Mission Mission

[Editor's note: This is Pop's Bar's weekly entertainment calendar, as usual, but they're getting rid of the "Music for the Mission" headline. Don't be alarmed.]

Nowhere else does Halloween like San Francisco. In fact many of you have been constructing this years costume since 11/1/14. So we are stretching out the party as long as we can starting this Friday with a very emo SADDERDAY SF HALLOWEEN. DJs Kevin Kannibal and Ashley Suicide help you relive your youth playing all your favorite emo, pop-punk, screamo and post-hardcore songs all night.

And because like most of us, SADDERDAY loves Halloween, they’re hosting a COSTUME CONTEST!

Dress up goth or emo, as Gerard Way or Conor Oberst, or whatever you want. There’s a CASH PRIZE, so dress to impress.

Check out the rest of this week’s line up at Pops Bar:

10/19/15 MONDAY

MOM at POPS:

Motown on Mondays

It’s only Monday if you treat it like one.

M.O.M

9PM START, 1:30AM end

Hey!

Check out my

M.O.M.

Mondays at Pops

DJ BLUZ, ALARM & GUESTS

PLAYS ORIGINALS, EXCLUSIVE REMIXES

AND CLOSE RELATIVES OF YOUR FAVORITE

MOTOWN SONGS…

10/20/15 TUESDAY

Trivia Tuesdays

Pops Quiz

$2 to play

8:30-10:30PM

Join us every Tuesday of the month and test your wits at Pops trivia night “POP’s Quiz” where your brain may get stump on categories such as Pop’s culture, Sports, Movies, Music and more, with little snippets of audio and visual effects too! It starts at 7:00pm ends at 10:00pm. So come on in for some good ole fashion competition and a night of drinking with the crew! It is a 2 dollar cover and winner gets the pot!! so tell friends and family because the more peeps the steeper the cash prize is!!

MUSIC THERAPY

Electro-Cumbia Breaks, Hip Hop, Nu Latin Beats

10PM-1:30am

No Cover

21 UP

10/21/15 WEDNESDAY

Spike’s Live Piano Karaoke

Every 3rd Wednesday 7-10pm with Karl on the Keys

Whatever Wednesdays

Whatever Wednesday is YOUR PARTY, literally. You got DJ skills? Have you been itching to show ALL your friends? Its your turn to take over the night and mix it up. Send us your request, your best mix and we’ll see what we can do to get you your turn.

Email: tom@popssf.com

No Cover

21 UP

10/22/15 THURSDAY

Happy Hour Entertainment 6-9pm with DJ Sektor spinning Retro Thursday

BFF.FM Night

9PM-1:30AM

Rotating DJs from local BFF.fm radio! This week: ZeroOne

Dance party featuring the best of New Wave, Post-Punk & Synth-Pop.

Come support local community radio.

No Cover

10/23/15 FRIDAY

Happy Hour 6-9pm with DJ Billy Z

SADDERDAY SF HALLOWEEN
9PM-2AM

an emo/pop punk/indie/electro dance party

Dress to impress. Halloween Costume Contest!

No Cover

21 UP

10/24/15 SATURDAY

Patch & Rita

Happy Hour Entertainment 6-9PM

Who could resist this dynamic duo, with their sonorous adventures into the deserts of early 20th century songwriting? If you’ve got a hankerin’ for some rootsy boot-stompin’ tunes about whiskey and cheatin’ women, then this is your place. Patch & Rita throw down some tunes like this coast has never seen, and you’ll leave stomping your feet, we promise.

ALL 80s EVERYTHING: DANCE PARTY

ALL VINYL / ALL NIGHT

Curated Dance music of the 80s: Funk, Boogie, new wave, pop, r&b, rap, house, reggae, New 80s edits, and Dance Jams influenced by the 80s

DJ Boom Bostic

9PM-1:30AM

No Cover

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We had no idea that the Curran Theater was under construction. We were also pleasantly surprised that they are using this time as an opportunity to give audiences a unique experience. While the theater is going through a face lift, they are inviting audiences to gather on stage, and witness their performance pieces up close. We were fortunate to be able to catch the first piece of the series Object Lesson created and performed by Geoff Sobelle:

Katie: I can’t think of the last time I saw something that interesting and refreshing. It was fucking delightful.

