The
Sunset Beacon
 
 
 
March 2011
 
 
 


Note: For additional stories about the west side of San Francisco, see the new issue of the Richmond Review.

Sunset Spotlight/Police Blotter

Artist Works to Restore African-American Heritage

Sunset District artist Katie Mallory is on a mission to give African Americans something back that was taken from them long ago - a sense of their ancestors' culture and history.

Dancers Swing at Sunset Hoedown on Monday Nights

A remarkable group of people meet at St Paul's Presbyterian Church Hall on Monday evenings. They call themselves the Caper Cutters and they have been active fostering the arts in the realm of line, round and square dancing for the past 60 years.

Supervisor Fights Eviction of GG Park Recycling Center

At two recent San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearings, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi slammed the procedures that the City's Recreation and Park Department (RPD) and the SF Department of the Environment both used while trying to evict the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC) recycling center from Golden Gate Park.

Columns:

Supervisor Carmen Chu: Neighborhood Parks Update

John M. Lee: Changing Finance Market

Assemblywoman Fiona Ma: Woman's Appreciation Month