SF Health Department chose to deny services to the mentally ill. This was a management decision. Fixing it can be, too.
Lorraine, who is 80, was apparently given two choices: Leave the Bernal Heights board and care...
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Finding Mission District pupusas that take me back to my mother’s kitchen
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.
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SFPD sued for ‘beating and punching’ man at 16th and Mission
A man is suing the city and two San Francisco police officers for allegedly “beating and punching” him near 16th and Mission streets in late June — a purported incident stemming from the officers’ attempt to arrest the man for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk.
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Gunshots momentarily shut down Church Street; street back open
A warm Friday afternoon on Church Street between 17th and 18th temporarily fell into pandemonium...
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Neighborhood notes: La Raza Centro Legal and EHS Pilates win legacy business status, Adobe Books turns 30, and more
Two longtime Mission businesses were awarded legacy business status on Monday. Adobe Books celebrates its 30th birthday. And more good news!
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Distillations: At Royal Cuckoo, dark and mysterious, you can expect the unexpected
Every time I’ve met a woman at The Royal Cuckoo, something unexpected has happened. I don’t think...
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Former San Francisco jail inmate sues city over alleged beatdown by guard
A 21-year-old former inmate at County Jail No. 5 in San Bruno who was in April allegedly kneed, punched, and “bodyslammed” by a San Francisco Sheriff’s deputy is taking the city and the Sheriff’s Department to court over the accused beating.
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Effort to require SFPD officers to hand out business cards to detainees has been yearslong affair
Should police officers hand over a business card with their information every time they stop to question or search someone? If so, how and what information should they hand over?
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Update: Person fatally struck by BART train at 24th and Mission station; station now reopened
A BART train fatally struck a person at the 24th and Mission station at around 6:30 p.m. Thursday,...
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Dueling events in Mission Bay fail to move transit passengers to 16th Street BART
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.
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Two family-owned businesses arrive in the Mission: District Tea and Eterna Primavera
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.
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SFPD wants to better respond to racially motivated calls to police. It’s not so easy.
Chief Bill Scott has now specifically requested changes to how his officers respond to racially biased police calls.
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Anne Kihagi, San Francisco’s ‘cruelest landlord,’ is sued by her longtime attorney
In bizarre twist, lawyer Karen Uchiyama now simultaneously suing and defending Kihagi LLC Anne...
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Muni red lanes on 16th Street would hurt us, some businesses say
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.
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The laundromat is a modern-day river. Its patrons are today’s village.
How a laundromat became a community hub in the Mission It’s Tuesday morning at Planet Clean...
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Neighborhood Notes: 25 years of Women’s Building mural, ‘Maestrapeace’
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.
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Manny’s: A Conversation w/ Congresswomen Sharice Davids & Xochitl Torres Small
September 16 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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18 Reasons: A Wandering Cook: Creative Uses for Your Global Pantry
September 17 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Manny’s: Conversation with Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign Social Media Director
September 17 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Manny’s: Book Talk: Vivian Ho’s Those Who Wander: America’s Lost Street Kids
September 17 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
