A Day at Potrero Del Sol Skatepark
Front tails, 360 pops, and high ollies. By FIDEL GOLDEN-REYNA & BETTY BASTIDAS
View ArticleBayarenos Celebrate Sotomayor
A Supreme Court Justice brings out the Puerto Rican in the Miission. By BETTY BASTIDAS
View ArticleStreet Food Festival
Delicious food, fun times, and long lines at the San Francisco Street Food Fest. By BETTY BASTIDAS and ANDREA VALENCIA
View ArticlePoetry Takes Over 16th St. BART Station
A dosage of poetry on the street corner. By BETTY BASTIDAS
View ArticleVIDEO: Drumming in Dolores Park
The beat goes on in Dolores Park. By VICTOR GREENE, DEANDRE JONES and DAVID BARRIENTOS
View ArticleMission High Chess Champion: The Will to Win
This video about chess champ William Sanchez was put together by Mission High students with the help of Betty Bastidas, Astrid Bonilla and Jennifer Colker.
View ArticleToday Is SF Food Fest, a Look Back at 2009
Today at 11 a.m. the San Francisco Food festival takes off on Folsom to feed some 50,000 visitors. We thought you would enjoy this look back at 2009 that Andrea Valencia and Betty Bastides put...
View ArticleMixed Media: Financial Fluency at 16
By BETTY BASTIDAS “You need to have the best possible banker relationship you can have,” said Alec Tatum, a sophomore at Mission High during a Financial Literacy Workshop given to a class of more than...
View ArticleMission Wheels Part III: Box Dog Bikes
By BETTY BASTIDAS On our next stop, Mission Wheels rolled (okay, walked) into a worker-owned cooperative that aims to sell new and used bikes to everyday riders. Located on 14th and Guerrero, Box Dog...
View ArticleLove Ain’t Easy
By BETTY BASTIDAS “I have friends that are gay, are in interracial relationships so yes, it definitely relates to a lot of students at this school,” said Cedric Bowser, a senior at Mission High and an...
View ArticleToday and This Week’s Mission 06.07.09
Today’s big news is, obviously, Sunday Streets, the mission sunny and car-free––what a wonderful way to bring the city together. From 10am until 2pm, 24th street, 19th Street and part of Valencia were...
View ArticleToday’s Mission 06.09.09
So what’s the word on the street today? For starters, Foolsfury, a San Francisco based theater ensemble, is opening FURY Factory 2009 featuring “cutting edge ensemble theater” and starting TONIGHT...
View ArticleMission Wheels Part IV: Mission Bicycle
On our fourth stop, Mission Wheels strolled to the newest shop in the Mission––Mission Bicycle Company who just opened up last month. Located on Valencia near 19th street, Mission Bicycle, run by a...
View ArticleApricot: We Jammin
By BETTY BASTIDAS & LOLA CHAVEZ On a recent Wednesday, 80 people came to La Cocina, a community kitchen on Folsom, to pick up 720 jars of homemade apricot jam. More than 20 people took part in...
View ArticleREVIEW: THE BARBER OF EAST L.A.
By BETTY BASTIDAS A small black stage comes alive as three queer Latina women, dressed in white button down shirts hanging over black pants, recite from music stands, at times in unison: “There is a...
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