Mission Mission

Is today! In the Mission! If you love it, see you there! If you hate it, avoid it! And remember, this is just the second of four Mission editions of Sunday Streets happening this summer!

Now here’s a picture of Bush Bike:

Pleeeeeeease tell me somebody parked there and plans to contest whatever ticket they got.

[Uptown Almanac via Summer Is Rad]

I think it goes pretty good with this Stripminers song:

(It’s the singer from the Donnas, and they’re playing Brick & Mortar Music Hall on Thursday.)

I like it, because it feels like you’re in Black Orpheus. But not everybody likes it

But, c’mon:

[via C'mon Pony]

So there was a Scientology float in the Carnaval parade:

And then this happened:

Carnaval rules!

[via Meesha]

Mission Local reports:

Though the ribbon cutting was canceled for Mission Playground this morning, that didn’t stop strollers from rolling in, kids and adults from testing the new play field and a young boy from chasing bubbles across the soccer field.

City officials and the mayor were busy making the announcement on Piers 30 and 32 that the Golden State Warriors plan to move to San Francisco so the pomp and circumstance at the new play fields, courts and playground at Mission Playground will have to be postponed for now.

Ha! Fair enough. Read on for more pics and lots more background on the project.

I think these guys are gonna start losing hearts and minds. Changing Tartine to “Fartine” was pretty funny, but using “dyke” is another story, obvs. Maybe we should all stop blogging about them?

SFist has more here, including an exhaustive list of all the other fake ads, many not related to the Mission.

There’s an effort underway to turn the section of Bartlett between 21st and 22nd — the stretch that’s home to the Mission Community Market on Thursdays — into a more inviting public space. This effort kicked off officially with a community meeting last night, and Mission Local was there:

“We can have fun for a moment with these ideas,” said Jeremy Shaw, Mission Community Market’s executive director.

They can have fun because revitalizing the dejected block on Bartlett from 21st to 22nd Street has potential funding now. Shaw, design group Rebar and CARECEN are working with the developer of the Giant Value site and New Mission Theater on an “in-kind agreement.” Project developers can satisfy their public impact fees by making agreements with community groups that provide public improvements. Shaw and Rebar designer John Bela think they can get $500,000 to revitalize the backside of the new development, Bartlett Street.

Read on.

[via Dolores Park Works]

CBS reports:

“The small business owners on Valencia have every right to be angry,” said San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.

Now, Lee said talks are underway about possible new police tactics in the future.

“We won’t unveil those until the next time, but I think we’ll be adequately more ready,” he said. [link]

Sounds good I guess.

[via Eater SF] [Photo by Jake "Shake 'n' Bake" Frye]

[Photos by Jen Ackrill]