Mission Mission

Reader Erich sends this in from 16th and Mission, signaling the very end of the neighborhood’s latino music megastore as it transitions into a T-Mobile megastore.  While I never went into the store, I’ll miss gawking at the Ricky Martin handprints cemented to their entryway.

More on Ritmo Latino’s closing at Mission Loc@l.

The 2009 Día de los Muertos poster: a work in progress / Kiriko Moth

Kiriko Moth, a local artist who is designing the poster for this year’s Día de los Muertos celebration, alerts us to some troubling financial news:

The Marigold Project is a nonprofit organization who, for 30 years has been dedicated to preserving, promoting, and sharing the traditional Meso-American rituals surrounding the Dia de los Muertos. And now they need your help! The city has raised permit fees and the organization is in a funding crisis. Visit their website at www.dayofthedeadsf.org to learn more and donate to their organization, because without the support of the community this amazing event cannot continue!

Donate Here

(link)

This is why I love this neighborhood: On a totally average Monday night you can stumble out of a bar (after a few rounds of ginger beer, some peanuts, some gin rummy and some Shellac Shack) to find astounding acrobatic feats taking place on the sidewalk outside.

This guy does a helluva backflip. Just look at the wind-up.

This week on I Heart Street Art, we learn how important stencil art is to the Moroccan political system. Link.

Anytime weddings  and self-divorce at 25th and Valencia.  Get one of each!

(Photo from xojy)

A tipster fills us in:

There’s a teabagger type guy, with a hitler-moustached obama poster outside the south van ness post office @ 23rd.

This is not the first time that the Obama haters have come into the Mission, but it is the first time they have not been hiding under the cover of darkness.  Clearly they are becoming more emboldened by the health-care profiteers’ propaganda and Glenn Beck’s consistent opposition to the healthcare bill.

Did anyone get a picture?

What’s my favorite thing about Herbivore (Valencia at 21st)?  Everything!

Besides that, I’m pretty into this:

Did you catch that li’l trompe l’oeil (heh!  sorry.) on their menu?

Both the Sweet & Sour and Coconut Noodle soups have the exact same ingredients listed, with a few items in a different order and distracting line breaks.   Those sneaky herbivores!

Fortunately,  the soups are different, and delicious.  The Sweet & Sour tastes like hot Skittle soup, in the best way possible.

But to end on a sour note (hyuck hyuck!), if you got your hands on that coupon from Chase Bank a few weeks ago, the thing unfortunately expired last Sunday.  I found that one out the hard way.

Becca checks in today from India, to show us a bunch of pictures of gnarly tie-dyed fabrics and the bike looms used to make them. Link.

Previously:

Becca in Guatemala with Blender Bike, Laundry Bike and Peanut Butter Bike

Under the freeway at South Van Ness. Drive safe, everybody.

(Photo by Mission Loc@l’s Armand)