Mission Mission

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He sure looks pumped!

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Our pal C’mon Pony spotted this Sacramento Bee feature in a news rack over the weekend, so we decided to look it up online. It’s a pleasant read, and, surprisingly I guess, hipped me to something I had no idea existed:

Another unexpected pleasure (at least for the customers, if not the proprietors) is finding four specialty bookstores housed above a discount paint store on Mission Street. To enter, you must find a call-buzzer intercom, state your intentions (“Uh, to, like, browse for books”) and wait to get buzzed in. Then you climb two flights of stairs and get to Vahalla Books (first-edition fiction), then climb one more flight to the troika of Bolerium Books (radical politics), Meyer Boswell Books (collectible law tomes) and Libros Latinos (scholarly Latin American and Caribbean books).

Upon entering Bolerium (motto: “Fighting Commodity Fetishism With Commodity Fetishism Since 1981″), co-owner John Durham looks at you with a mock stink-eye.

“Oh, you found us,” he said, crestfallen. “We don’t get many walk-ins.”

Who knew? Read on.

[Photo by C'mon Pony]

His name is Louis Vuitton apparently, really.

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A couple weeks back, we reported on this curious scene outside a neighborhood residence. Over the weekend, one of the culprits wrote in to explain what had actually happened:

Oh dear…this is my front yard. Well, it was before my house was evicted from our beautiful Victorian on 21st Street. We had to toss our condiments in a fury and the recycling junkies spilled a bunch of stuff on the sidewalk in the process of scavenging. We didn’t clean it up because, well, who the fuck cares. We got evicted after all because they sold the house for a cool 900K. RIP 2624. This and the sawed off stop sign moped theft on the corner will go down in MissionMission infamy…

Bummer! (And yeah, that epic moped theft was a doozie too.)

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I think. Then again I’m pretty durnk.

RSVP and invite your friends!

They’re called Haçeteria and here they are running the show at American Tripps a couple weeks back. This Saturday night, like every first Saturday, they’ll be running the show at Deco Lounge over in the Tenderloin. It is my favorite party.

And yes, it’s true:

Convinced? RSVP and invite your friends! Now here’s somethin’ new for y’all:

http://youtu.be/AwZvqyMGZ7s

With the coming park closures over the next two years, the playground will be one of the few zones continuously open — but only to kids. This sneak peak the other night was probably the only chance us grownups had to fully enjoy the park’s newest amenity. Dolores Parks Works has the scoop:

Twenty adults were let loose on a self-guided tour of all the new play structures and amenities. The Helen Diller Playground at Dolores Park  is the nicest and most creative I have ever experienced.  This was also the first time most of the group toured the construction site and they all were extremely pleased!  We were all giddy with excitement.  The new playground is a safe place for kids to take chances.

Read on.

Surely you’ll remember Evey from those post-punk nights at Make-Out Room we mentioned last summer. Here’s what she says she’ll be spinning tonight:

Mostly late seventies to mid eighties punk, post punk, new wave, dark wave, synth.

Sounds very Berlin! Can’t wait! RSVP and invite your friends!