...Way down south of Cesar Chavez, Baby Blues BBQ is moving into the corner of Mission and Precita. It's the first NorCal offshoot of the Venice Beach restaurant, so you can peruse...

Published by Eater SF on October 10, 2008.

On the Market: "Renowned" Arch on 160 Manchester Street

Published by Curbed SF on October 10, 2008.

Saturday, November 1: Dia de los Muertes Resource Fair and Celebration needs your help this November 1st, 10 am–3 pm. The tenants association and the Bernal Neighborhood Center are putting on a resource fair for residents of Alemany and would like to extend an invitation to members of the community to help table this event and present their information and services. Also, if you are able to donate clothing or blankets the organizers will accept them currently at 515 Cortland Ave., San Francisco.

Published by Mission Dispatch on October 6, 2008.

Since 2005, San Franciscans have honored this unique holiday not only by creating mini–public parks but also by raising awareness about certain societal issues. In 2007, CC Puede, a grassroots coalition dedicated to making Cesar Chavez Street safe, used its PARK(ing) spaces on the Cesar Chavez and Valencia streets to provide free food and health exams.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 24, 2008.

After a foot-punishing girls' day out that includes some shopping on the Square, drop your H&M shopping bags and head over to Azul for a white sangria.

Published by SF Weekly on September 19, 2008.

A San Francisco store owner was shot to death last weekend in Novato. Police believe he may have been killed as retaliation for identifying suspects who had robbed his Bernal Heights Store last month.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on September 19, 2008.

Blay has been charged by San Francisco prosecutors with second-degree robbery and burglary, as well as firearms allegations for a recent armed robbery of the Nassar Market at 511 Crescent Ave., which Le owned, Derryck said.

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on September 18, 2008.

Blay has been charged by San Francisco prosecutors with second-degree robbery and burglary, as well as firearms allegations for a recent armed robbery of the Nassar Market at 511 Crescent Ave., which Le owned, Derryck said.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on September 18, 2008.

A member of the Mongols, 37-year-old Christopher Ablett of Modesto, is being sought by police in the Sept. 2 slaying of the leader of the Hells Angels' San Francisco chapter, Mark "Papa" Guardado, 46. Guardado was shot to death outside a Mission District bar about a mile from the Hells Angels' clubhouse on Tennessee Street, where he lived.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 18, 2008.

A member of the Mongols, 37-year-old Christopher Ablett of Modesto, is being sought by police in the Sept. 2 slaying of the leader of the Hells Angels' San Francisco chapter, Mark "Papa" Guardado, 46. Guardado was shot to death outside a Mission District bar about a mile from the Hells Angels' clubhouse on Tennessee Street, where he lived.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 18, 2008.

The network is available to certain residents in neighborhoods including the Mission, Bernal Heights, Haight Ashbury and North Beach, and Meraki hopes to expand coverage to neighborhoods such as the Richmond, Sunset, Excelsior and Marina by the end of the year.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on September 17, 2008.

The network is available to certain residents in neighborhoods including the Mission, Bernal Heights, Haight Ashbury and North Beach, and Meraki hopes to expand coverage to neighborhoods such as the Richmond, Sunset, Excelsior and Marina by the end of the year.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on September 17, 2008.

The network is available to certain residents in neighborhoods including the Mission, Bernal Heights, Haight Ashbury and North Beach, and Meraki hopes to expand coverage to neighborhoods such as the Richmond, Sunset, Excelsior and Marina by the end of the year.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on September 17, 2008.

Tong Van Le, 44,owner of Nasser Market in Bernal Heights and father of two, was murdered at his Navato home on Saturday. The widely assumed reason, according to SFPD, is because he testified against two suspects who robbed his store a month earlier. Police think that Le may have been followed home from his store to his house by the assailant(s). No arrests have been made.

Published by SFist on September 17, 2008.

In the East Bay, the Pleasant Hill location (60 Crescent Drive) will close next spring and move to a new building in Walnut Creek (1655 N. California Blvd.).

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 17, 2008.

The $20,000 campaign will be concentrated in three neighborhoods: The Mission, Bayview and Visitation Valley.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 16, 2008.

The $20,000 campaign will be concentrated in three neighborhoods: The Mission, Bayview and Visitation Valley.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 16, 2008.

There’s some cool art to see, and people from all over the place, and everyone’s into just hanging out, and there are none of the Mission vs. Marina social barriers we have to deal with back here because everyone’s pretty much dressed the same, which is in neon fake fur and goggles, and it’s not immediately apparent whether the person you’re talking to would be someone you’d talk to back in the real world or not.

Published by Mission Mission on September 16, 2008.

In the East Bay, the Pleasant Hill location (60 Crescent Drive) will close next spring and move to a new building in Walnut Creek (1655 N. California Blvd.).

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 16, 2008.

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Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 16, 2008.

Were they here to discuss the recent spike in shootings in the Mission District? The murder of a Western Addition teenager three days earlier? The effectiveness of gang injunctions in those neighborhoods? The upcoming march on City Hall of students from June Jordan High School demanding leadership from the mayor on the rise in violence?

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 16, 2008.

The Mission District has been swarming with police officers lately. They were present and visible in large numbers in recent weeks in an effort to stem a recent tide of mostly drug- and gang-related killings in the heavily immigrant neighborhood.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 16, 2008.

Amid a sea of reporters, I sat in a community meeting in the Mission District last week as city officials struggled to address the rash of homicides that have occurred in the past two weeks. As we listened to the endless chatter, I was greatly dismayed because we were avoiding the elephant in the room — the complete lack of trust between the police department and our communities of color.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 16, 2008.

