Sidewalk graffiti to 299 Valencia residents: ‘You’re not welcome here!’

Panorama by Joe Bunny. Thanks, Joe.

As if some sort of time bandits plunked down a bunch of 1906 earthquake aftermath right in the middle of contemporary Valencia Street

It was actually local photographer and blogger Shawn Clover, and there’s lots more where this came from. Here’s how it’s done:

To put these photos together, I first create a catalog of historical photos that look like they have potential to be blended. Unfortunately most of these photos end up on the digital cutting room floor because there’s simply no way to get the same photo today because either a building or a tree is in the way. Once I get a good location, I get everything lined up just right. My goal is to stand in the exact spot where the original photographer stood. Doing this needs to take into account equivalent focal length, how the lens was shifted, light conditions, etc. I take plenty of shots, each nudged around a bit at each location. Just moving one foot to the left changes everything.

Read on for more story and lots more photographic mashups.

[via Burrito Justice]

SFPD officer arrested for shoplifting – while in uniform

Allegedly.

From our anonymous source, who’s at work in a department store in the mall downtown:

an officer in uniform was shopping with her mom and they watched her pocket some costume jewelry and last i heard they stopped her and called the police, aka her coworkers.

And regarding whether our source was sure it was SFPD:

100% positive. badge, gun, the works.

Crummy.

UPDATE: This post has been edited to protect the anonymity of our source.

Pop-Up Jubilee starts tonight and continues through Labor Day

[via Dear Mom]

Do-it-yourself lamb burger

Mission Community Market is back this week with another Chef’s Market Box, a pre-prepped bunch of locally sourced ingredients you pre-order today, pick up tomorrow, and whip into a meal at home:

This week, you’ll be cooking a recipe from Lauren Kiino, the Executive Chef and Owner of Il Cane Rosso who was also Delfina‘s Chef de Cuisine for eight years. Her recipe this week is for a pasture-raised 4505 Meats lamb burger with cherry tomato salsa over mashed potatoes with a mixed greens salad. All the produce included in this recipe is local and organic, sourced from Happy Boy Farms, Winters Fruit Tree, Twin Girls Farm, and Blue House Farm. Plus, if you like a little something sweet after your dinner, add an artisan 70% Madagascar dark chocolate bar from Dandelion Chocolate in with your order.

Read more and place your order here.

Here’s what it’s like to see Conor Oberst at Bottom of the Hill

Like it’s 2002 or something.

I won’t get into any detail because I don’t want to spoil anything for people going to tonight’s show at the Regency Ballroom, but the Desaparecidos show last night at BOTH was siiiick. This photo by a Conor Oberst fan blog proves it happened.

Here, Conor weighs in on national politics:

Conor Oberst: I used to think that republicans were evil, but now I realize that the democrats are just as bad, and it’s really the corporations who run our country. Our two party system is broken, and we need some radical change.
Audience heckler: What happened to your pro-Obama stance?
Conor Oberst: 4 years. [via Faust on the Shore]

The Eagle to soar again soon!

SFist delivers the wonderful news:

This just in: The San Francisco queer community gets to keep the Eagle. Via a very, very excited update on the Save the Eagle Facebook page, “Gays sign Eagle Lease!!!!” [link]

Yussssss! Now hopefully the below video (rad as it is, and rad as the show was) will no longer be “the last show at the Eagle” (nor “the last Oh Sees shoe at the Eagle”).

Dognapped!

From Deidre D. via our Facebook timeline:

Today around 3:15pm I tied my dog Z up to a tree on 19th St in front of Radish, just off Valencia. I went into a store for about 10-15 minutes. When I came back she was gone and there was no sign of her. I am pretty sure she was stolen. She has a locator chip in her but it will only be useful if she is turned in. She is a yellow lab mix. I am desperate to get her home safely. We’re offering a huge cash reward on her behalf, no questions asked. If anyone has any ideas on how to get her back please let me know. I’m new to the Mission.

Contact us if you have any thoughts and we’ll get them to Deidre.

UPDATE: Z has been found! Yay!

Woody Allen ate a cupcake from La Victoria Bakery

Beerito! (Or: How to smuggle a beer into a music festival by disguising it as a burrito)

Genius!

[via Rice Peel Off]

Allan Hough

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Email: allanhough@gmail

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Biographical Info:

"I joked that living in the Mission would be the end of me. And there were nights where it felt like the case.

One night I went out with my friend Allan to the bar that no one goes to on 16th Street, where I lost half my drink and money on the dance floor. Later we skated down 16th to Evelyn Lee, where I fell off my board and landed on my head as the 22 bus sped past behind me. A sobering moment. At the bar, I sulked and nursed my wounds until Allan put on Amy Winehouse’s 'Valerie.' We danced, he dipped me, and I felt better."

— My pal Valerie, writing about life in the Mission