Mission Mission

Woohoo! Bay Area Bike Share is finally going to become the totally awesome, totally useful public good we always dreamed it would be! And they need some help deciding where to put all the new bike stations! Visit suggest.bayareabikeshare.com to input your input!

(I had previously stated that I’d be happy as long as there were stations at St. Francis Fountain, Dolores Park and the Secret Alley — but I’m also cool with millions of stations everywhere you look throughout every nook and cranny of the Bay Area.)

Every Thursday, the cool kids from BFF.fm radio station in the mission step out from behind the studio and come out to take over the DJ booth at Pops. By stopping in for a drink, you’re helping to support community radio.

BFF.fm- Best Frequencies Forever is a San Francisco-based community radio station run by a volunteer staff of music nerds who love independent music and are hell-bent on delivering radio programming that doesn’t suck. Their mission is to support emerging and underground artists and bring the Bay Area music scene to the world through the magic of Internet radio.

BFF.fm is bursting at the seams, and needs your help to take their independent radio station to the next level with a second studio: more shows, more events, more fun — even BETTER Frequencies Forever.

Check out their kickstarter campaign to get involved.

Check out this week’s full music line up at Pop’s Bar:

6/8/15 MONDAY

MOM at POPS

Motown on Mondays

It’s only Monday if you treat it like one.

M.O.M

9PM START, 1:30AM end

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M.O.M.

Mondays at Pops

DJ BLUZ AND WEEKLY GUESTS

PLAY ORIGINALS, EXCLUSIVE REMIXES

AND CLOSE RELATIVES OF YOUR FAVORITE

MOTOWN SONGS…

6/9/15 TUESDAY

6PM NBA Finals Warriors vs. Cavaliers

Game 3

Watch the game at Pops!

TROPICANA TUESDAYS

“Quality Latin BASS”

Every Tuesday at POPS BAR

Time: 9pm – 2am

Tropicana Tuesday with DJ Baysik, playing a mixture of islander & latin grooves all night, from Celia Cruz to Vybz Kartel. Experience the only Tuesday night Latin themed party in the mission.

Salsa I LatinHouse I Latin HipHop I Moombahton I DubCumbia I Merengue I Bachata I Dancehall I LatinReggae I and more…

6/10/15 WEDNESDAY

Happy Hour Entertainment 6-9PM

Rude Awakenings

Forgotten underground classics of the 60s, 70s and 80s with DJs Cathy 2-Tone and Scooter Stalin.

Whatever Wednesdays

This week featuring DJ OneSix

9PM-1:30AM

Whatever Wednesday is YOUR PARTY, literally. You got DJ skills? Have you been itching to show ALL your friends? Its your turn to take over the night and mix it up. Send us your request, your best mix and we’ll see what we can do to get you your turn.

Email: tom@popssf.com

No Cover

21 UP

6/11/15 THURSDAY

6PM NBA Finals Warriors vs. Cavaliers

Game 4

Watch the game at Pops!

BFF.FM Night

Rotating DJs from BFF.fm radio! This week: Pro Fans – Katie & Marisa spin goddamn every danceable jam with What’s you damage Heather?

Spinning vinyl bangers, slammers, hitters, quitters — you name it, we got it.

Picklebacks on special because I guess I picked the wrong time to be a human being.

Chaos is what killed the dinosaurs, darling.

By stopping by for a sip, you’re supporting BFF.fm community radio so come down and get drankin drankin.

9PM-1:30am

No Cover!

6/12/15 FRIDAY

Happy Hour Entertainment 6-9pm with Kid Gorgeous:

Rare Grooves, Deep Cuts; Soul, Funk, Psychedelic, Cumbia, Reggae and Beyond with Your Boy Kid Gorgeous!

The Vinyl Whore

The Vinyl Whore steps correct to the decks to bring you an evening of sublime, sonic stimulation. He lives by the motto “genres are for amateurs” and to prove this point will be digging into his vast collection to present a night that features unexpected classics and deeper cuts; ranging from rock ‘n’ roll and sweet soul to electronic items that defy category. So please stop in on Friday, June 12 to bask in the dance, flirt with chance and gasp and be grasped by romance.

9PM-1:30AM

No Cover

6/13/15 SATURDAY

Get Lucky!

DJs Six and Candy spin the best of indie dance and electro pop music videos all night.

9:00pm-1:30am

No Cover

21 UP

POPS BAR

2800 24th Street @ York

San Francisco, CA 94110

www.popssf.com

[via Bel]

If you’re confused, maybe this will help:

Or maybe it won’t.

In any case, score one of your own (in unisex or womens’ sizes) by looking for Amos Goldbaum out by Rhea’s on Valencia, or by visiting the Amos Goldbaum website.

Warriors!

Yesterday we published a post about developers’ plans to raze a whole city block at 19th and Bryant in order to build a giant condo complex. In the comments section, neighbor TBone hipped us to this vintage article from the year 2000, which laments an eerily similar condo complex plan — one you just may recognize:

The project is being proposed by Stein Kingsley Stein Investments (SKS) (partly financed by the late William Simon, Treasury secretary under Reagan). SKS is also rehabbing a nearby warehouse into an office building at 19th and Harrison Streets. SKS’s headquarters are in the former Green Glen laundry building at 18th and Folsom — another SKS office conversion project.

SKS is notorious for having been the biggest contributor to Mayor Willie Brown’s re-election campaign (plopping down $100,000 in political juice).

The Bryant Square site also includes the former Pacific Felt Co. brick factory building, which was rehabbed into 35 live/work lofts (at prices up to $610,000), called “The Mill.” In the photo below The Mill is the brick building at left, the three-story curtain wall building at right formerly housed a sweater factory (now evicted).

Read on for lots more info and criticism, and more photos. Or jump straight to any of the following topics:

Braindead Growth
New Edge Downtown without Transit Support
Environmental Injustice
Displacing Artists and Blue-Collar Industry
A Daily Tsunami of Muscle Cars
Open Space: Gated Fortress or Public Plaza?
Approval Sparks Uproar

(I actually have some friends who live in this place now. One is an elementary school P.E. teacher, one is a lawyer, and they’re very nice people.)

[via George]

Capp Street Crap, the best news source in San Francisco, has the scoop:

More sad news for the Mission. After 8 years at the corner of 15th and Folsom streets, gay bar Truck will soon close. One of the owners Matt announced the news this afternoon on his Instagram account.

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According to public records, Truck’s liquor license is being transferred to a business called The Wooden Nickel. [link]

[Photo by Google Maps]

[via Molly McGhee]

[via 4505 on Instagram]