Mission Mission

A video posted by 4505 Meats (@4505meats) on Feb 10, 2015 at 9:59pm PST

Pretty cool.

Pretty cool.

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This past Monday’s appearance at Amnesia was apparently Toshio’s last show. Here are some tasty snippets:

See the top one?? And how about the one closer to ground? Gettin’ lowwwww. You almost touch it. (Or at least fly your drone into it.)

[via Corntard]

Ooooh baby! I always look forward to happy hour, but this is a whole nother story.

Also, great to see Seoul Patch back in action!

[via Chef Eric on Instagram]

As part of SF IndieFest, a very special presentation at our little neighborhood movie house:

Channeling the inner recesses of our TV-addled brains, SF IndieFest seeks to settle the age-old question: What was REALLY better, the 1990 line-up of ABC’s TGIF Friday night pre-teen programming block (Full House, Family Matters, etc.) or the absurdist oasis that was Nickelodeon’s 1993 iteration of SNICK (we’re talking Clarissa Explains It All, The Adventures of Peter & Pete, The Ren & Stimpy Show and Are You Afraid of the Dark?)

(SNICK rules, no contest, right?)

RSVP and invite your friends!

From the Borderlands blog, here’s the deal:

In November, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly passed a measure that will increase the minimum wage within the city to $15 per hour by 2018.  Although all of us at Borderlands support the concept of a living wage in principal and we believe that it’s possible that the new law will be good for San Francisco — Borderlands Books as it exists is not a financially viable business if subject to that minimum wage. Consequently we will be closing our doors no later than March 31st.  The cafe will continue to operate until at least the end of this year.

Many businesses can make adjustments to allow for increased wages.  The cafe side of Borderlands, for example, should have no difficulty at all.  Viability is simply a matter of increasing prices.  And, since all the other cafes in the city will be under the same pressure, all the prices will float upwards.  But books are a special case because the price is set by the publisher and printed on the book.  Furthermore, for years part of the challenge for brick-and-mortar bookstores is that companies like Amazon.com have made it difficult to get people to pay retail prices.  So it is inconceivable to adjust our prices upwards to cover increased wages.

Just can’t win. Read on for more of the story.

(Thanks, Jeremy.)

[Photo by Google Maps]

Andrew Dalton, for SF Weekly, takes a look at some changes coming soon to one of them:

On a Wednesday night in January, in the cafeteria of a private high school just across Interstate 280 from the Balboa Park BART station, a group of 100 or so neighbors and activists gather to discuss the future of the neighborhood. Specifically, they come to deliver their opinions regarding what should be done with the Balboa Reservoir, a nearly 18-acre plot of city-owned land next to the City College of San Francisco.

The Balboa Reservoir is an odd space, not least because it doesn’t look much like a reservoir at all. It’s an open and flat parking lot (unusual for the area) smack in the middle of a neighborhood mostly populated by single-family homes. The reservoir sits, sunken a few feet below the surrounding area, between Mt. Davidson to the north, CCSF to the east, and a new low-rise condo building with a ground-floor Whole Foods to the south. New residents of the complex, which fronts Ocean Avenue, can look straight out their third-floor windows and enjoy a view of the three-story earthen dam that separates the reservoir from the quaint Westwood Park neighborhood to the west. On a recent Saturday, the parking lot that serves as the reservoir’s asphalt bottom was empty save for a man on a recumbent tricycle pedaling laps around the perimeter while a woman waited for him in the passenger seat of a parked Prius.

Read on for lots more background and astute reporting. (Also, take a walk around this area if you get a chance. I was there a lot when I was a CCSF student in ’03 or so, and there’s heaps of history and geography and interesting vibes around there. Randy’s Place, am I right??)

Wes from Wes Burger is doing a Super Bowl themed thing on the patio at Virgil’s during the game:

Seattle Dog
cream cheese, polish sausage, grilled onions, kraut and pickled jalapenos and your choice of sriracha or bbq sauce

New England Crab Cake sandwich
crab, slaw, brioche bun, spicy pickle tarter sauce

Your food purchase of either a Seattle dog or Patriot sandwich will enter in a vote for that team. Each quarter we will draw a two raffle tickets from the pot of the team who is winning and give away a free food item or a drink ticket.

Plus $5 bloody marys?? RSVP and invite your team.

This for instance:

[via Baby Ghost]