Mission Mission

Ken Ken Ramen is hosting a 3-day “Asian night market” style event with local artisinal crafts and food vendors at their space on 18th St.:

We love Asian Night Markets full of interesting stalls, vendors, food, and craziness — so much so that we’re turning our noodle factory into a three night Mission Night Market! Set up next door to Ken Ken Ramen at 3376 18th St, Mission Night Market will run Thursday, Friday & Saturday, hosting independent vendors, crazy artists, and more. Themes and vendors will range from Surfers to Vintage to Palm Readers to Jewelers to Japanese Dessert Makers & more!

Look for a wild selection of local artists setting up shop and hawking their goods at this evening bazaar. Three nights only! March 8-10 2012. 6pm to Late.

Selected vendors and more include:

• Bobaguys
• ScuttleFish Vanagon Surf Mobile
• SanFlan Japanese Desserts
• Palm Reading
• The Gypsie Shop by Curator Amanda Krampf
• Alite Camping Equipment
• JackKnife Outfitters
• Revolver Select
• Cureall Vintage
• Auger + Ore Jewelry
• Webster Reading Room
• Roppongi Records
• Aoi Yamaguchi
• Kitsch Art Gallery
• Valerian Jewelry
• Dillon Montara Clothing
• Adam Lam Furniture

Nice try guys, but we all know it’s not a real Asian night market without knock-off Adidas shoes and booth after booth of iPhone cases.

This goes down at 3376 18th Street 6pm to late Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (March 8th, 9th, 10th).

SFist just published the complete schedule:

• March 11: Embarcadero- Season kick off
• April 15: Great Highway/Golden Gate park- new route through the park
• May 6: Mission
• June 3: Mission
• July 1: Mission
• July 22: Bayview
• August 5: Mission
• August TBA: Chinatown
• September 9: Western Addition/N. Panhandle Alamo Square
• October 21: Outer Mission/Excelsior

Read on.

[Photo by Bhautik Joshi]

Sorry for the short notice, but we only had five short years to plan for this thing. Here’s the deal: our first post ever was on February 14, 2007, so we figured we better celebrate somehow, and the nice folks at Dear Mom were kind enough to offer to help out. For the month beginning tomorrow and running through March 14th, they’ll be offering the Mission Mission Anniversary Special, a High Life and a shot of Fernet, for $6. And tomorrow evening we’ll all be there, so come say hi. We’ll probably buy you a drink.

RSVP and invite your friends!

This coming Friday the Lower 24th Street Merchants and Neighbors Association is putting on the first annual Las Posadas.

Join in 24th Street’s second annual community celebration of Las Posadas, a Latin American tradition of the Christmas season. Meet at the corner of 24th and Capp streets at 5:45 on Friday, December 16 for a procession and singing. The procession will finish at the Mission Neighborhood Centers building, 3013 24th Street (on the corner of Harrison Street), where there will be pinatas, more singing, and free food and drinks. This is a family-oriented event, but all people are encouraged to come. For more information, contact info@lower24thstreet.org .

Facebook event page here.

Speakeasy is hosting, and there’s lots going on:

Punk Swap Meet:
Saturday, Dec 17th, 1-6 PM
1195 Evans Avenue

-Tons of tables selling records, zines, clothes, crafts
-Tape swap–bring a mix to trade!
-$3 beers on tap
-Food from Eagle Dog (with veg/vegan options)
-DJ’s Kirka Sherpa, Güera, JoNeric, and 1 TBA.

If anyone’s interested in setting up and selling, email joneric94609@gmail.com.

You’re sure to find the perfect gift for the punk on your list! RSVP and invite your friends!

Most of you know the work of photographer Julie Michelle. MM has been following her I Live Here SF project since the beginning.

[Julie Michelle self portrait]

Recently Julie’s partner, Lee, had a massive stroke. Well, we all know how quickly medical bills can rack up. Thankfully Lee is on the road to recovery, but it’s a long one and both of their lives will be consumed with the process for a while. To at least be able to help ease some of the financial burden, their friends Tucker and Analise are throwing a fundraiser at the San Francisco Motorcycle Club, located on Folsom near 18th Street, on Sunday, 12/18.

