Mission Mission

I think we should all take a cue from my man Jean Hackman. Rather than getting all caught up in a big blustery debate, Jean got inspired and cooked up a tasty rolled taco dinner. Yum, and yum.

*While supplies last! So get to Public Works early!

More reasons to get there early:

1. Ryan who used to chef at Broken Record and Bruno’s will be dishing up free barbecue.
2. $2 tequila shots and $3 beers from 8-10.
3. Admission is only $5 before 10. $10 after.
4. Primo goes on pretty early I think.

RSVP and invite your friends here.

Full event details after the jump:

[Photo by Emily]

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Co-owner of coffee shop and video rental store Fayes Video and local awesome artist Michael McConnell’s new show Tethered, a mix of paintings and installations, is now up at the Braunstein/Quay Gallery at 430 Clementina Street. The opening reception is today from 3-5pm.

There Was A Slight Resistance, 2011

Our buddy Tisch from the painfully entertaining Ah Hole Ah Hole tells us this opening tonight is going to be the bomb:

PLAySPACE is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Matt Connolly. For BASS TOME, Connolly exhibits a selection of drawings, paintings, and sculptures in addition to a stripped-down sound work. His large-scale, meticulously attended pen drawings read like incredibly rendered textiles—many of the works demonstrate the artist’s interest in formally strict geometries, physicality and movement, text, pattern and, perhaps above all, repetition. Connolly’s process and his practice are both extremely disciplined: the artist is concerned not with the outcome, but rather with the flurry of activity that builds towards the attainment of the composition, irregularities and all. Connolly believes in the transformative capacity of work, which is evidenced in these fastidiously crafted pieces.

Reception starts in 20 minutes! 6-8pm.

PLAySPACE Gallery
California College of the Arts
1111 Eight Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

I guess it’s Sofia Coppola Week here on Mission Mission. Today, our buddy Therese shares a note she got from a friend of hers who happens to be a crazy Frenchman. Therese was tickled by his broken English:

Therese I love Sofia Coppola. The Virgin Suicide made me CREAM INSide my paints. Ah what a blissful moment. It’s the best movie I have watched in a few. Well this year I loved the Life of Others but it was different. Less american probably. Excellent movie btw.

I guess I was also really happy to see why you liked it. I also thought it was very balanced. Very well finished and complex in a way. Finally some density on my f**king screen, I was deinflating over here, if you see what i mean.

Oh, I see. Read on for his take on the soundtrack by “the world widely acclaimed FRENCH band Air.”

[Photo by Albert Domasin]

Previously:

‘Somewhere’, the new Sofia Coppola movie you forgot to see a couple months back, now playing at the Roxie

This just in:

papolote brothers, winners of something vs bobby flay.  24th and alabama.  now selling their salsa at casa lucas market ( a store that the brother shopped at while growing up) and bay area whole foods.  they are out there giving out free samples and straight chillen with the locals.   Lovely Natasha featured in photo.

(Thanks, Nathan!)

This just in:

today from 2-5pm supervisor david campos will be using nervous dog coffee, as his community office. mission/bernal folks are apparently welcome to ask questions and open up a dialog with campos today.

(Thanks, Thea!)

[Photo by Supervisor Campos]

This just in from reader Patrick:

getting money out of the ATM at US Bank on 22nd + Mission.

detective double parks some lady in and says “it might be awhile, we got a bank robbery.” sign on the door said “temporarily closed”.

Keep an eye out for people in masks carrying large sacks with “$” printed on them.

Check out this amazing pictorial piece by Wendy MacNaughton on The Rumpus.

Can you guess the bar by the register? I’m totally jealous of this thing.

Bathroom art taken to the next dimension at the Makeout Room.  So anatomically accurate–this “MD” must be a doctor or something.