Potrero Hill Festival Returns
Kayren Hudiburgh On October 17th the 26th annual Potrero Hill Festival returns to 20th Street, offering a day of fun, food, music, and crafts, plus a dazzling display of aerial arts. This…
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Catherine Clark Brings Art to Potrero Hill
David C. Ridings Catharine Clark, a native San Franciscan and art gallery owner, has worked with visual artists from across the globe for more than two decades. Her Utah Street-based Catherine Clark Gallery…
Film Reveiw: Beyond Measure
Jim Van Buskirk “You can’t put ten, twenty, sometimes forty kids in a room and expect them all to learn the same material, at the same pace, with the same structure. Everybody has…
San Francisco Art Studios Open this Month
Austin Padilla Each year, Potrero Hill-based ArtSpan hosts a citywide month-long event, SF Open Studios. With nearly a thousand contributing artists, SF Open Studios is a celebration of San Francisco’s art culture.…
Carpet Chronicles, Volume One
Paul McDonald Five years ago I was laid-off from a sales position at a Redwood City printing and packaging concern that was going out of business. For the next 18 months I…
Potrero Hill’s Independent Schools Thriving
Ben Taylor With summer break receding into the distance, Potrero Hill’s independent school classrooms are once again abuzz with energy, as students and teachers immerse themselves in the business of making friends,…
Potrero Hill; Dogpatch Adopt Nation’s First Green Benefit District
Barry Eitel After roughly three years of community advocates’ organizing, petitioning and planning, on July 31 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the establishment of a Greens Benefit District (GBD)…
Change a Constant in San Francisco
Catherine Accardi People have been coming to, moving out of, and sometimes returning to San Francisco since before the 1800s, and likely well before that. Often times new immigrants to California would…
Democratic Club Endorses Mirkarimi and Aragon
Nikolas Zelinski Last month, the Potrero Hill Democratic Club (PHDC) sponsored a debate at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House that featured candidates running for Sheriff and the Board of Trustees, City College…
Senior and Disability Advocates Challenge Bus Route Change
Keith Burbank Advocates for seniors and people with disabilities are challenging the rerouting of the 33-Stanyan bus away from Potrero Avenue and San Francisco General Hospital. The activists argue that the change…
Pier 70 Designs Taking Shape
Jessica Zimmer Over the past year, the Port of San Francisco, developers – Orton Development, Inc. and Forest City Enterprises, Inc. – and the ship repair company, BAE Systems, Inc., have held…
Tests Indicate Modest Noise Levels from Mission Bay Helipad
Annika Darling When the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital opened last winter one of its features was San Francisco’s first rooftop helipad. The helideck allows critically ill newborns, children…
Municipal Activities Aim to Increase Bike Safety
Construction along Potrero Avenue – part of streetscape improvements managed by the San Francisco Department of Public Works in conjunction with the Municipal Transit Authority and the Public Utilities Commission…
Twirl and Dip in Potrero Hill
Paul Krantz On a sunny summer day Meg Hilgartner, dressed in all black except for neon blue and pink shoes, was dispensing soft-serve at her freshly opened Twirl & Dip location. The…
Hill Resident Raises $400,000 for Nepal Earthquake Relief
Rebekah Moan In April and May two earthquakes rocked Nepal. The tremblors devastated the country, destroying approximately 250,000 buildings and 20,000 schools. Nepal Social Educational Environmental Development Services, a San Francisco-based charity…
Paolo Mejia Opens New North Beach Art Gallery
This month artist and art gallery owner Paolo Mejia will re-open his namesake gallery on Grant Street, after operating it for two years in Hunters Point. Mejia first launched his…
San Francisco School Board Backs Away from Contract with Anti-Israel Group
A resolution by the San Francisco Board of Education to work with an Arab and a Vietnamese group to help develop new language programs sparked a two-month controversy that was…
Karen Larsen: Potrero Hill’s Publicist
Calling long-time Potrero Hill resident Karen Larsen a publicist is “both accurate and absurdly insufficient,” wrote film critic Michael Fox, in a 2011 online profile. Fox’s sketch of Larsen, prompted…
View Celebrates 45 Years of Community News
Lester Zeidman The idea of starting a print newspaper today would be seen as quaint. The ease of communicating in the Internet age is sharply different than the challenge faced 45 years…
Potrero1010 Complex to Start Leasing Units this Fall
With 453 residential units, a striking design and an acre of public space, Equity Residential (EQR) developers announced last month that they’ll begin preleasing apartments at Potrero1010 this October, with…
Affordable Housing Advocates Question Giants’ Mission Rock Development
In late-June, the San Francisco Giants submitted more than 16,000 signatures from San Francisco voters to the Department of Elections to place approval of their proposed Mission Rock development, under…
Developers Focus on Southside Neighborhoods
Ryan Bergmann An extraordinary amount of real estate development is occurring in the Southside neighborhoods, with nearly 5,000 units in the pipeline. These projects are transforming Dogpatch and Potrero Hill. What follows…
Coding Bootcamps Seen as a Way into the Techie Class
R. A. Schuetz “I’m here because I’m thinking about a career change,” said a woman holding a plastic cup of wine. She and roughly 20 others were gathered in a brightly-lit building that…
Vacant Mission Bay Lot to Become 20-Unit Apartment Building
Kimberly Gomes A new residential building is planned for a vacant lot located directly across the street from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Benioff Children’s Hospital, on the southeast corner…
SF Cheese Fest Coming to Dogpatch
Daphne O'Neal SF Cheese Fest, a fundraiser for the California Artisan Cheese Guild, will take place on September 19 at Dogpatch WineWorks. Billed as a celebration of cheese and cheesemakers, the event…
