The Examiner reports:

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents may have sought to detain an undocumented immigrant on Thursday morning at a building that houses a preschool in San Francisco, the San Francisco Examiner has learned.

The action, which sources familiar with immigration called “unusual,” comes only a day after President Donald Trump signed two executive orders that — among other actions — called for 10,000 new ICE agents to perform deportations across the country.

[...]

Visiting a preschool and other sites containing children is prohibited for ICE officers under a 2011 Department of Homeland Security “sensitive locations” memorandum, save for exceptional circumstances.

“They had batons, they had walkie talkies, they had police belts and vests on top of their black uniforms. I didn’t notice if they had guns,” said Jaime Aragon, services coordination manager at Good Samaritan.

Read on.

(That’s 13 DJ Purples, yep.)

I asked the legendary DJ Purple what his top 5 favorite Halloween-related jams were, and I got this hot list of 13:

1. Spooky – Classics IV
2. Strangelove – Depeche Mode
3. Ghostbusters – Ray Parker, Jr.
4. Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
5. Monster – Lady Gaga
6. The Purple People-Eater – Sheb Wooley
7. Another One Bites the Dust – Queen
8. Runnin’ with the Devil – Van Halen
9. Sweet Transvestite – Rocky Horror
10. Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo
11. Love Potion #9 – The Searchers
12. Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
13. Superstition – Stevie Wonder

Thanks, DJ Purple! Get practicing, everybody! Singin’ & Pingin’ Halloween Edition (starring DJ Purple) is this Friday (which happens to be Halloween) at Verdi Club in the Mission:

1. Angst in My Pants – Sparks
2. I Don’t Wanna Dance – Eddy Grant
3. Rush – Big Audio Dynamite
4. Another Nail in My Heart – Squeeze
5. I Don’t Wanna Grow Up – Ramones
6. Diane Young – Vampire Weekend
7. You Don’t Know Me – Ben Folds & Regina Spektor
8. Nasty Habits – Oingo Boingo
9. Musta Got Lost – J. Geils Band
10. Subway Girl – The Audacity
11. All My Friends – LCD Soundsystem
12. Die Die My Darling – Misfits
13. Bang a Gong – T. Rex
14. I’ll Be You – The Replacements
15. Crosseyed and Painless – Talking Heads
16. Got My Mind Set on You – George Harrison
17. You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC
18. Jackson – Johnny Cash & June Carter
19. Black or White – Michael Jackson
20. A New England – Billy Bragg
21. My Baby Just Cares for Me – Nina Simone
22. Let’s Dance to Joy Division – The Wombats
23. Shine a Little Love – Electric Light Orchestra
24. In a Big Country – Big Country
25. Centerfold – J. Geils Band
26. Later – Dr. Dog
27. Susanne – Weezer
28. Linoleum – NOFX
29. 1901 – Phoenix
30. Party Hard – Andrew W.K.
31. Real Wild Child – Iggy Pop
32. Little L – Jamiroquai
33. Supersoaker – Kings of Leon
34. Reflektor – Arcade Fire
35. Tarzan Boy – Baltimora
36. Bad Is Bad – Huey Lewis and the News
37. Gotta Serve Somebody – Bob Dylan
38. Hot Child in the City – Nick Gilder
39. Take It Easy – The Eagles
40. Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
41. Workin’ for the Weekend – Loverboy
42. My Life Would Suck Without You – Kelly Clarkson
43. Killing in the Name – Rage Against the Machine
44. Juicebox – The Strokes
45. You Only Live Once – The Strokes

The point is, just in case you weren’t aware, you can sing a lot of cool songs at karaoke these days. Support your local karaoke night!

Video of the disturbing assault committed by the obviously deranged ‘naked, spitting, pissing dude‘ who shut down the 16th Street BART station last month has finally surfaced, and it’s quite disturbing to witness.  Taken by the station agent on duty at the time, it depicts the guy going after a defenseless woman, and old man, and performing numerous naked aerobics.

When we first wrote about this, many wondered why no one came to the defense of those being attacked, but after seeing it all happen in real time, I must admit that I too would be a bit reluctant to take this guy on.  And why did it take so long for the police to show up?  What would you have done?

