Mission Mission

Remember those good ol’ days when Woody Allen was in the Mission making a movie? The film opens next month and is called Blue Jasmine, and the first trailer is out, in which Cate Blanchett refers to an apartment nicer than yours as “homey” and another guy refers to the neighborhood as a “big comedown” from what rich people are used to.

You know how you go to see Daft Punk at the Greek Theater and you’re way up on the hill and all you see is a couple of robot heads nodding atop a big pyramid? Or you see Justice at Treasure Island and you’re way out in the crowd and all you see is a couple of French dudes rocking out atop a little podium?

At Haçeteria, you get to see — up close and personal, in an intimate setting right here in the Mission — up-and-coming electronic talent making music on real-live hardware right before your eyes. Tonight you’ll see Leech from LA, turning knobs and pushing buttons and making you dance. Plus there’s guest DJ Myles (of Gonna Find Boyfriends Today fame), and all the great resident Haç DJs spinning the classics. Oh and lots of fog and lasers.

RSVP and invite your friends!

Brought to you by the fine folks at Fayes.

Who needs Facebook!
[pic by Sharon, thanks!]

It only happens four times a year, but when the night is right and you can taste the evil in the air, you know it’s time to drink a bunch of whiskey and dance away to the Smiths and the Misfits, over and over again.  Check it out here.

And if a 10-ton truck…

Mission Local reports:

San Bruno Police, with the assistance of San Francisco Police SWAT team, searched a home on Folsom Street, between 21th and 22nd streets, for evidence of the ongoing investigation of Cecilia “Yaya” Zamora’s homicide, who was found dead in Pacifica in April, said Lt. Tim Mahon of San Bruno Police.

Investigators took residents cell phones and two computers, said Debbie Patton, a resident at the home. However, there were no arrests, Mahon said.

Read on.

When my parents lived in the Mission back in the 1970s, they liked to go dancing at a place called Dance Your Ass Off. They’d tell me about this as a kid and I’d be all Disco? Seriously? And what kind of a name is that? Now that I’m an adult, I, rightly, wish there were a straight-up ’70s-style disco with a dumb name around here somewhere.

Tonight, our good pal Cosmic Amanda, of the popular Mutiny Radio program Radioculars and the popular American Tripps disco spinoff I Like Love, is fulfilling my dreams, kind of, by taking the DJ reins at Asiento (just a block off the New 20th Street Corridor). She promises hours of disco and hours of fun. And she’ll be all decked out, like a proper Studio 54 regular. I think the party might be called “Dance Turnoffs,” which is awesomely dumb, but the Facebook invite isn’t totally clear.

RSVP and invite your friends!

Join the SF Berlin-Style Ping Pong League:

Prizes, friends, fun, and LOTS of food trucks. And a beer-and-wine-and-sangria truck.

For a look at last season’s final meet and awards ceremony (which included a block of tickets to the Treasure Island Music Festival, among other things), see this photo album.

I wonder if this will gain him free access to the new New Mission Theater once it reopens as an Alamo Drafthouse some time next year.

[via The Fog Bender]

SF DocFest, SF Indie’s 12th annual documentary festival, starts today and runs through the 23rd. The festival kicks off tonight with the west coast premiere of Spark: A Burning Man Story at the Roxie Theater.

Notable and relevant film screenings include:

• Petey and Ginger, featuring Petey Dammit of Thee Oh Sees and a local band-filled soundtrack
• Gut Renovation, about Williamsburg and all of our readers’ favorite topic ever, gentrification!
• These documentary shorts by local filmmakers
• Edible City, about the Bay Area Good Food movement
• This one about Pussy Riot
• This one about Bettie Page
• This one about The Pirate Bay

And there’s plenty more, so be sure to check out the full schedule (or just The Roxie’s schedule, if you don’t want to leave the neighborhood).

Looking up at from inside the looking down on. Otherwise known as the reverse.