Gratitude
Steven J. Moss There are lots of things for which to be grateful. A baby’s soft laugh, a puppy’s cutely clumsy gait, the rain. Our lives are filled with people, places, and things…
April 2019
So much to be grateful for…
Potrero View Staff Art Agnos served as San Francisco’s 39th mayor from 1988 to 1992, and was the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Regional Head from 1993 to 2001. More importantly,…
The Potrero Branch Library Offers More Than Books
Brittany Vargas Located at 1616 20th street, the Potrero Branch library offers books, films, and music – digital and compact discs – suitable for all ages and sweeping views of San Francisco.…
Letters to the Editor – April 2019
Potrero View Staff Editorial Editor, Your March article (“Other Neighborhoods Less Enthusiastic About Adopting Green Benefit District Model”), which stated that the San Francisco Department of Public Works provided $60,000 in funding for Inner…
Potrero Hill Schools Engage Their Community
Veronica Dolginko Last month, Starr King and Daniel Webster elementary schools, The New School San Francisco, and Live Oak School collaborated with PREFund, a nonprofit that encourages Potrero Hill families from a…
Musician Daniel Berkman Brings a Taste of West Africa to Potrero Hill
Jessica Zimmer Potrero Hill resident and musician, Daniel Berkman, composes rhythmic, resonant songs for a multitude of instruments, which he regularly performs at Farley’s. His primary instrument is the kora, a 21-stringed…
DoReMi is the Sound of Art in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill
Bettina Cohen It’s a Saturday afternoon in late February. Art lovers and creatives are arriving for a pair of exhibit openings in the adjacent art galleries of Catharine Clark and Brian Gross,…
Obituary: Ruth Passen
Marc Passen and Risa Nye By Marc Passen Adios, my Shana Rivka (Beautiful Ruth). Shana Rivka was a pet name for Ruth Passen used by her devoted and adoring brothers. Ruth was a first-generation Californian,…
Obituary: Sean Paul Fisher
SEAN PAUL FISHER passed away peacefully on March 5, just a few days after his 67th birthday. He was the third oldest of nine children born to Paul and Ruth…
Obituary: John H. Anderson
Carolyn Gray Anderson John H. AndersonMarch 22, 1930 – March 12, 2019 Little did John Hawkins Anderson know that when he left rural Arkansas in the mid-1950s he wouldn’t go back. John came…
Community Calendar – April 2019
Now through 4/7 — Flowers: Macy’s Flower ShowMacy’s Union Square location is transformed into a space-inspired floral fantasy world during the 73rd annual Macy’s Flower Show, a celebration of flowers,…
Damon Guthrie