Mission Mission

SFist has the story, with updates to come (hopefully), here.

Careful opening your front doors.

Eater SF readers reacted skeptically to news of Mission Street Food’s becoming Mission Chinese Food, so Chef Danny wrote in to clarify his mission:

We want to make delicious, frequently spicy chinese food, besides what everyone already gets delivered, without m.s.g., with responsibly sourced proteins and vegetables. Seven days a week. All day long.

Lots more here.

Previously:

Mission Chinese Food

Cultural anthropologist David Enos is about to let us in on a vision of modern romance. And it starts, like many a great modern romance, at everyone’s favorite ’80s-hip-hop-themed dive bar:

Bryn Cowlsey: “He took me to Double Dutch and we were having a really great time, he seemed totally into me, you know, giving me the eyes?”

Samantha Wheatley: Ooooooooh

Bryn Cowlsey: “Then he was like, ‘Let’s go to my place.’ And I’m like, ’Yes please’ because I know he really loves me, and he sent a text that said “I miss your eyes” yesterday.  So that’s all totally game changer.”

Samantha Wheatley: Mmmmmm-hmmmmmm

Bryn Cowlsey: “So anyway, we get to his place and he’s like, ‘Want to watch the world cup?’ And I’m stoked because I love the world cup too.  I’m like, ‘Goooaaaaaaaaaaal’, and like ‘Vuvuzela’.  So he gets out a bottle of wine, super expensive wine, and I’m waiting for him to pour me a glass, you know, to be a gentleman and like, pour my glass.”

See how the drama unfolds here.

Photo by Cirne.

But we’ll give it to you if you want it.

After countless delays and a near two year gestation period, Middle Eastern sandwich shop Zaytoon is finally ready to meet the neighborhood.  We happened to walk by the spot on Valencia between 22nd and 23rd tonight as they were celebrating their grand opening (that’s one of the two Palestinian owners sitting there on the left) and managed to sample a bit of their falafel.

The texture was perfect, with a slightly crispy outer shell coating a soft yet firm center.  Both the falafels and the tahini are made in-house every day, and are featured on a menu along with lamb and chicken shawarma, available on either pita or lavash for $7-8.  Give it a try yourself to see how it compares to Truly Med and Old Jerusalem!

Previously:

Soon, Zaytoon?

Something is Going on in Zaytoon

This many!

[18th St between Dolores and Guerrero]

Previously:

How Crowded Was Dolores Park This Past Weekend?

That’s right! On July 2, you can go to a special event in the bowels of the Armory and watch performers put stuff in each others bowels! And there’s art involved. AND it’s for charity!

All you have to do is become a member of some organization, quick. Full press release after the jump.

(Thanks, Corvax!)

Previously:

Margaret Cho Enters the Armory

The Tens Enters the Armory

Armory-Style Kink Enters the Knockout

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Reader Andy B. sends word of the Mission’s presence in a new comic strip:

The first print edition of the SF Public Press just came out this week and it includes an awesome full page comic strip from bad-ass underground comic strip artist Andrew Goldfarb and independent journalist Shawn Gaynor.

It’s about the sit/lie ordinance and told from the perspective of a day laborer from the Mission named Alberto whom Gaynor interviewed for the story.

More info, more frames, and a PDF download of the whole comic at http://www.standagainstsitlie.org/

Thanks, Andy!

Fingers and fluids and sphincters and girl parts! A lab experiment gone horribly awry! By d-know!

Photo by Steve Rhodes.

Previously:

Girl Parts Vader