Mission District

Mission District

In Venice, two electronic counters track its decline. One is on the Morelli pharmacy, in Rialto, in the San Marco district, the most depopulated, and shows the number of residents: last Tuesday it read 47,461 (when it was installed in 2008, the number was 60,704, and in 1977, 100,000). The other is at the Marco Polo bookshop, on the other side of the bridge, in the Campo Santa Margherita, a more residential area. It shows the number of beds for tourists: on Tuesday, it read 52,541. There are already more tourists than people living in Venice.

This weekend's closure affects 19th Avenue between Sloat Boulevard and Holloway Avenue. Crews are working on the northbound lanes during the day and the southbound lanes at night. One lane remains open for public transit, emergency responders and local traffic. Caltrans is urging drivers to use alternate routes. "We're really pushing Junipero Serra this weekend, but you c

San Francisco's historic Bayview district, tucked between a freeway and the bay, is a sprawling commercial, residential, and light-industrial corridor on the city's southeastern edge. It is the least photographed neighborhood in one of the world's most photogenic cities. It contains a toxic cleanup site at the Hunters Point Shipyard. Tour buses don't stop here except to refuel overnight.

Excavators were seen scaling steep terrain above the Merced River on Tuesday as Caltrans advanced the Ferguson Rock Shed Project, a plan decades in the making.

Opened to the public in 1993, YBCA was founded as the cultural anchor of San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood. Our work spans the realms of contemporary art, performance, film, civic engagement, and public life. Centering artists as essential to social and cultural movement, YBCA is reimagining the role an arts institution can play in the community it serves.

Crews will limit a roughly 5-mile stretch of northbound I-5 to only one lane beginning Thursday night and lasting weekdays through June 30, according to a news release Thursday. The closures, part of an $1.5 million emergency pavement repair project, start near Mokelumne City, a ghost town in San Joaquin County, and stretch to Lambert Road, south of Elk Grove.

San Diego police Monday swarmed an Islamic center and mosque amid reports of an active shooter in the area. It was unclear the extent of the injuries, but police urged people to avoid the area near a mosque in the Clairemont district. Scores of officers were on the scene, according to TV footage.

A 30-year-old man found stuck in a wall void space near Brewjee and Maya Cinemas in Salinas was taken to the hospital after police responded to the scene around 6:15 a.m. Sunday. According to initial information from the Salinas Fire Department, the man fell from the roof of Maya Cinemas near the lettering. It was estimated that he slid down at least 22 feet. Officials said he was not an employee, and it remains unknown why he was on the roof.

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ML: My understanding is that there used to be a big Italian community here in Excelsior. Julie Clima: It was all Italian in 1946. Italian and Irish, which is what we are. I mean, I'm Italian, she's (gesturing toward Leila Moylett) Italian and Irish. ML: How do you think that changed? LM: People just moved. And they got older. The kids want to take their kids down the Peninsula and raise them. They sell their homes.

“The drinks aren't too expensive, and you can smoke cigarettes, and that's pretty much it.” Boyden is more introspective: “The upstairs is kind of cool. Um, Hemingway wrote here. What was the other dude's name?”

Dress up for some country line dancing, an I Love Boosters screening for the fashion set, and summer along Piedmont Avenue. Make Memorial Day weekend your own at Bottle Rock shows, Carnaval in the Mission, and sensory experiences with MoAD, Wente Vineyards, and the Presidio Theatre. For the ultimate pre-game, head to AAPI Cocktail Week's opening party Sunday night.

The Catalyst Club is one of the city's longest-running music venues. The building that houses the Catalyst Club was put up for sale in 2025 and is now the proposed site of a seven-story mixed-use building. Over the past several months, Santa Cruz residents have expressed strong opposition to the project and have been looking for ways to preserve the cultural icon.

San Jose is planning to slash its funding for immigrant protection services in half amid a budget deficit, while immigrants continue to face fear of federal enforcement. The city's proposed operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year allocates $500,000 for legal defense services and education - half of what the city allocated last year. Immigration advocates said it isn't enough to keep up with the demands of providing free legal services to a local population worried about being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. They want the city to restore full funding.

According to 2017 FBI data, the average size of a police department is 2.4 sworn officers per 1,000 citizens or 3.3 total staff (sworn officers and other personnel) per 1,000 citizens . With San Jose's population estimate for 2024 coming in at 997,368 people, the San Jose Police force would need 2,393 sworn-in officers patrolling San Jose's streets and a total staff of 3,291.

Alderete calls himself a "Pocho," a person of Mexican descent who grew up in the United States. He incorporates Spanglish - a mix of English and Spanish - in his writings, which pay homage to the Mission District and his identity as a Chicano poet. He's written four books, and been invited to perform in Argentina and Mexico.

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