‘All We’ve Got’ film celebrates the LGBTQ women-centered spaces still thriving
If you mourned the 2015 closing of The Lexington, one of the last lesbian bars in the city, but...
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If you mourned the 2015 closing of The Lexington, one of the last lesbian bars in the city, but...
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A new initiative to map out and analyze the intersections of art and technology in the Bay Area is...
Read MoreNov 13, 2019 | 24th Street, Art, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Photography, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble
Artists working on the northeast corner of 24th and Capp Streets are readying themselves for a Sunday unveiling of the Mission’s newest mural – an expansive, two-story piece depicting some of the victims of police and immigration violence. It is dedicated to those victims.
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What started as a proposal from a real estate agent turned into a two-month experiment for Sirron...
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As you exit the BART station at 24th & Mission, you may faintly hear a few musical notes...
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This year’s San Francisco Open Studios is set to kick off in the Mission District on the weekend...
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Hella Novella will feature comic books from female and minority artists Her space is small —...
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When she was just 25 years old, Mabel Valdiviezo had to make one of the most difficult choices of her life: leave her native Peru or stay and risk her life during a time of political repression.
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‘Those Who Wander’ begins with a grisly murder, but expands into the lives of...
Read MoreSep 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.
Read MoreAug 30, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics
The ideas for the novel took time to nail down. As a bartender, he noticed patrons at El Rio having fewer conversations and spending more time on their phones. One day, while scribbling away with his then-infant daughter sleeping on his chest, the idea for the book finally came to him.
Read MoreAug 18, 2019 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Newsletter
Tucked into the corner of Thacher Art Gallery’s ‘Studio Misión: the Art Studio as Medium,’ sits an empty wooden work table and chair. Before his death at age 75 in May 2018, renowned Mission District artist René Yañez had planned for this gallery space, located on the University of San Francisco campus at 2130 Fulton Street, to be a workspace where he would create art to be displayed on the walls.
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KQED’s award-winning series The Hustle has returned and is looking for artists interested in...
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Earlier this summer, nonprofit organization La Cocina hosted their biannual performance series...
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The long-awaited day had finally come: Thursday marked the opening of Ruth’s Table, a new creative...
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“There is one,” says Cléa Massiani, exhibitions coordinator of Creativity Explored,...
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