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Roxie: The Last Mission Cinema
Walk down Mission Street and you can see the stripped remains of once-colorful theaters. El Capitan is now a parking lot. The Tower has jumbled letters spelling out “sale for” on its marquee, and...
View ArticleOwner of Medjool and Rooftop Bar Puts Mission Real Estate Up for Sale
By the looks of it, Gus Murad, one of the neighborhood’s most polarizing movers and shakers, has left the building. Several buildings, in fact — all on Mission, between 21st and 22nd. Value Giant is...
View ArticleNew Mission Theater Plan: 5 Screens, 900 Seats
A Texas movie chain told the city’s Architectural Planning Committee today that their proposal for five-screen cineplex at the historic New Mission Theater will accommodate about 900 people, and have a...
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Multiplex Developers Could Fund Bartlett St. Plaza
Ideas are blooming for Bartlett Street. Beyond the weekly community market, what could be done to permanently improve the block between 21st and 22nd? Neighbors met last to night to brainstorm. What...
View ArticleNew Mission Theater Project Could Mean Big Changes For Mission Street
Developers of the New Mission Theater, one of the most iconic buildings in the neighborhood, will seek permission from the city on Thursday to rehabilitate the dilapidated theater and construct more...
View ArticleA Peek Inside the New Mission Theater
Walking by this morning, the front gate of the New Mission Theater was rolled up and we could get a peek at some work going on inside. There’s not much progress yet, but at some point this will be a...
View ArticleAfter New Mission’s Dark Past, Back in the Lights
In the first half of the 20th century, the evening sky over Mission Street was a neon wonderland, bathed by gaudy marquees in incandescent pinks, blues and purples. Perhaps no marquee was more iconic...
View ArticleLa Historia del Cine New Mission
En la primera mitad del siglo XX, el cielo del atardecer sobre la calle Misión era de un increíble color neón que cubría la llamativa marquesina en matices incandescentes de rosa, azul y morado. Tal...
View ArticleFrom Austin With Love; Alamo Owner Meets Mission
A thick knot of people clustered around one particularly genial man at Mission Bar late Thursday, but not just because he was buying the drinks. Tim League, the center of attention that night, is the...
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New Mission Theater Tease
I walk by this every day and can see it getting closer. The marquee, however, seems to be making faster progress than the inside. You can see the repainted letters through the gauze-like covering....
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Medjool Owner Has Been After 20 Extra Feet for Years
When restaurateur Gus Murad won 20 extra feet for a major project earlier this month, planning officials blamed it on a clerical error in which a city planner inadvertently put the project at 85 feet...
View ArticleToday’s Mission: 03.02.09
The recession, it seems, is about more than lost jobs. It’s about lost lust. Porn isn’t recession-proof; it’s merely recession-resistant, the Chronicle reported today. Even the burgeoning Kink.com...
View ArticleNew Mission
This is a slideshow of photographs taken over the last two years of wandering the Mission District. Credit goes to Marcella Ortiz for her poem “In Twenty Years.” This is a slideshow of photographs...
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Mission Eyes: The Force Awakens at SF’s New Mission Theater
Tickets to see the much-anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the Alamo Drafthouse, newly opened on Mission Street, sold out very quickly. But that didn’t stop fans of all ages from streaming...
View ArticleSF Mission’s Lost Weekend Video to Relocate to Alamo Drafthouse
Come February, Lost Weekend Video will depart its storefront on Valencia Street, where it has rented out films for some 18 years, and will move to the New Mission Theater. The video store will become...
View ArticleSmall Rooftop Fire at New Mission Theater Leaves Little Damage
A small fire that broke out in a climate control unit on top of the New Mission Theater this afternoon was quickly extinguished by firefighters and left minimal damage. “We were halfway through ‘The...
View ArticleWhy the San Francisco International Film Fest Moved to the Mission
The San Francisco International Film Festival kicks off tonight at the Castro Theater, but after the opening, the majority of the festival’s will be held in the Mission District for the first time...
View ArticleLost Weekend Video Lives On in Renovated Cinema
Lost Weekend Video has been operating for four months as a kiosk inside the lobby of the New Mission Theater, and its owners are now figuring out how to keep their longstanding movie rental business...
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema reopens the ‘New Mission’
San Francisco’s Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the five-auditorium, 536-seat theater known for its in-theater table service and “New Mission” marquee on Mission Street between 21st and 22nd, reopens today....
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