Mission Mission

Bummer, dude! But you can’t stop progress, so just take the lane!

[via tastr]

Nicole from The Bay Bridged gives us the rundown on the first edition of The Bay Brewed:

This is our second NEW event of 2011 and I am really excited that this one is finally going to happen for real. The idea is this: you go to a beer festival and pay $60 to taste unlimited beers, which is great and all, but the music usually SUCKS. We decided why not bring down the ticket price, invite all the amazing local breweries (Lagunitas, 21st Ammendment, Anchor… list goes on), get sausages from Rosamunde, and then enlist AWESOME local bands. You and I both know that I would pay $45 to see Terry Malts any day of the week, but Weekend and Sleepy Sun are worth the ticket price alone. And you’ll leave with a Bay Brewed beer glass for keeps!

Buy tickets here.

The Bold Italic and Dusty Stax are throwing an epic party at the Verdi Club weekend after next:

Join us by dressing sharp and celebrating a night of shakin’ your stuff with a live soul revue supergroup with a 9-musician strong backing band. The lineup includes an All Star Girl Group featuring Turn Up Records Recording artist Heidi Alexander (The Sandwitches), Shannon Shaw (Hunx and His Punx), Noelle Cahill (Magic Trick) and Jen Snyder (Jonesin’).

A few fellas will sing along too, including Sonny Smith of Sonny & the Sunsets, Kelley Stoltz, and your host Dusty Stax, crooning out favorites by Ike and Tina, Irma Thomas, and The Crystals to name a few. Dick Vivian (Proprietor of Rooky Ricardo’s Record Shop in The Lower Haight) will work the turntables with classic soul singles. He’ll also be offering instruction on how to dance like a pro!

Bites from one of our favorite pop-ups, Rice Paper Scissors, and libations will be available for purchase to keep you fueled for dancing the whole night long. We’ll start you out with a complimentary cocktail from Distillery No. 209. The ever-delicious Mission Minis will be there too, with free cupcakes in holiday inspired flavors to hit your taste buds at just the right angle.

And check out this strict dress code:

No denim will be permitted. For fellas: ties and collars are a must and leave those sneakers at home. Ladies: you know what to do… Just don’t forget your dancing shoes. And don’t stress about dates, stags and the like are welcome. 21 and over dance all night!!

Tickets cost $30 each, so if you’d like to win a pair for free, post a sneak preview of you in your outift on our Facebook wall. Contest ends Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at noon, when a winner will be chosen based on merit. Good luck!

Or maybe neither? These guys can’t seem to decide:

[via Carlos]

It was on prolonged hiatus there for a bit, but last night our pal Rachel delivered the good news:

Sidewalk dance party on Lexington between 20th and 21st tonight!!!

Last we heard of MateVeza, our pal Jane was hypothesizing that this strange drink might make a fair substitute for Four Loko. Now they’re coming to the Mission, more or less, according to this press release:

SAN FRANCISCO, November 29 – MateVeza is pleased to announce its intention to open “Cervecería de MateVeza,” a restaurant and small brewery dedicated to providing locally-sourced, Argentinian-style cuisine paired with creative artisanal beers. Cervecería de MateVeza will be located at 3801 18th Street on the northwest corner of Dolores Park in the Mission District of San Francisco.

MateVeza, an independent, San Francisco-based company that markets and sells a line of organic craft beers brewed with yerba mate, will use Cervecería de MateVeza as a creative test kitchen to develop and refine recipes that further enhance the culinary experience of pairing craft beer with fine food. MateVeza founder and San Francisconative Jim Woods will be returning to his homebrewing roots, brewing at the restaurant on a small 20-gallon copper system.

Read on. (Thanks, Haute Housewife.)

Comfortable, affordable and sexy. Sexpigeon is our favorite in the world, and these shirts he made will never go out of style. And so many color schemes to choose from:

Peruse the whole “line” now.

Bike Basket Pies Pie Priestess Natalie Galatzer invites one and all:

Join me at Pot + Pantry to help celebrate the release of my pie recipe booklet. The party is BYOPie – it’d be fantastic to celebrate the launch of the booklet with pies from friends and fans alike.

Bike Basket Pies: How to Make Handheld Pies for Bicycle Delivery booklet launch party
what: BYO Pie! Champagne provided, Booklets for sale.
when: Tuesday, November 29th, 6:30 to 8
where: Pot + Pantry, 593 Guerrero (at 18th)

Yum! RSVP and invite your friends!

(And if you can’t make it tonight, order the book online here.)

SFist reports:

Terces Engelhart, owner of Café Gratitude, just posted the following announcement on her Facebook page announcing the closure/sale of all Northern California Café Gratitudes locations. According to Englehart, some “aggressive lawsuits” from former employees brought him to the decision to shutter his vegan/cult restaurants.

Read on for the full announcement and further astute commentary from SFist.

[Photo by Google Maps]

Major bummer! Hopefully [I]t was small and they’ll open this evening as planned.

UPDATE: Says Jay of Dear Mom: “The art studio next door had a fire and Oliver and I ran with our best Kurt Russell and 5 fire extinguishers to put out the blaze. Or the little fire. We’ll be kissing babies and signing autographs all night. Open at 5pm.”

(Thanks for the tip, Storts.)