I was still trying to figure out what I would do with my brain when Dan Pulcrano of the Silicon Valley Metro invited me out for really strong martinis at Blondie's Bar in the Mission District and offered me a job writing about tech workers in Silicon Valley.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on July 22, 2008.

San Francisco (101 4th Street and 901 Market Street)

Published by SFist on July 18, 2008.

On Thursday, the gourmet coffee retailer revealed all stores slated for closure. California will lose 88 stores in all with 10 slated to close in the Bay Area, including two in the city of San Francisco.

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

Starbucks plans to close 11 local Bay Area stores.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 18, 2008.

On Thursday, the gourmet coffee retailer revealed all stores slated for closure. California will lose 88 stores in all with 10 slated to close in the Bay Area, including two in the city of San Francisco.

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

...to the International Museum of Women about moving that organization to the lower floors of 706 Mission. The upper portion of the 100,000-square-foot building could remain office or become...

Published by SocketSite on July 18, 2008.

Starbucks plans to close 11 local Bay Area stores.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 18, 2008.

And those two stores are (drum roll please....) the one in the Metreon and the one at 901 Market Street.

Published by SFist on July 18, 2008.

San Francisco scored an 86 out of 100, besting New York's 83 and Boston's 79. Seventeen of San Francisco's neighborhoods ranked 90 or above - considered a "walker's paradise" - including Chinatown, the Mission, Nob Hill and Haight-Ashbury.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 17, 2008.

I've been known to utter the phrase "reasonably priced" in reference to a $90 four-course meal. It's not that I have any money, it's just that I have a firm grasp of the going rate. So when I call this promotion at California Culinary Academy's student-run restaurant Carême 350 (350 Rhode Island at 16th St.) rock-bottom, dirt-cheap, bargain basement, the best deal of the summer ...

Published by SF Weekly on July 16, 2008.

It's not just the fishermen who are affected by the California salmon crisis. Grizzlies have lost a steady supply of food too. Taking wild salmon out of our local eco-equation has many consequences. Come discuss all the factors that lead to the depletion of the native salmon population — and the repercussions that lead from it — at this Source to Sea event featuring films, activist speakers, performers, and storytellers.

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

Ducca (in the Westin hotel), 50 Third St. (between Market and Mission), San Francisco; (415) 977-0271.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 16, 2008.

Frederick Marcello, 36, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 12:50 a.m. attack at Fifth and Clementina streets. The attackers fled in what police described only as a small black car, driven by a fourth person.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on July 16, 2008.

The building is located between Market and Mission streets, where thousands of people pass daily on their way to and from jobs in the Financial District.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 16, 2008.

8 p.m. // Brainwash (1122 Folsom) // free

Published by SFist on July 16, 2008.

Pigeons expire with a fair amount of regularity in the Bay Area, but this bird happened to have met its fate off the second-story ledge of a financial-services building, from where its body is dangling in the air by what looks like a wire. The building is located between Market and Mission streets, where thousands of people pass daily on their way to and from jobs in the Financial District.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 16, 2008.

The Azzollini family enterprise began as a coffee bean roaster and coffeehouse on Columbus Avenue in San Francisco in 1973. The family later moved it down the street to 526 Columbus Ave. (near Stockton); they opened a second location 13 years ago at 885 Bryant St. (near Seventh Street), across the street from the San Francisco Hall of Justice.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 16, 2008.

Free Summer Lunch 2008 Program Locations

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

The Azzollini family enterprise began as a coffee bean roaster and coffeehouse on Columbus Avenue in San Francisco in 1973. The family later moved it down the street to 526 Columbus Ave. (near Stockton); they opened a second location 13 years ago at 885 Bryant St. (near Seventh Street), across the street from the San Francisco Hall of Justice.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 15, 2008.

Free Summer Lunch 2008 Program Locations

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

Thursday, July 24: Please join Friends and the SFPL for a celebration of Latino poetry, history, music, and much more during Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry. This unique event will take place July 24-26, 2008 in various locations throughout San Francisco's Mission District, kicking off with a poetry crawl on Thursday, July 24. The festival is free and open to all members of the public. For more information, visit friendsandfoundation.org

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

A slew of recent warms nights has prompted San Franciscans to take advantage of alfresco dining, and Ducca is responding in kind.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 15, 2008.

The traditional salad mix includes mung bean sprouts. But Sudar favors upping the amount of other vegetables. Sudar's peanut sauce includes lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves, which he grows in pots on his tiny condo balcony overlooking San Francisco's bustling South of Market neighborhood.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 15, 2008.

That 2003 draft apparently created an outline encompassing South of Market, Mission District, and Show Place Square/Potrero, with a large portion of the City’s future land for PDR use located in the Bayview Hunter’s Point area. For the Mission District alone the amount of acres considered in the draft are less than 400.

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

As featured in the June issue, the Mission Dispatch noted that Mission merchants question the feasibility and direction of the plan. Phil Lesser of Lesser Enterprises and others fear the plan will drive away existing businesses and will not be able to meet the 21st Century needs of future potential business seeking SF as a home.

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

That 2003 draft apparently created an outline encompassing South of Market, Mission District, and Show Place Square/Potrero, with a large portion of the City’s future land for PDR use located in the Bayview Hunter’s Point area. For the Mission District alone the amount of acres considered in the draft are less than 400.

