Mission Mission

The Disposable Film Festival returns! And it’s a new era, according to their official press release:

“The whole video landscape has changed since DFF launched 7 years ago. Back then, making a film on your cell phone was a weird, experimental idea. But now the revolution has happened and disposable has completely mainstreamed, with films like SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN shooting on iPhone,” said Festival Cofounder and Executive Director Carlton Evans. “Our focus has changed with the times too. We’re still committed to showing fresh approaches and techniques, but the days of counting pixels are long gone. Disposable is the new reality of filmmaking.’

Be there as the festival kicks off tonight at 8pm at the Castro Theater with the Competitive Shorts program. Get advance tickets here!

And remember, festivities continue throughout the weekend.

The semi-retired Bike Basket Pies crew comes out of semi-retirement this Thursday! Here’s why:

The amazing Donna of Pot + Pantry is shuttering her brick & mortar shop and moving to a soon-to-be new online shop on March 24th. Everything in her shop is 30% off, and she’s even selling the super rad fixtures (and maybe if you ask nicely she’ll sell the rad Le Creuset piñatas that she handmade). To sweeten those deals, I’ll be selling pies at her shop on Thursday evening, March 21st, 4-6 pm (or until I sell out).

I’ll have savory, sweet, and recipe booklets for sale. Champagne will be flowing!

Awesome! RSVP and invite your pie pals!

(For more on Pot + Pantry’s future, see here.)

UPDATE: Pie menu is “apple strawberry, shaker lemon, and potato, leek & cheddar.”

It’s “pastrami on pastrami” (says Rhea’s) and “it would make Buster proud” (says my pal Luke that just ate it). Yum! New today!

It’s tonight! And it all supports the production of a new issue of Decades! Here’s the deal:

DECADES Magazine hosts “Winona Forever: A Winona Ryder Double Feature” at Lost Weekend, featuring the films Heathers and Reality Bites.

DECADES, a SF based publication covering food, fashion and gore, is ready to print Issue No.2, “The Petaluma Issue.” But we are just a few $$ short. We would love your support and to see you at this beautiful screening.

There will be food from Satellite Republic and an auction with fabulous prizes:

* A Napa or Sonoma wine tasting with DECADES contributor and Nopa Wine Director Lulu McAllister
* Winona inspired art from contributor Kati Prescott
* Your very own croquet party hosted by the editors.
* A weekend retreat to the DECADES Bed & Breakfast in Squaw Valley. Snow! Hot cocoa! The Olympics! Wooo!
* A Petaluma road trip: a grand adventure to the Chicken Capital of the World and Winona Ryder’s homeland.

Tickets are $10. PLUS there will be complementary “Wino Forever” temporary tattoos that will make you feel like Johnny Depp. Magazines and Winona T-shirts will also be available for purchase. Proceeds help us print the second issue, so we look forward to seeing you there!

RSVP and invite your friends!

Lookin’ good! Word a few months back was that they were aiming for a March opening, so maybe this fresh paint job is signaling imminent good news! Fingerz crost!

(Thanks, Jess!)

UPDATE: Maybe not…

@missionmission I drove by that day and found out my painters have inverted my exterior colors. #stillawaystogo :/

— Rhea’s (@RheasDeli) March 18, 2013

I spent New Year’s Eve at one of my favorite places in the city, seeing epic and long-awaited sets by my BFF Nick Pal and my BFF my cousin Jojo, surrounded by a ton of my favorite people in the world. I thought it couldn’t possibly be a better night. And then Windham Flat went on and completely blew the roof off the place.

We’ve written about them a bunch of times, but I just can’t stress it enough. This band fucking rules, and tomorrow night they’re playing at Bender’s and it only costs $5 to get in. Get in.

RSVP and invite your friends!

In an essay titled San Francisco: Creep City, web celeb Mills Baker lays out an epiphany he’s had about what can make SF really tough:

Creeps are everywhere, but in San Francisco the variety of creeps makes it hard to have a settled method for dealing with them; they are not demographically uniform. In some cities, the natural segregation of social groups means that one infrequently encounters behavior that defies the conventions one favors; in SF, it is not some civic love of diversity that changes this but the fact that social groups are often so recently-composed. As a city of aspirational arrivals, SF has a populace that never shakes out the jerks; there’s too much churn for standards of normalcy to be achieved.

Too much churn! It’s true! You work real hard to forge friendships with the folks you like best, and suddenly they’re off to Brooklyn or LA or Oakland or Detroit and you have to start all over again, shakin’ out a whole new crop of jerks.

(Confidential to my friends: Are we in agreement about Jarid yet?)

[Migration map by Forbes]

Here’s the deal:

____HELLO OLDIES NIGHT DANCE PATROL
__________THIS IS A CODE 4 MEOW ALERT
_____________THIS IS A PRETTY RAD DEAL

This Friday at Knockout Mr NICK WATERHOUSE is joining us behind the decks and it has been TOO LONG!!

THEE SICKEST R’n'B 45′s will be heard and danced to this friday, the vibe is gonna be outta control, we are super excited.

“It’s NASTY”
xox

RSVP and invite your friends!

The Priceonomics Blog wanted to know, so they figured it out, with the help of some local SF food trucks:

Bobby Hossain’s day starts early. Along with his family, he runs a food truck called Phat Thai that serves his mother’s Thai recipes “with a modern twist.” Although he won’t be serving customers for nearly 4 hours, he wakes up by 7:30am. He is working a double shift in the truck (lunch and dinner), so his brother is on prep duty. Bobby buys any last minute supplies they need – ice, more bean sprouts – from Restaurant Depot while his brother cuts vegetables and slices meat at the kitchen space they use in a friend’s restaurant. His brother then drives the truck to their parents’ house. They load up and Bobby is on the road at 9:30.

From 11am-2pm they work at Mission Dispatch – a location in San Francisco’s Mission district that hosts food trucks. It brings in a dependable lunch crowd. Bobby’s mother cooks, his employee Frank takes orders, and Bobby hands out completed orders while helping the other two. After three hours, Phat Thai has served around 200 dishes.

Once the lunch crowd dies down, they return to the commissary, a space where they can clean dishes and dispose of garbage. Bobby checks whether he needs to get more supplies for tomorrow, preps, and then drives the truck to North Beach. From 5pm-8pm they will sell Thai dishes alongside other food trucks at a “market” of food trucks organized by Off The Grid. On busy days, they won’t have a chance to eat lunch.

Read on.

@missionmission there was a taxi cab on blocks last night, yes 1990 bklyn style, at treat and 17th. might still be there.

— Joe Kromer (@joekromer) March 14, 2013