Publisher’s View: San Francisco
PV Staff Take this quiz to determine if you’re a real San Franciscan! 1) Which vehicle would you rather be stuck behind? a) A Cruise or Waymo driverless vehicle.b) An Uber driver…
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Potrero View Staff Money for Housing Various state agencies, including the California Department of Housing and Community Development, are gifting the City and County of San Francisco $163.6 million to build new homes…
Letters to the Editor: October 2023
Editor, Potrero Hill is crisscrossed with high voltage power cables. In event of a significant earthquake some of these will fall on to old wooden houses. At the top of…
Hill Resident Lucho Ramirez Nurtures Latino Film Festival
Lisa Ryers In 2008 Lucho Ramirez founded Cine+Mas SF, showcasing 15 independent films from the Spanish-speaking world. Today, the festival screens about 70 features a year, including eight short programs. Most of…
Community Calendar: October 2023
10/13 Friday through 11/4 SaturdayTheater: ReOrient Festival of Short PlaysGolden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, reprises its signature ReOrient Festival of Short Plays,…
Publisher’s View: Beyond Buzzed
It’s 1:30 a.m. Debbie and I are sound asleep, naked under the covers, when our daughter, Sara, along with her cousin, Sophia – both college seniors home for the summer…
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Potrero View Staff Editorial Tapped Out Harmonic Brewing will close its Dogpatch taproom at the end of October, a few months after Potrero Hill’s Anchor turned off its taps. Harmonic founders Jon Verna and…
Letters to the Editor: September 2023
Editor, As a longtime Potrero Hill resident I’ve seen a lot of changes in our neighborhood. We’ve faced many challenges from greedy developers and municipal agencies. For example, the San…
Community Calendar: September 2023
Community: West SoMA CleanupJoin the Civic Joy Fund, RefuseRefuseSF, Shine On, San Francisco Public Works, and TogetherSF for a friendly neighborhood cleanup! Volunteers will clean for one hour, then enjoy…
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Anchor Drop After Anchor Brewing Company announced it was shutting down last month several San Franciscans, as well as the brewery’s union, indicated they wanted to purchase the brand. Anchor…
Publisher’s View: 53
Steven J. Moss The View doesn’t have so much a business model as a business prayer. Every month, we hope that enough ads are booked, subscriptions taken, and donations received that we can…
Community Calendar: August 2023
8/4 FridayDance: Bollywood Dance at Salesforce ParkHailing from the dream dance city of Mumbai and Amritsar, also home to Bollywood and Holy Vibes, these energetic, charismatic, and fun dance instructors-performers-entertainers,…
Publisher’s View: Go Fish
Phishing texts – smishing – regularly pop up on our cellphones. These obscure messages are purportedly from people who know us, or sent by innocent mistake, but their real purpose…
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Anchor Away Julie Christensen, executive director of the Dogpatch & NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District, who turns 70 this month, will be leaving that position in November to “rewire.”…
Community Calendar: July 2023
7/1 SaturdayCommunity: Thrive City Block PartyFeaturing carnival-style attractions, local food and beverage vendors, roaming entertainers, a pet costume contest, live entertainment, Golden State Warriors shop sidewalk sale, and more! 11…
Shipwrecked in San Francisco
Chaitanya Tondepu Sirens and castaways, drag and modern dance, a shipwreck in a nightclub. We Build Houses Here, performed last May at Oasis, showcased each of these elements intermingling like tidal forces.…
Publisher’s View: Worry
“At least now that your kids are well beyond grownup,” I said to my 88-year-old mom, “you don’t have to worry about them anymore.” “I still worry,” she retorted. “I…
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Parking Pain Dogpatch, along with Fisherman’s Wharf, is first in line to be subjected to longer metered parking hours. Starting in July, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will extend…
Institute of Contemporary Art Works to Interpret Cultural Moments
Vivien Wang According to The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s (ICA SF) founding director, Ali Gass, the always-free, non-collecting museum was conceived amidst the depths of the pandemic and racial reckonings…
Community Calendar: June 2023
6/3 SaturdayBooks: Book Sale Block PartyJoin Friends of the San Francisco Public Library for a day of literary fun! Featuring more than 10,000 books, comics, media and vinyl on sale,…
Dogpatch Family’s Entire Belongings Stolen from U-Haul
Rebekah Moan At the end of March, Deanna Borbon and René Felbermayr packed a U-Haul to move to Los Angeles with their two small children and left it parked on Texas Street…
Publisher’s View: Lonely
“I’m bored,” my adolescent self would periodically announce to my mother, who’d generally respond by telling me to go play outside without lifting her eyes from whatever book she was…
Short Cuts: May 2023
Bus Fires A dozen “smallish” privately owned buses went up in flames last month beneath Interstate 280 in Dogpatch. Firefighters extinguished the blaze in just under an hour. No injuries…
Letters to the Editor: May 2023
Editor, As a local resident, taxpaying homeowner and San Franciscan since 1998, I laud the improvement of our city parks, including Jackson, and our commitment to park improvements. However, I…
Community Calendar: May 2023
Now through 7/23 SundayArt: Ansel Adams in Our TimeFor many of us Ansel Adams’ photographs are as familiar as corporate logos. The first time we saw them they were stunning,…
