Mission Mission

As some of you might remember, former Mission Mission editor Kat Malinowska has temporarily relocated to Los Angeles, where the guerilla marketing — even for a family friendly brand such as Disney — has gotten downright weird:

Read on.

Okay, so we all love cover bands and cover songs. How about a cover menu full of cover dishes??

Noise Pop in two weeks hosts a cover dinner at a secret location that’ll be just that — epic recreations of famously epic culinary wonders. Here’s the full menu:

Snacks from Ferran Adrià

Tartare of Smoked and Raw Arctic Char with purple Shiso Sorbet (Justin North of Bécasse, Australia)

Chilled Snap Pea Soup with Mint and Avocado (Charlie Trotter, Chicago)

“Homage to Spring” Ravioli Hedgehog Mushroom, Peas and Tarragon, Lemon Ricotta, Thyme and Onions, Roasted Garlic Cream, Artichoke (Quince’s Michael Tusk, San Francisco)

Grilled Octopus Tentacles, Chorizo, Fingerling Potato, Green Almonds, and Salsa Verde (Thomas Keller, Per Se, New York)

Aged Beef with Yamaio, Arame, Uni and Burnt Butter Soy Sauce (Susur Lee, Susur, Toronto)

“Tengo” Raspberry, Red Pepper, Parmesan Reggiano Cream, Sesame Pate Sucree
(Pierre Herme, Paris)

Further details and ticketing info here.

[via C'mon Pony]

Escaped zoo animal? Weird magic trick? (Weird Photoshop trick?) What’s this about?

Photography by the ghostis. View it larger here.

So we’re all going, right?

RSVP and invite your friends here.

It’s unclear when/where this shot came from. But, whoa.

[via Man Freckles]

It’s true! We love rice and really do wear those funny hats.

[Photo by Steve L, by 30th and Mission Walgreens]

Now that the weather’s nice, we should todally go hang on the roof and eat them.

[Photo by Leanne Koh]

So, you think this whole anti-gentrification thing is unique to the Mission? Think again. It’s happening in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, as you can see in this found racist rant accusing a loosely-defined group of people of being racist.

i don’t know, man astutely points out:

Pilsen is named for the Czech town of Plzen — Pilsner, a delicious type of lager beer is, too — because it was populated mainly by Czech immigrants in the early part of last century. As Czechs made a better life for themselves and probably moved out of the city to the suburbs, Chicago’s growing Latino population moved in.

What we have here is a chicken-or-the-egg problem. Who’s the most entitled to live anywhere? Amoebas floating in primordial soup, I reckon.

Anyway, I’m glad Asian hipsters are off the hook (not that I am one).

[chicagoist via beerandrap]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm3UGftvCRo

First Pitchfork did a big feature called Positive Destruction: San Francisco’s New Garage Rock. Then Scion released a whole movie called New Garage Explosion: In Love With These Times. They both, obviously, focus a lot on Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees and other hot SF bands. The movie mentioned briefly though that none of this ever would have happened without this band The Clean.

They’re from New Zealand. And the above song is pret-ty good. But I do believe it sounds like this Strokes b-side (almost exactly, really) more than any Oh Sees hit:

[Thanks, A!]