3+ hour, 33+ min ago  (293+ words) Bay Area artist Demetri Broxton wanted to tell a story with "Ancestral Echoes," a solo show at Mo AD. Specifically, he wanted to illustrate how the Second Great Migration brought his family to the Bay Area." What he did not…...

2+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1584+ words) When labor leader Rudy Gonzalez agreed to run Connie Chan's congressional campaign, the message was clear: Chan's campaign is serious. Gonzalez "is a son of the Westside. He's born and raised in San Francisco and he knows the city. He…...

14+ hour, 16+ min ago  (1000+ words) At Tuesday's community meeting for neighborhoods covered by the Mission police station, the conversation, as it so often does, zoomed in on what is and isn't possible to do about the persistent littering, public drug use, fencing of stolen goods,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1549+ words) The whole thing takes less than a minute." Every few weeks at around 3 a. m. , a tall, slim, mystery" man" appears on the security cameras of Bernal Heights. He is looking for one thing: a sewer vent cover. Specifically: all the sewer…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (457+ words) Theatre Rhinoceros, the Castro-based company which claims to be "the world's longest-running continuously producing professional queer theatre," had worked with Torres before, so he was a natural choice to direct the West Coast premiere of Mark-Eugene Garcia's "Goat Blood," which…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (829+ words) The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday postponed voting on a 362-page ordinance that would have made well over a hundred changes to the city code in one fell swoop after several supervisors " and Angela Calvillo, the typically discreet…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (659+ words) Six months after news broke of a proposed eight-story, 35-unit housing complex at 24th and Capp streets, developers filed a formal planning application late last week " with two fewer stories and 15 fewer units. "Following productive discussions with Calle 24 and other community…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (683+ words) After months of opposition from artists and cultural organizations, San Francisco officials are backing away from a proposed grant-payment policy that critics said would force some of the city's lowest-paid workers to finance public arts projects themselves. The San Francisco…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1384+ words) Mission Local has taken down two articles: "45-year-old S. F. nonprofit closes. Former board wonders where the money went," published on June 4, and "S. F. nonprofit boss seeks to shift $2. 3 M from dissolving Tenderloin org to her own nonprofit," published on June 5. The articles…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (324+ words) Here's the week, in pictures. Pride had its own pre-game. Days before the first march, a Pride x World Cup watch party in Jessie Square mixed drag numbers with match-day energy " fans painting national and Pride flags on the same…...