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Mexican-American author Brando Skyhorse unveils new novel

On Friday, June 18th, Mexican-American author Brando Skyhorse dropped by San Francisco’s Books Inc. on Van Ness Street to promote his first novel “The Madonnas of Echo Park”—a sweeping story about the lives of the people in the quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Los Angeles—similar to the Mission—from which the title gets its name. Skyhorse, in […]

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T-Mobile towers stir health concerns

Residents of the Mission’s Lower 24th Street area voiced their concern last Tuesday evening regarding T-Mobile’s plan to install cell phone antennas near their homes at a community meeting hosted by the mobile carrier. T-Mobile held the community outreach meeting to get feedback from neighbors at the Mission Cultural Center as a part of the […]

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PelĂ­cula argentina “El niño pez”

El niño pez (LucĂ­a Puenzo, Argentina, 2009) Viernes, 25 de junio, 9:30 PM Roxie Theater (calle 16 y Valencia) SF International LGBT Festival Lala, una adolescente que vive en el barrio más exclusivo de Buenos Aires, está enamorada de la Guayi, la criada paraguaya que trabaja en su casa. Sueñan con irse a vivir juntas […]