Comically tiny comic book shop opening up in the Mission

Sep 25, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Hella Novella will feature comic books from female and minority artists Her space is small —...

An immigrant Latina’s experience is transformed into a high-tech dance show

Sep 19, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

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.

‘Those Who Wander’ explores the world of ‘Lost Street Kids’

Sep 18, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

‘Those Who Wander’ begins with a grisly murder, but expands into the lives of...

Despite fears of an end to the Mission art scene, an influx of galleries indicates a boom

Sep 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.

El Rio bartender finds success in comic book world with ‘Unplugged and Unpopular’

Aug 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.

René Yañez’s son, Rio, exhibits father’s personal sketchbooks

Aug 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.