VOTE: June 7, 2022
PV Staff United States Representative, District 11: Nancy Pelosi. Our hometown congressional hero is awesome, and remains if not at, close to, political peak power. That said, please Nancy, retire gracefully when…
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Taught in Potrero Hill
Lee Stuart Eastern medicine – which focuses on treating the person rather than the symptoms – has been practiced for more than 3,000 years, with medical texts that date to the Han…
Pelton Cottages Evidence of Lived History in Dogpatch
Steven Fidel Herraiz Passersby may have noticed two rows of identical bungalows huddled together on Tennessee and Minnesota streets near 22nd. These are Pelton Cottages – 1002, 1004, 1008, 1010, 1012, and 1014…
Chatz Bids Potrero Hill a Fond Farewell
There’s been a coffee shop at 301 Arkansas Street for the last 22 years. Not anymore. Masoud, who owned and operated Chatz since 2005, reluctantly had to close the business…
Dogpatch, Potrero Hill to Stay in District 10
Jessica Zimmer After weeks of heated debate and threats of lawsuits the nine-member San Francisco Redistricting Task Force adopted a final draft map for supervisorial districts last month. Under the plan Bayview,…
Muni Pursues New Bus Routes and Bike Lanes
Julie Zigoris As the pandemic hopefully wanes, Muni lines have been restored, altered, and temporarily or permanently abandoned. The 55 Dogpatch began service last January, replacing the 22 Fillmore, which’d shifted the…
Legislation Stalls Amazon Warehouse
Amazon has paused development of a proposed 5.8-acre parcel delivery facility at 900 Seventh Street in response to municipal legislation passed earlier this year. The location is the site of…
Potrero Annex-Terrace Residents Concerned about Air Quality
Potrero Annex-Terrace residents are concerned about periodic instances of high asbestos levels in the air caused by construction at 1801 25th Street and an associated lack of immediate notifications from…
California College of Arts Strike Ends after Four Days Without Resolution
John Ferrannini California College of the Arts’ unionized staff ended a four-day strike in February without an agreement with the school’s administration. The walkout was never intended to be indefinite, said Jennie…
San Francisco School Board Members Recalled
Last month San Francisco voters recalled three of the seven-member San Francisco School Board: Alison Collins, Gabriela López – who had served as board president – and Faauuga Moliga. Collins…
Potrero Deli Offers Taste of Community
Chef Dario Barbone’s specialty delicatessen, Alimentari Aurora, on 18th street, offers family meals, snacks – pintxos – small plates, and aperitifs. Opened in the fall of 2020, during stringent shelter-in-place…
Fewer Significant Fires, More Small Ones, in San Francisco
Brian Adam Since 2003, the San Francisco Fire Department has received 576,462 service calls. Roughly 20 percent of those, 110,305, originated from Bayview-Hunters Point, Mission Bay, Potrero Hill, Visitacion Valley, and South-of-Market.…
Happiness is a Frame of Mind
Frames on 3rd, located on the corner of Third and 22nd streets, beckons passersby with its simple storefront, its door typically open on a warm day. Owner Robb Dominguez can…
Amy Hosa Neighborhood Fitness Studios Persist Amidst Challenging Environment
Vivien Wang Forced to navigate COVID variants, shifting mask mandates, and cautious students, neighborhood fitness studios have experienced a rocky two years, in a time when maintaining well bodies and minds is…
Grizzly Bears to be Featured at Mission Creek Park
Max Blue Mission Creek Park, off Channel Street, will be home to a new public art installation by the end of next year; “The California Grizzlies of Mission Creek.” The two-part sculpture,…
Well-Educated Candidates Vie for Assembly Seat
Last fall, Mayor London Breed appointed then State Assemblymember David Chiu to be San Francisco City Attorney, filling the seat vacated by Dennis Herrera, who Breed selected to head the…
La Scuola Sites New Campus in the Mission
Rebekah Moan According to Head of School Valentina Imbeni, PhD., Italian-immersion La Scuola is delighted with its new campus in the Mission, but would’ve preferred to have stayed in Dogpatch, where its…
SFPUC Commissioner Sophie Maxwell Encourages More Activism
Michael Feliciano Former District 10 Supervisor, Sophie Maxwell, spends most mornings at Lake Merced, enjoying the scenic views and natural landscape that surrounds it. The lake, which now serves as an emergency…
Potrero Hill Shows Off Its Green Thumb
A bit more than five percent of District 10, which includes Dogpatch and Potrero Hill, consists of green space, compared to 13 percent for San Francisco as a whole. Residents…
The Beautiful Struggle
Beauty has a sordid history in art. Once held up as the most essential aesthetic principle, beauty has been championed, diminished, and had to fight for its value. An esthetic…
Living Large, the Musical, at the Potrero Stage Theater
Judy Goddess This month playwright/lyricist, Diane Sampson, and musician/cabaret performer, Lauren Mayer, will unveil what they accomplished during the pandemic. Living Large, their musical about the lives and loves of Marie Dressler,…
Books Inc.: A Truly American Tale
If you’ve made your way past 1501 Vermont Street you might’ve noticed Books Inc.’s unassuming office and warehouse, with its caricature of a friendly mustachioed sun hovering above the loading…
Life Sciences Complex Planned on Third Street
San Francisco developers Ronaldo Cianciarulo and Workshop1 want to develop a roughly 603,286 square feet life science laboratory complex on 3100 to 3150 Third Street, a property owned by 3150…
Affordable Housing
Steven J. Moss “It costs the same to build an “affordable” house as it does a market rate one,” my friend, Chris Block, presently San Francisco’s Chronic Homelessness Initiative Director, told me almost…