Mission Mission

Tomorrow, in Dolores Park: Unsilent Night!

Basically, there’s this composer from New York named Phil Kline who organizes mass boombox orchestras.  Here’s how it works: you show up at Dolores Park tomorrow at 7 p.m. with a boombox.  CDs and cassettes are distributed.  You pop one of these bad boys into your ‘box, everyone hits play at the exact same time, and BAM!  Music.

Performance art, people.  We’re going to play the song you lost your virginity to and you’re gonna like it.

This post is completely unrelated to the Underground Railroad; however, you can click the above image to learn about these unique 19th-century slave escape routes.

Broke-Ass Stuart points us to ForageSF‘s Underground Farmers Market, tonight from 5-11 p.m. at 2755 Bryant Street.  Local vendors will be gathering to hawk their delicious wares.  Who’ll be there, per the site:

forageSF: Acorn flour, fresh wild mushrooms, wild fennel seeds, huckleberry jam, wild Blackberry jam, and CSF gift certificates
HeartBaker: Makes some amazing baked goods
Slow Jams: Great homemade jam
Will Schrom: Homemade sarsparilla (maybe the best soda you’ve ever tasted)
Captain Blankenship: Soaps and salves
Kelsey: Gingerbread houses
Garden Fare: Edible garden gift boxes
The Golden Crust: Pies, pies, pies
The Girl From Empanada:  Homemade empanadas
Lauren & Jon Bowne: Homemade Jewish deli fare (think corned beef, not gefilte fish)
Five Flavors Herbs: Wild foraged tinctures

Yum!  There’ll be homebrew, too, and some live music.  Sounds pretty decent.

The Lab, that place you never think about (oh yeah, that place!) on 16th and Capp, is hosting two awesome events this weekend:

First, Friday night!  Mi Ami party!  Dudes are putting out a new 12″.  The evening will also feature bearded boy wonder Tristes Tropiques.  Flyer below, but don’t stare too long; Magic Eye don’t work if you’re not relaxed.

Second, Saturday night!  A live Tetris Tournament!  They’re gonna project that shit on a wall and name a winner by the end of the night.  Music by Microfiche, White Cloud, and Middle D.

Below, a classic Tetris conundrum.  I leave it to you, reader, to solve.  See if you can figure out what to do with that next piece (hint: Zepler doubling isn’t the answer).

Okay, talk to you guys later!

Bombshell Betty and Fromagique are hosting a holiday themed stripping burlesque show at the Elbo Room tonight. With names like “Rosy Areola” and “Vadge O’Fonner” how can you go wrong? Fans of boobs artistic expression shouldn’t miss this one.

If that’s not your bag, Evan Francis’ Spaceheater is performing at Coda Lounge as part of Jazz Mafia Tuesdays. Never been to Coda? No biggie, but I guess Stevie Wonder hangs there sometimes. If you like jazz flute over break beats then Evan’s your guy. BTW he’s not the flautist in Anchorman, but apparently they know each other real well. Jazz flautists probably have each other on speed dial to sub out gigs.

My favorite MM comment section hater sends us a tip about a merchant’s holiday party happening this Friday, featuring slashed prices and drink specials.  No word if there will be free refreshments or bands/DJs this year (they had ‘em last year), so you better brown bag it and pack your ipod with a smooth combination of Ratatat, The Knocks and Da Brat just in case.

I couldn’t find any official information about this year’s party, and the organizers have not updated their website since February, but here is last year’s invite.

He adds:

“Make sure the naive hipster fucks stay home for this, none of the merchants would want to offend them in the case that the stores are too refined for their palates.”

Zing!

I know you already read SFist, but I want to mention this anyway. Creativity Explored‘s Annual Holiday Sale starts tonight and runs weekends through 12/23. They’re at 3245 16th Street, between Dolores and Guerrero. So you can get a slice at Deja Vu afterwards. Anyway, check it out, it’s good stuff. I have a few pieces from years past.

Here are some images grabbed from Flickr to give you an idea of their artists’ work.

Michael Bernard Loggins by emwilska.

John Patrick McKenzie by boltron-. (Thanks, Tens)

Read here first.

This weekend only (12/4 – 12/6) at Intersection for the Arts. KML are donating 25% of the ticket sales to the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.

These guys are good, go see it if you wanna laugh. Info and tix here.

Hey gang – a brief reminder/update on the Food For Thought event I posted about last week, in case you’re interested…

The event is this coming Wednesday, November 11th.  All you gotta do is eat at one of many participating restaurants that night and BAM! Mission Graduates gets a chunk of skrill and Mission kiddies benefit.

I’m a sucker for babies, food, and babies dressed as food.  Here’s the updated list of participating establishments:

Andalu, Bar Bambino, Bissap Baobab, CODA, Conduit, Destino, Dolores Park Cafe, Farina Focaccia and Cucina Italiana, Foreign Cinema, Front Porch, La Provence, Little Baobab, Little Star Valencia, Maverick, Mission Beach Cafe, Panchitas #2, Pisco, Ramblas Tapas, Range, Regalito Rosticeria, Slow Club, Specchio, Spork, Sun Rise Restaurant, Usulutan Restaurant.

Yeah, I know we are a little late to the Día de los Muertos picture-posting bonanza, but how about that Michael Jackson memorial?

Since I’ve never seen a trick or treater on Capp before, I rolled over to Fair Oaks, which apparently is the sugary hotspot of the Mission.  I learned a few interesting things that night: 1) there are way more kids in the Mission than I thought and 2) I didn’t know I could eat 10 Reeses peanut butter cups in a sitting.

Most importantly, this kid’s sandwich costume might be the most badass thing I’ve ever seen.

Even wearing Converse kicks.  It’s like the Mission Taco met Mr. Pickles.

More Mission Halloween after the jump.

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