The stakes couldn't be higher — and not just for the Mission, Potrero Hill, South of Market, and Dogpatch districts, but for the entire city. Because if the supervisors can't get this right, the pattern will be set for development that will profoundly change the demographics (and politics) of this city.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 16, 2008.

The stakes couldn't be higher — and not just for the Mission, Potrero Hill, South of Market, and Dogpatch districts, but for the entire city. Because if the supervisors can't get this right, the pattern will be set for development that will profoundly change the demographics (and politics) of this city.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 16, 2008.

Tong Van Le, 44, owner of the Nasser Market, was gunned down as he sat in his Lexus in the garage of his Pizarro Avenue home about 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Authorities suspect he may have been followed home from the market on Crescent Avenue, a few blocks west of the junction of Interstate 280 and Highway 101.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 16, 2008.

8 p.m. // El Rio (3158 Mission) // donations accepted

Published by SFist on September 15, 2008.

Sunday Streets, which ran from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., involved closing traffic lanes between Chinatown and the Bayview.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 15, 2008.

We were just talking to someone about how they moved out of that neck of the woods this week because of all the recent gunplay. Do you still go to the Mission these days? If so, why?

Published by SFist on September 15, 2008.

No, not this one or this one This one: an unidentified man was sent to the hospital after getting shot at the Osceola Lane and La Salle Avenue in the Bayview District on Friday night. He is listed in critical condition. No arrests have been made. (CBS 5)

Published by SFist on September 15, 2008.

Sunday Streets, which ran from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., involved closing traffic lanes between Chinatown and the Bayview.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 15, 2008.

Hells Angels sporting patches from Alaska to Maine, from Rhode Island to Hawaii, and from Italy to Australia joined members of other motorcycle clubs to form a mile-long caravan that stopped traffic and startled onlookers on its path from Daly City, through San Francisco's Mission District, and on to Colma, where Guardado was buried.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 15, 2008.

There was no school that day, and I was gleefully anticipating an afternoon overflowing with a bike ride which I intended to loop along the Bay, to glide past the Golden Gate Bridge, to wind south from the northern tip of San Francisco to Market Street, to coast victoriously back into the Mission by nightfall or, who knows, to see the sunset out at Ocean Beach.

Published by Mission Mission on September 15, 2008.

Guardado, 46, was shot dead around 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 2 outside a bar in San Francisco's Mission District, allegedly by a member of the rival Mongols motorcycle group.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on September 15, 2008.

Guardado's funeral was to be followed by processions to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, and to the Hells Angels clubhouse in San Francisco Potrero Hill District.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on September 15, 2008.

The corner of Mission and Cesar Chavez was given special attention with a proposal that would close off the end of Capp...

Published by Mission Dispatch on September 14, 2008.

Guardado was found around 10:30 p.m. Sept. 2 at 24 and Treat streets in San Francisco's Mission District suffering from gunshot wounds. He was transported to San Francisco General Hospital where he died.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on September 14, 2008.

As part of some road construction, they just dumped half a beach worth of sand into a cut-up stretch of Mission Street just north of Chavez. The smell hit me long before I even saw what was going on. It made me think of beach — made me wish it were still summer :(

Published by Mission Mission on September 13, 2008.

Hundreds of San Francisco public school students, mostly from June Jordan School for Equity, filled the steps of City Hall Friday afternoon to demand more city action in response to the rash of killings in the Mission District and elsewhere over the past few weeks.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 13, 2008.

San Francisco police are investigating a shooting in the Bayview District Friday night that left one man hospitalized.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 13, 2008.

Mark Guardado was shot and killed last week in San Francisco's Mission District. Witnesses say he got into an argument and a wrestling match with the shooter, who got away on a motorcycle.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 13, 2008.

San Francisco police are investigating a shooting in the Bayview District Friday night that left one man hospitalized.

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on September 13, 2008.

7 p.m. // The Knockout (3223 Mission) // free

Published by SFist on September 12, 2008.

Authorities say 37-year-old Christopher Ablett is a member of the rival Mongols Motorcycle Club and has been identified by several witnesses as the man who shot 45-year-old Mark "Papa" Guardado last week in the Mission District.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on September 12, 2008.

Mr. Jim Herd has word that a couple of hundred or so high school students from the Mission have taken to the steps of City Hall. Why? Because of the recent spike in murder that has plagued the Mission district. And they're none too thrilled. (Really, you don't want to upset a Mission High student. Trust us.)

Published by SFist on September 12, 2008.

From the listing for 152 Banks, Bernal Heights: “New Owner - Reduced Price. Recently renovated with kithcen (sic) updates, hardwood flooring, and new windows. 2/1 upstairs - 1/1 downstairs.”

Published by SocketSite on September 12, 2008.

...constituents that officers have been deployed only "in front of the trendy neighborhood shops" on Mission and Valencia streets where there is little gang violence...

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on September 10, 2008.

...constituents that officers have been deployed only "in front of the trendy neighborhood shops" on Mission and Valencia streets where there is little gang violence...

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on September 10, 2008.

...constituents that officers have been deployed only "in front of the trendy neighborhood shops" on Mission and Valencia streets where there is little gang violence...

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 10, 2008.

Or you can listen to all the District Nine candidates - including Vern Mathews, Eva Royale, Eric Storey and Thomas Valtin - at 6:45 p.m. tonight at St. Mary's Park and Recreation Center, 95 Justin Drive.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 10, 2008.