Mission Mission

CBS5 reports that since Mayor Newsom was so pleased with last year’s Sunday Streets events, they will return in 2009, expanded to include the Mission. This means streets closed to traffic for the benefit of pedestrians and cyclists, with activities, entertainment and other community-oriented stuff all along the way. Link.

Ashleigh is live on the scene:

Dude! fire @ Bartlett & 25th

There were a bunch of trucks & the fire fighters had on air tanks. Smells like gas in the air. Can’t tell for sure what’s happening now

Update: Picture here. Also, haha.

Schlomo just wrote in with the sad news that Alhambra Halal Meat Co. just up and closed. Link.

Previously:

New Neighborhood Butcher: Alhambra Halal Meat Co.

Mark Roquet writes:

Lessons in Adventureneering is a monthly variety show at Dog Eared Books that features music, comedy, educational lectures (sometimes real and sometimes fake) and live science demonstrations.

Past events have included live World War I reenactments, championship yo-yo-ing, fake food products, and a volcano. It is always free and always on the first Wednesday of the month.

The upcoming show on Wednesday March 4 at 7:30 features two bands, the twangy Fancy Dan Band and the Mission’s own The Yellow Dress, and a lecture on advanced robotics detection. Should be a good time.

Thanks, Mark!

Related:

Championship Yo-yo-ing in Clarion Alley

Now THATS walking around money just published some evidence that a new edition of Vampire Wizard Zeus Magazine is out, or forthcoming.

My new favorite blog is Mission and Highland, a whole blog devoted to life at the intersection of Mission Street and Highland Avenue, at the absolute southernmost tip of what you might still call the Outer Mission.

The most recent post features this photo of a phone pole being chainsawed down. Badass.

Previously:

Shooting at Mission and Highland

Clarion Alley Week continues at subSF, today’s post featuring everybody’s favorite mashup of retro videogaming and fairytale animal art. Link.

Family Styles went to Pizzeria Delfina and took lots of pictures. Link.

Update: Also, PD’s “This Place Sucks” shirts on 7×7 (via shawnbot).

Kris writes:

Five shots got me out of bed last night around 11pm.  Saw a car speed away once I got a chance to look out the window.  Looked like someone was hit because an ambulance came and went.

Thanks, Kris.

Neo Displacer says: “Now if only I could drive my fucking house through a fucking bank I’d feel much better…”

Photo by wirednerd.

Previously:

Car vs. Bank (Bank Loses)