Mission Mission

Happening at the 24th St. BART now.

Photo by mattymatt.

Our buddy Kati J. had a fun night:

I woke up to the sounds of a guy yelling / moaning, and after a brief scuffle, he started screaming for help.

I thought, Oh god someone’s getting killed outside my apt., but when I looked out the window some cops had detained the man. As he wiggled around he scraped his face and bled on the cement. Then he got hauled off in an ambulance. Not sure why he got arrested, there were two plain clothes cops, so maybe it was a drug bust?

When I woke up the blood and latex gloves were still on the ground..

Thanks, Shawna K.!

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This past weekend, we noticed that the police had setup a mobile command unit outside of Dolores Park.  Now it appears that the police are getting serious about people enjoying themselves in the park.  From Dolores Park View:

At 5 pm this evening I spotted two mountain bike patrol officers issuing citations for public drinking to two men sitting on the lawn just above Gay Beach off 20th street. These guys were neither obviously drunk, rowdy or committing any other nuisance.

The officers told me that Mission Station Chief, Steve Tacchini had issued new orders this morning ordering the drinking in Dolores Park to be brought under control. “Park neighbor had come to him complaining” the officer said.

Up till today, officers patrolling the park have told me they would not issue citations unless the offender was noticeably drunk, belligerent or violent. Public urination was another quick ticket to court. Captain Tacchini told a group of Mission Dolores Neighbors at a August 7 meeting in Supervisor Bevan Dufty’s office that I attended, that while violence would not be tolerated, citing people for drinking and smoking in Dolores was not a priority. Something must have happened in the two weeks to have changed his mind. (link)

Seriously?  The voice of one idiot is more important than the hundreds of people that enjoy this park everyday?

PBR Cycling Cap: you can be trendy for only $12.08 at Box Dog Bikes.

I wish I could be at 3 places at once:

Friday:

Don’t forget about free Four Barrel.

Saturday:

SF Street Food Festival

11am – 7pm at Folsom and 25th.  Legal food and illegal food all in one place. (link)

SF Zine Fest

As previously mentioned, this isn’t happening in the Mission, but I don’t care.

11am – 6pm Saturday and Sunday at the SF County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park.  Rumor has it that the awesome people* from Fuck Yeah YouTube Comments will be there (*full disclosure: I am one of the many awesome people from FYYTC). (link)

School Lunch Sound Off!

Noon – 2pm at a.Muse Gallery.  Talk about the future of the school lunch program.  Stations for kids to plant seeds and shit.  Plus free food (we hear that the amazing Manu from SF Vegan Tamales is helping cater), drinks, prizes and stuff.  A real community builder! (Link)

SF Zine Fest Benefit Show + Afterparty

9 pm onwards – Amnesia
853 Valencia St between 19th and 20th
$7 donation – Proceeds benefit SFZF!

FEATURING:
Jeepster (Sacramento)
Fleshtone (Portland)
Hyperpotamus (Tokyo/Madrid)
Toby Dick
and an animation screening by Wu of Ghost Family (link)

Sunday:

Rock Make Street Festival

11am – 7pm at Treat and 17th.  12 Bay Area bands performing on two stages with over 50 local artists and craftspeople showing their wares in between. (link)

SF Food Wars Mac N’ Cheese Battle

1pm – 4pm at Stable Cafe.  Let’s be honest here, if you didn’t already get a ticket, you’re probably not going to this. (link)

Battle of the Empanadas

2pm – 6pm at 2958 24th st.  Yes, we already posted about this, but it’s two of the best empanadas in the Mission in one place. (link)

We ran into SF Appeal film critic Alex “Barky” Barkett the other night at Bender’s, and he seemed like he was having a pleasant enough evening, but it turns out he was having a pretty shitty evening. Lucky for us, he’s spun it into gold — in the form of the best weekend entertainment roundup ever written.

Hang in there, Barky.

Artist Rio Yanez just finished a new mural outside Galeria de la Raza. It’s called Ghetto Frida’s Mission Memories and look, it looks great on video.

(link)

Previously (and be sure to peruse the comments sections for further remembrances of some of the things Frida remembers):

Mission Flashback 1975

Mission Flashback 1989