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Interesting interviews were held Thursday in front of Asian voters – the group mayoral candidates have spent considerable time courting. The latest promise to secure votes? Equity in appointments.

Bob Lee’s alleged murder continues to grip the city as a lot of pre-trial motions on witnesses and other matters continue to get sorted.

And, for some reason, I keep remembering Marsha Polovets’ 2009 story, searching for hipsters. Those seem like such innocent times.

Enjoy the weekend and thank you for reading us!

Lydia

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Three men in suits stand in a hallway. Two of them are positioned near a door marked with a restroom symbol. One man holds a folder and another man stands in the background.

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“He’s literally telling us the exact sequence, as if this is like a Jason Bourne/Mission Impossible movie,” said prosecutor Talai.

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed stands at a podium labeled "API Council," speaking into a microphone in Chinatown. A water bottle and a drink are placed on the podium.

See how they run: S.F. mayoral candidates march on stage, boba in tow, at Chinatown forum

Safaí, Daniel Lurie, Farrell, and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin all said yes (Peskin said “an absolute, unqualified, enthusiastic hell yes”

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Throw Back Story

So, Who Is a Hipster?

By Marsha Polovets (Photo by Armand Emamdjomeh)

SNAP

A white SUV is parked on a city street at night next to a tall ladder. Neon lights illuminate the scene. There are buildings and a few people in the background.

La escalera

By Angel Mayorga

Events

Manny’s: Happy Hour for Movement Voter Project: Winning the Ground Game in November

Drawing Room ANNEX: Open Studios 2024

1890 Bryant Street: Fall Open Studios

All events are here.

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

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