[Via Boing Boing]

It’s called Tikva Records, and it’ll be occupying the Queen’s Nails Annex space through December, hosting a bunch of events and promoting the release of Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950 – 1973, a collection released last month. Here’s some of what’ll be going down:

*Fool’s Gold (CD Release Event)
*El Gavachillo con Banda La Juvenil w/ Wil-Dog of Ozomatli
*Steve Berlin of Los Lobos
*Zach Rogue (Rogue Wave)
*The Burton Sisters
*Members of Dengue Fever
*Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman (Producers of Old Jews Telling Jokes)
*Geo Trio w/ Original Members of Garaj Mahal and Special Guest Rasaki Aladokun
*Jeremiah Lockwood w/ Guests Ethan Miller (Comets On Fire, Howlin Rain) and Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars/The Black Crowes)
*49th Street All-Stars w/ Dan Lebowitz (ALO), Scott Law (Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings), Nicki Bluhm, Joe Kyle Jr (The Waybacks), Dale Fanning (Materialized), and Jordan Feinstein
*Dan Lebowitz & Friends
*Rebecca Bortman (My First Earthquake)
*Club Unicornio Kosher Mambo Party
*Tel Aviv’s Charlie Megira & The Modern Dance Club (CD Release Party)
*American Musical Heritage Foundation Presents The Kosher Katz and Kittens with Glenn Allen Howard
*Stories on Record: Bring Your Jewish Record Collection to Tikva Records
*Double Feature Yiddish Musical Screenings Daily at Tikva Records

Read the full press release after the jump…

[Photo by Bernalwood]

***For Immediate Release***

San Francisco, CA – November 3, 2011 – The Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation is thrilled to announce the opening of the World’s First Jewish Pop-Up Record Store in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District: Tikva Records. Celebrating the national release of the new album, Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950 – 1973 (Release Date: November 22, 2011), The Idelsohn Society will present an eclectic series of events at the new replica of a ’50s record shop throughout the month of December 2011, including the eight nights of Chanukah.

Special events will emulate the historical and cultural significance of Tikva Records – NYC’s most prolific Jewish record label of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. Events will explore the Jewish American songbook, and Jewish culture in general, interpreted by some of today’s brightest performers, comedians, musicians and lecturers. Rare vinyl from select Jewish musicians of the past 80 years will be sold at the new Tikva Records, and The Idelsohn Society will have all of their latest album releases for sale including: Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set, Black Sabbath, and Mazeltov, Mis Amigos. San Francisco Public School tours will commence during the daytime hours at Tikva Records, and food trucks will be carefully paired with each event listed below. Interviews and photos are available upon request. Additional events will be announced soon.

Legacy of Tikva Records is Honored on Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950 – 1973:
In the 1950s, New York City was the center of Jewish life in America, with an estimated two million Jews living within the city’s borders. It was a time of great transition as American Jews were in the midst of a radical post-war transformation that found them balancing the city with the suburbs, tradition with modernity, and Jewish identity with American identity. Even as assimilation continued to be a goal, many American Jews longed for familiar cultural touchstones, for connections to the world they, or their parents, had left behind.

Enter Tikva Records, an independent label launched in the late ’40s determined to speak to these new challenges. The company’s catalogue – an extraordinarily eclectic and idiosyncratic body of work - reflected the diversity of the population it sought to entertain: the Jews of the modern diaspora. Instead of zeroing in on a particular genre, Tikva Records was broad and sweeping in its reach. The label’s roster included such icons of Jewish music as Leo Fuchs, Eddie Cantor and Molly Picon. But Tikva went much further afield. From fuzzed-out garage rock (The Sabras) to folk (Jack Brass), from the sacred (Jo Amar‘s “Ani Lodadi”) to the profane (Bernie Knee‘s “Orthodox, Conservative, or Reformed”), from klezmer (The Epstein Brothers, Sam Musiker) to humor (Leo Fuchs) to Israeli funk (Avram Grobard), there’s something here for every taste.

Idelsohn Society co-founder David Katznelson felt it was time to create the first ever Jewish pop-up music store in his hometown of San Francisco, CA. President of the San Francisco Appreciation Society, Katznelson notes: “There is a strong legacy of record stores as community hubs in San Francisco, hubs focusing on specific cultures and genres of music. The Idelsohn Society wants to continue this vibrant history by recreating the classic record store phenomenon, in keeping with the Idelsohn tradition of using the recorded sound to discover and celebrate the 20th century Jewish experience for a new generation.”

Idelsohn Society co-founder Roger Bennett adds, “Over the past six years, The Idolsohn Society has been re-releasing historical Jewish albums and presenting events in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. We are always looking for ways to reconnect our audience to the past. For our latest project, we wanted to establish a ’50s record store and host a month-long celebration and engage San Franciscans of all ages, identities and geographical locals of their own histories. The pop-up will be an incredible opportunity for all of us to re-live and experience some of the greatest music to be released out of New York from the mid-20th century. We look forward to educating public school students on the art of remixing, and honoring the amazing recording artists that are part of the Tikva Records family.”

