Sabine Strauch Makes Wearable Art
Rebekah Moan Mission Bay resident Sabine Strauch didn’t intend to get into jewelry-making. The 27-year-old started oil painting as a teenager. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in…
Ongoing Features
Community Calendar: August 2025
PV Staff 8/1 Friday through 8/24 SundayTheater: SF PlayGround Free-Play FestivalThis four-week “fringe style” new works festival features 17 productions and 58 performances by artists from across the country. Presentations include improvised…
Publisher’s View: Loneliness
Steven J. Moss In 2023 the U.S. Surgeon General declared that America suffered from a “loneliness epidemic,” caused by shrinking participation in such communal outlets as Kiwanis Clubs and bowling leagues. Replacement activities…
Short Cuts
Behavior Changed Eighty-two Behavioral Health Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital residents, some long-timers, will have to move to enable the facility to be converted into a mental health…
Letters to the Editor
Editor, Thank you, Paul McDonald for the best laugh I have had in ages. Paul’s Op-Ed about TV ads is right on, very clever and priceless. I’m sharing it with…
Community Calendar: July 2025
Now through 8/1 FridayFilm: 2025 Anti-Fascist Film SeriesThe Anti-Fascist Film Series showcases five inspiring movies about people power overthrowing Fascism and restoring Democracy. 8 to 10 p.m., Fridays (no event…
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No Alliance Last month the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that the San Francisco Parks Alliance diverted at least $3.8 million earmarked for specific projects to cover its operating expenses as…
Community Calendar: June 2025
6/1 SundayNature: InsectpaloozaMeet arthropods from around the world, including the Australian Walking Stick, Giant African Millipede, and many more. Make insect-inspired art with local artists, bid on an African safari,…
Publisher’s View: The Pitt
At first the Max show, The Pitt, seems like a remake of ER, the ought-era television hospital procedural that launched George Clooney’s career. Noah Wyle, who played fresh-faced John Carter…
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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…
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
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…
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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
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…
