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Aaliyah Español-Rivas

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Sep 13, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Aaliyah Español-Rivas

    Teens do lashes, nails and hair while they figure out life (opens the original)

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    At 19, Faith Paras performed lash services out of her bedroom, using supplies she inherited from her aunt and techniques learned from online tutorials. Paras, like dozens of other young women still in their teens — some still in high school — was unlicensed, but earning extra money doing what she loved — lashes. For some, like Paras, beauty side hustles in lashes, nails or hair are paths to an eventual license. For others, they offer a way to make extra money being creative while they finish sch

  2. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Aaliyah Español-Rivas

    22 years after it was built, a cafe on the shore of Mission Creek finally opens (opens the original)

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    More than two decades ago, the developers building out Mission Bay constructed an elegant cafe space with floor-to-ceiling windows at 290 Channel St., on the shores of Mission Creek. On Aug. 1, 2026, it finally opened for business. On a recent weekday, the cafe — the first San Francisco location for Zocalo Coffee, a local chain — was bustling, selling coffee, house-made croissants and scones, and generally functioning as the third place that it was built to be more than 20 years earlier. But if

  3. Article · Aug 29, 2026 · Aaliyah Español-Rivas

    How Nico Pryor-Alcantar came to serve up his childhood at Mission Chinese (opens the original)

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    Nico Pryor-Alcantar was born and raised in San Francisco, but lives in New York now. He’s executive chef of Superiority Burger, a buzzy vegetarian diner that often appears on “Best Of” lists. This weekend, a few days before his 30th birthday, he’ll come back to pay tribute to the dishes that raised him. Those dishes spanned a wide swath of the city and beyond. Pryor-Alcantar was born into a family that took food very seriously. His mother, who is Mexican American and grew up in the Mission Distr

  4. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · Aaliyah Español-Rivas

    Second sun rises in San Francisco: Yerba Buena gets Filipino light installation (opens the original)

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    A corner of Yerba Buena Gardens will be illuminated this September by a second sun. Named for the coordinates of the geographic center of the Philippines, the light installation “13°N, 122°E,” an amber dome floating above a fountain, will brighten and fade in sync with sunrise and sunset in the Philippines. The installation — the city’s first Filipino monument — will be formally unveiled on Sept. 4. Located in the eastern plaza across from SFMOMA, the installation is a collaborative effort among

  5. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Aaliyah Español-Rivas

    Innercity home (opens the original)

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    See all snaps here. To contribute, send in a horizontal photo, a headline, neighborhood and where it was taken to info@missionlocal.com. Aaliyah is a reporting intern at Mission Local and currently attends the University of California, Davis, where she studies Political Science, Communication, Professional Writing, and Film. She served as the Senior Student Government Reporter for her college’s newspaper, The California Aggie, and has done freelance coverage of local businesses in Davis. She was

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