The Mission News

A two-alarm fire was controlled at a building in San Francisco about an hour after it was reported this afternoon, a fire dispatcher said.

Curry Up Now's S.F. debut has been pushed back slightly. Peninsula-based Indian taco truck biz Curry Up Now had hoped to roll into San Francisco this week, but owner Akash Kapoor is now hoping to debut here during the first week of January.

A plume of smoke could be seen for miles Sunday as a fire raged at an apartment building in San Francisco's Mission District, sending residents running for safety.

Hey, now! Tablehopper tells me Front Porch is doing lunch now, Wednesday through Friday.A Delightful! According to their website , the menu includes fried oysters, slow roasted meat po' boy of the day, catfish, and seasonal veggie po'boys. No more waiting for a table at Brenda's for two hours for some gumbo, dudes.A Well, at least not Wednesday ...

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Squeal!A Eye on Blogs posted a video report about Muni street name mispronounciations.

The day many, many yogis in San Francisco have long been waiting for has finally arrived Much-loved yoga teaching phenom Rusty Wells is opening his own studio, an appropriately edgy urban space that straddles the border of downtown and the Mission.

I was checking out the Cartoon Art Museum and saw this sweet original page from Spain Rodriguez ' "Mission Nites" comic.

Mission Mission received an emailA this morning from Kai Hsing, founder/writer/producer/editor of The Quotidian , an ongoing documentary project that aims to capture how people are finding new ways to create change in their communities.A From Kai: I thought you should know about our latest story that goes behind the scenes of Mission Street Food, ...

I always hit up Taqueria Vallarta after a show at Blue Six . The $1.50 taco bar is second to none.

San Francisco is home to many artisan chocolate makers. Not surprising considering San Francisco's love affair with chocolate has been going on for over 150 years.

My favorite MM comment section hater sends us a tip about a merchant's holiday party happening this Friday, featuring slashed prices and drink specials.

Quick, where's the last place you'd expect a mission tribute band to come from? Concord was my first guess too but my second was Ontario, Canada.

Has this existed for months?A I've never noticed.A Today was the first time I came across LEOS HOTDOGS, an enterprise of CESAR ASCARRUNZ's, in front of 24th St.

The Wall Street Journal actually produced an interesting piece on how "yupsters" and capitalists made a shitty part of Oakland cool and profitable.

I had never been down to Clooney's before but commenters constantly mentioned this as potentially one of the diviest shitholes in the Mission.

Last night, Mission Gardens at 1880 Mission St. , a six-story building approved just about four years ago, got another entitlement extension - a two-year one, through October 2011.

This weekend only at Intersection for the Arts. KML are donating 25% of the ticket sales to the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness .

The Chronicle's Michael Bauer posted an interesting idea this morning: that each neighborhood has a restaurant that captures its essence.A He encouraged readers to write in with suggestions but prefaced that "if you live in the Mission, there are too many to list." Cop out!A Curious as to what you Missionites would pick.A I assume suggestions ...

A man who stabbed a woman on a San Francisco Municipal Railway train Monday morning resembles the suspect sought in the stabbing of an 11-year-old boy on a Muni bus in September, police said.