Mission Mission

Beware, fare evaders!

[via Storts]

It’s like in John Carpenter’s Vampires when the vampires figure out how to perform that ancient incantation that lets them finally walk in the daylight — horrific!

[via Baby Goblin]

[via The Minutes]

SFist has the details (and startling photos) of this massive house fire at Haight and Fillmore.

[Top photo by Jennifer H.; bottom photo by Lindsey A.]

I’m a teeny bit skeptical, because David Byrne is a seriously tough thing to reproduce, but two trusted sources recommended this show independently of each other, so there you have it.

(Thanks, Rob and Carina!)

We’re all really excited about how Berlin-style ping pong is taking the neighborhood by storm, and we’re really excited to have the entire Haçeteria crew on the decks this week, and we’re excited that this will be the final American Tripps before The Secret Alley undergoes a few interesting changes in October, and we’re excited that our official photographer this week will be none other than The Tenderloin Geographic Society herself!

But what we’re most excited about is this poster art by our pal Allison from C’mon Pony! Right!? Check out her characters’ other adventures here, here, here, here, here and here.

Now RSVP and invite your friends here. And be sure to like American Tripps on Facebook for regular updates and surprises.

Also, there’s a new set of photos up from last time, shot by our pal Jess Kelso. Clearly, American Tripps is a great place to hook upp:

UPDATE: Plus, apparently over at Fun Cheap SF you can “win tix.”

Breezy Nix is back with a hot new sound for Indian summer! It’s called Fall Swimwear Mix and you can listen to it right here:

Noise Pop and the Roxie are teaming up to present the San Francisco premiere of this hot new doc:

Made with the full co-operation of the band, THE BEAT IS THE LAW: FANFARE FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE brings together original interviews, performances, promos, newly unearthed live footage and home videos to tell the story of Pulp and their contemporaries’ journey from the darkest industrial depths of the Steel City to the pinnacle of pop via the consciousness-raising techno/house of Warp Records.

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The Beat Is The Law:
Fanfare For The Common People
Thursday, September 29, 2011
ROXIE THEATER
3117 16th Street Street, San Francisco
Tickets here
7:30pm & 9:30pm

To win tickets, post on our Facebook wall a picture of yourself rocking out to “Common People.” A winner will be chosen based on merit and awarded two tickets to the screening of your choice. Contest ends at noon on Thursday.

This is a special report by our pal Jess Stuenkel, a real-life San Francisco architect:

September is Architecture and the City month which means all the architecture geeks like me and non-architecture geeks (likely like you) get a month of seeing, hearing and talking about architecture in the city. Tonight Local Mission Eatery opened its doors for a community dinner and discussion about the restaurants concept and big-picture design process.

The name, Local Mission, couldn’t be more fitting as the restaurant is all about local sourcing and providing for it’s community. All the produce is purchased at local farmers markets daily by Yaron, the business owner, or his business partner Jake des Voignes the exectutive chef. The restaurant even has it’s own little farm outside the city where they raise chickens and grow what they can in the space they have. And they want you to know exactly where it comes from and what they are doing with it.

Here is an excerpt from their about page:

Our mission includes you. We hope you shop at the farmers market, bypass the supermarket, and cook from scratch: Simmer vegetables for your stock, peel tomatoes for your sauce, and roll-out dough for your crackers. We’ll help you. Ask us questions, join our cookbook library, take our cooking labs, stand at the open kitchen and observe.

With these same local and community oriented values they created the space. The architects at atelier KS worked closely with chef Jake des Voignes to provide his optimal cooking environment. The chef got out his work gloves to help build the cabinetry and when builder Sterling Tougas opened up a wall and found old growth redwood slats, the architects detailed them into the ceiling that directs you through the long skinny space. Speaking of locally sourced! The wood that constructs the entryway as well as the long community table came from the building a few doors down which was also under construction. All the tile came from just over the bridge in Sausalito, and the building supplies from Mission lumberyards. All topped off with mural by local screen printer Jon Fischer representing every intersection on 24th St. from Valencia to Vermont.

Yaron stated at dinner, “Owning a piece of the street is a big responsibility, as is employing people and feeding people.” He sees this responsibility to his community the same as his responsibility to his family, and that’s nothing less than good, local food, prepared from scratch for the people.

Also, if you haven’t gotten a chance to participate in Architecture and the City, check out the last few days of events here. The Rem Koolhaas movie on the 28th should be really good and best of all it’s free!

Thanks, Jess!

[Photo by Rahmin Sarahi]