Mission Mission

It’s called Evan Porter Larsen and its tagline reads:

this is a portfolio of my work. hopefully you will see it and want to hire me to do art for you. prints are available as are the originals. help me to not be broke and homeless. thnks!

What luck! After seeing one of my favorite local bands cover one of my favorite all-time bands this past Friday, one of my other favorite local bands is performing every single Monday for the whole month of November!  And look, they’re playing with a bunch of rad other bands too!

Tonight’s an especially good one, with Tartufi and Upstairs Downstairs, and we’ll be personally presenting the 11/18 show!  Let’s party!

11/4 – Monday

• Bay Bridged Presents
• Social Studies
• Upstairs Downstairs (EP release)
• Tartufi

11/11 - Monday

• Bold Italic Presents
• Social Studies
• Canons & Clouds
• Mornings (members of Port O’brien, Rogue Wave, Social Studies)

11/18 - Monday

• Mission Mission and BFF.fm Present
• Social Studies
• Foli (members of Social Studies, Record release)
• The Tropics

11/25 - Monday

• Spinning Platters Presents
• Social Studies
• The She’s
• Ash Reiter

Turns out the old Bay Bridge is still good for something after all! Photographers’ Blog tells us all about it:

While at a wedding rehearsal last week, I received a call from my editor to cover Urban Shield, a large-scale, 48-hour preparedness exercise for first responders. With participants and observers attending from various states and countries, Urban Shield is in a sense the Super Bowl of preparedness exercise.

I knew I wanted to document the event when I heard that parts of it will be held at the recently closed eastern span of the former San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Read on for the full story and lots more pics.

[via Corntard]

Quite a racket when we stumbled out of Balançoire after Haçeteria last night at 2AM:

Surely it’ll be a match made in heaven! And in addition to an all-star cast of Haç family faves, they’ve got Sapphire Slows coming all the way from Japan!

Tokyo-based singer/producer Sapphire Slows makes has been making dreamy, dancy electronic music for the past few years. Her album “Allegoria” comes out on Not Not Fun on November 5th. Check out her newest track off that album, “Rules”, to get a preview of her sound.

https://soundcloud.com/not-not-fun-1/sapphire-slows-rules/s-CTPtP

RSVP and invite your friends!

What do you do when you want to hand out tasty Halloween treats but don’t have a front porch?  Simple, just lower a giant orange arm with a basket of goodies to passerby below!

Those Photojojo folks are pretty clever.

(Thanks Amit!)

Eater SF reports:

In an interesting move, Mission Chinese Food’s own Danny Bowien is following up his NYC Mission Chinese Food outpost with a Mexican restaurant to be called Mission Cantina. Despite the name, it won’t be a taqueria, and no Mission-style burritos are planned: the restaurant will serve dishes inspired by Bowien’s travels to Mexico City, with rotisserie-grilled items and shareable plates.

Cool name, though. Read on.

So I know that today is October 31st and all, but let’s be honest; this whole week is Halloween.  It started last weekend and doesn’t let up for a minute this weekend, as you’ll see when one of San Francisco’s best bands dons their New Order costumes and hits the stage while ping-pongers dance around in circles.

When I first heard about this show, I thought, “Wow, one of my favorite local bands is performing as one of my favorite all-time bands at one of my favorite venues during one of my favorite activities.  This night must have been made for me!”  And that’s before I heard that Nick Pal’s new band is also making their debut:

This is the official American Tripps Halloween/Dia de los Muertos party! We’ll have Berlin-style ping pong on the main dance floor for most of the night, and DJ Beauregard on the decks most of the night, but we also decided to book some additional entertainment this time. And it is gonna be epic:

→ Still Flyin’ performing as NEW ORDER
→ Honeymoon in Canada (debut show), the new group featuring Chex Otakan (SF karaoke legend) and Nick Pal (The Kablamies, Readyville)

Plus we’ll have skeeball (courtesy of Joey the Cat) and foosball and mini-ping-pong up in the mezzanine, drink specials, and a COSTUME CONTEST.

So yeah, I guess I’ll see you there tomorrow!  Check out all the details here.

By Vice Records.