The Mission News

Tonight Oddball Films presents Elswhere: Gypsies, Vagabonds and Refugees , a series of archival short films all about what really gets people moving.

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

Legal or not, skateboarding has always been a prime San Francisco pastime. So when the Department of Public Works floated the idea of filling the dilapidated 21,000-square-foot parking lot abutting Zeitgeist in the Mission with a skate park, "it was the most skaters we've ever had at a community meeting," says landscape architect Koa Pickering.

Author Derek McColloch and illustrator Anthony Peruzzo teamed up for the graphic novel "Displaced Persons," set in S.F. Photo: Duncan Scott Brown "The Maltese Falcon" novelist Dashiell Hammett is rooted in San Francisco history - his name is synonymous with the city's noir heritage, and his characters have inspired countless authors.

Jack Halprin may be the head of Google's armada of eDiscovery lawyers, but he's becoming an serial evictor back in San Francisco.

San Francisco is not a city accustomed to yelling. Bus protests and memories of Chris Daly aside , we typically lean a little more to the passive side of passive-aggressive.

A gauntlet of protesters meets women entering the Planned Parenthood location on Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District -- and the clinic isn't feeling it.

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.