After 10 years, Valencia Street’s Borderlands Cafe to shutter

Apr 27, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics, Valencia Street

After 10 years on Valencia Street, Borderlands Cafe will pour its final cup of coffee on Tuesday....

Saved by reader sponsors, Borderlands Books now aims to buy a building

Oct 18, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Valencia Street

When Alan Beatts announced in early 2015 that he would close his science fiction, mystery, and...

Sponsors Support, Save SF Mission Genre Bookstore

Apr 4, 2016 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Valencia Street

A science fiction, mystery and horror bookstore that has weathered some 19 years on Valencia...

Garfield Park Has a New Book Corner for Kids

Mar 25, 2015 | Front Page, Mobile, Parks, Today's Mission

About 40 kids visited the Youth Community Center at Garfield Square Park on Tuesday for the grand...

Borderlands Reaches Its Goal of 300 Sponsors

Feb 21, 2015 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

Update, Sat. Feb 21, 4:06 p.m. From Alan Beatts who writes that in less than two days,...

Listen Local: Borderlands, Burning Questions

Feb 21, 2015 | Featured, Mobile, Today's Mission

Listen Local is Mission Local in audio form. We record live on a biweekly webcast at BFF.fm every...

A Day in the Life of Borderlands Cafe

Nov 20, 2012 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Topics, Valencia Street

Author’s note: All the comments in bold were copied from the guest book at Borderlands...

NaNoWriMo: The Final Countdown

Dec 4, 2010 | Art, Front Page

This writing competition is not about quality, but quantity: 50,000 words, to be exact.

People & Twitter Make the World Go Round

Jan 12, 2010 | Today's Mission

As one gloomy and chilly day spills into another, so do customers at Borderlands Books’ new café. It’s very nice to see what’s blossoming in that space sans internet – a young man bent over a sketch he’s formulating while...

Move Over, Borderlands Opens Its Cafe on Valencia

Jan 1, 2010 | Business, Front Page, Mission Street, Valencia Street

Borderlands Café on Valencia Street doesn’t have Wi-Fi, bit it does have an environment where people can actually talk to each other.

Mission Merchants – Worst Christmas Ever!

Dec 28, 2009 | Business, Front Page, Mission Street

Amid small signs of economic recovery, Mission District merchants report poor sales or small gains.

Cup of coffee… or a frog?

Dec 24, 2009 | Today's Mission

If you haven’t noticed, construction has wrapped up on Valencia and everyone can now enjoy wider...

Love in the Middle Ages – Chapter 3

Nov 8, 2009 | Front Page

In our Sunday Fiction series, Lisa goes to Iceland. “The towels were so rough, I mistook them for loofah sponges.”

Tag: Borderlands Books

Garfield Park Has a New Book Corner for Kids

Borderlands Reaches Its Goal of 300 Sponsors

Listen Local: Borderlands, Burning Questions

A Day in the Life of Borderlands Cafe

NaNoWriMo: The Final Countdown

People & Twitter Make the World Go Round

Move Over, Borderlands Opens Its Cafe on Valencia

Mission Merchants – Worst Christmas Ever!

Cup of coffee… or a frog?

Love in the Middle Ages – Chapter 3

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