Tucker explains:

We’re hosting a party at the San Francisco Motorcycle Club (shot by Julie Michelle here) on Sunday the 18th from 3:00 to 7:00. There will music, drinks, good people, and a raffle. Donations will be gladly accepted in person, but if you can’t make the event, there is a ChipIn campaign already running here. There is also a Facebook page for the event here.

Now, I know Julie and Lee, and they are two of the most giving, generous people I can imagine. If you can help them out, even a little bit, I would be ever grateful.

If you haven’t taken care of your holiday shopping yet, what better way than to take a look at some of your favorite local neighborhood businesses tonight as 40 different places from 14th all the way to 26th Street will be showing off their stuff from 5-10pm!  If memory serves from past incarnations, some places will probably be serving (free!) drinks while you shop too!

Check out the Facebook page here.

DocPop just scored some rollerblades. Remember those? Well does the hit SEGA game Skitchin’ jog your memory? Thought so. Anyway, that means he’s heading to Cellspace’s skate night this Tuesday. Maybe you should too, if you’ve got a pair and you’re into synchronized dancing:

Back when I was growing up in Modesto, CA, our yearly reward for being above a 2.0 GPA was a trip to Roller King. I can still remember the bruises from repeatedly falling on my locker keys, but rolling around in a big circle to Ray Parker Jr.’s Ghostbusters and couple skating with Gabrielle made it totally worth it. Skating is fun.

Before you go and grab a head band and a pair of neon leg warmers, be aware that this party is un-ironic. I would tell you what that means, but I’m not even convinced I know what “ironic” means anymore.

[via DocPop]

Have you ever felt something deep down within but just didn’t have the words to describe it? Apparently you’re not alone, as a new reading series dubbed Clattering Loom aims to examine those very feelings:

Clattering Loom is a quarterly reading series that focuses on one untranslatable phrase or word from a language other than English that expresses something for which there is no singular definition in our language.

For the Autumn installment, we have chosen the French word “dépaysement,” which translates loosely as: the feeling from not being in one’s home country; a change of scenery, unexpected and new horizons.

It’s all going down this Sunday from 12-4pm at Gallery 4N5, and there will be readings from the likes of Maisha Johnson and Jonathan Hirsch, as well as music by Tiny Home, not to mention everyone’s favorite frybread purveyor Rocky Yazzie coming through with a special breakfast version to soak up the $3 mimosas.  It’ll be the perfect FREE rainy day activity, even if it’s not raining!

RSVP to the Facebook event page here.

[Photo by jdonohue]

Tonight (11/12/11, a regular ol’ numbered date) at Needles and Pens, local band Woodsboro will be playing their new album, “Pocket Comb”. All 100 copies of the album will be on sale for $25, the sleeves all being unique works of art by all kinds of local artists. Seriously, like, hundreds of them, with names like:

Audra Knutson, Ed Jurken, Sara Thurston, Laurence Wilson, Scott Falkowski, Inbar Kishoni, Sharon Gatliffe, Grant Lavalley, Serena Mitnik-Miller, David Kasprzak, Greer McGettrick, Andrew Connors, Kirsten Knick, Natalie Lunney, Primo Pitmo, Michael McConnell, Sidnea D’amico, Johnny Abrahams, Doug Spencer, Paul Garcia, Jacqueline Pachak, Eric Corrigan, Meghan Meehan, Ellen McCoy, Alex Wilson, Dave Gardner, Odessa Fryxell, Jon Calvert, Anna Carpenter, Tara Barnes, Chrys Nodal, Lizzy McGinn, Alfonso Kellenberger, Erin Hurley, Jennifer Melcon, Wymond Miles, Jaime Jennings, Matthew Brown, Seble Bissrat, Jacqui Ko, Kim Kelly, Will Ivy, Zoe Mogannam, Katie Davis, Olive Mogannam, Aaron Rodriguez, Alex DeWall, Vanessa Gonzales, Em Gift, Imin Yeh, Hayden Elizabeth Shieble, Chili Montes, Andrew Martin Scott, Alison Davis, Lauren Klein, Cody Frost, Karoline Hatch, Moses Montalvo, etc.

Facebook invite here.