Mission Mission

Youth Outlook TV interviewed a couple of young Latin American Mission natives about growing up in gangs, recent gang injunctions, and something that rhymes with “smentrification”.

Our pal Sally from CurbedSF sends this our way and wonders:

Haven’t we moved onto Simpler Times or some shit?  I should get a Trader Joe’s neck tattoo.

Indeed!  Trader Joe’s neck tatoos and chest pieces for all!

(Thanks Sally!)

Spotted in The Roxie.

This is a good time to point out how awesome the Mexican flag is, according to local funnyman Sean Keane in this video:

Happy Cinco de Mayo, all.

I mean, hopefully they were unused. Or, really, does it make a difference?

Actually, I bet somebody on that Tenderloin Bingo card could find some way to make use of these. Damn, what I wouldn’t give to come across an orderly pile of RAZRs on BART.

[via Ticklefight]

It’s Cinco de Mayo. Maybe you want to get the hell out of the neighborhood tonight and avoid the shitshow that is a bunch of bros cabbing in to celebrate the holiday? Perhaps you’ll consider hanging in the Tenderloin. If you do, be sure to play Tenderloin Bingo.

“Someone Wearing the Shirt You Gave to Goodwill Six Months Ago” might make it pretty tough to get a blackout, but I’m sure it’s still a fun game.

Also, are Tenderloin Unicorns real?

[via YMFY]

Not that park you’re thinking of if you just glanced at the title, but nonetheless another important location in the neighborhood that Mission residents of many diverse cultures and proclivities all utilize cooperatively. I’m talking about Mission Playground, which is slated to close for renovation starting Monday May 9th and continuing well through 2012.

As it is, Mission Playground caters to the Latin American community by hosting epic soccer matches nightly, provides recreational activity for restless toddlers and a spot where couples actually trying to raise a kid instead of a dog can reliably go, and offers both basketball and tennis fanatics courts on which to get their game, among many others.

I’ll definitely miss the place, but hopefully it can come back from surgery better, faster, and stronger.  I wonder if the pool will stay open? At least we’ll still have the sunsets!

I always employ the former when pronouncing ‘Valencia Street,’ and as far as I can recall most other people do as well. So hopefully you can understand how taken aback I was upon hearing the auto bus stop announcement aboard Muni instead use the latter.  Now I’m all out of sorts over the matter.

If you think I’m foolish for even thinking about trusting Muni’s onboard speaker system, I point towards exhibit A:  its flawless rendition of Gough.   Surely it can’t be right in this case though?

I wonder if this has anything to do with yesterday’s 12-pack robbery at knifepoint. That bro sure bro’d hard.

[via Adhesive Product]

Mission Local reports:

The 37-year-old victim ended his picnic early and thirsty.

He was sitting in Dolores Park at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday when a 20-something male approached him, pulled out a knife and demanded a beer, police reported.

The suspect then decided he wanted more than one. He took the 12-pack and fled.

Wow, man. That’s a way better story than the thing I saw at Dolores Park last night. Watch your backs.

Read on.

[Photo by Paul Mison]

UPDATE: Our buddy Lindsey adds another perspective: