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Tacchini To Residents: Ask for More Police and Use Bleach

By HÉLÈNE GOUPIL Twenty frustrated residents and District 9 candidate Eric Storey filled My Corner Cafe on 26th Street and South Van Ness on Thursday to hear Captain Stephen Tacchini and two beat...

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Pee Chronicles: Part I

A Virgil Street resident uses wood shavings to cover the area used as a public bathroom. By HÉLÈNE GOUPIL Connie Weber, a retiree who has lived in the Mission since 1939, pointed to a corner between...

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Pee Chronicles: Part II

By DIANA MONTAÑO To most of the day laborers waiting for work on 26th Street, the urine on Virgil Street can be blamed on the bolos, or drunks. “They have no shame, they don’t care,” said a worker who...

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Day Laborers Wait for Work — All Day Long

Javier Hernandez is crouched beneath a lamppost at the corner of Mission and Cesar Chavez Streets, hiding from the unusually hot 10 a.m. sun by squeezing his body into the thin sliver of shade. He’s...

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Pee Chronicles: Part IV

By STEVE SALDIVAR On an early Wednesday afternoon, two men hurled dice up against the sidewalk on Garfield Square at 26th and Harrison streets. The dice rolled until one of the men dug into the...

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May Day Live

In more than 140 countries, May 1 is celebrated as a workers’ holiday. May Day commonly sees organized street demonstrations and celebrations by hundreds of thousands of working people throughout the...

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Recent Kidnappings Target Latinos

By AMANDA MARTINEZ In at least two cases this month assailants have forced victims walking in the Mission District late at night into vehicles, held them long enough to rob them and then released them...

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Cesar Chavez Redesign Could Relocate Day Laborers

En Español City agencies have been collaborating and reaching out to the community to redesign Cesar Chavez Street with new bike lanes, trees and safer crosswalks, but with much of the design planning...

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MyMission: Adriana Camarena, Interviewer Extraordinaire

MyMission is a series of interviews with a diverse group of people, each with their own experience of the Mission. Our earliest interviews are highlighted in our recently published zine, MyMission: I...

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El Colectivo de Mujeres Se Une con Servicios para la Comunidad de la Calle...

El pasado jueves, en el Centro Eric Quezada para la Cultura y Política, ubicado en la calle Valencia y 16, se celebró con música, baile y mariachis la unión de varias instituciones del Distrito de la...

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