Holiday Mercado 2019  For three Saturdays in a row, Galeria de la Raza will hold its Holiday...

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Distillations: The Latin American Club may be the Mission’s best ‘chill bar’

Nov 29, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Topics

The bartender at the Latin American Club was in the process of making a long line of nearly 10...

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Fresh: The Thanksgiving Leftovers Party

Nov 29, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, Today's Mission

The setting: a posh apartment in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The cast: Twenty well-appointed New...

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Planning Commissioner Dennis Richards accuses Department of Building Inspection of conspiracy, quid-pro-quo offer

Nov 27, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

In an explosive legal filing, planning commissioner Dennis Richards alleges that a conspiracy...

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Here are the Mission District bars that’ll be open on Thanksgiving

Nov 27, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Let’s say your holiday is not going great — or maybe it’s going really great — and you’re in the...

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