Mission Mission

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“Denise” from New York, in the comments section of our original post about the incident, lays the blame:

Moving from NYC one year ago, I have to say I thought I’ve seen everything until I landed in SF. The lack of visible police officers in the city is the #1 problem. The NYPD wouldn’t tolerate half of the behavior that goes on here. And, I’m sorry to say, the men in this city don’t act like real men. That guy didn’t have a weapon and could have been restrained. Drugs or no drugs. The craziness is tolerated here every day!

Thanks, Denise!

[Photo by C'mon Pony]

Launch is in August, but no luck here in the Mission. Mission Local reports:

[T]here are no firm plans to build stations in the Mission at this point. SOMA, the Financial District and Embarcadero will share 35 stations with 350 bikes during the first stage of the pilot, which ends in early 2014. Other regional partners will divvy up the remaining bikes between San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Redwood City. A second stage, to be determined, will expand the service by up to 1,000 bikes. [link]

Dumb! I LOVE bike sharing. I go to DC every now and then just to ride their bike-share bikes. I went to New York last week to be there for the launch of their program, and it was awesome in every way (even despite several first-week glitches). Bike sharing will be awesome in SF, and for SF, so I’m bummed there’s no Mission service planned. Cross your fingers.

(Thanks, Jess.)

UPDATE: Although, I guess New York has the same problem. (But at least there are like three stations in central Williamsburg.)

Hapa Ramen is coming to the Mission! Inside Scoop has the inside scoop:

Hapa Ramen honcho Richie Nakano — noted liker of noodles — has a new partner in the endeavor: Tobi Stuart. As many enterprising chefs can tell you, there’s a lot more that goes into opening a restaurant than just cooking, and as Nakano puts it, having Stuart aboard will allow him to stay in the kitchen. Together, they’ve taken over an address that they’re keeping under wraps for now, though it’s on Mission Street … in the high teens. They still need a change-of-use permit and all that entails, and a full build-out is required for the 2,400 square foot space, which is hoped to clock in at roughly 70 seats, including a counter.

Read on for more.

P.S. Read Girls Love Noodles!

[Photo by The Chronicle/Liz Hafalia]

Anyone walking down Valencia over the past few days has to have noticed these posters going up on storefront windows of local merchants, and now there’s a petition being circulated to try to convince the luxury boutique that this neighborhood isn’t really a good fit for them. Unfortunately, almost all legal options to prevent Jack Spade from moving in have been exhausted, as the store just barely evades the label of “formula retail” by being only one store under the threshold.

Although Jack Spade is set to begin their lease on June 15, no one knows when they plan to move in, and the company has been ominously silent on the matter. We’ll just have to wait and see if they can take the hint, but in the meantime expect a lot more attention to this issue!

[via Adam Lynn]

If you’re a fan of Thee Oh Sees, you should see Petey & Ginger, screening at the Roxie this week as part of DocFest. Made for Danish television I think, it’s a 60-minute portrait of the director’s two American friends, one of whom is Oh See Petey. Its very loose thesis seems to be something about the American economy’s effects on creative types in the ’00s, but mostly it’s fun to get a few little behind-the-scenes glimpses of Thee Oh Sees at work (and at play).

At the premiere on Friday, Petey was on hand for Q&A after the film. He’d just had four shots of whiskey — which seemed fair seeing as how it was his first time seeing this feature-length documentary about himself — so his A’s were more entertaining than they were illuminating. I asked what it was like being able to leave his day job a few years back for a full-time job as a rockstar, and he giggled some and rocked back and forth a few times and slurred something about a European company buying the dildo distributor he used to work for. It was lots of fun. (Film festival rule of thumb: always go opening night for the Q&As!)

The movie is preceded by a short, Brute Force, about this musician Brute Force who worked with the Beatles for a second before slipping into obscurity. It stars him and his daughter, Daughter of Force, and shows what they’re up to nowadays in NYC. This movie is a gem.

Here’s Brute’s big (long-lost) hit:

Both films screen again Thursday night at 9pm, at the Roxie. Get tickets here.

Like for real: it’s an *actual* musical chairs party. What?

The concept is no different than the childhood game of yore (and the most popular game in prison!). Round & round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows! It’s terror on 4 legs — but it ain’t a dog!

What? Anyway: great DJs, fun new concept, cold drinks, etc. RSVP and invite your friends!

Free, but you have to RSVP.

But you have to enter the ticket lottery.