The Mission News

San Francisco. The sophisticated city by the bay. Icons abound. The Golden Gate Bridge.

Architect Julia Morgan, best known for her decades-long endeavors on William Randolph Hearst's sprawling Hearst Castle, worked on more than 700 buildings during her 46-year career.

Bike commuters cruise along Market Street. Since 2006, San Francisco's bicycle traffic has increased by 96 percent.

Caylie See and Adrian Druzgalski stroll through South Park, which is slated for a $3 million makeover.

Despite the slow roll-out of safer streets for bicycling compared to cities like New York and Chicago, San Franciscans are making nearly twice as many trips by bike today as they did in 2006, according to a new count released by the SFMTA .

As anyone who has seen this happen at some point during their daily travels through the city can attest, it never gets any less rad, as photographer Brandon vividly describes: Indeed.

A lengthy dispute over a proposed housing development in San Francisco's Mission District near the Marsh Theater is coming before the San Francisco Board of Appeals Wednesday evening.

"SEE THE BREAKING GLASS, BENEATH THE UNDERPASS..." By the end of the 20th century the Mission District was one of the last working class neighborhoods in San Francisco.

Carolyn Alburger, Associate Editor: The new Local Mission Market just baked up its first batch of chocolate cherry oat bread.

San Francisco General Hospital Foundation announced today that it will celebrate the 10thanniversary of the Hearts in San Francisco project at the Heroes & Hearts Luncheon and Hearts After Dark on Thursday, February 13, 2014 , with twelve new heart designs for the 2014 series.

ABCo Art Space. Huckleberry's Ol' Time Movie Nite: Screenings of vintage films starring Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, and other icons - all silent, save for the clickety-clacking sound of the old reel-to-reel projector.

Valencia Street art space struggles to retain its physical and spiritual existence Sometimes you stumble across places that just feel like home the instant you step across the threshold.

Katie & Brittany are back just in time to review a true holiday classic, Golden Girls Christmas episodes performed live and in drag.

This was the scene on Valencia Street on a recent Sunday: The sun was out. The air was mild.

Savanna Jazz Club On The Market : The Mission Street jazz club is up for sale at $1.74 million, so get in that second line and play 'em out.

In late November, NASA scientists conducted a short ice-surveying mission to Antarctica .

The small 15-person crowd moaned in disappointment at an open mic Sunday night when realtor Carol Luckenbach announced that owner Pascal Bokar put Savanna, the jazz bar and club located at 2937 Mission Street, up for sale for $1.74 million on Friday.

Ukraine's president says he will ask the country's general prosecutor to find a way to release some of the demonstrators who were arrested in recent protests, in a bid to defuse the country's tensions.

It is 7 a.m. and 40A . Today's forecast calls for a high of 51A and plenty of sunshine.

Kurt Dalen, a 30-year-old Mission District artist, was killed by a hit-and-run driver while reportedly crossing Valencia Street south of Duboce Avenue at about 2:45 a.m. last Thursday.