Mission Mission

What a great idea! The Bay Bridged delivers the news via an interview with Andee Connors from Aquarius:

TBB: Was there a specific sound, area, type of artist you wanted to showcase?

AC: Mostly we wanted the jukebox to be a good sampling of the sort of things we carry/sell at aQ. We wanted to include a lot of local bands too. We did dial back on the black metal / noise / more abrasive stuff, but really, any bar out there that wants to have a blackened metal noise aQ jukebox hit us up!!!

TBB: What are your top picks in the juke right now?

AC: Really hard to pick just a few, since this first batch was literally ALL huge aQ favorites, but if we had to pick: Electric Wizard, Ovens, The Spits, Mind Spiders, Speedwolf, Royal Baths, The Alps, Crystal Stilts, Black Bug, Pandemonium, Veronica Falls, Rubble, New Lines, Archers Of Loaf, Great Society Mind Destroyers….

I mean, I try pretty hard and I’ve only heard of a handful of those bands, but my best guess is that the sounds coming out of that machine are gonna be funnnn. Read on.

P.S. If anybody wants a Mission Mission-curated jukebox, hit me up. (My favorite bands are Thee Oh Sees, Mean Jeans and King Tuff.)

Congrats, you scored a sweet $500 rent-controlled room in a pre-1970 building on 22nd and Valencia. Now all you have to do is put it up on AirBnB for $150/night, crash at your girlfriend’s place, and join San Francisco’s elite class of weekday-Dolores-Park-hangout-ers, right?

Not so fast. Dave Crow tackled this very question on the latest installment of Tenant Troubles on SFAppeal. Mr. Crow gives an informed and thoughtful answer, per usual, and rants a bit more about endlessly greedy landlords, per usual. Go Dave!

Short answer: if your landlord is willing to give his/her blessing in writing (good luck with that one), then “yes”. Otherwise, you had better hope he doesn’t have a computer with an internet connection. But do read on.

[via SFAppeal, photo via despairbnb]

[via Abby]

I honestly feel sorry for you for missing out on the unveiling of the Hideout’s new cocktail menu, complete with pop-up pork sandwiches and “white boy slaw” from Tango and Stache. The drinks were outstanding as always, and the pulled pork and spicy vinegar slaw was a total treat. The new cocktail menu is only about half new, so old favorites like the G&C (C for celery) and the Whiskey in Church are sticking around. New additions include the Fruit Cup, a crisp and refreshing Pimm’s Cup variation, and the Killer’s Lullaby, which blends gin, lemon, and hard cider for maximum tartness. More pics after the jump.  (more…)

Just like the 22 Fillmore, MDL comes back around again, just a little more regularly. This Saturday you can watch local storytellers spin wild yarns about life on our public transit, and you can even try to get up there yourself! Last year I told the story of my first kiss, and this time our buddy Stuart tells the story of his first love.

Here’s more info about the show from Muni Diaries‘ website:

• Broke-Ass Stuart, the king of stylish brokeitude
• Hiya Swanhuyser, writer and San Francisco culture maven
• Jesse James, Muni Diaries Live audience favorite
• Joyce Lee, spoken word wonderwoman
• Mahsa Matin and Elyse Bova, of Beat Feet Orchestra

Sat., Aug. 11, doors: 6:30, show: 7 p.m. Tickets: $12.
Buy advance tickets
Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St stations
Facebook invitation

We received the following email in our inbox, which describes a real bummer of a situation a group of now-former housemates is currently experiencing due to the alleged continual negligence on the part of the landlord to address pressing maintenance issues that ultimately resulted in a dangerous fire.  The best  advice I can offer in this case is probably to contact the SF Tenants Union, but perhaps some of you might have better ideas.  Full story continued after the jump:

On Monday July 23rd at 6:30am there was a two alarm fire at 3316 26th Street. The fire was caused by faulty electrical wiring and was sparked by a broken bathroom ceiling fan that had gone long unfixed by the building’s owner. While the fire itself caused only a small panic for the rest of the tenants of the building, the damage to the unit it which the fire started has left it’s occupants displaced.

I, as you may have guessed, am one of the said dwellers. Though we contacted our landlord several times regarding various issues with the property, e.g. outlets that had sparked, broken bathroom ceiling fan, persistent shower clogging, non-operational smoke alarms, she never seemed care to address them. In our own fault, we were unsure of how to proceed outside of nagging and felt that paying $2,500/month for a four bedroom apartment was probably going to warrant some code breaking. However, this proved consequential…

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Ok, so it’s not actually alive – but Namu Gaji‘s okonomiyaki pancake bears an uncanny resemblance to a living, breathing thing. The volcanic mass of kimchee, oysters, scallions and sauce is served atop a crispy pancake in a blazing hot cast iron cauldron, so it’s still cooking when it lands on your table. Pillars of steam sprout up from the sides, creating a breathing, crinkling effect as they rush through the forest of bonito flakes layered over the top. It’s not for the seafood squeamish or faint of heart, but it is damn good comfort food for a blustery San Francisco summer night.

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Huh, maybe Fox News is turning over a new leaf? What’s next — maybe they get super into gay marriage??

Anyway, MCF appears on the Fox News piece “Top 10 cheap eats in the United States“:

Mission Chinese Food offers some of the spiciest, most creative Sichuan-inspired cuisine in San Francisco. Diners line up early for dishes such as Thrice Cooked Bacon, Kung Pao Pastrami, Tingly Lamb Noodle Soup and Mouth Watering Chicken. It’s good, hot (seriously hot if you aren’t careful) and honest food created with quality meat and produce.

Honest! Good! Hot! …Yup!

[via Mission Street Food]

Here’s a must-see for any aspiring chef looking to succeed in the city:  an all-star panel featuring a bunch of the Mission’s hottest chefs spilling all their secrets about making it big in such a tumultuous industry.

It’s all going down at the Commonwealth Club this Thursday, as Anthony Myint (Mission Chinese), Richie Nakano (Hapa Ramen), Iso Rabins (ForageSF), and Craig Stoll (Delfina) recount all their best stories on how they climbed the SF food chain to get where they are now, moderated by none other than Rice, Paper, Scissors‘ own Valerie Luu.  And the fun continues right afterwards in the form of a panelist-created guerrilla dining experience across the street at Foodlab, hosted by the other half of RPS, Katie Kwan.

Oh wait, I forgot to mention the best part–we’re giving away two free tickets to the panel to the two commenters who can tell the best story about the most bizarre meal they’ve ever had here in the city.  The contest ends promptly at noon on Wednesday, and winners will be judged on merit as well as general sauciness.

Check out all the details for the event and get tickets for the panel or dinner here.

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Our pal Lindsey came upon this heinous thing at a kiosk in the vicinity of Jamba Juice and Sanrio at Westfield San Francisco Centre, our local giant shopping mall.

“[M]isogyny marketed to tweens,” she says in a blog post, “pretttty cooooool!” We assume she was being sarcastic, but asked for followup remarks, she cuts them some slack: “[T]hey also sell YOLO shirts though…”

I like when a babe makes me a sandwich as much as the next guy, but ‘cmon.