Brittany: It was such a cool use of space. It was awesome to be on the stage of the Curran amidst all the boxes that you get to look around and play in and all of the sudden a show starts. It was like a magic show meets really cool art installation meets really cool performance piece.  I think he did a great job of capturing that moment of nostalgia that unites the way that people experience their lives.

* Unfortunately Object Lesson only runs this weekend and is sold out (wow this post is such a tease) but if this show is any indication of how innovative this series will be, then this will be some of the most interesting pieces of theater you will ever see.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

October 14-18 / Object Lesson

October 19th / Ground Breakers with Kevin Sessums

October 23-25, 28-31 / Ghost Quartet

November 19-21 / Steve Cuiffo is Lenny Bruce

December 3-5 / Notes of a Native Song

December 12-13, 19-20 / Story Pirates’ Greatest Hits Show

January 17-27 / A 24 – Decade History of Popular Music

Go to sfcurran.com to get the full run down.

Half Fernet, half Campari. All good.

Last night, about to fly home after a week in another city, I picked one of my Spotify playlists at random as I boarded the plane, and JUST as we finished taxiing and the engines revved, this song came on:

Our pal Zach, who you may remember as the infamous seeker of holiday romance, recently had a run-in with some local bike thieves that ended in the BEST WAY POSSIBLE:

HOW I LOST MY BIKE (THEN GOT IT BACK 15 HOURS LATER)

This whole situation was (most likely) avoidable and entirely my fault. But, y’all wanted a story, so here it is.

HOW I LOST MY BRAND-NEW TRACK BIKE

Do you know those once-every-three-years drunks where you do something incredibly stupid and out of character?

No? Just me? OK, well, this was one of those.

After a long day of riding and racing at Quake City Rumble, I figured I’d get my party on. Been working and training hard, plus organizing the finale race, so I felt I’d earned a good tear.

Long story short, after hopping around to a few spots I left my coworker’s birthday party sometime between 2 and 3am. (I sort-of-not-really remember leaving but apparently had promised to walk my bike home)

Now, even when I’m on autopilot, I’m pretty OCD. Phone, keys, wallet – I never lose my necessities. But when I woke up at home around 8 or 9am, and looked at the spot where I keep my bike, it was empty.

Not only did I just get this thing, I’m supposed to race it at the Wolfpack Hustle Finale Crit in Austin next weekend.

Commence freaking out.

THE INTERIM

But I can’t freak out, because today is the Mountain Lion, the biggest and baddest alleycat in San Francisco. And I won it last year, which means I’m organizing it this year. This keeps me mentally occupied from dwelling on my missing bike and hating myself too much. I post a picture of the bike describing my situation, and since bike people know all too well the pain of a missing machine, it becomes shared quickly across social media.

HOW I GOT MY BIKE BACK

The Mountain Lion ends and we’re hanging out at Potrero Del Sol Park. It’s about 5pm and I’m ready to tuck into a burrito when I get a call from my buddy Demi. He says his friend Eli is pretty sure he spotted my bike downtown; I get his number and give him a call.

“Yeah, your bike’s on Market near New Montgomery.”
“Are you sure it’s mine?”
I don’t believe this is happening but Eli rattles off a part list and now I’m 100% sure; plus it’s one of only 3 Heavy Pedal Axiom frames in the Bay Area.

“There’s eyes on my bike near Market and New Montgomery!” I yell.

Sardine, who is in charge of organizing this weekend’s events and is also great at shouting, hears me. “Oh shit, for real?” He turns to the crowd of racers and chillers, “ANYBODY WANT TO HELP THIS MAN GET HIS STOLEN BIKE BACK, HE’S GOING DOWNTOWN NOW!”

I start pedaling. Adam Shapiro, Brian Dooley, Carlos Balam, Matt Vanaman and possibly some others (sorry if I forget) are in hot pursuit; especially impressive because I just threw a hard-as-fuck race that these guys all finished (to the tune of almost 50 miles and 5500 feet of climbing).

