Mission Mission

Coming February 24th, after work, after school, there’s the third in a string of community meetings at which the future of Cesar Chavez will be decided upon. Mark your calendars.

Link. (Thanks, Todd!)

American Apparel just posted the above note in the window at 988 Valencia.

THE END.

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This is the video for “American Water,” a new single by Please Quiet Ourselves from Berkeley. It is a minute and 40 seconds of teenage heart and soul.

Yell! got in touch to offer a counterpoint to An Ode to Garfield Square:

Yell!: I lived off Garfield Square. That place was a cesspool that made me feel less safe than the Tenderloin
me: haha
Yell!: it’s awful
i did laundry on the other side of the park from my house
and this homeless couple were banging on the folding table
me: banging?
like fucking?
Yell!: yes.
it was awful
it was raining outside
me: gawd
Yell!: i moved to 19th and valencia shortly thereafter

Via email:

The Wild Kitchen is having its first dinner!  It’s going to be on Feb 14, in a secret location in the mission.   If you’re looking for a different kind of Valentines Day, this is the place. Wild boar, nettles, acorn ice cream (it’s actually really good) .  We mean to reintroduce wild food to the masses, or at least the people we know. The dinner will feature 4 courses, each highlighting a different locally foraged ingredient. There is one communal table, and several “private” tables for groups of 2 and 4.    Tickets are $40 cash at the door and include:

+Aperitif

+Wild Nettle and potato soup with crème fraiche

+ Slow Roasted Wild boar with chanterelles and fingerling potatoes

+ Salad of foraged citrus with wild greens

+ Your choice of Acorn or Vanilla ice cream, with a balsamic strawberry reduction

RSVP to wildkitchen@gmail.com and you will be given the address.  Space is very limited, so please write only if you’re sure you can come.  If you want a “private” table, tell us in the email. Drinks will be available for suggested donation of $4.

This food is all wild foraged, and sometimes we can’t find just what we want. Because of this, the menu could change.  If it does, we’ll let you know.

Here’s what the Chronicle‘s Caille Millner has to say about members of the Stop American Apparel effort:

They are not serious people. They live in a world where facts like 27 vacant storefronts on Valencia Street and 9.3 percent unemployment statewide and nearly 600,000 jobs lost nationally last month do not matter. The few who read books know no authors beyond Naomi Klein. They do not believe that the world has changed since the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. This accounts for both the static nature of their vocabulary – “no formula retail!” is their death chant, though anyone who has picked up a newspaper in the last five months could tell you that there isn’t a single retail establishment with a formula today – and the juvenile nature of their worldview.

Reads like a blog comment with better punctuation don’t it? She goes on to refer to the protestors as “nasty little elves.” Link.

Laura Bess spent the morning at one of the import shops on Mission Street and snapped pics of some gems. The first two are good for laughs, but the third bowls me over. Like something out of a very special lo-res issue of National Geographic.

Click each to see photographer’s commentary.

Photo by Amor de Cosmos. From a wall on Valencia.

By Plug1.

Sunday night at Beauty Bar: Lux Lives!

For the duration of an extended happy hour (5-10pm), CRAMPS DANCE PARTY!! I’ll be there with bells on. And if you need another reason, dig it. What a vocal!