Mission Mission

Here’s a little about Brick & Mortgage:

Brick & Mortgage is a non-profit organization that provides impoverished families across the world with a home of their own. We partner with Bay Area home buyers, giving them the opportunity to fund a home for someone else when they buy a home for themselves. By turning blueprints into bricks, we’re giving impoverished families the opportunity to build a life free of poverty. Brick & Mortgage exists to provide a simple way to fund a home for a family in need, at fraction of what it costs to buy a home in the Bay Area.

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International non-profit buildOn is throwing a party in the neighborhood this Saturday (9/29), Ashley shares the details with us:

BuildOn runs afterschool youth service programs that mobilize urban teens to lift up their communities and change the world through intensive local community service and by building schools in some of the poorest countries on the planet. It’s an incredible non-profit that works locally with youth and additionally connects them with service globally building schools across the world.

On September 29th, we are having our first buildOn Carnival in the Mission at Wix Lounge at 22nd and Mission! It will be a really great event to raise money to support all of our great programs. Purchase of a ticket (at only $40 pre-sale, $50 at the door) gets you:

1. Unlimited Beer and Wine
2. Tickets to your favorite carnival and casino games
3. Chance to win amazing prizes, several from local favorite places
4. Carnival Themed Snacks from Straw SF
5. Face painting/Clowns/Live Music by Los Trancolizers
AND MORE!!!

Additionally, to put it in perspective, each $40 ticket pays fully for education for TWO students in a developing country for a whole year! Can’t tell me that isn’t an awesome way to spend your money – a great evening of fun with proceeds going to a good cause.

Purchase tickets here.

The Golden Hour! First one is tonight! Our pal Julie from Penelope Popsicle is host and executive producer (and after seeing her work over at Oakland Nights… Live, we can guarantee this is going to be the bomb), our very own Andrew Sarkarati and Helen Tseng are co-hosting a little news segment, there’re free shots (!!!) and the house band is called the Hats! I can’t wait!

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Mainly I’m excited about this edition of Talkies because it features a new film by David Enos. Don’t know David Enos? Allow me to enlighten you:

But basically, just watch this classic and you’ll be sold:

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Rock Make returns! Here’s this year’s lineup:

17th Street Stage (at Treat Avenue & 17th Street)

12:30pm: SF Rock Project
1:30pm: Kids on a Crime Spree
2:30pm: The Mallard
3:30pm: Yalls
4:30pm: Will Sprott (of The Mumlers)
5:30pm: Tartufi
6:30pm: Burnt Ones

18th Street Stage (at 18th Street & Treat Avenue)

1pm: Metal Mother
2pm: Permanent Collection
3pm: Twin Steps
4pm: DRMS
5pm: John Vanderslice
6pm: Exray’s

Lookin’ good! Just saw the Mallard last weekend and they are in prime condition these days, so try to arrive on the early side.

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There’s been a whole bunch of guac talk on this blog lately, and for very good reason:  we live in the land of delicious 25 cent avocados!  Got a killer guacamole recipe you’ve just been dying to unleash on the public?  Well, now’s your chance to pit it against all other contenders in a battle to the death (death for the avocados only, since they will be eaten) at the First Annual Indian Summer Guac Off going off this Saturday:

A party that will be showcasing the best Guacamoles that the city has to offer.  The winner to be crowned with the guacamole glory trophy, bragging rights until next Indian Summer, the title of official “Guacamole of San Francisco”, and a secret mystery prize.

You can talk all the talk you want, but can you actually walk the guac?  See if you have what it takes and check out all the details here.

Previously:

• Guacamole is good on anything
• How to make guacamole

Just received this image as an anonymous MMS, so it could be some kind of evil plot to destroy me. Or it could be a parachute party.

Jason Jägel is one of my favorite local artists by far. Check out his work at Needles and Pens, at 3253 16th Street, between Guerrero and Dolores:

Join us Friday September 7, 2012, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. for the opening reception of The Castle a solo show by Jason Jägel
with a musical performance by Dominic East

SF Zine Fest is back, this weekend in Golden Gate Park! Here’s what to expect:

This year’s Zine Fest will feature over 100 exhibitors in two exhibition halls, ranging from nationally recognized publishers in the DIY scene to local creators based throughout the SF Bay Area. The exhibition halls will be open on both days from 11AM-6PM, and as always, the Zine Fest is a free event to all public attendees!

In addition to the wide array of exhibitors, the Zine Fest will also host numerous panels and workshops throughout the show, including a Q+A Spotlight with our 2012 Special Guest (and Eisner award nominee) Sarah Oleksyk, a DIY Animation workshop, discussions with local creators Susie Cagle & Ed Luce, and much more. There will also be a raffle held throughout the weekend with prizes for attendees and a reading room to view zines from past and present.

Plus there’s an afterparty right here in the Mission! Anyway, here are some pics from last year to get you in the mood:

[Photos by Cindy Maram / Dig In Magazine]

Tomorrow is 4B4B! (That is, Four Barrel‘s 4th B-day!) There will be free coffee and free food, skee ball just like last year, a photobooth, some animals to touch, and more.

Here’s more about tomorrow’s anniversary festivities from Four Barrel’s manager Nicky Koch:

To celebrate four years of serving the coffee-drinking denizens of San Francisco, Four Barrel will be throwing our annual birthday bash on Wednesday, August 22nd, from 7am to 4pm. As we do every year, we will be giving away free coffee and espresso drinks all day long. And yes: the drinks are 100% free, no joke. We’ve also arranged for a few friends to help us add to the fun: Glass Coat Photo Booth will be setting up one of their free photo booths from 12pm-4pm, and, as always, any photo strips that people leave with us hung on our bathroom photo wall all year. Also, there will be two Skee Ball units in the back for people to square off against one another, courtesy of local Skee Ball champ, Joey the Cat. And at noon, we will be serving free slices of delicious Tartine cake and free scoops of Humphry Slocombe ice cream. For the kids, we’ll have a small petting zoo set up in one of our parklet corrals, courtesy of Little Explorers Mobile Petting Zoo, and, for the lunchtime crowd, Del Popolo, an incredibly beautiful mobile pizza cart, will be posted up outside if people want some food to go along with their lattes. It’s going to be a hoot.

I don’t know about you, but I love hoots — it’s the sound that owls make.