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Un poco de todo

La Victoria Bakery, one of San Francisco’s favorite spots for pan dulce, is having the grand opening of its new retail and production facility at 1565 Kirkwood Ave. in Bayview […]

La Victoria Bakery opens for business in Bayview

San Francisco’s techies and homeless residents seem like opposite poles of the city – but not for Ronald, a 26-year-old programmer living in a Honda Odyssey. He can be seen […]

People We Meet: Ronald, the homeless coder on Albion Street

Read in spanish / Leer en español La lluvia parece haber terminado por ahora. Tendremos un fin de semana soleado, perfecto para disfrutar de la primavera. En la Misión, diremos […]

Mucho que hacer: Mes de la poesía, encuentro de vías verdes, parque pop-up

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No parking

The 170-year-old California Academy of Sciences (CalAcademy) museum is slated to unionize, according to an announcement its workers’ would-be union made today.  After months of underground efforts, 300 employees across […]

California Academy of Sciences museum workers move to unionize

The rain appears to be over for now. We’ll have a mostly sunny weekend — perfect for hanging out to enjoy the spring! In the Mission, we will say farewell […]

Stuff to do: Poetry month, greenway gathering, park pop-up

“Natalie” texted me in the late afternoon asking if I was free, and even though I wasn’t I decided I’d rather hang out with her and show up late to […]

Distillations: Bar Part Time, where there are only easy choices

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Where’s my bong?

A proposal to shift bicycles to a two-way lane in the middle of Valencia Street — that was resoundingly rejected by community members last fall and continues to be unpopular […]

Center bikeway on Valencia likely to pass despite few enthusiastic supporters

A two-block stretch of 18th Street is closed for repairs on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. for the next month or so, according to the Department of Public […]

Limited car access on 18th Street between Valencia and Dolores 

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has announced that Recology must cease operations at its unpermitted construction debris crushing site on Pier 94, the existence of which was long […]

Recology’s unpermitted Pier 94 facility ordered shut by Air District

The second community meeting to discuss qualifications required for a new leader of the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board drew the same number of participants as the first — one. Tuesday […]

Meeting for input on sheriff oversight hire fails to get community

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Get out of San Francisco

Inside Mothership’s darkened, outer space-themed bar, some life-saving tools can be found just behind the LED-lit counter.   If you ask, there’s Narcan, generically known as naloxone, which reverses a drug […]

Health officials say bars should carry strips to test drugs for fentanyl

Read in spanish / Leer en español Aunque muchas protecciones de la era de la pandemia están llegando a su fin, las filas para obtener provisiones en el banco de […]

Largas esperas en el banco de alimentos “El Mercadito” de South Van Ness

Leer en inglés / Read in english La Misión es uno de los principales barrios donde se producen sobredosis accidentales. Mientras que las sobredosis accidentales pueden ocurrir en la calle […]

Dónde conseguir tiras reactivas de fentanilo y Narcan en la Misión

As if in an act of defiance, a striking young Yolanda López in track shorts and a star-spangled tank top beams from a wall between an abandoned building and a […]

Young Yolanda López grins on Folsom St. in new mural series of local legends

The Mission is one of the top neighborhoods where accidental overdose occurs. While accidental overdoses can happen in the street or in people’s homes, several bartenders and patrons note overdoses […]

Where to get fentanyl test strips and Narcan in the Mission

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And peace to you, old red cedar