Mission Mission

The Unresolved Love Life of Evelyn Lee is nearly here, people! From the official Facebook page, about two hours ago:

Ok, it’s happening tonight. Logos are being banged out by the amazing Micael Klok and we’re and gearing up for a party. It’s gonna get weird.

Can’t wait!

Del Popolo, the mobile pizza party housed in a transatlantic shipping container crate was spotted recently on Flour+Water’s Instagram page. John Darsky, former Flour+Water pizza chef and Del Popolo mastermind spoke with the Tablehopper earlier this year about his upcoming “of the people” portable Neapolitan vision.

Here’s the deal on Foreign Cinema:

With a flicker of an 8mm reel, Foreign Cinema has created an audio
visual soundtrack–

Hey wait this sounds just like the restaurant! Sorry, please continue:

–with influences cross pollinating elements of shoegaze, trip hop, and dub. The band’s noir sound balances light and dark, with ethereal warmth and interjected groove to create a romantically dark world guided by interpretive lyrics about the human condition.  Founded in 2008, the symbiotic core is comprised of Astral singer/guitarist, Dave Han of San Francisco and bass courtesy of Natty D from Goiania, Brazil.

They perform tonight at Brick & Mortar, and you can win tickets by telling us your best anecdote regarding Foreign Cinema the band, Foreign Cinema the restaurant, OR foreign cinema the type of cinema. Contest ends at 2pm today. Winners will be selected based on merit.

Our pal Matt just happened to see it in action, minutes after we asked if anybody had ever seen it in action:

Heading out the door for work and lo & behold. Not a crappy photo, just going for the blurry bigfoot aesthetic I swear. Incredible balance, deplorable sidewalk riding.

Thanks, Matt!

Every week, photographer Joshua Cobos is gonna shoot a roll of film just for us. He’ll pick the 13 best photos and we’ll post them here, and it’ll be called “Bad Blood with Joshua Cobos.” Here’s what Joshua has to say about Volume 1, Issue 1:

Allan,
These photos are the result of many late nights against the pangs of sleep, salacious trips into back-world parlors filled with ever-flowing drinks from bartenders giving the wink-wink nod as though my drink may not be exactly what I ordered. The past weeks have seen travelers, band mates & close relationships in and out of my life. Bits of Australian breakfasts mixed with the warmth of Polish lovers whispering the inaudible into my ears as I dream. Inspiration is everywhere, still I seem to choose the places that are least likely to receive me with open arms.

Regards,
Joshua

Thanks, Joshua! Ten more shots after the jump:

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Earlier today, our own Ariel Dovas speculated as to the origins of Saturday night’s street fight. And commenters added bits and pieces to the tale. Now here we have a lengthy eyewitness account, from a reputable source who wishes to remain nameless:

Person X: i was at that bar fight
Sent at 10:30 AM on Tuesday
me: what happened!
Person X: it was all those skater kids from the mission
i can tell u the whooooooooooooooole story
and yes, someone actually came out of nowhere with a snowshovel and started attacking people
me: what started it? how many people were actually involved?
Sent at 10:34 AM on Tuesday
Person X: ok, so this one young party girl i always see around with the skater dudes
at then end of the night when they were kicking people out
starts yelling i nthe bar at some taller random creepy guy
trying to push him and was saying he was touching all of her friends and herself’s private parts
and she supposedly told the staff at the bar to kick him out earlier and they didnt
Sent at 10:37 AM on Tuesday
me: dang
Sent at 10:39 AM on Tuesday
Person X: so they all go outside and start fighting the dude
cuz the girl is all hooting and hollering that he touched her coochie
and u know those crazy 20 yr old skater kids who r just looking for any excuse to fight
well the girl starts fighting the guy
i look over and the dudes jump in the middle of it as the guy is holding a huge bottle to her neck
Sent at 10:52 AM on Tuesday
me: wow
i gotta run out, but feel free to keep telling the story
Sent at 10:55 AM on Tuesday
Person X: next thing u know everyone is punching everyone and some short hispanic looking kid with curly hair comes running from across the street to where everyone is in front of gestalt and starts hitting people
Sent at 11:00 AM on Tuesday
Person X: thank god it was a snow shovel because if it was a real shovel there could be a lot of dead people right now
anyways
Sent at 11:01 AM on Tuesday
Person X: i run down the block for safety and people are coming up to to other people over there swinging and suckerpunching people left and irght
i heard a window shatter cuz people were through big glass bottles (which they must have got out of the trash outside on the street) at the window of gestalt
the fight kinda disperses into segments
a group in front of gestalt
a group across the street
and then a group walking down the street toward mission
Sent at 11:04 AM on Tuesday
Person X: at that point the cops roll up and i see the dude with the shovel running down the block so i point them at him cuz he was sketchy as fuck
tha dude is trying to pumch people down the block still
we are leaving and all these ambulances come to that corner with the sketchy guy went
after we left people are saying they “hear” people saying someoneone “got stabbed in the head”
now that seems kinda crazy, but then again it is the mission so…………………..
and i dont know anything else than that
i tried looking up police reports online but couldnt find anything

[file photo by Ariel Dovas]

Anybody have any evidence of this guy in action?

[via francesca-pastine]

[via summerofshred]

[via Meesha]

It’s incredible to me in how many ways this guy has become part of our consciousness.