When we first heard the news about Niners DL Keion White being hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the ankle Monday, we did not know where the shooting took place just that it was at a party in the Mission District following the Super Bowl. Now we know that the incident occurred at or outside a party that the 27-year-old White himself was throwing at Dahlia, the tequila-focused bar/club that was formerly known as the Armory Club, at 1799 Mission Street.
Perez said that in a regular week, working just over 20 hours, she makes between $500 to $600. She was excited for the Super Bowl - she thought her sales might be far greater. But three city employees and two police officers came to her stall around 8:30 a.m. and told her not to set up for the upcoming week because the plazas needed to be cleaned for the Super Bowl. Perez's sales totaled zero last week.
Some look like the unhappy heart from the Un Verano Sin Ti album cover, and others take the form of the singer's original logo: a white bunny with crossed-out eyes. "We start with a basic image, but as you build the piñata, you find so many different ways to add more detail, texture and spark," Bustamante says. "When you present the piñata to a child on their big day, and you see their huge smile, that's the best part of the process."
Mission District street food vendors say new regulations drafted by the Department of Public Health could run them out of business. "Our community is already living with so much uncertainty, costs have risen and our stability is fragile," said Rosi Villanueva, in Spanish. Villanueva was one of two dozen street food vendors who gathered on Tuesday for a rally at the 24th Street BART station.
In an attempt to assuage concerns that the proposed four-story building to replace the shuttered Western Plywood warehouse at 2600 Harrison Street in the Mission is incompatible with the "design, scale and mass" of the neighborhood, Kerman Morris Architects has redesigned the project. The new design reduces the street-level wall along Harrison, includes a more open Production, Distribution & Repair (PDR) space, and adds an area with benches and raised planters along the street.
When Jose Villegas' grandparents died, he was in Mexico visiting with his mother. His grandmother, who had been ill for some time, died first, and his grandfather followed two weeks later. In the middle of grief, the mother, Delfina Villegas, and son looked at each other and asked: What will we do? The answer came just as easily: "We'll open a restaurant," the pair said.
Sometimes, Yohana Quiroz would ask her father - a skilled cobbler, who had been studying the craft since he was a child - why he repaired things for customers with such perfection and attention to detail. "This is the customer's favorite bag," Quiroz remembers him saying. "This is the customer's favorite shoe. This is their favorite jacket. I need to fix it."
Calle 24 Latino Cultural District presents EsquinaLatina-SF Artisan Holiday Bazaar Join us for Tapas, Cultural Drinks, Live Performances, Silent Auction and vendors selling locally made arts and crafts representing the Mission District and indigenous cultures. Santa will be visiting with his low-rider. Join us Saturday, December 06, 2025 from 12 PM to 6 PM at CANA 683 Florida St. SF. Ca. 94104
Pinky Midili is a stuffed animal-collecting, heavy metal-loving, tutu-wearing, self-proclaimed "biker rock star." Born Ronald Albert Midili, Pinky got his nickname from a pink one-piece tutu that he's often seen wearing around the neighborhood. He spent the last six years living in Arizona and traveling coast-to-coast in a "big" RV. Now, he lives at Jazzie's Place, a shelter in the Mission District for LGBTQ+ people.
In moments of urgency, it can be challenging to keep a grip on the rhythm of ordinary life. That's one of the many reasons we publish Fogcutter, SFGATE's weekly column of events, shoutouts and slices of life. Every Sunday, we write about hyperlocal art shows, concerts and cafes. We hope to provide an oasis of quiet when the headlines get loud - not to offer an escape, but some grounding.
Jeffrey Lucas, a longtime friend of KitKat, said the "funniest thing" he ever did with KitKat was "teach him Ukrainian." He taught the bodega cat two simple commands: De kit (Where's the cat?) and Kit tam (Cat's over there). Lucas recalled this while sitting at the end of the bar on Tuesday at Delirium, next to Randa's Market, the liquor store that KitKat called home.
Mission Hunan, a Chinese restaurant just steps from the 16th Street Mission BART plaza, is closing after 40 years, a server at the restaurant confirmed to SFGATE. The restaurant's building at 2960 16th St. is set to be demolished to make way for a new affordable housing project. Mission Hunan's final day of service will be Oct. 31, the server said.
For nearly 200 days, a large white police bus sat on one of the busiest transit plazas in San Francisco. And during that time, it cost the Mission District police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, according to Captain Sean Perdomo. The bus - a San Francisco Police Department "mobile command unit" - was meant to deter criminal activity like drug use and illegal vending at 16th and Mission streets.
At 10:49 p.m., Lt. Manilla Padilla instructed revelers in the Mission District to disperse, saying, "You have four minutes to leave the area to disperse." The police presence included dozens of officers and sheriff's deputies, equipped and prepared to enforce the dispersal.
