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When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.

On a recent Wednesday, Judge Li Eric Wong appeared on a flat screen TV mounted to the wall of a sparely decorated immigration courtroom in Concord, Calif. He had 91 cases on his calendar for the day. Up until this year, Wong and other immigration judges generally averaged 20 cases a day, but nowadays immigration courts across the country are  holding “mega master calendar” hearings where upwards of 100 cases may be slated for a single hearing.

San Francisco firefighters had put out a fire in a six-story apartment building in the Tenderloin Sunday afternoon as of 1:54 p.m. The fire reached two alarms, and residents of 424 Jones St. had been evacuated, according to San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Lt. Mariano Elias. The fire had spread to multiple floors, leaving several units damaged, Elias said. Three people were being medically evaluated for smoke inhalation.

When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.

There are very few things these days that can’t be purchased on Craigslist. For sale in the Bay Area right now: a gently used one-hour parking sign, the jaw bone of a juvenile bull shark, a 2009 Beneteau 49 sailboat for the low price of $209,000 “ON Y VA!” the listing declares). And, for one Bernal Heights resident, goats. For months, Joe Corcoran had been staring down the overgrown yard in the back of the building on Cortland Street that serves as his barber shop before inspiration struck.

Supervisor Jackie Fielder has sent a second letter of inquiry to the San Francisco Police Department, asking for more information on its choice to deploy officers in riot gear to arrest several individuals at Trans March and Stud Alley on June 26 and 27. Fielder is requesting more details about the types of officers deployed to both events, and whether those officers were on overtime or regular hours.

When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.

Isabel Fondevila is the Roxie Theater’s programming director. A native of the Basque country in northern Spain, she’s been working at the Mission District movie theater since 2013. Fondevila sat down with Mission Local to talk about movies, the Mission and Roxie’s history. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Mission Llcal: What does film mean to you? Isabel Fondevila: Well, film is a lot of things. It’s an art form. It’s a labor of love. In general, it takes a village to make a movie.

When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.