PV Staff Through October 11 Theater: CRANE In the world premiere of JC Lee’s CRANE, directed by Mina Morita and performed by Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company, when Sadako stumbles into a mountain…
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…
Fiction: Gold
Steven J. Moss This is chapter three of a serialized tale of politics, capitalism, and corruption in San Francisco. Look for the next fiction installment in each new issue of the View. “Mr.…
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,…
Police Work to Curb Auto Burglaries, Thefts
Keith Burbank Police in the Bayview district, which serves Potrero Hill and Dogpatch, made two automobile burglary arrests in the first two weeks of September, as they continue to struggle to counter…
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…
Publisher’s View: Grand Canyon
An elementary school cliché is the oft-mocked “what I did this summer” essay. It’s an attempt to link the unstructured chasm between one grade and the next, a chance for…
OP-ED: Too High?
John Farrell The San Francisco Giants want to transform a 28-acre industrial site located on Port property, currently used as a surface parking lot for baseball games, into a mixed-use $1.6 billion…
Short Cuts
Death The San Francisco Police Department is investigating the death of 23-year-old Melanie Olivieri as a possible homicide. Olivieri’s body was found at her home on the 1300 block of…
Letters to the Editor
Potrero View Staff Editorial Editor, I’m a long-time volunteer at Martin de Porres. Although I was pleased to see an article about us in your August paper, by Christopher Lefond, there were some unfortunate…
Senior and Disability Advocates Challenge Bus Route Change
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…
September 1st – Writing: Radar Reading Series at SF Library The RADAR Reading Series is a periodic event that features independent and underground writers, emerging voices and bona fide superstars.…
Karen Larsen: Potrero Hill’s Publicist
Jim Van Buskirk 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…
Fiction: Gold
This is chapter two of a serialized tale of politics, capitalism, and corruption in San Francisco. Look for the next fiction installment in each new issue of the View. Chester…
Library News
Jenny Scholten Please note that all San Francisco Public Library branches will be closed Monday, September 7 in observance of Labor Day. Programs for Adults Book-A-Librarian: Librarians Julieta and Jenny will answer…
