Mission Mission

Two things…

Firstly, the SF Berlin-Style Ping Pong League begins its four-week-long winter season next week. If it’s anything like the last season, it will be tons of fun and there will be tons of prizes. Get a team together and register here!

Secondly, DJ Purple and American Tripps are teaming up for another Berlin-style ping pong/Dance Karaoke party, this one just in time for the holidays. (So, keep it in mind when making holiday plans.) See pics of the riotously fun first one here. Now, look at this poster:

The portobello sandwich on Namu‘s lunch menu is totally legit. It will make you forget entirely all the times you were mad that a bland portobello sandwich was the only vegetarian option at whatever dumb restaurant you were at.

Omnivores, you will love it too.

P.S. Thinking of turning this blog into a blog exclusively devoted to how much I love everything about Namu. Y/N?

Camping! In the Mission! And watching a movie and eating awesome food by RPS! Here’s the deal:

food + movie + pop-up campsite

When: Saturday, November 17 / 4pm-9pm
Where: Mission Dispatch / 1975 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA / Between 18th and Mariposa
- Dinner from 4-7pm, Movie begins at 6:30pm
- Free admission, food + snacks + beer for sale
- Rain or shine!

In the case of rain, we’ll bring the party inside THE NWBLK, a warehouse located on the same space.We’re combining our love for food, movies, and the outdoors on Saturday, November 17th for The Camp-In, a pop-up dinner and movie night we’re throwing with our Mission neighbors Alite Designs and Mission Dispatch.

For dinner, we’ll be selling fried and savory dishes from 4-7pm, and will open up our concession stand from 6:30-9pm for Wet Hot American Summer.

Alite Designs will bring their famous tents and chairs to the yard, but you should also BYO camping gear to get cozy during the movie (we are outdoors, after all)!

Bust out your camping chairs, headlamps, tents, and little red stools if you got them!

Check out the full menu here, and then RSVP and invite your friends!

Here are some pictures of what to expect:

Burrito Justice highlights some work by historian Eric Fischer:

Eric Fischer has let loose with the historo-scanner once again.

1970: A line to see the brand new shiny 24th St BART station (looking south at the SW escalator — the side towards Valencia and 25th).

What a scene! Imagine a brand-new cavern opening up around the corner. Read on for lots more imagery and history.

Check it out, a successful business on Valencia Street that isn’t a brand-new high-end restaurant!

Here’s some more info on the big party:

Independent designer/retailer Dema is celebrating her 15th anniversary in the Mission District.

Saturday Nov 17th 6-10.

We’ll have champagne, cupcakes from Mission Mini’s and entertainment by local crooners Carletta Sue Kay, Justin Frahm and Mark Eitzel.

The entire store will be 20% off Saturday and Sunday as a thank you to our faithful fans!

Daniel Clowes is into it, so it must be good. More info on Hang Glider & Mud Mask here.

Brock from SFist takes a look back:

If you lived in the Mission along Bryant and 18th prior to 2005, as we did for many years before evacuating to SOMA, you might recall that magical scent emanating from the Hostess Cake / Wonder Bread factory at 1525 Bryant. Yeasty, jammy, and sweet. The youth-kissed scent was such a staple of the area that SF Weekly awarded the factory “Best Place to Be Fondly Reminded of Your S.F. Childhood” in 2003.

As of today, it’s possible Hostess might completely cease to exist as a brand. Read on.

(Incidentally, last week I had a vegan “Twinkie” from Source, which is basically right around the corner from this place, and it was killer, so no worries really.)

[Photo by ptufts]

The beginning of a whole new era! DJ Purple ended his years-long tenure at Jack’s a couple weeks back. (Great pics here.) And now he’s debuting a new weekly, every Thursday at Slate, which is a bigger space with a bigger soundsystem and a bigger dance floor. I think this is gonna be big.

If you haven’t been to a DJ Purple event in a while, read all about the DANCE KARAOKE concept in our exclusive interview from a few months back.

RSVP and invite your friends! (And go to Purple’s website to peruse the songbook.)

You should’ve heard my friend Jess last night. We’re walking to a bar after the awesome Sébastien Giniaux show, we’re crossing a street, she’s a little drunk, and she shouts, “Oh my god! It says TATAS, and there’s TITTIES!” Plus she’s Australian, so everything she says is a riot.

[via Jess]

Looks like the prize packs were pretty Mission-centric. American Tripps has all the details:

Above are photos of some of the winners, with their loot, all of which came from some of our favorite local businesses:

• • The grand prize winners got limited-edition bags from Timbuk2’s historic (and completely made-in-America) collab with Woolrich!
  • A couple teams get to continue the fun with some bowling at Mission Bowling Club!
  • A bunch of winners got entertainment packs which include passes for SFMOMA, passes for NightLife at the Cal Academy (where we’ll have ping pong in the snow on November 29), and passes for the Roxie Theater.
  • Still more winners got high-quality t-shirts courtesy of DSF Clothing Company & Art Gallery (where we have ping pong parties once a month).
  • We awarded a big box of Inna Jam (some of it spicy) to the team we deemed “spiciest.”
  • Finally, one individual (sort of our MVP) received tickets to the Bay Brewed Beer & Music Festival on December 1st in the Mission, where we’ll be running some Berlin-style ping pong before and after the bands.

Then we all did tequila shots and went to karaoke! Now hurry up and register for season 2!!! Eternal thanks to all our players and all our sponsors! [link]

Sounds like a blast! Season 2 begins Monday, November 26th. Register quick!

[Photos by Jess Kelso/American Tripps]