Mission Mission

In a candid shot. Seen through a window.

Take a break from grovelling about your busted brackets by belting out some tunes tonight at everyone’s favorite karaoke dance party, which is now every 2nd and 4th Monday at the Makeout Room!  Also, I’m trying to exercise some demons by singing that Gotye song that everyone’s been talking about lately since it has spent all last week HAUNTING THE FUCK out of me.  If you could be so kind as to leave that one for me, I’ll buy ya a drink!

RSVP and invite your friends here!

[Image via The Bold Italic]

Previously:

• The latest DJ Purple interview
• The original DJ Purple interview!

Our buddy Lindsey snapped this photo of a “cool new art installation” at Valencia and Cesar Chavez, which must be a reaction to all this godawful weather. Looks like nobody’s stayin’ dry tonight.

Never heard of Hanna & Her Sisters or B.O.R.E.? Maybe it’s because they’re actually Dominant Legs and Terry Malts. A little anonymous birdie just spilled the beans:

2 of the bands are playing under alias’s because of other shows coming up next week.
just kinda hoping to leak it day of show kinda thing.
So it’s
Dominant Legs
Terry Malts, (doing some black flag tunes, as well as their usual songs)
Cruel Summer
Permanent Collection

RSVP and invite your friends!

RSVP and invite your friends!

(P.S. There’s a Berlin-style ping pong party in Hollywood tomorrow afternoon too. Tell your Southern Californian friends and loved ones!)

This is most likely a joke (or an ambitious extracurricular activity of Andrew’s), but can you imagine if it wasn’t? Have robots already begun to take over? Watch out, delivery bike squad, for it’s only a matter of time…

Well, perhaps they’ll serve it again at some point.  But at any rate, despite the consistently transcendent deliciousness of Arizmendi pizza, the only thing preventing it from attaining “best pizza in SF” status is the lack of tomato sauce.  Perhaps I’m going overboard here, but I’ve come to realize lately that my favorite component of a good slice is the tangy sauce (which is why Escape from New York has gained traction on my list recently–did they change their sauce recipe in the last year?  It’s damn good now!).

Over at Arizmendi they’ve perfected the chewy yet firm consistency of the crust and have excelled at complementing pungent mixtures of cheese with fresh and sometimes whimsical toppings, but I have longed to taste that potent combination in conjunction with some zesty tomato sauce since the day they opened.  I’ve even gone so far as to straight-up call my cousin Nushin a liar when she claimed that she had eaten a saucy Arizmendi pizza in the past.

So you can understand my jubilation upon finding out that yesterday’s pizza contained this compelling ingredient.  Sadly however, I don’t work in the city anymore so I didn’t get to try it.  Did any of you get a chance to check it out?  Was it THE GREATEST PIZZA YOU HAVE EVER HAD???  That lady in the picture seems to think so.

[Photo by Helen]

Previously:

• Arizmendi Opens For Realz
• Arizmendi Is Done
• Best Arizmendi pizza I’ve had in a while

It seems like this place has been boarded up for years, because it has. The restaurant, which shares a name with an Indian TV show about conjoined twins who share a liver, will finally open this May. According to the sign seen above.

Apparently the same people have a spot of the same name in Palo Alto. I asked my friend and collaborator, Palo Alto resident Tanuj Chopra, what he thought about it and he said the food is fine and they have a solid reputation in the peninsula. About the style of their temporary sign he said “it’s interesting as the spots here are not graf or urban or edgy – feel like that’s just a temporary look or maybe a different marketing direction for SF.”

Well, they wouldn’t be the first to welcome themselves to the neighborhood by throwing up some “edgy urban artwork”. And maybe it does capture the feel of the establishment, according to the owner, this outlet will be a “high energy” 200 seat Indian tapas restaurant and bar. I guess we’ll see in May.

Every week, photographer Joshua Cobos shoots a roll of film just for us. He picks the 13 best photos and we post them here, and it’s called “Bad Blood with Joshua Cobos.” Here’s what Joshua has to say about this week’s installment:

I took Lindsey around to some of my favorite spots in the Mission. She’s beyond words, so I’m not going to take this opportunity to try.

I will say hello to my friends at 2601, Noisebridge, Clothes Contact & the Mission Library. Thank you for not kicking me out, despite my bad manners in sobriety matters.

Thanks, Joshua! Ten more shots after the jump:

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[Photo by Tucker Perry] [via The SF Kid]