TWO LIVES LOST IN SAN FRANCISCO’S MISSION DISTRICT OVER THE WEEKEND have shaken the neighborhood as its first murders of 2009, compared to 18 this time last year.
Thankfully the violence was fleeting. On a grocery shopping trip yesterday morning, 24th Street, where the shootings occurred, looked like its vibrant, eclectic self. 
Old men on @ Mission kidded around in Spanish, there were no free tables at Philz Coffee and a line was 10 deep at the register of El Chico supermercado. The bright sun and murals wrapping around buildings, on walls and covering old fire call boxes gave Miss Jo a lift.
Ghetto Frida's Mission Memories by Rio Yuñez
In its windows, the Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center promoted the newly published “Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo” by Annice Jacoby with 600 photos that document the San Francisco Mission Mural Movement since its start in the 1970s.
Down the block at Bryant, outside the Galeria de la Raza Miss Jo admired the latest neighborhood mural, “Ghetto Frida’s Mission Memories.”
By Mission native Rio Yuñez, the comic strip mural, a temporary installation, contemplates what it would be like if Frida Kahlo were around today and hanging with her posse in the Mission as a bad-ass chola, or gangsta.
Too bad Frida wasn’t around last weekend.
One Comment
Hmmmmmm…be safe while out and about! A beautiful area, but a scary situation!