Mission Mission

Something new in our sidebar this morning! We’re keeping an ongoing calendar of fun and important events in SF, with a little help from our pals at Do415 and their comprehensive database of everything going down in this town. Here’s how it looks:

For years, people have been asking, “Why don’t you guys have an event calendar??” Well now we do.

If we miss anything important, let us know. Or if you’re a putting on an event and you’d like it to be featured, input it into the Do415 database and send us the link.

Last month, a true SF kitchen legend fell victim to violence here in the Mission. This weekend, his adopted family at Serpentine are having an event to benefit the actual family he left behind:

Silent Auction and Benefit @ Serpentine Restaurant
Location: 2495 3rd Street San Francisco, CA 94107
Date and Time: 11.11.2012 & 6pm to 9pm

As I’m sure many of you already know, San Francisco recently lost one of its highly valued residents. A senseless, unexplained act of violence in the Mission left our friend in a coma. His wife ultimately made the decision to take him off of life support and donate his organs to families in need at SF General.

Cesar worked at Serpentine since the day its doors opened 5 years ago. He was an invaluable and much loved member of our restaurant family. If you’ve dined with us, you have in some way been touched by what he has done for this restaurant and – in a larger sense – for this city as a whole. Cesar cooked, cleaned, and staffed more restaurants than any of us can list.

Cesar left a wife and four children in a small village in Mexico. He came to San Francisco to provide for his family and give them a better life. He left San Francisco with a beautiful legacy, a legion of friends, and the gift of life. We are asking your support with the expenses of getting him home and assisting his loved ones. You may never know the amazing person he was, but know that we have been touched and will walk forward as better people because of it.

Donations can be made in the form of silent auction items, purveyor materials, and – more importantly – your spirit and attendance.

If you would like to attend the benefit; we are asking for a $20 donation at the door. This includes a hosted taco bar. Cocktails will be available for purchase and we are having a silent auction as well.

We thank you all for your support.

More information about Cesar here and here.

Jose Cesar Chuc Family Fund

The artist’s name is AJ Fosik, and he has an opening at Guerrero Gallery on Saturday. Expect lots more like this beauty.

[via We Love Art & Design]

RSVP and invite your friends!

Attention fans of this notoriously poorly distributed Japanese Stout dark lager : you can consistently find it at Ken Ken Ramen, the semi-new ramen joint on 18th and Capp. Unlike most locally produced dark beers, Asahi Black is smooth and easy to drink, like a crisp, less creamy Guinness. Enjoy it at the bar with some edamame, or better yet, the karage (Japanese fried chicken), which is outstanding, especially at $4.50 a serving. Kanpai!

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American Tripps was born here in the Mission, but it’s been away for a while. Here’s the deal:

Before winter gets fully upon us, we figured we’d better throw one last Saturday-afternoon back-patio party! And lucky us, we got the world-famous Wam Bam Ashleyanne (http://wambamashleyanne.com/) back to spin us some soul records!

We’ll have El Rio all to ourselves, with Berlin-style ping pong in the main room, out on the back patio AND in the concert hall! Rocky slingin’ frybread too, so bring your appetites!

RSVP and invite your friends!

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Who would’ve guessed that before Nate Silver was using his “witchcraft” (ahem, math) to forecast election results with uncanny precision, he ran a burrito blog? In true Nate Silver form, he evaluated burritos and Mexican restaurants across Chicago and ranked them using a bracket system. Math and burritos?! Man after my own heart!

And thanks to Nate Silver, we can finally settle this age-old question:

Our pal Doug from Ice Tubes got jacked:

I was enjoying some after work drinks on Election Night when I decided I had one too many to safely ride my bike home. I put my bike on the front rack of an outbound #71 at Market and 2nd, and took a seat on the front of the bus. I was on the sixth seat back, and had a decent view of my bike. The next stop was Stockton and we pulled up to a red light. As people were boarding the bus I had my head down until the driver called out that someone was taking my bike. By the time I stood up my bike was gone. I ran off the bus and headed back down Market assuming the thief was riding off in that direction but I couldn’t see anything among the lights of Market Street rush hour traffic.

Read on. And never take your eye off your bike. And if you see Doug’s bike, please let us know.

Our pal Sweet T (who shot the photo and wrote the above headline) explains:

This photo was shot yesterday around 2pm. A bus pulled up and dropped off all these elderly folks at Tacolicious. There are a couple theories floating around that might explain this: 1. They got lost on their way to Tartine OR 2. They’re filming the third installment of the Cocoon trilogy right here in the Mission.