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Ever wanted to make fancy cocktails at home, because you’re thrifty and/or hate people? Over the past few months, Bi-Rite has been collecting cocktail recipes from restaurants like Aziza and the Slanted Door and printing them up on a handy little card, so you can take it home, put on suspenders, and start shaking up craft cocktails in the privacy of your one-bedroom apartment.

This month’s pick is a drink I’ve had before, off the brunch menu at Nopa, which is incidentally the best restaurant in San Francisco. Like a breakfast negroni, the Sunshine Fix is a bright and potent cocktail that is simple enough that even you could probably make it. In fact, you could probably make a whole batch of these, and then you wouldn’t have to do anything for the rest of the day except for figure out what to eat. So that’s a pretty good idea.

Drink of the week is brought to you by Poachedjobs.com.

At Encantada on Valencia near 20th.

Just kidding! It’s just a cool pic off Flickr taken by our photographer pal Nuzz!

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.

According to The Examiner Carnaval will happen, despite being in debt due to a combination of poor fiscal management and rising fees, at a cost of $300,000, scaled down from $900,000 last year. The organization that puts it on is around $170,000 in debt and the city intends to find out why.

[photo by Volker Neumann]

More at The Examiner.

[hat tip Mission Local]

UPDATE: They need volunteers, you can sign up here.

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!

MM reader someJuan thinks he knows:

My wife’s family used to have a restaurant on 24th St., called Mi Casa during the ’80s. At the location where Delfin is at today. They were the first to serve big-ass vegetarian burritos. Anyone remember this place?

Unfortunately, I don’t remember this place, but I was also too busy watching Transformers and Gummi Bears cartoons during the 80s.  How about the rest of you?

[Photo by dapperdanj]