The Mission News

A group that says it's fighting gentrification in the Bay Area is claiming responsibility for vandalizing the offices of a high-end developer and housing manager in San Francisco's Mission District.

Ed Drew uses a large format 1930s Speed Graphic camera outfitted with a World War Two-era lens to take his tintype portraits.

Today's a big day for our boy Burrito Justice ! Tonight there's an in-person event at Bender's: Join Nicole Gluckstern and Burrito Justice, the creators of literary bicycle tour " Bikes to Books ," for an evening of socializing, beer drinking, and map chat at awesome local watering hole Benders on Wednesday, March 5, from 7-9 pm.

No, you can't spend the night. That's the message the Municipal Transportation Agency has for RVs and trucks at a rapidly growing number of locations sprinkled around the city.

In honor of National Absinthe Day, on Wednesday, March 5, Elixir is serving the Golden Gate Fog for $11.

A bicyclist avoids a pothole on an area of Mission Street that will undergo sewer and curb ramp improvements and paving.

Waffles come sweet or savory , and some even have meat at Linea Caffe. Photo: John Storey, Special To The Chronicle Tom Baker talks with customers at Linea Cafe in San Francisco, Calif., on February 28th, 2014.

Rodrigo Santos a co-founder of Santos and Urrutia structural engineers at 2451 Harrison Street.

First came the iPod - now comes the pPod, a custom-made, open-air urinal that San Francisco is installing at Dolores Park to help deal with the hordes of male hipster inebriants that descend on the popular Mission spot on weekends.

The wall used to be beige - a bland beige for a bland alley that no one wanted to visit.

NASA hopes to launch a mission to the Jupiter moon Europa, perhaps the solar system's best bet to host alien life, a decade or so from now, officials announced Tuesday .

Nearly 150 years ago, the corner of 17th and Mississippi in Potrero Hill was home to the Pacific Rolling Mill Co., the largest steel producer on the West Coast.

Hardly a week passes without another gorgeously minimalist and conspicuously sustainable coffee place opening somewhere in San Francisco, serving single-origin drip to long queues of giddy Instagrammers.

Thanks to a tip from my stylist extraordinaire , I learned ~SCHMIDT'S~ in the Mission has a new chef in place: Russell Matthew Woods.

Mission District artists picked a stretch of Clarion Alley, the neighborhood's eclectic mural-swathed promenade, to make a statement about the city's problems - and how to fix them.

While it is not uncommon for some textbooks to give the impression that the California Native Americans passively accepted the missions, Spanish domination, and conversion to Christianity, this was not the case.

There's a wealth of information in this month's nonfiction new releases by Bay Area authors, from David Sedlak's fascinating history of public water systems to a concise introduction to quantum mechanics co-authored by Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman.

With Free Speech Movement veterans planning to commemorate the 50th anniversary of that event, Gar Smith writes that archivists are working on appropriate plans.

Even a bubble doesn't exist in a bubble. As San Franciscans continue to grapple with a dizzying economic and real estate boom, we might find some solace in the fact that we are not alone.

Now eight months into its lifetime, the Palace continues to evolve down on the corner of Mission and Cesar Chavez.