Some 15 former employees of SF SAFE, the police-affiliated nonprofit that imploded last month due to financial mismanagement, gathered at City Hall today to file an official complaint and attempt […]

SF SAFE workers file labor complaint against imploded nonprofit

District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safaí is termed out — and running for mayor — and, so far, three candidates have thrown their hats in the ring to replace him as […]

Meet the District 11 candidates: ‘What is your number one issue in this election?’

Furlishous Wyatt remembers how he felt last month when he heard about the implosion of the scandal-ridden nonprofit SF SAFE, where he had worked for 42 years.  “There was initial […]

‘We got blindsided:’ SF SAFE workers allege pay violations, hostile work culture

Mission Cabins, a village of 60 tiny homes serving up to 68 adults experiencing homelessness, hopes to open by the end of March at 1979 Mission Street next to the […]

After controversy, Mission Cabins to open in early April at 16th St. BART plaza

The mini-plaza at Treat Avenue and 16th Street is usually empty and deserted, something the city hopes to change with a little financial incentive. The city is offering grants of […]

Want to plan an event on Treat? You could win a city grant.

While most dystopian novels take readers to a faraway land of oppression and revolution, Mission District historian, activist, and tour guide Chris Carlsson decided to use his own city as […]

Q&A with Chris Carlsson, author of new dystopian sci-fi ‘When Shells Crumble’

In our “Meet the candidates” series, we are asking every supervisorial hopeful in the November 2024 election one question each week. Candidates are asked to answer questions on policy, ideology, […]

Meet the candidates: San Francisco’s District 11 supervisor race

The story of Super7 employee Brent StJames and toys goes back a while. Born into a family of toy collectors, the 54-year-old got his first childhood friend — a Snoopy […]

People We Meet: Brent StJames at Super7

El martes por la tarde, Ray Balberan, documentalista veterano y sanfranciscano de toda la vida, estaba organizando algunos de sus 300 cortometrajes sobre violencia policial y gentrificación, un proyecto de […]

La película “Mission Love” que muestra la historia de los años 70, se proyectará este sábado en el Roxie

On Tuesday afternoon, Ray Balberan, veteran documentary filmmaker and lifelong San Franciscan, was organizing some 300 of his short films on police violence and gentrification, an archiving project he’s been […]

‘Mission Love’ film offers 1970s history at Saturday Roxie screening

When she was just 18, Natali Juarez tried to open her first restaurant. She was just five years in the United States, a newcomer from El Salvador who came with […]

Sarita’s Grill & Beer, new Salvadoran restaurant on Valencia, to open next week

Potrero Yard, the Mission’s largest-ever planned affordable housing project, has shrunk by 48 units, its developers announced today at a Planning Commission hearing. The project, whose final environmental impact report […]

Potrero Yard, Mission’s largest affordable housing, shrinks to 465 units

If you roam around San Francisco, you’ll likely run into garden planters on sidewalks and in public plazas.  Some are large, shiny and steel, like bathtubs or animal troughs; others […]

The Mission’s response to homelessness: More than 2,000 planters

Rep. Barbara Lee, the veteran Oakland congresswoman who is vying to succeed the late Dianne Feinstein in the Senate, stopped by the Mission District today for a quick tour of […]

Barbara Lee visits the Mission District

“I want to stay off the internet and away from scammers,” said Pete Bove, 64, a Marine veteran, who was making his way to Dandelion Chocolate on Valencia Street. “I […]

SF New Year’s resolutions 2024

San Francisco Auto Works, a 3,000-square-foot car repair and maintenance shop with a baby-blue storefront, is hard to overlook if you stroll down Valencia Street. The shop, situated at 21st […]

People We Meet: Kimberly Sawyers, Mission’s proud and happy trans auto mechanic

Fourteen abuelitas (grandmothers) battled tamales against empanadas, and platos de arroz against short ribs at 24th and Capp streets Friday night to vie for the best recipe prize in the […]

First annual ‘Abuelita Cookoff:’ we have a winner!

The fences came down last week at the 16th Street BART Plaza for the first time in months, and residents and others passed through, or sat on the steps, taking […]

2 weeks into street-vending ban, indoor markets doing better

The Rabbit Hole, a new Asian restaurant and bar at Mission Street and Cortland Avenue, is preparing to open by the end of year at the former Old Devil Moon […]

The Rabbit Hole, new Asian eatery and bar, set to open on Mission at Cortland Ave.

After a week of the vending ban, it is clear that the 16th and 24th Street BART plazas remain free of vendors as long as the tag teams of two police officers and two public works staff are present.

Los equipos municipales mantienen alejados a los vendedores de las plazas BART de las calles 16 y 24

After a week of the vending ban, it is clear that the 16th and 24th Street BART plazas remain free of vendors as long as the tag teams of two police officers and two public works staff are present.

City teams keep vendors away from 16th and 24th street BART plazas

During the first three days of the street-vending ban in the Mission Street corridor, police officers and workers from Public Works have been stationed at the plazas and patrolling the […]

Mission street-vending ban: 3 days in, is it working?

The 90-day ban on street vending on Mission Street kicked in Monday morning. Supervisor Hilary Ronen announced the ban in October, to combat illegal vending and keeps both permitted and […]

Map: How is the Mission Street vending ban working?

A massive, $1 billion school bond initially slated for the March 2024 ballot has now been tentatively bumped to November. If and when it formally makes the ballot, it will […]

In ‘toxic’ political moment, SFUSD delays $1B school bond measure

San Francisco city officials and others offered the Planning Commission a plan to revive the city’s ailing downtown on Thursday, aiming to boost businesses, convert upper floors in high-rises into […]

Downtown revival plan envisions arts, housing

The Mission’s eccentric Japanese izakaya Chome is making a move this week, opening up in a new location at 26th Street and San Jose Avenue after a temporary one-month closure. […]

Chome, Japanese bar & eatery in Mission, moving to 26th St.

On Thursday, marigolds were scattered, altars dressed and pan de muertos baked, in celebration and remembrance of the dead. Día de los Muertos has once again arrived.  Known as the […]

Día de los Muertos in the Mission: Altars, procession and exhibitions 

A new mural at the corner of 24th Street and South Van Ness Avenue dedicated to Sean Monterrosa, a 22-year-old Bernal Heights native killed by a Vallejo police officer in […]

Sean Monterrosa mural on 24th to be completed on Día de los Muertos

Wednesday, October 25 Supporting LGBTQ incarcerated folks: Letter-writing at Manny’s On Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., join Manny’s in writing July birthday cards for LGBTQ+ people incarcerated all […]

Stuff to do: Talk with Daniel Lurie, All Out SF, and Halloween

In an unusual situation in San Francisco politics, an ethnically Chinese candidate for local office was jolted last week to see her own Chinese name being used by a non-Chinese […]

What’s in a name? Chinese candidate’s name assumed by non-Chinese office-seeker

Join us next Friday evening at 6 p.m. for a conversation between Daniel Lurie — the latest San Francisco mayoral candidate — and our very own Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local’s […]

Mission Local presents: An evening with Daniel Lurie