BOOK REVIEW: El Tecolote rating on “Deep Down Dark”: 4 out of 5 By Atticus Morris With his recently published book, “Deep Down Dark” (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2014), author and journalist Héctor Tobar has given the world a complete accounting of the harrowing experience of 33 Chilean men who in 2010 became trapped more […]
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New film captures essence of the Mission
FILM REVIEW: El Tecolote rating on “The Other Barrio”: 4 out of 5 By Mabel Jiménez After a long wait, “The Other Barrio”—a film everyone in the Mission has been talking about since production started in the summer of 2012—will finally make its premiere at Brava Theater on Sunday, Feb. 8. The 91-minute movie is […]
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The City has failed to respond to the Mission’s violent “health epidemic”
GUEST OPINION By Roberto Hernandez Over two years ago, I wrote a letter on behalf of the community titled “Death in the Mission,” calling on police and elected officials to address the violence in our neighborhood after six young men were killed in a period of seven weeks. One of the six deaths occurred at […]
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Fire in the Mission
By Elisa Parrino A 4-alarm fire engulfed the building at 22nd and Mission streets containing Popeyes restaurant around 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday Jan. 28. Firefighters were able to rescue 12 people from the blaze, four of whom were hospitalized, and one of whom denied hospitalization. One man died before SFFD was able to save him. […]
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Muralists decline settlement from real estate firm over copyright infringement
By Alexis Terrazas Zephyr Real Estate—San Francisco’s largest independent real estate firm—might’ve recently learned its lesson regarding copyright infringement, but that doesn’t mean its federal lawsuit is going away anytime soon. On Jan. 6, eight prominent muralists filed a complaint in federal court against the San Francisco real estate giant over a Zephyr-produced 2013 calendar […]
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Window Pains: community’s anger over mural cut out misguided
By Alexis Terrazas Regarding the furor over the “Heart of the Mission” mural at 24th and Osage streets, some people didn’t get their facts straight. The mural located on the side of the building at 3325 24th St. has been the centerpiece of much neighborhood controversy over the last two weeks when the building’s new […]
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Alfonso Texidor: From Puerto Rican activist to Mission District icon
Alfonso Texidor was fond of saying what was on his mind; he never shied away from telling someone, “I have personality.”
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Thousands of undocumented immigrants apply for new driver’s licenses
It mattered not that Susana Monge—who for the previous five years drove illegally in California—arrived at the Driver License Processing Center in San Jose an hour before it opened. From 7 a.m., she watched the clock tick until it read 9:50 a.m., but the near three-hour wait proved well worth it.
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A former Teco editor remembers Alfonso Texidor
Some of the highest praise you could get from Alfonso was “you don’t f**k around, man.” He honored me with those words when we worked together, so I’m going to honor his memory by not f**king around in my remembrance of him.
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Names of officers involved in Nieto shooting released
Wearing the same World Series San Francisco Giants cap that his son Alejandro gifted him in 2012, Refugio Nieto placed flowers at the spot where his son took his last breath after being shot 14 times by police