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Hey Kids! 12.11 – 12.14
"A Christmas Dream" screens at Oddball Films on Friday Hey Kids! is a weekly feature looking at what’s coming up for families and kids of all ages. Catch a deelish fish dish new in the Mish. The...
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Artist Sirron Norris
En Español Sirron Norris is an educator who has been working with Bay Area youth since 2002. He’s better known as an artist reconfiguring cartoon cliches into animistic cityscapes that are edgy,...
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TAKE FIVE: Stephanie Marie Echeveste
En Español Take Five is a new feature asking people ‘how do you do (the things you do)?’ Mission Loc@l: Tell us about your dresses at Artillery Apparel. Stephanie Marie Echeveste: I try to utilize...
View ArticleCity to Subsidize Market-Rate Childcare
En Español The Planning Commission agreed last week to waive almost $2 million in development fees for two mixed-use projects being constructed in San Francisco’s Eastern Neighborhoods. In exchange,...
View ArticleGarfield Pool to Open This Summer
En Español The Mission District’s beloved indoor public pool at Garfield Park will stay closed until late June this year but will then reopen, according to Elton Pon, a Recreation and Parks Department...
View ArticleGarfield Pool Reopens!
The sweet smell of chlorine in our noses has been missing since November of last year. Yesterday morning, a bathing-capped throng came to celebrate having a public pool in the Mission again, after...
View ArticleEat Your Vegetables, Say Supes
En Español Legislative politics in San Francisco tend toward the strange. But yesterday afternoon, when item 101096 (Setting Nutritional Standards for Restaurant Food Sold Accompanied by Toys or Other...
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Veganize It! Dark Chocolate Frozen Bananas
Sometimes life just gets a little crazy. Like when you’re packing up your house to move, your day job gets inexplicably busy, your second job starts picking up in ways you had only dreamed of, your dog...
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Weeklong Festival To Showcase Kids’ Art
Starting this weekend, a special kind of art will be on display at the Asian Art Museum: Children from across the San Francisco Union School District, including many from the Mission’s schools, have...
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Artists, Residents Sculpt Gentrification as They See It
The Mission’s housing crisis was on center stage at the Red Poppy Art House on Saturday evening, and that stage had a hole in it. All afternoon and evening, artists convened around, peeked out of and...
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Lesson One Hijos
For two years Lupita has tried, unsuccessfully, to cure her daughter’s illness. The girl, a shy seven-year-old who wears her long silky hair with a pale pink ribbon, suffers chronic stomach pains and...
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Hoy Kid 10.14 to 10.20
“If the children of the rainbow can speak to us of the woods in winter, of the rains and snows, of the sadness of autumn, of the chilly winds in Harlem, of the smell of plum sauce dripping from the old...
View ArticleOperation Boo Sequesters Homeless Sex Offenders
No candy, no decorations, no porch light and definitely no trick-or-treaters. On Halloween night, these things spell parole violation for some registered sex offenders in California, thanks to...
View ArticleNewest Pilgrims Celebrate First Thanksgiving
I Am Thankful Essay from fifth grader (translated from Spanish) This is the first time I’m going to celebrate Thanksgiving and I want to give special thanks to my grandparents, who are already in...
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Floating Shelves, Recycled Wood, and Life Lessons at SF Mission Woodworking...
Six-year-old Zach Barnes came home from woodshop camp wanting to eat vegetables. Sending him to classes at the Butterfly Joint, which opened about three months ago on Mission and 22nd next to the...
View ArticleMission Designer Pens Cat-Themed History Coloring Book
If you’re an adult who has been swept by the coloring book craze or have youngsters who have an interest in history, local greeting card designer Sunde White has a treat for you: A coloring book...
View ArticleChildren are not given pronouns in new picture book, “I’m Jay Let’s Play”
In Beth Reichmuth’s preschool class at the Little School, storytime is a big deal. It’s a daily event that takes place in the classroom’s designated storytime corner, and Reichmuth always tries to...
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Summer arrives and the playground at Dolores Park will close for three months
The playground at Dolores Park today was filled with parents and children Friday morning enjoying the last few weeks of fun on the play structure before the Helen Diller Playground closes down for...
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Area doctors, community members grapple with the covid-19 vaccine mandate for...
Children 5 to 11 years old are a step closer to receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorization for emergency use earlier this week. […] Area...
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While some 5-to-11-year-olds and their parents head to vaccine sites,...
Just two and a half weeks into the emergency use authorization for Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for kids 5 to 11, some local vaccine sites are riding a high wave of […] While some...
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Neighborhood Notes: ‘live-fire’ dining, ‘Matrix 4,’ and more
A variety of family-friendly and shopper’s-paradise events will take place over the weekend, as well as a century’s worth of reflections on the Mission stalwart Community Music Center, Filipino Parol...
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