Mission Mission

Let’s hope they really got him.  Mission Local has the news:

Police said they arrested the suspect at 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Bernal Dwellings after receiving a tip from a resident. It’s unclear at this time whether the suspect lived there but police said that he resides in the Mission District.

Read the full SFPD press release after the jump.

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Vegansaurus is on the scene:

[I]t’s really creepy in rainbow without the lights on! Do you think there will be a grocery heist?? [link]

Yikes! Definitely creepy. Better head elsewhere if you were planning on picking up some fancy orange juice for tomorrow’s mimosas.

[Photo by Vegansaurus]

Los Angeles Magazine takes a look at how parking is fucking retarded, using LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall and its massive underground parking structure as just one prime example. Here, LA gets compared to SF:

Donald Shoup, a Yale-trained economist and former chair of UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning, loves telling this story. Gehry’s auditorium may be wonderful, says Shoup, but it is also a fine example of poor planning. The garage—designed to serve the public good—instantly made the Metro immaterial to concertgoers, placed several thousand cars on the road every week, and pumped a few hundred tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. Like any parking lot entrance, the one on Bunker Hill sucked air from street life. “L.A.,” says Shoup, “required 50 times more parking under Disney Hall than San Francisco would allow at their own hall.” Downtown already had an oversupply of garages and lots where music fans could leave their cars. “After a concert in San Francisco,” says Shoup, “the streets are full of people walking to their cars, eating in restaurants, stopping into bars and bookstores. In L.A.? The bar next door at Patina is a ghost town.” Receipts that should have gone to the philharmonic’s endowment instead are funding enough parking for nearly every ticket holder to park a car every night downtown.

So San Francisco has it pretty good? I dunno. Read on for the history of parking, parking meters, parking tickets — and the possible futures of all those things too.

[via kottke] [Photo by tastr]

One of the more kickass title screens from the arcade machine at Dear Mom.

[via Do Vulcan Tits Defy Logic?]

In case you haven’t heard of Fecal Face before, they’re only one of the raddest art collectives the city has to offer.  And now, they’re coming to the Mission!  Join them tonight in their brand new space for an impressive opening featuring some truly psychedelic stuff from a brilliant combination of local artists like our pal Matt Furie (along with some of their Brazilian friends)!

Check out the deets here and RSVP on the Facebook page here.

Looks like this one didn’t make it out to Ocean Beach before the traditional Christmas tree bonfire. Which, may I add, is the classiest way for a Christmas tree to go out–like Bon Jovi in a blaze of glory (or not).

These could belong to a happy cartoon zucchini, right?

(Well they don’t. They belong to a person named Chantel, and Fashionist has more pics of her here.)

UPDATE: Or a happy American Tripps ad, am I RIGHT??

Get some purple drank in your tank this evening at the lovely Beauty Bar with another nostalgic installment of the nineties fueled Big Fun. Tonight 100% Silk recording artist Magic Touch is at the helm while djs Nu-Jack of Jock Jams and Pickpocket of Donuts heat up the place with “house music, booty bass, 90′s r&b, freestyle, ghettotech & more!” Admission is always free and $4 gets you a mystery mix of gin and purple drank. While there’s no guarantee on the potency of the purp stuff, the photobooth pictures in your back pocket will surely jar your memory tomorrow morning.

NBC Southern California reports:

A Colorado woman dropped her pants at a museum and rubbed her rear end all over a painting valued at $30 million, according to police.

Carmen Tisch, 36, was arrested after scratching, punching and, well, rubbing her butt against Clyfford Still’s “1957-J no.2″ and causing an estimated $10,000 damage to the artwork at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. Police believe she was drunk during the late December incident.

Read on.

(Thanks, Travis!)

Previously:

• PRINCESS BUSPISS

[via Joanstown]