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Illustrator Wendy MacNaughton talked to some Mission bartenders about what it’s like being a Mission bartender, and then produced a lovely feature complete with sketches, portraits, graphs, charts and more. Read it.

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When Cranky Old Mission Guy isn’t busy telling you damned kids to get off his stoop, he’s cooking up the latest in culinary cross-cultural fusion. Exhibit A: the Pizza-dilla:

Take a-holt of an even number of left-over slices of pizza. On half of them, spread evenly whatever left-over junk you have in your fridge. Turn the undecorated slices over, face-down, on the decorated slices. BURN THEM. Then flip and burn other side.

Bravo! Now wait as a food truck named Doña Corleone posts up in McCoppin Hub and charges $8 for one.

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So I went to paste in “The End,” but it’s really more of a “Riders on the Storm” morning, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKbPUzhWeeI

Recursive at Community Thrift.

What a perfectly named venue for the Mission’s biggest cold wave/minimal wave/synth wave dance night, Warm Leatherette. Happening tonight at SUB-Mission aka the old El Balazo Gallery on Mission & 18th, djs Riegler, Justin, Jason P, Dreamweapon and Nihar promise to “play the dancier side of MINIMAL ELEKTRONICS, DARK WAVE, SYNTH PUNK and other cold and distant sounds that cause uncontrollable dance contortions.”

Most tunes were released around the years ’82 – ’86 from places like Belgium and the Netherlands, and sound sort of like this:

Party starts at 10 p.m. and admission is only $5. Staff is strict so good luck sneaking in a flask or talking your way in if you’ve forgotten your ID. Fortunately most drinks are pretty cheap since it is a bare bones punk venue.

Good news for you non-cable-having freeloaders (self-included):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp2TzxDWa0k

Yeah yeah yeah, it’s old news. But I haven’t seen this episode yet and just found this link. Watch in horror as Anthony Bourdain transforms your favorite hidden gems into perpetual shit-shows before your very eyes. See him go from “figs on a plate” to “two-fisted, meat-loving drinking town”. Quickly, before Food Network Travel Channel takes it down.

SFist saw our report yesterday and couldn’t wait to get down to La Cumbre and try it:

We sampled the texturally-enhanced savory roll to see for ourselves if—at last—the chippy addition made San Francisco’s gloppy and oversteamed burrito (unfathomably preferred by many) more palatable. It did. Texture can do wonders. While the chips did get a bit soggy, they provided a necessary buffer to the burrito’s inherent one-dimensional flavor and greasiness factors. We ordered ours with grilled chicken, regular salsa, and no beans. (Unless they’re of the cannellini variety and tinged with rosemary and olive oil, we don’t care for beans.) It came to us wrapped nicely in a perfect size portion. Mmm, good.

Read on for more analysis and lots more pictures.