I have my phone on loud for updates, and sure enough, Eli rings me every couple of minutes. I don’t like dipping through traffic while yakking on the phone but it’s sort of a necessity in this situation. The target is riding my bike around Civic Center. OK, no, now he’s at 5th and Market. So at this point it’s Dooley and I tearing down Market street.

I’m scanning the crowds and I spot my bike being walked on the sidewalk. I see Eli getting off his phone (he’s been following the thief this whole time) and pointing to the guy with my bike. He’s a big, gnarly looking white dude covered in tattoos and I get the feeling he’s been to prison at least once.

Well, Mr. Thief hops off the sidewalk and is about to mount up. I immediately flip a u-turn and box him in to the curb from the front and side, with Dooley pulling up right alongside and behind him.

I don’t remember exactly what I yelled in the heat of the moment, but it was just something gruff and direct like “Off the bike, man. That’s my ride.”

The dude very quickly dismounts and hands the bike over to me, spinning some bullshit about buying it off Craigslist this morning. I tell him I don’t want to hear it and just like that we’re off with the bike in hand, just as Matt and Carlos show up. The whole thing is over in 15 seconds.

I ghost ride my recovered whip back to my house, and invite my posse in for some shots of good bourbon and some beers. I put the bike back in its spot, and we roll back to the park for the weekend’s award ceremony.

I’ve never been so depressed and mad at myself, then so elated in less than 24 hours. Bike people are the best people when it comes to looking out for each other. I got incredibly lucky here, but I am eternally thankful to everyone who was keeping an eye out, and who came to help, and especially Demi for the tip off from Eli, who followed the thief like a total crime dog.

Btw, winter is coming.  Do you have a holiday girlfriend/boyfriend yet???

No more trekking up to Divis to get your fix! “WesBurger n’ More,” it’s officially gonna be called, is gonna be a permanent restaurant right here in the neighborhood. Inside Scoop has the inside scoop:

In 2013, the novice chef entered the San Francisco Burger Brawl, where he competed against local professional chefs and restaurants — and won.

Since then, he’s been holding weekly WesBurger pop-ups each Wednesday at Mojo Bicycle Café on Divasadero — starring his signature coarsely ground, all-brisket patties that are cooked in a cast iron skillet, which Rowe says makes for a light and tender patty that’s nicely charred on the outside and pink on the inside.

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Now he’s making the leap from pop-up to brick-and-mortar operation with WesBurger n’ More, which will be housed in the former Palacio Latino space on Mission Street, located next door to another pop-up turned permanent: Mission Chinese Food.

Can’t wait! “Early 2016″ they’re saying. Read on for more WesBurger history and some talk about what’ll be on the menu.

(Thanks, Jess!)

Mainly I just wanted the word “Sidebern” to be here on this blog forevermore. Plus, Ralph Carney rules too. Here are all the details:

Join us in the Chapel Bar to watch the 2015 Democratic Debate!

Hillary versus Bernie versus a potential Biden! Plus former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, former U.S. Senator Jim Webb and former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chaffee plan to join the conversation, all moderated by the great Anderson Cooper.

Drink specials include THE PANTSUIT and THE SIDEBERN, plus good times all around!

The bar will open at 5pm, debate begins at 6pm, followed by The Tedtones feat. Ralph Carney playing live until 11pm!

[Photo by Unframed Thoughts]

Here’s what he has to say about it:

the intersection of getting paid to do what you love for people who appreciate it is the pinnacle of purpose.  now to make a career out of it.

Blam! Hit him up!!

Right????

(They’re from this and this.)

Looking for your neighborhood place with good people and good times? Join the family over at Pops Bar. Get to know our cast of characters from our friendly bar staff to our talented local musicians and DJs. Remember, a good night of drinking is all about taking risks. So take a chance and make tonight one you will remember, we’ll keep the drinks flowing till you get here.

Check out this week’s entertainment line up at Pops Bar:

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