Mission Mission

Up top is a pile of pineapple-grilled onions, the kind you’ll find at Eagle Dogs. Below that is a frybread taco by Rocky Yazzie. Both vendors will be on the scene at the American Tripps Berlin-Style Ping Pong Block Party tonight at Z Space and Coffee bar (on Florida Street between 17th and Mariposa).

There will also be some classic Berlin cinema on the big screen, and lots of fresh new paddles to break in. And remember the party goes real late. (And pretty much all of the action takes place indoors, except for the beer garden.)

RSVP and invite your friends!

[Eagle Dog pic by Andrew] [Frybread pic by Kelly Delaney]

Here’s the video:

I mean, he kinda gets busted.

[via JWZ]

It’s like you’re picnicking in the park! (Thanks to this mural by Paul Madonna.)

Eater SF has another pic of the interior and further details on next week’s opening here.

Lomography has been teasing this event as a “mystery product release party.”

Well, the cat’s out of the bag — it’s LomoKino, the first 35mm movie camera intended for use by the average Joe — and it looks rad! Here’s some more info on the party:

Be sure to come decked out in your classiest attire. Gentleman, button up those suits and ladies slip into your finest dresses and let’s celebrate the newest Lomographic main attraction. Refreshments will be provided for all that attend.

I hear the refreshments include free beer and free champagne. Sold! RSVP and invite your friends!

Look out below!

[Photo by Alex Chaffee] [via Mission Local]

Our buddy Lindsey headed across the bay yesterday to join the fray and saw some wild sights. First there was the truck that floored it into a group of people:

Then there was the line of fixed-gear hipsters waiting for tacos:

Oh and then she got teargassed. Here’s how it started:

Lately, the idea of occupying foreclosed homes has been bouncing around. People have been saying a lot of things about a lot of homeless people, and a lot of homes without people. I am going to keep my opinion out of this, but nonetheless, it appears valid on paper. So protesters started “occupying” a foreclosed building on 16th, and I watched people bring in stacks & stacks of books to turn it into a makeshift learning community. Cool in concept, obviously never going to work. Word got out that cops were coming, and people started barricading 16th, along Broadway & San Pablo. Dumpsters, doors (???), newspaper dispenser things, all building a blockade. People started to get anxious about police presence. I was on the San Pablo side, but I looked over & saw that people had lit the barricade along Broadway on fire. I mean, come on. Enough is enough, people. Riot squads started pouring out of vans, and standing without action. I can’t speak for what happened at the East end of the street, but on the San Pablo side, people started to try & provoke them. Graffiti, bricks through windows, broken bottles. It started to get so vandalism-centered, that when I heard the two booms from Broadway, I thought they were “protesters” dismantling something.

Whoa. It’s a much longer story than that. Read the rest here. Quite an ordeal.

But the good news is it’s working:

This van allegedly took a right turn at the intersection of 20th and Harrison this afternoon right into a pair of allegedly off-leash puppies who were crossing the street in the crosswalk, their owner right behind them.

Witnesses reported that one of the pair died on impact, while the other’s desperate yelps could still be heard minutes later. Paramedics and animal control units were on the scene.

A white-jacketed forensics expert was taking iPhone video of eye-witness accounts:

It’s a cute joke (via Napkin Please), but I’m not sure I buy it necessarily. Here are a couple of partygoers thoroughly enjoying an “ordinary” brownie from Hey Cookie the other night:

Seriously, that was an amazing brownie.

SF Examiner explains:

Mission bowling alley, the Roxie obtain right to serve alcohol in San Francisco

A planned bowling alley in the Mission along with the long-standing Roxie Theater were granted the right to begin selling alcohol on Tuesday after the Board of Supervisors approved legislation providing  exceptions to the area’s restrictions on alcohol.

The Mission Alcohol Special Use District was established in 1996 and prohibits new establishments from selling or serving alcohol within the boundaries of Guerrero Street, San Jose Avenue, Randall Street, Mission Street, Cesar Chavez Street, Potrero Avenue and Fourteenth Street.

I’m ready to celebrate. Read on.

There won’t be any sound though, so let’s all take the opportunity right now to listen to Rose McGowan’s most memorable line. (Embedding was disabled, sorrry!)

All your favorite Shine On DJs will be there, along with special guest Chas Gaudi of Shellac Shack!

RSVP and invite your friends!