Mission District

"The End of San Francisco" -- according to Mattilda

Eric Jansen — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:29:43 +0000

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, the provocative, angry, queer anti-assimilationist writer, is back on Out in the Bay, 7pm Thursday, with her latest ... manifesto? Or memoir? (Even though she’s only 40-ish.) In The End of San Francisco, Mattilda deals with family, incest, gay sex work, the digital ruination of our City by the Bay, political correctness and its stifling effect on activism and even simple conversation, and much more. Join Mattilda and host Eric Jansen for what we hope is, in Mattilda’s words, another “delicious conversation” about life, struggles, triumphs -- ours and the cities we live in.

The vibrant ‘muralismo’ of San Francisco’s Mission District

Hana Baba — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:20:05 +0000

Street art has long been at the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. With its colorful wall murals, it has been called the largest concentration of public painting in the world, embodying culture, passion, and activism. It would be quite a treat if you could see hundreds of the Mission's murals in one place – well, now you can.

Commentary: Hipsters and Latino culture in the Mission

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:46:17 +0000

Living in San Francisco, one becomes familiar with the variety in culture, each one seeming to have its own neighborhood. For Hispanics and Latinos, this neighborhood is the Mission.