Another summer, another slew of new businesses come to the Mission. Check out what’s leaving and what’s coming below. Cha Cha Cha  Walking past Cha Cha Cha the night of […]

Business as usual: what’s coming and going in the Mission

The trumpet reverberated across the park.  If you followed the sound of the music, it would take you to the top of the Dolores Park Stairs. There, you would find […]

People We Meet on the Dolores Park Stairs: Karl Bryant

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Wine bars are seeing something of a resurgence lately, and the Mission is no exception. Whether extremely-hip, in-your-face, or a little bougie, newer wine spots like Bar Part Time, Shuggie’s, […]

A new Spanish taverna is coming to town

Welcome back to our (somewhat revamped) weekly news quiz. How much you remember from the past seven days of Mission Local coverage? Test your knowledge with these seven questions. Quiz […]

Quiz of the week: What is SF’s new minimum wage?

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Potrero Avenue at 21st Street, where Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital’s Behavioral Health Center stands today, was once the site of a Magdalen Asylum run by the Sisters of Mercy. […]

The hidden, painful history of SF’s Magdalen Asylum

Funds collected from landlords keeping properties off the market would be put toward social housing. 

Voters to decide if vacant homes should be taxed

On a misty Wednesday morning, some 50 people – among them cooks, janitors and drivers – celebrated tomorrow’s scheduled raise of minimum wage in San Francisco to $16.99. The San […]

San Francisco minimum wage hits $16.99 — workers rally in the Mission

The Community Music Center: Traditions Moving Forward Martha Rodríguez-Salazar will host the final “Traditions Moving Forward” speaker series on June 30 at 7 p.m. Rodríguez-Salazar’s session will explore how her […]

Neighborhood Notes: Music, mimes, July 4 and more

San Francisco has been alternating between beautiful sunny days that make it easy to be alive, and dismal, windy, overcast days that take the life out of living. This was […]

Distillations: Truth and consequences at True Laurel

Neighbors meet at Shotwell & 15th St. to discuss how they can help to reduce theft, vandalism, and encampment fires in their neighborhood.

Enough is enough

Hospitalizations, positivity rates, R Number models and wastewater monitoring are all up, while recorded infections remain flat.

Covid-19 Tracker: Is ‘the worst’ on its way?

“Twenty-seven!” San Francisco resident and Walk SF volunteer Marsi Fraser called out as a red truck rumbled past her.  The truck was moving only two miles over the speed limit […]

Fast times on South Van Ness – speed surveys document reckless drivers

An armed robbery at 20th and Capp streets went very wrong last week: When police arrived, the suspect sped away and fatally hit a pedestrian a few blocks away, according […]

South Van Ness hit-and-run driver was fleeing police, SFPD captain says

The pizzas left me wanting more. The wine - a big hit.

Review: BrewVino, a casual wine bar & pizza in the Mission

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Love is in the air

Unreliable. Poor historians.  Those are the names mental health practitioners give to clients when their biographical information is hard to verify, when their stories are disjointed or submerged in murky […]

People We Meet: The poor historian of 15th Street

Maurice Terrell Carter, 47, has lived in the Plaza East apartments his entire life and recalls his childhood there fondly. But he also remembers when developer McCormack Baron Salazar renovated […]

Plaza East residents demand developers stop market-rate deal

They say the average time to run a 10k is about an hour. And although Vincent Yuen took 14 hours to walk just a little over 10k, he dumped over […]

Video: What it takes to collect 100 plus bags of S.F. trash in one day