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

Yet he did speak to the San Francisco Examiner. In an article this past June he mentioned that, a sweeping rezoning effort covering 2,200 acres of the Central Waterfront, Potrero Hill, Mission and South of Market neighborhoods is being made.

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

The SF Examiner also noted that emerging Mission Bay business and biotechnology research-hub ventures are the focus of a new long-term plan that includes more high-rises. It is not clear how high buildings will rise. But the SF Examiner reported that the Planning Dept. is seeking a separate plan for Fourth Street to allow for a landmark tower, reaching 1,000 feet.

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

Through July: Art Engine Gallery at 1035 Mission presents a lavish, luxurious and sensorial exhibition that incites desire, memory and the experience of materiality by contemporary female painters. This exhibit runs through August 23rd. For more information, call (415) 863-5556 or email info@artenginegalleries.com.

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

Wednesday, July 16: YLEM Forum presents New Paints on Wednesday, July 16, 8 pm at SomArts Gallery, 934 Brannan St. between 8th and 9th Streets. This event is free. Paint technologies expand the ways artists can paint, and newer products resist the ravages of time better. Contact Trudy Myrrh Reagan at forum@ylem.org or call (650) 856-9593. Visit www.ylem.org for more information.

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

Aside from its world-famous plazas, San Francisco itself is a veritable treasure trove of skateable architecture and landscape, including unique residential areas and a robust Financial District made all the more amenable to skateboarding with stairs, gaps, ledges and hills.

Published by Mission Dispatch on July 15, 2008.

...at around 12:50 a.m, Frederick Marcelo was shot and killed in SOMA at Fifth and Clementina. According to SF fuzz talking head Sgt. Neville Gittens, the shooting took place after a...

Published by SFist on July 15, 2008.

Pigeons expire with a fair amount of regularity in the Bay Area, but this bird happened to have met its fate off the second-story ledge of a financial-services building, from where its body is dangling in the air by what looks like a wire. The building is located between Market and Mission streets, where thousands of people pass daily on their way to and from jobs in the Financial District.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 15, 2008.

According to police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens, the shooting occurred around 12:50 a.m. Sunday at Fifth and Clementina streets in the city's South of Market neighborhood.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on July 14, 2008.

Parkers at the city-owned Fifth and Mission garage recently said they liked GottaPark's plan, though some weren't sure if it would work for them.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 14, 2008.

9 p.m. // Zeitgeist (199 Valencia) // $5

Published by SFist on July 14, 2008.

Marcelo, a San Francisco resident, got into an argument with three men about 12:50 a.m. Sunday at Fifth and Clementina streets, police said. One of the men shot Marcelo, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 14, 2008.

Marcelo, a San Francisco resident, got into an argument with three men about 12:50 a.m. Sunday at Fifth and Clementina streets, police said. One of the men shot Marcelo, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 14, 2008.

San Francisco police are searching for four people in a black car seen driving away from a shooting early Sunday that left a 36-year-old man dead.According to police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens, the shooting happened at about 12:50 a.m. Sunday at Fifth and Clementina streets in the city's South of Market neighborhood.

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

The man was pronounced dead at the scene at Fifth and Clementina Streets around 12:45 a.m., according to police.

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

The man was pronounced dead at the scene at Fifth and Clementina Streets around 12:45 a.m., police said.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on July 13, 2008.

At the BART/Muni Powell Street Station in San Francisco, the main gate at the north entrance/exit is still closed. BART has discovered the gate is "obsolete and cannot be repaired," said BART spokeswoman Luna Salaver. "We need to find a mechanical gate firm to do a complete gate replacement, and our engineering department is in the process of creating the request for bids."

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 13, 2008.

A man who was shot and killed on a Mission District street corner was identified Saturday as Armando Estrada, 30, of Rodeo, a San Francisco deputy medical examiner said.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 13, 2008.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene at Fifth and Clementina Streets around 12:45 a.m., according to police.

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

A man who was shot and killed on a Mission District street corner was identified today as Armando Estrada, 30, of Rodeo, a San Francisco deputy medical examiner said. Anyone with relevant information may call the police department's anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 12, 2008.

There will be a roller skating rink near the Bayview Opera House. Kids will learn bicycle basics in a "freedom from training wheels" course near Mission Bay. Yoga classes will be offered in Ferry Park. And yes, there will be dancing.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 12, 2008.

Bastille Day is Coming To Chez Papa Resto

Published by SF Weekly on July 11, 2008.

...gig -- had her stuff stolen this past Wednesday. Her touring van, naively parked over at Mission and Eighth Sts., was broken into and the contents inside swiped. While Taylor's bass has been recovered...

Published by SFist on July 11, 2008.

Idris Leppla of San Francisco pushes Tyler MacNiven down Market Street on Wednesday. Starting at his Mission District home at 9 a.m., MacNiven asked strangers to help him obtain his goal of reaching the Golden Gate Bridge by 5 p.m. by pushing him in his chair. He made it, according to his blog.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 10, 2008.

People from outside Chinatown are attracted to lower prices and fresh fruits and vegetables. Tomatoes can go for as little as 59 cents a pound, while strawberries are sold for 99 cents a pound. A similar trend is also found in markets in San Francisco's Mission District.

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