The Mission News

OK, web-savvy travelers, according to a new "who's got the fastest Wi-Fi?" survey by mobile network manager WeFi, the Red Roof Inn and the Sleep Inn hotel chains have the fastest connections.

Around 6:30 p.m., 24-year-old Shaun Lavell Jones walked into Foods Co. at 1800 Folsom St. waving a knife, police and San Francisco Fire Department dispatchers said.

Good news, San Francisco is doing a pretty good job saving water. Bad news, we could be doing even better.

Brittany & Katie do this column because they love theater. They really do. And so it is with two heavy hearts that they delivered this review of Patterns , at The New Stage in Hayes Valley: "Wall-size video projections surround the audience with an awe-inspiring panoramic view of love in life."

Marvel has announced that Tony Stark, the Iron Man, will become a West Coast superhero, moving from his native New York to San Francisco.

UCSF Medical Center invites the community to participate in its 5k Hard Hat Walk and Lights On Festival on Saturday, Sept.

As we first revealed last week, Related California's proposed development of 565 apartments and 460,000 square feet of office space along Mission , between 11th and South Van Ness, will likely be financed by way of $375 million of city issued mortgage revenue bonds.

On Sixth Street, friends and acquaintances stopped to pay their respects Wednesday July 23, 2014.

We'll be covering 5 Saturdays for Karaoke KJPaul! Mark your calendars for July 26th, August 2nd, 16th, 23rd and 30th ! Karaoke will be 7pm-midnight! Get there early to enjoy the fabulous food! Food trucks start closing between 9 and 10! The bar truck stays open until midnight! If you haven't been, you should know SoMa StrEat Food Park is actually ... (more)

"Compositions in Light," an exhibition of landscape photographs by Vidya Narasimhan, opens Tuesday at Gallery House in Palo Alto.

Adam Savage, a Mythbuster/Mission resident, recently gave a tour of his workshop and boy is it something else.

Andrew McKinley founded Adobe Books on 16th Street 25 years ago this year. A year ago this month Andrew and a group of dedicated volunteers moved the store to 24th Street and formed the Adobe Books and Arts Cooperative.

A funeral for a 28-year-old man shot in San Francisco's Mission District last weekend will be held Monday, according to the victim's family.

From local blogger anadromy , who most recently delivered a similarly posi rant about why you shouldn't necessarily hate on tech bros , some thoughts on the transit situation here in Frisco: People in San Francisco don't agree on much, but just about everybody likes to hate on MUNI.

Last night around 6:30pm, I got multiple emails within the space of 5 minutes from neighbors upset that our official review of the new skatepark encouraged skaters to hop the fence at 7am, 2 hours before the skatepark opens.

Two men were shot and killed Tuesday on the same block of Sixth and Mission street in San Francisco.

San Francisco's appetite for underground dinners seems to be insatiable. Five-year-old Lazy Bear has become one of Yelp's highest-rated restaurants and is preparing to open a permanent restaurant in the Mission .

I need to develop a system whereby if anyone in Northern California is even thinking of establishing a jazz venue, that information is immediately transmitted to me via some form of ESP or Vulcan mind meld or something.

The Friends of the Urban Forest, a non-profit dedicated to helping San Franciscans care for sidewalk vegetation, is planting trees in the Mission to give residents a chance for subsidized foliage outside their building: species that are most suitable for the conditions at each planting site, and the property owner makes the final selection.

I love the ever-growing diversity of the San Francisco dining scene and a glimmer of that diversity will be on display on Sunday, when seven hand-selected chefs who have restaurants new to the Top 100 will cook a multi-course dinner at The Cavalier - one of the brightest new restaurant openings in 2013.