Publisher’s View: Supervisor
Steven J. Moss The politician with whom we tend to have the closest connection is our district supervisor. They might be a neighbor, someone we recognize seeing at Farley’s or The Good Life…
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PV Staff Data Debacle District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton proposed a 45-day moratorium on expansion of new data centers in San Francisco while officials investigate the facilities’ environmental impacts. If passed by…
Community Calendar: October 2026
10/3 SaturdaySports: Bay Padel Dogpatch Outdoors Soft OpeningOpening of Bay Padel’s expanded facility, including four outdoor padel and seven outdoor pickleball courts. Activities include Pilates, introduction to pickleball, an exhibition…
New Security Measures Make Entering San Francisco General Hospital Challenging
Mark Steensland The stabbing of 51-year-old social worker Alberto Rangel in Ward 86 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) prompted numerous security-related changes at the hospital. According to Gail Smith, an 81-year-old…
Publisher’s View: Fairies
My great-nephew, Harvey, five years old, was wearing a salmon-colored dress over his pajamas, with a set of butterfly wings on his back. The dress had been my daughter Sara’s,…
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There Can Never be Enough Coffee Modern Luxury selected the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House for its First Annual Best of the Bay Community Impact Award. The “Nabe,” a historic community…
Community Calendar: September 2026
Now through 1/31/2027History: Treasures of the PharaohsEgypt’s pharaohs and their connection to a panoply of gods and the afterlife have long been a source of fascination. This enduring popularity is…
Publisher’s View: Universe
It’s a message from the universe, people say, when something unexpected, fantastical, or insistent happens. Several individuals, who don’t know one another, make the same atypical observation to you over…
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Power Outage In 2010 the Trans Bay Cable was installed to transmit electricity from fossil fuel generating facilities located in the City of Pittsburg to San Francisco, in part to…
The Painter on Kansas Street
Dana Pearlman In August 1971, The Potrero View published “Artists and the Community,” which included Jean Halpert-Ryden, photographed by Bill Brinton seated in front of a large painting at an exhibit or…
Community Calendar: August 2026
Now through 8/29 SaturdayArt: 65th Annual Potrero Hill Artists’ ExhibitionFeaturing artwork by library patrons who live, learn, work, or worship on Potrero Hill and Dogpatch. The late Charles Farr hosted…
Publisher’s View: Worst of Times, Best of Times
In one of his bits, comedian Alex Edelman recounts talking to a family member who laments the state of current affairs, anxiously declaring, “This is the most challenging, worst time…
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Ouch According to The San Francisco Standard, between December 2025 and May 2026 the total number of parking tickets issued in the City rose by 21 percent. The biggest jump…
Art Dances to Seismic Activity
S Anne Steinberg A tiny piece of the Venice Biennale, an international art exhibition taking place in Italy through November, is on view at the California College of the Art’s Wattis Institute. The…
Publisher’s View: Artificial Intelligence
This column wasn’t written by artificial intelligence (AI). But it could’ve been. And it’s not clear whether readers would notice the difference. Technology has brought us, yet again, to one…
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And They’re Off Last month District 10 Board of Supervisors candidate Mike Lin filed Form 470 with the San Francisco Ethics Commission pledging not to raise or spend $2,000 on…
Our Deadliest Streets
The Department of Public Health (DPH) has released the latest High Injury Network (HIN) map, using 2024 data to identify San Francisco’s deadliest streets. The good news is that Potrero…
Community Calendar: June 2026
Now through 6/27 SaturdayArt: Ward SchumakerThis survey brings together Schumaker’s paintings from the past twenty years, as well as a selection of original books hand-painted by the artist. Tuesday –…
Big Art Loop
Taylor Snowberger The Big Art Loop, a 34-mile trail encircling San Francisco that links more than 100 artworks, was launched by the Siljbrandij Foundation two years ago. The route includes the eastern…
Publisher’s View: Future
The Potrero View is San Francisco’s longest running neighborhood newspaper. For almost 56 years, every month – except for an occasional December – the View has appeared at Farley’s, The…
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Traffic Safety Last month, at Fourth and Channel streets – where in February a driver ran a red light, killing a two-year-old and injuring her mother – municipal officials installed…
Community Calendar: May 2026
5/3 SundayCommunity: Empty BowlsEmpty Bowls will benefit the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, combining art and activism to fight food insecurity. For $65 choose from an array of hand-crafted bowls donated…
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Vigilante Safety Frustrated by what they believe to be a lackluster response from municipal officials after a motorist killed a toddler at Fourth and Channel streets, a group of traffic…
Implications of California College of the Arts Closure Becoming Clearer
On January 13, 2026, California College of the Art’s students, faculty and staff woke up to an unexpected email. The message, from the college’s president, David Howse, announced that CCA…
Community Calendar: April 2026
4/3 FridayMusic: Golden Gate Park’s Free Happy Hour Concert in the ParkIlluminate LIVE is back at Golden Gate Bandshell for its sixth season of free outdoor concerts, with more than…
