Mission Mission

Jennifer Maerz of The Bold Italic has the scoop:

“The basic vision is to serve simple, good, healthy organic and/or small batch coffee from ethically grown sources. We are working with Stumptown throughout this process, including which espresso machine to buy.” [Rainbow's Jeff] Ray adds that they’ll be serving lots of different teas from their amazing bulk tea selection as well as “creative lattes” and coffee drinks.

The cafe will be to the right of Rainbow’s native garden, taking over the corner of 13th and Folsom. They’re decorating it with donated furniture and plants, with hopes of custom-made furniture in the future.

And they might host some events there too! Read on.

Feel free to select from this handy list inside the jukebox at Taqueria San Jose:

Not pictured:

• While My Guitar Gently Sweeps
• Eleanor Pigby
• Back in the K.K.K.
• In My Wife
• She Came All Over the Bathroom Window
• Ass Onion
• Frig a Pony
• I Am the Porpoise
• I Want to Hold Your Gland
• I Saw Her Standing Bare
• Revolution 6

[via @blickblondhi]

P.S. …

Basically I just wanted all of these in one place. But I mean, what the heck. Can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow.

(Click the pics to read the stories.)

Years ago I scored a pretty sweet Matson cap, but it was a pink logo on faux denim, which was just a little too normcore even back in ’03, so it didn’t get much use.

MOL is a Japanese company of course, so presumably this means Burrito Justice is a big Nippon Daihyō supporter. (They face Greece in about 5 minutes.) (And yes, when you take a picture of Mr. Justice, you have to obscure his face somehow. I offered to squirt curry ketchup all over it but he declined.)

That’s right, Pride is just around the corner once again! And you just might wanna celebrate it right here in the Mission at the Chapel with the Sunday Mass crew and Ladytron on the decks! Here’s a little more info:

For this very special Sunday Pride edition of MASS, we are pulling out all the stops and delivering you the full venue experience, with three rooms of dancing, a visual spectacular at every turn, and as always, an eye towards musical and artistic excellence. Come as you are on Sunday, June 29th.

Tickets:
$20 Pre-sale (only 100 available)
$25 Regular
$30 At the door

RSVP and invite your friends here! Buy tickets here!

And for a chance to WIN a pair, tweet a link to this post and hashtag it #sundaymassmissionmission. Contest ends a week from right this second. Winner will be selected at random.

Your team loses and you’re alone at the bar and everyone else is cheering for Uruguay

(I like this still best, but it’s part of a longer animated GIF by Burrito Justice.)

Frameline38 starts tonight! The organizers made us this handy list of Mission-related offerings:

THE BENCH
Directors: Haley DerManouelian, Rosie Katz & Bo Brown
8 Minutes, Short
Three lost San Franciscans combat a tech worker in search of space in Dolores Park.
Film takes place in the Mission.

MISSION IMPROMABLE
Director: Clio Gevirtz
5 Minutes, Short
A comedy about closeted boyfriends who outdo themselves trying to ask a girl to prom. They are in for a big surprise!
Film was produced in the Mission.

EYE CANDY
Director: Alexis Spraic
10 Minutes, Short
A look at the beloved Jason Mecier, a fine artist fashioning famous likenesses from Tina Fey to Phyllis Diller out of everything from old toothbrushes to turkey basters.
Film subject Jason Mecier lives in the Mission.

OVERFLOW
Director: Ruby Drake
7 Minutes, Short
Two girls try to work through an unexpected crisis in their friendship.
The film was created by the San Francisco Art & Film For Teenagers located in the Mission.

Get tickets and explore the festival more here.

Also:

I guess we’ll have to let it live. Thanks, Simon. [link]

Every now and then, photographer Joshua Cobos shoots a roll of film just for us, picks his 13 favorites, and we publish them here and it’s called “Bad Blood.” It used to be weekly but it’s become more sporadic since Joshua’s move to Los Angeles a few months back. He still comes back to SF every chance he gets (which is great for all of us) but regardless of where he shoots his rolls, it’s always a joy to get a peek inside his process with each new edition. This edition, as you can see, finds Joshua back in SF for a spell (woohoo!):

The Thrift Town photo is purely an homage to the times I spent there looking for anything and nothing, to Teen Witch who I know loves that place. The place kind of served as a reminder that the city was slowly changing. Over the years I lived there I watched the price of thrift rise. At first slowly, then to a point where clothing and used electronics became indistinguishable in price from the antique / vintage stores in the mission. Thrift Town and stuff left out on the street by San Franciscans is how I decorated my apartments. These photos were shot over a four day trip I took to SF at the beginning of June.

Thanks, Joshua! Be sure to follow him on Instagram and on Twitter. Ten more shots after the jump:

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They’re at it again, apparently. Here’s what SFist‘s Jay Barmann has to say about it:

It’s of course technically illegal to be drinking in the park. It’s illegal to be smoking cigarettes there too. Does everyone do both of these things on a daily basis? Yes. Do the cops even bother when the place is almost too thick with people even to walk through? Not usually. But clearly they were bored today, and looking to be spoilsports, or they got a call from an incorrigible, bitter, bored NIMBY who lives next to the park and has nothing better to do than be a killjoy on a sunny day.

People like that deserve our pity.

But just a warning to be on alert these days with your bottles. Keep them well concealed or you might lose half a bottle of lovely Pinot Gris. [link]

[Photo by Devon Chulick]