Mission Mission

The natural gas fracking facility at Valencia & 23rd should be online by the end of the month.

Koch Industries promises flaring will not start before 7 AM on weekdays, 8 on weekends.

A beloved member of San Francisco’s restaurant scene fell victim to violence during Monday night’s brawl. His friend and colleague Eric Ehler would like to say a few words:

Long time Serpentine cook, Caesar Chuc, was attacked at 16th and Valencia, on Tuesday morning, at around 2. The only thing we know is that he was somehow involved in a brawl, and was found unconscious, and with no pulse. He was rushed to SF General, and is hanging on with life support, however he is not expected to make it.

Caesar was a family member to everyone who worked at Serpentine, and a friend to dozens of other cooks and restaurant workers in the City. Serpentine ran, because of Caesar.

He came to the United States 6 years ago, in hopes of providing a better life for his family back in the Yucatan. He worked numerous jobs is kitchens around the City, and quickly became a legend among kitchen crews. Not only was he a selfless gentleman that would go down in flames with any kitchen crew; he also was the guy to call if you needed something. If you needed a fill in line cook, dishwasher, cleaner, whatever, Caesar was the guy to call.

We’re praying for you, Caesar, and even if you pass, your legend is going to live on.

Thanks, Eric. Pull through, Caesar.

SFGate says: “Anyone with information about the fight is encouraged to contact San Francisco police. Callers can use an anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the text with SFPD.”

Right? Anyone catch them hanging out across the street in Dolores Park?

And thus BLL continues its path toward world domination.

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Continues tonight with opener Windham Flat (who we took a look at a few months back but still haven’t seen live).

Battlehooch loves to get crazy, and there’s nothing crazier than a monthlong residency, so everything on the above announcement is bound to be funnn.

Oakland-based musician Michael Zapruder‘s new album, Pink Thunder, is quite the creative feat. The album itself, six years in the making, transforms poems by 23 poets into “indie-rock free-verse songs” in collaboration with 36 musicians, and is accompanied by a book of photographs and hand-lettered renderings of the poems involved. Zapruder has also created a series of portmanteaus, found object sculptures with built-in music players (engineered by our friend Mark Allen-Piccolo!). Each portmanteau plays one song from the album.

Pink Thunder’s release party and gallery opening is tomorrow, October 18th at the Curiosity Shoppe, and the portmanteaus will be showing through November 18.

[Thanks, Melody!]

Anybody got a kid I can borrow? I want to eat all of those things. (And connect the dots.)

[via Namu Gaji on Twitter]

Here’s the deal:

ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY!!
Wednesday, October 17th at Beauty Bar
6pm-2am

Join Ruby White, The Biz, and The Whiz while we spin 60s soul clappers, the sassiest girl groups, garage, surf, r&b, sweet sugary pop, bubblegum, and more!

We’ve invited our favorite female DJs to join us: Jackie Sugarlumps, H-bomb, Amy A, Cassandra, Wam Bam Ashleyanne, and Tylawave.

Besides NINE babes ruling your Wednesday night, we’ll have cake, drink specials, and a vintage sale from 6pm-10pm.

As always our night is FREEEEEEE FREEE FREEEE!!!

xoxoxoxox

It’s always nice when a potentially frightening scene is quickly resolved with particular badassness by our city’s finest, as reader and eyewitness Nikki explains:

Tonight my boyfriend when out on our patio to check on our dog when he noticed bright flashing lights and smoke rising from what had to be our street. Then we heard a girl screaming. We went out in the front to see what was going on, and the hood of her car was on fire, the flames doubling in size within a few minutes. The girl was pleading for someone to get a fire extinguisher, but before anyone was able to get one, the SFFD arrived, extinguished the fire, and axed the hood of the car to get it open. Total badasses.

(Thanks Nikki!)

Ryan P. writes:

Never be lost in Dolores Park again! “Hey, where are you?” “D4, you?” “B3, you sunk my battleship!”