Mission Mission

The Will Brown art collective spilled the beans on Facebook an hour ago:

Will Brown is excited to hear that Adobe Books is moving to our hood! Adobe Books signed their lease for their new home at 3130 24th Street between Folsom and Shotwell! They’re opening in June!

“Big news and hopefully true. 24th Street would be bookstore alley,” says reader Alissa who sent us the tip, “It would be excellent for Adobe and the neighborhood.” Agreed!

UPDATE: Yup, here’s an official announcement from Adobe:

We’ve got some very exciting news to share. Adobe Books has officially signed a lease for our new home at 3130 24thStreet between Folsom and Shotwell! We’re so happy to find a beautiful new space in the Mission District where the new Adobe Books and Arts Cooperative can thrive!

Though we won’t officially be moving until June, to get a head start on getting to know our neighbors, Adobe Books will be participating in this weekend’s Mission Sunday Streets. Please come and support our new store! We’ll be there between 11am – 4pm with a selection of used books, some friendly faces from the coop group, and Andrew with his camera.

Oh cool, yeah, Sunday Streets starts this weekend too!

(Thanks, Katie!)

[Photo by Google Maps]

Local artists Dennis Kernohan and Steve MacDonald have been collaborating on some new works (among them these Mr. T-themed pieces), and they’ve got an opening tomorrow at FAZE on 21st Street (not Faye’s on 18th Street). Says Dennis:

This will be Steve MacDonald’s first show in 3 years. My third show in 5 months. There will be plenty of new work by both of us. Some PBR cases, thanks to Bryan Whalen. A raffle for a collaboration piece by Steve & I. Tickets for the raffle are 2$ for 1 ticket and 5$ for 3 tickets. Raffle proceeds will be donated to the local YMCA and/or Columbia Park Boys & Girls Club. So come early and stay late.

Show runs until April 25th.

It looks like one or all of the Mr. T pieces will be part of the raffle, so you might wanna try your luck. RSVP and invite your friends!

SFist editor Brock Keeling wants to talk about nachos:

[W]hy weren’t nachos the thing to eat in 2012? Why aren’t there nachos everywhere at all times and on all menus right now? And how did you let this happen? Now that baseball season is here, we seek heaps of nachos — real nachos, with drizzly (and, indeed, sometimes orange-colored!) cheese! — but fail to find a plethora of options.

The world’s dearth of nacho establishments is harrowing and, presumably, due in large part to the fact that you can make them at home. Simply layer tortilla chips, salsa, optional beef, and cheese (people who don’t layer are assholes) and then shove in the broiler or, in a pinch, the microwave. Usually the microwave.

As for going out? We like the nachos at Louie’s, as seen above. They’re perfectly base; similar to the nachos one might find at a ballpark. They come to you crispy, but then, around the 5th inning or so, turn fork-tender. That’s the sweet spot, folks, when you can start eating them with a fork. Failing Louie’s, we lap up Tango & Stache’s high-grade take on nachos, which boast smoked provolone cheese sauce, Vermouth baked beans, and bacon fat tortilla chips.

Read on for more nacho talk from Brock and SFist readers.

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I’m sorry but ping pong is my favorite thing (other than blogging), so brace yourself:

1. Tonight, and every Thursday night, is Ping Pong Nite at El Rio.

   

2. We mentioned before that this Friday is Singin’ & Pingin’ at Verdi Club, but the new news is that Rocky of Rocky’s Frybread will be cooking up frybread out front!

   

3. Sunday night, Rice Paper Scissors is doing a popup dinner at Dear Mom, while the SF Berlin-Style Ping Pong League hosts a casual party in the back room to promote (and sign people up for) their upcoming new season.

   

4. Monday night, the SF Berlin-Style Ping Pong League’s new season kicks off at SoMa StrEat Food Park, 7-10pm. Sign up online or at the Sunday night Dear Mom thing.

   

[via @woolfshirt]

Freaky!

It looks like ordinary mayo, but it contains cheddar — and it is awesome. And you can put it on your fries or your onion rings or your burger or your crab burger or your filet of tofu sandwich or your wedge salad or — or you could just get a second side of cheddar mayo and put it on that!

Ryan works mostly with paper, making stuff like the above. But he’s also famous for his clothing line Cool Try, and he’s opening a shop in the neighborhood (483 14th Street) on May 11th.

Here’s a peek inside his process:

@zmorvant @sfist @missionmission it got pretty fucking brutal – women decked, ears chewed off, blood trails etc. twitter.com/JoshSimpson/st…

— JoshSimpson (@JoshSimpson) April 11, 2013

@zmorvant @sfist @missionmission green shorts held the ear meatus up and invited everyone to come at him, no one did & he left, bloodfangd

— JoshSimpson (@JoshSimpson) April 11, 2013

[Photos by Josh Simpson]

This dude just used a CHAINSAW at 11pm to cut off the boot from his car out front of my house. Smart. vine.co/v/bt5AA0tFjdg

— Emily Proud (@emproud) April 10, 2013

(Thanks, Lizzy!)