The Mission News

Yikes!A From SF Appeal : San Francisco police are investigating a fatal crash that occurred early this morning in the city's outer Mission District.

A pedestrian crosses Van Ness Avenue, wary of a driver who seemingly intends to switch into the left lane.

You know this was scrawled by some 20-something art-school dropout , who wears plaid and listened to Kyle Andrews before he was on NPR.

From the Tenderloin to Chinatown, dining is devine. Christopher Elbow Artisinal Chocolates are one of the many treats to discover in San Francisco neighborhoods.

"The Bay Area is so beautiful I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here," said Evangelist Billy Graham.

Crews on the Bay Bridge struggled Friday to craft a fix that would prevent vibrations from wind and traffic from causing pieces of a structural repair to come crashing down.

Mission High School takes center stage on Mission Loc@l today. Watch the student-produced video of Mission High's chess champ William Sanchez.

A captain who was formerly in charge of the Mission police station, which oversees neighborhoods including the Castro, is set to take over again.

This is just kinda sad: In aA major act of retroactive cover-your-ass, Kevin Montgomery - aftergoing all bro-douchey on local coverage of the detention of Amuse Bouche vendor Murat Celebi-Ariner last week - of Mission Mission shows new concern for the plight of the immigrant.

The de Young Museum and Precita Eyes muralists have teamed up to bring a bit of the Mission to Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young .

The annual Day of the Dead celebration will take place in San Francisco on Monday November 2, 2009.

Say goodbye to Pink Diamonds, at least for a year, if not forever. On Wednesday, a San Francisco judge ordered the notorious Tenderloin strip club closed for a year and directed its operator, Damone H. Smith , to pay at least $688,500 in fines after he violated a court agreement to bring the club into compliance with local and state laws.

Heads up: volunteers from the Bay Area Fair Trade Coalition and TransFair USA will be handing out free Divine Chocolate Thursday evening from 5-7 p.m. outside of four BART stations:A 24th & Mission, Montgomery, Rockridge and Ashby Street.

The front page of today's San Francisco Examiner . Are Muni's days on Market Street numbered? That's the gist of the front-page headline in the SF Examiner today, which suggests that Mayor Gavin Newsom has a bold plan to move all bus lines and the F-line historic streetcar line onto side streets to make way for a glorious ...

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts is hosting a series of Da De Los Muertos events.

The narrow, bare lot that bisects Octavia Boulevard and Market Street will soon be filled with a futuristic glass edifice as part of a major neighborhood renovation by San Francisco.

The program, called Art in Storefronts, is focused on areas that already were teetering on the economic edge but slipped closer toward financial despair during the protracted recession.

Listen up, the Mission district!A We need to rally together for a very special cause! Local hot farmer David Stockhausen has been entered in The Huffington Post's Hot Farmer contest !A Dave was at #1 just this morning but has somehow slipped to #2.A We need to bump that shit back up! Peep Farmer Dave here .A And here's a li'l blurb about the gent: ...

The weekend theme was best-tressed, from Friday afternoon's advance screening of Chris Rock 's "Good Hair," in which women subject themselves to all sorts of torture in pursuit of idealized manes, to Sunday afternoon's San Francisco Opera performance, in which Salome, fondling the blood-drenched locks of John the Baptist, has the last laugh.

Sliced jalapeos add heat to a Korean steak sandwich. Details: Pal's Takeaway Inside Tony's Market, 2751 24th St.