Mission Mission

Hey, at least they’re being honest! The worst is when someone writes a gleaming account of their domicile, and everything looks good when you check it out, but then you find out about their midnight trombone rehearsals a week into living there.

And now that I think of it, I bike by this apartment every night on my way home from work, and I’ve definitely heard a band practicing, so story checks out.

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(Thanks Charlie!)

The Secret Alley (where I am a co-founder) is an art space here in the neighborhood. A Kickstarter has just been launched to remake the dull lobby into a sweet space to show of the work of local talent, The Galallery, also to be known as The Typoe Gallery.

The Secret Alley is a strange and maybe magical place where people build things, make movies, paint, screen things, make presentations, play and generally have a good time making and doing weird stuff. It’s hard to describe and I do it no justice by trying.

For the past few years there have been Halloween installations in the lobby downstairs, maybe you saw the Death Ray, where you could use the interface to blow up local hot spots (the subwoofer under the seat really made you feel like you might just poop):

Or the hallway monster the year before, which was just part of a larger dungeon theme:

There have also been some other art shows in the lobby, but the space does nothing to showcase the work. It’s not inspiring. It’s not amazing. It’s lame. Just as we brought our talented friends together to build the 360º old alleyway set, now it’s time to build out the lobby. When we started building The Alley seven years ago we did it on our own dimes, but it’s still costing us, and we kind of don’t have the dimes to expand. Plus we want to pay our friends fairly for their time. They’re really good at what they do. That’s where you come in.

If you’ve ever enjoyed spending some time there, or if you want to, or even if it’s not your cup of tea, please consider helping the talented crew create an amazing space to showcase local work. There are some really cool perks you can get for your contribution, including having the place to yourself for a night for you and your friends (pitch in together and have a grand time!). We don’t have the money of Jack Spade NYC, but we want to keep cool places in our hood!

Check out the Kickstarter here!

Please share with your friends, followers, readers, likers and hangers-on!

It’s kind of falling apart in the above photo, but this sandwich has made me, on more than one occasion, feel like my life was complete, like I could lay down and die as soon as I was done.

Thankfully I didn’t though, because now I can eat it again! Tonight! At Rice Paper Scissors’s Sunday Dinner at Dear Mom! Here’s the rest of the menu:

Menu
(v) vegetarian (vg) vegan (g) gluten-free

Ham Sui Gok – 8
fried mochi dumplings filled with pork and shiitake mushrooms

Fried Smelt (g) – 8
fried small fish served with fried cilantro and nuoc mam aioli, a fish sauce, ginger and lime dip

Pâté Chaud – 6
puff pastry filled with ground chicken, pate, and wood ear mushrooms
Add a fried egg + 1

Mushroom Pâté Chaud – 6
puff pastry filled with shittake mushrooms and cream cheese pate
Add a fried egg + 1

Buddha’s Delight (vg) (g) – 9
cellophane noodle stir-fry with tofu, shitakke mushrooms, woodear mushrooms, lily buds and roasted ginko nuts

Pho Ga – Chicken Pho – 12
fresh rice noodles in ginger chicken broth, served with poached chicken, shaved onions, culantro, scallions and lime leaves.

Grilled Pork Banh Mi – 9
caramelized pork and housemade chicken pate and mayo, with daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Breakfast Banh Mi – 9
two fried eggs and cha lua (Vietnamese ham) with housemade pate, mayo, daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Vegetarian Breakfast Banh Mi (v) – 9
two fried eggs with housemade mayo, daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Snickerdoodle Ice Cream Sandwiches (v) – 5
housemade Vietnamese cinnamon cookies with vanilla bean ice cream

Omg can’t wait! RSVP and invite your friends!

[Photo by invertigo]

All I needed to hear was that you get in for free by wearing a tracksuit.  Ch-check it out here.

(Thanks, Kristin!)

Tonight the Mission’s only dance nite devoted to dark dirges and subaltern urges returns to Sub-mission. Here’s what they’ve got to say -

“For our April edition, Warm Leatherette is firing up its body machinery for an all-DJ night of recorded synth bedlam. Your Warm Leatherette Resident Selectors will present mixes of the finest minimal electronics and synth punk, while inviting you to gaze long and hard into the inky depths with a guest DJ set from BIXU, Chief Curator at kindred spirit party H O LES.”

Rsvp or something if you want right here.

As may have been mentioned, KronnerBurger is the best thing. Unfortunately, somebody blabbed about it and now I have to wait for a table when I go there. Fortunately, it’s not hard to pass the time, because the third best thing about KB (which is the best thing) is their bangin’ cocktail selection, which includes such classics as the Carbonated Mother Fucking Margarita and the Scotcholate Milk. (The best thing is the burger, and the second best thing is the onion rings. The onion rings are seriously among the best I’ve ever had and come in a huge portion for $6. Go ahead and hate on that, you monster.)

Continuing the twin traditions of punny and profanity-laced cocktail-naming, the most recent addition to the menu is entitled the Buck Yeah. I was like “I’m gonna order that one” and then Ariel was like “what’s in that” and I was like “well, a buck is a kind of drink, it’s like a whiskey and ginger ale, I think, or like, it’s similar to a mule, y’know, like a Moscow mule, although that’s vodka, so…” and then I realized I don’t really know what a buck is. But this one is basically mezcal, lemon juice, fresh ginger, and soda in a tall glass, ideally served alongside a burger and onion rings. Another example of 2013′s hottest new trend: cocktails to eat meat with.

Drink of the week is brought to you by Poachedjobs.com.

And it’s hosted by Peaches Christ and Sam Sharkey, so you know it’s definitely going to be a raucous occasion!  The fun starts tomorrow at 7pm at the Victoria Theatre, and you can check out all the details and also get tickets here.

It’s for a song called “1988 Girls” by a band called Futurecop! and it’s as fun as the song title and band name suggest: