Short Cuts
PV Staff Curry Fouled Thirty Ink — a collection of Stephen Curry’s eight businesses and 13 entities — pulled out of a Dogpatch development project due to a dispute with the carpenters…
Ongoing Features
Galleria Tile Inspired by Three Generations of the Visona Family
Jenna Duncan In the heart of San Francisco’s Design District, at 16th and Kansas streets, Galleria Tile offers a showroom that invites guests to encounter new ideas in flooring and tile. The…
Community Calendar: May 2025
Now through May 24Art: Ward SchumakerSelected works, from 2003 to present, from Pennsylvania Avenue resident Ward Schumaker. The Fourth Wall, 473 25th Street, Oakland. 5/3 SaturdayCommunity: Y for Youth Community…
Publisher’s View: Government
Steven J. Moss I became a federal employee in 1985, skirting a government-wide hiring freeze by vaunt of being a Presidential Management Intern (PMI), a program intended to recruit the “best and the…
Short Cuts
View Dimmed A steady decline in contributions, coupled with a precipitous drop in advertising, has placed The Potrero View on the list of media outlets in danger of folding. Months…
Publisher’s View: Land Trusts
Kings Canyon, Sequoia, and Yosemite are visited by upwards of five million people a year, fulfilling the National Park Service’s writ to preserve natural resources “for the enjoyment, education, and…
Short Cuts
Trash Talk Last fall, Recology paid ratepayers $24 million after municipal regulators determined that the privately held waste disposal company had overcharged its customers. It made similar payouts in 2022,…
Letters to the Editor
Editor, Apropos of “Green Benefit District to Wilt Unless Property Owners Opt to Renew,” (February), rather than limiting decision making to a board, why not let all property owners vote…
Community Calendar: March 2025
Now through 3/9 SundayTheater: Volpone Volpone (The Fox) is a Venetian gentleman who pretends to be on his deathbed after a long illness to dupe Voltore (The Vulture), Corbaccio (The…
Burglars Use Mail Key to Access Multiple Dogpatch Buildings
Rebekah Moan A Dogpatch condominium building was burglarized twice, along with a third attempt, in the span of four days earlier this year. Instead of smashing windows or picking locks, the criminals…
Publisher’s View: Too Much Wisdom
Steven Moss will turn 65-years-old this fall, an upcoming passage that prompted him to share the “wisdom” he’s acquired over the past six decades and a half. Despite Hollywood’s constant…
Short Cuts
EV Chargers Under a municipal pilot program, curbside electric vehicle charging stations will be installed in Dogpatch. The experiment is examining ways to make EV charging accessible to residents who…
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, San Francisco Safe, which was mentioned in “Burglaries Beset Dogpatch, Potrero Hill,” (January), closed last year. A scandal involving misspent funds from municipal coffers and a crypto billionaire…
Rebirth
Chaitanya Tondepu If you’re lucky, or work at it, the regularity of life is occasionally marked by transformative moments that create a bridge between dispirited endings and promising beginnings. Anna Hennessey’s immersive…
Community Calendar: February 2025
2/1 Saturday through 3/8 SaturdayCraft: Hat Knit-AlongA beginner-friendly six-week hat knitting course led by Hannah Milstein, a multimedia artist, former teacher, and knitting wizz. The knit-along will break down a…
Publisher’s View: The Potrero View
“Mobile Drug Clinic for Hill Rejected,” “Assault Wave Hits Elders,” “Community Tree Planting Gets Underway.” These headlines, published in The Potrero View’s August 1970 inaugural issue, aren’t so different from…
Short Cuts
BioLabs The Dogpatch Neighborhood Association (DNA) and Potrero Boosters withdrew their Board of Appeals claim that the San Francisco Planning Commission “abused its discretion in determining the project was not…
Community Calendar: January 2025
Now through 3/6 Thursday (select dates)History: Alcatraz Buy One Get One Free TicketsAlcatraz City Cruises is offering a buy one, get one free ticket promotion available only to state residents…
For The Love of Letters
Mark Steensland Graphic designer Rob Saunders founded the Letterform Archive ten years ago as a place to share his personal collection of graphic arts ephemera with the public and preserve the history…
Short Cuts
Impaled San Francisco Fire Department officers, responding to reports of a traumatic injury in Potrero Hill, found a man in his 40s who had “impaled himself somewhere in the groin…
Letters to the Editor
Editor, I wanted to take a moment to say how much I enjoyed Rebekah Moan’s article on our neighbor, filmmaker Stephen Lewis (“Hill Resident Stephen Lewis Creates Feature-Length Documentary,” October).…
Publisher’s View: More Wisdom
Steven Moss turned 64-years-old last fall, a passage that prompted him to share the “wisdom” he’s acquired over the past six decades and a half. In the olden days people…
Community Calendar: December 2024
Now through 12/31 TuesdayAnimals: SF SPCA Festival Windows SPCA’s adoptable puppies and kittens are ready to find their forever homes as they romp and play in the windows. Animal-assisted therapy…
Fiction: The Sounds of Silence
“I haven’t spoken to her in twenty-two years, and I don’t intend to start now,” my mother proclaimed, scrubbing at the already clean counter to emphasize her point. “But Mom,…
Short Cuts
Dogbio In an eight-to-two vote in September the San Francisco Board of Supervisors exempted MBC BioLabs’ proposed 700 Indiana Street project from further environmental review. District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton…
