Mission Mission

Some flowery pipe-caps could be spotted this weekend on Valencia:

[via Box Dog Blog]

Her Majesty’s Secret Beekeeper, that ambitious beekeeping endeavor we’ve been keeping an eye on, is finally set to open — in about half an hour. For hours and more, see here.

Previously:

HMS Beekeeper: Chronicling the Opening of  New Small Business on off Valencia

Our buddy Elizabeth Sullivan is vexed:

My lil’ sis is moving here from Brooklyn and we’ve been mystified by the 1 or 2 (only) listings on craigslist for apartments in the Mission. Is there some other source for apartments that I don’t know about that people are now using?

Link.

Over at We Built This City, (part of) the Pride Parade makes its way through the Mission. Link.

Reader Ray Fernandez says:

There was a shooting tonight on Florida between 21st and 20th, just a few doors down from the Pink Palace. We heard some shots and then a few minutes later there where police and emergency vehicles on the scene. We went out to check it out and I was standing by a woman giving her statement to the police and my friend noticed two shell casing at my feet. I told the police and they roped off the area.

If you’re not reading My Lucky Number’s One, you’re missing out on a lot of great lo-fi photography of the neighborhood — such as this.

More  shredding of the Mission Street corridor with Carlos Reyes. Epic! A few more pictures here (and note that the autoplay right now is a song by Carlos’ band, Commissure).

In this new video from Imsoooconfused, Myles asks Aaron a series of epic questions about life. It’s nine minutes long, so you’re gonna need patience if you want to see the whole thing, but it’s worth it. Aaron has lived his whole life in SF, so when he explains what living in the Mission is “about,” you know he speaks the truth. Of San Francisco nightlife as a whole, he says, “There’s gay bars and Marina bars and the Knockout, and that’s pretty much it.” He also talks about art school (“where you learn to draw and use Photoshop”), the benefits of coming out at 18, and how having kids and getting khakis might help you become normal.

Reader Zara found a stack of these fliers on her doorstep the other day, near 20th and SVN. “Report prostitutes, pimps and johns every time you see them,” it instructs. Looks like an effort to clean things up is underway. I like the typography.

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