Community Calendar: September 2022
PV Staff Now through 11/1History: Black Excellence, Black InventionHave you ever wondered whom to thank for the common inventions that make our lives easier? For centuries, the inventions of Black/African Americans have…
Ongoing Features
Publisher’s View: Wildlands
Steven J. Moss California is blessed with an abundance of open spaces, protected in different fashion by a quilt of public and private entities. The federal government controls roughly half of all Golden…
Short Cuts: August 2022
Potrero View Staff Art Gift Venture capitalist David Hornik and philanthropist Pamela Hornik donated $1 million to the new Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco last month. The gift places the couple in…
Letters to the Editor, August 2022
Dear Friends and Neighbors, I’m writing to let you know that I’ve moved to Vermont to be with family. Thank you for your many kindnesses over the near 50 years…
Community Calendar: August 2022
Online8/2 TuesdayCareer: How to Ace Your Interview and Get the JoAvoid common mistakes and prepare for a successful interview. Presented by Lynn Winter Gross, MA, Jewish Vocational Services Career Advisor,…
Short Cuts
Election Results Much ink has been bled interpreting Chesa Boudin’s recall by 55 percent of San Francisco voters. Most believe that Boudin was a sacrificial lamb for pitchfork-carrying residents looking…
Letters to the Editor: July 2022
Editor, It’s a bit late but the subject sticks in my head. Why did you accept the advertisement “SF Taxpayer Association June 7 Recommendations” in the May issue? It was…
Community Calendar: July 2022
7/1 FridayEnvironment: San Francisco “Bacardi” Street CleanupHelp cleanup Dogpatch. All supplies provided. Stay afterwards for a free round on the house and meet fellow volunteers. Sign up at TogetherSF or…
Publisher’s View: Affordable Decarbonization
California faces a conundrum. We want to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), principally by replacing fossil fuels used in transportation and buildings with electricity generated by renewable energy. Yet,…
Community Calendar : June 2022
Now through 6/11 SaturdayArt: The Mail Art Club ExhibitionAt the beginning of the pandemic Creativity Explored artists mailed one another handmade postcards to stay connected, an experimental exchange of art…
Art Feature: June 2022
“Dusk on 17th” (on right) is taken from a photograph of 17th Street captured September 2020. The leftmost restaurant depicted is Connecticut Yankee. © Andrew Chou-Belden
Publisher’s View: Districts
Sad to say, we’ve drifted into a world in which this editor of a half-century old neighborhood newspaper feels a twinge of fear when contemplating writing about redistricting municipal supervisorial…
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Haney Wins District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney won last month’s special election for the District 17 State Assembly, trouncing David Campos, 63 percent to 27 percent, with fewer than 62,000…
Community Calendar: May 2022
Now through 5/13 FridayArt: Dennis Leon and the Art of Instruction This exhibit portrays Leon as a gifted artist and extraordinary teacher, displaying his recent work and that of 11…
Publisher’s View: Reparations
In Mendocino County, 523 acres of rugged forest is studded with the ghostlike stumps of ancient redwoods harvested during a logging boom that eliminated 90 percent of the species on…
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Esprit Park Late last year the Eastern Neighborhoods Citizens Advisory Committee (ENCAC) approved $800,000 for Esprit Park improvements, which’ll be used to pay for material and labor cost increases largely…
Community Calendar: April 2022
Now through 4/30 SaturdayArt: TEXERETEXERE: The Shape of Loss Is a Tapestry, by Indira Allegra, is a living, interactive memorial to loss. A garden of hanging tapestries acts as a…
“Black Magic” at San Francisco Arts Commission
Max Blue In 2010, Ron Moultrie Saunders and William Rhodes co-founded the San Francisco-based 3.9 Art Collective to help make Black artists and arts professionals in San Francisco visible to one another…
Letters to the Editor, March 2022
Editor, We’re writing to correct inaccurate comments made by Alison Heath in her January editorial, “Hidden Hazards at 300 De Haro Street.” It’s disappointing that Ms. Heath chose to misrepresent…
Publisher’s View: Death
I had a vision, or perhaps it was a dream, of my death. I was sitting by myself on a Northern California cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The place was…
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Potrero View Staff Editorial Drum Licks Last month, Arkansas Street resident Dawn Richardson launched a music education platform, Online Drum Lessons, featuring two courses: Drumming Basics and Beginner to Band. The fundamentals class features…
Community Calendar: March 2022
Now through 6/5 SundayDesign: Living with ScentsOdors are perceived with every breath we take and interpreted by our brain’s most ancestral parts. In the hands of contemporary designers, whose job…
Arts Calendar: March 2022
Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., through March 12.“Hid It Well in a Walnut Shell” at Ratio 3Daisy May Sheff’s paintings are playful and a little bit unsettling,…
Publisher’s View: The Theranos Dilemma
Last month Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of defrauding investors out of a boatload of cash by falsely claiming that her company, Theranos, would transform blood testing with technology that…
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Concrete Timber For nearly a decade cross-laminated timber — a layered material billed as “the concrete of the future” — has been widely used in Europe and Canada because of…
