A tribute to Amilcar Lobos Yong: a leader in the Mission’s Latino art scene

Jun 30, 2020 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Twitter

When Amilcar Lobos Yong co-founded a scrappy art and cultural center in a dingy room on Capp...

Latinx online film festival CINEOLA focuses on underrepresented stories of Latin America

Jun 9, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

The first-ever CINEOLA film festival of Latin American films was set to begin in April as COVID-19...

‘Dear Homeland,’ a love letter to Mexico, and the Mission

May 28, 2020 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter

Even when she was hiding in the shadows, anxious and fearful that her status as an undocumented...

Mission native stars in ‘Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ new show at the Magic Theater

Feb 28, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Marilet Martinez remembers reading maybe 15 pages of Don’t Eat the Mangos before she “was like,...

The music will resume as the Rite Spot gets its entertainment permit

Feb 18, 2020 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

The Rite Spot Cafe received an entertainment permit Tuesday night — after decades of hosting live...

Alex Conde’s flamenco bebop will perform at Red Poppy Art House and elsewhere in the Bay

Feb 9, 2020 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Music

Breaking through on the U.S. jazz scene is tough enough for American-born musicians. European...

The soul of Andalusia with Theatre Flamenco

Jan 28, 2020 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter

Carola Zertuche is hardly the first artist to recognize the kinship of flamenco and African...

Art notes: Voss Gallery presents “The Essentials” a group show

Jan 11, 2020 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Ashley Voss, one of several new gallery owners in the Mission, opened her first exhibition of the...

Swann’s Way to go: San Francisco’s Nathalie Vanderlinden completes epic Proustian reading challenge

Jan 2, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Some of you may recall our Dec. 2 article about Nathalie Vanderlinden, the San Francisco chef who,...

“Love in the Time of Piñatas” at ZSpace, an uncompromising and intimate exploration of queer immigrant identity

Dec 18, 2019 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Despite all the glitter, dancing and chiseled, half-nude men, Love in the Time of Piñatas,...

‘All We’ve Got’ film celebrates the LGBTQ women-centered spaces still thriving

Dec 10, 2019 | Art, Events, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter

If you mourned the 2015 closing of The Lexington, one of the last lesbian bars in the city, but...

‘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...

New mural dedicated to victims of police shootings to be unveiled on Sunday

Nov 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.