Mission Mission

Following in the grand tradition of Mission Chinese Food and Mission Street Food before it, Pink Zebra is now open inside Tao Yin Restaurant on 20th Street! Eater SF reports:

Traditional yakitori, oshizushi (a sushi variation made in a pressed mold, here with ocean trout), Japanese pickles, and menchi-zushi (meat croquettes) over rice are all offered in the 40-seat dining room, with shareable plates in the $14-16 range. There’s also a sushi counter that seats five, where diners can sample an omakase meal (in the $75 range) of nigiri, pickles, and other traditional small plates. The menu will change regularly, especially in these early days, so definitely arrive expecting some surprises from Koide and teammate Rio Sakai. Tao Yin will continue to offer takeout, and retain a handful of tables for its own use.

It’ll be like when MSF first moved indoors, way back in 2008.

Anyway, Pink Zebra is open Thursday-Saturday and Monday. Read on for more details.

On Friday morning, a tipster sent us this video of an incident at a soccer field in the Mission:

We mulled it over all weekend (at the beach) and our main takeaway is that if the two groups buried the hatchet and played all together, like the end of the video suggests they do, it’s a beautiful story. Learning, understanding, coming together — through pickup soccer. Peace on Earth.

Our secondary takeaway from this whole episode is that we love this one righteously indignant guy in the “V” hat. He’s so flustered, it’s kind of sweet. So we decided to commemorate some of his lines with the help of Meme Generator:

I mean, just put yourself in his shoes: being so flustered that you start muttering phrases like “you’re being disastrously weird, man.”

Gotta love humanity.

Something about this seems real fishy. Also, I’ve lately been quite obsessed with SF Climates!

Way back when I was first looking for a place to live in SF, I happened upon this charming in-law apartment in the Outer Sunset. It had everything I needed, and the sweet old lady landlord seemed nice enough, although she did keep making references to these “crazy parties” she would periodically throw.

As we stood together in the bright, sunny backyard, I remarked about how beautiful a day it was, and innocently asked whether it was often like this. With a deep sigh, she said:

You seem really nice, so I just can’t lie to you. It’s probably this nice here only about 5 days a year.

Disappointed, I left and started looking for places in the Mission. But! Perhaps I was just 8 years too early?

3D City is a year long stereoscopic photography project by Doctor Popular

Just outside of Tiburon is an amazing little hike along the Ring Mountain Open Space Reserve. A fantastic view of the bay, Mt Tam, and SF. Be sure to bring your climbing shoes and a roll of redscale film if you have it. It’d play nice with the colors you’d find there this time of year.

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And here’s the finished product:

Go Giants!

As we mentioned briefly earlier in the week, there’s a party for Pen & Ink tonight at the Make-Out Room! Here’s the full rundown:

Tumblr and Tattly Present: A Night of Pen & Ink at the Make-Out Room

Cassy Fritzen
Caroline Paul
Chris Colin
Alexis C. Madrigal & Sarah C. Rich
Michelle Tea
and
Daniel Handler(!!!)

Hosted by: Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton

Invite your friends! Buy some books! Come party with us!

I bet there will also be plenty of temporary tattoos and Tumblr pins too. RSVP and invite your friends here.

DJ JustStella, one of my favorite DJs of all time, tonight on her BFF show Radio Shoe, which focuses on a different theme every Friday night, delves into the storied world of the Riot Grrl movement. Here’s the deal:

Radio Shoe will be hosting CeCi Moss, the curator of the upcoming Riot Grrl exhibition at YBCA “Alien She” that opens October 25th. She, as well as Dayv Jones, San Francisco’s foremost Riot Grrrl historian, will be giving a bit of a history of the movement, chatting about putting the show together, and playing some hard to find tracks from their personal vinyl collections.

Tune in at 8:00! Or peruse the Radio Shoe episode archives whenever.

The Examiner and the Guardian are pretty chill though?

[Photo by Dwight Long, via It's Always Sunny in San Francisco]

NYC, baby.

[via Chef Danny Bowien on Twitter]