‘Blockheads’ Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Rebekah Moan “Blockheads,” an art installation in Woods Yard Park, across from Rickshaw Bagworks, is artist Dave Warnke’s favorite project. Warnke creates public art – stickers, posters, and other temporary pieces –…
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Summer Stride of Library Love
Jason Rosenbury “Summer Stride is our biggest program,” said San Francisco Public Library Mission Bay Branch Manager Jana De Brauwere. “We prepare all year for it.” As part of Summer Stride, the…
Community Calendar: April 2025
PV Staff 4/3 ThursdayArt: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free Admission DayResidents of the nine Bay Area counties can enjoy complimentary art-filled galleries and related events. 12 to 8 p.m. Buy…
Community Calendar: August 2024
Now through 8/17 SaturdayArt: The Dump ShowStuff gets sorted daily at the San Francisco dump. From this detritus, 20 artists created works exhibited at this show. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday:…
California College of the Arts Accused of Antisemitism
Jessica Zimmer In June, The Deborah Project, a Massachusetts-based public interest law firm, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the California College of the…
Community Calendar: June 2024
Now through 6/9 SundayFilm: San Francisco Documentary Film FestivalThis year’s festival offers 90 new films from the Bay Area and around the world with options to stream or enjoy in-person.…
San Francisco Flower Market to Bloom Next Year
Dwiveck Custodio After a decade of evolving relocation plans and construction delays, the San Francisco Flower Market will open at its new Potrero Hill location the first half of 2024. The move…
Smuin Contemporary Ballet to Celebrate its 30th Anniversary Next Year
With nearly $5 million budgeted for the 2023-2024 season, its largest ever operating expenditure level, Smuin Contemporary Ballet is working to make up a roughly $112,000 funding reduction from San…
Short Cuts
No More Needles The California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) has decided to shutter the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM), which first opened in 1980. ACTCM will no…
Community Calendar
11/2 WednesdayPolitics: District 10 Supervisor DebatesFeaturing District 10 candidates Supervisor Shamann Walton and Brian Sam Adam. 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Food and refreshments 5 to 6 p.m. Free. Bayview…
Thank You!
The View is deeply grateful to all those who contributed to its May gofundme campaign. Almost one hundred people collectively donated close to $9,000. These funds will serve as a…
Community Calendar – January 2020
1/4/20 Saturday through 1/19/20 SundayFamily: Complimentary Ice Skating LessonsLearn from professional skate instructors, offered to those over three years-old, skate rental included. Reservations required, available one week in advance. Limited…
Speaker in the House
Potrero View Staff Editorial A group of KQED members touring the station last month were delighted to run into Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as she left her interview with Nina Kim for…
Op-Ed: Sharing is Caring
Adi Norris What I did on Saturday June 10th wasn’t how I ordinarily spent the weekend. My family – mom, dad and I – assembled and delivered 10 care packages to 10…
Community Calendar: June 2017
Potrero View Staff Now through September Photography: Landscapes Tom Reed’s black and white images give a bow to Zen, a nod to Ansel Adams, and an open heart to the Earth’s intense natural…
McKinley Square Maintained by Volunteers
Kyle Borland Nestled at the corner of Vermont, San Bruno and 20th streets, the sun-drenched 100-year old McKinley Square Park, named after President William McKinley shortly after his death, is the focus…
The Incredible, Edible, Egg
Fooducate It used to be that when you’d go to the grocery store to purchase a dozen eggs all you’d have to worry about is whether or not any were cracked.…
Soccer and Basketball Offered for the Wee Ones in Jackson Park
Michael Iacuessa On Monday mornings in Jackson Park one might find a few waddling penguins dribbling eggs through a grassy version of the Arctic. That’s if you can get into the mind…
Mutiny Radio Continues its Rebellion
The original logo for Mutiny Radio, which can still be seen above the station’s doorway at 21st and Florida streets, depicts a hand reaching out of the sea gripping a…
Richard Reineccius: February 16, 1937 to February 5, 2016
Richard Reineccius, a pioneer in the Bay Area’s midsize theater scene and San Francisco’s neighborhood arts programs, died at Oakland’s Altenheim Senior Housing Center on February 5, just 11 days…
“Monster Homes” Pit Neighbors Against One Another
Jacob Bourne With average square footage home prices hovering at $1,100 in Potrero Hill, property owners have a rich incentive to max-out expansions, extensions, and construction of new structures. High demand and…
Playground Takes over Thick House
Jim Van Buskirk Thick House opened in 1996 in the Goodman 2 live-work building. In the two decades since, the 78-seat, simple, unadorned performance space, owned by the nonprofit Art Space Development Corporation…