Please see the list of confirmed events taking place at Tikva Records this December 2011:

Thursday, December 1, 2011: Tikva Records *Official Opening Party* (7 pm – 9 pm)
The Idelsohn Society will officially open the doors to Tikva Records with a CD Listening Party highlighting their latest release, Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950 – 1973. The opening exhibit, “Tikva In Technicolor,“ will also be launched on December 1. “Tikva In Technicolor” will feature displays and information on the creative people behind the record label as well as the recording artists. iPads will be utilized for both a hands-on look inside this famous Jewish record label’s fascinating history and to hear selections from the label’s catalogue. The exhibit will also feature screenings of Yiddish Musicals. At the event, Tikva Records invites attendees to the various remixing stations for an opportunity to remix traditional Jewish music with beats for a modern experience with timeless tracks. Music can be uploaded to Facebook or burned onsite to a CD.

Friday, December 2, 2011: Steve Berlin, Member of Los Lobos
Steve Berlin is a saxophonist, keyboardist and record producer, and is best known as a member of Los Lobos. At Tikva Records, Berlin will perform an original score of music with a full band especially written for a special screening of a restored silent Jewish film (specific film TBA).

Saturday, December 3, 2011: American Pop, Ralph Bakshi and the Jewish Experience (7 pm)
Filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, best known for his films Fritz The Cat and Wizards, is making a rare San Francisco appearance to show his classic film American Pop and discuss, with longtime friend/poet Melvin Wick, his Jewish upbringing and the influence it had on his art. The conversation will be led by writer/scholar Richard Simon. Richard B. Simon teaches writing at Dominican University of California and City College of San Francisco; is a Contributing Editor at Relix Magazine; and comments on environment and political propaganda at SCORP1/0N BOWL.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011: Fool’s Gold Bay Area CD Release Party (Two Performances: 7 pm & 8:30 pm)
Feel good guitar-pop collective Fool’s Gold will celebrate the release of their second full-length album, Leave No Trace, with a special Bay Area performance at Tikva Records. Originally a 12-15 member ensemble, Fool’s Gold downsized their line-up to a tight-knit five-member powerhouse quintet after releasing their self-titled debut (2009) and relentlessly touring the country. The band now features vocalist/bassistLuke Top, guitarist Lewis Pesacov, drummer Garrett Ray, multi-instrumentalist Brad Caulkins and percussionist Salvador Placencia. Confident, focused and much more personal, the new line-up truly allowed for the dynamic of the group to blossom, redefining and sculpting their sound for the much anticipated sophomore LP Leave No Trace.

Much of Leave No Trace is built on soulful vocals, evocative lyrics, driving beats, tightly wound percussion and warm synthesizers, all woven together with interlocking, nimble and slashing guitar lines. An obvious distinction in the new record is that it is sung predominately in English. This was an intuitive choice, much in the way the debut album leaned towards Hebrew. Leave No Trace was produced by co-founder Lewis Pesacov (who also produced last year’s acclaimed Best Coast LP Crazy for You).

Thursday, December 8, 2011: The Burton Sisters
Marking their second live performance in 55 years, the celebrated Burton Sisters will sing various songs from their acclaimed catalogue alongside a special unannounced guest artist. The event will also include a ceremony, slide show of their career, and a cocktail party.

The Burton Sisters grew up in a musical family based in North Philadelphia, and from an early age, were exposed to such family friends likeMoe Jaffe, whose music is included on the new Tikva collection Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950 – 1973; Jaffe wrote the hits “Gypsy in My Soul,” “Chanukah Candles,” “If you are But a Dream,” and “If I had My Life to Live Over.” It was only natural for the two sisters to start harmonizing their way to gigs at bar mitzvahs, lodge meetings and the like. Rose and Evelyn Burton soon signed with the Stan Zucker Agency in New York, and went on the road to perform shows in French Canada, the Borscht Belt, at Grossingers and the Concord, and appeared alongside many stars of the day including Eddie Fisher, Buddy Hackett and others. Following Bob Merrillhearing them perform at a nightclub, the Burton Sisters were signed to RCA Victor. They became the only Jewish artists of that time that were allowed to record with a major label, and simultaneously release music on the all-Yiddish independent label Banner Records.

Saturday, December 10, 2011: Members of Dengue Fever
Members of Dengue Fever will perform hits from their catalogue as well as favorite traditional Jewish songs through the filter of their eclectic style that has made them a well-known touring and recording ensemble. The band itself is inventive as they meld diverse cultures with surf guitar pop, spy-movie themes and an East-meets-West psychedelic and garage rock sound. However, the magic ingredient in the group lies with Cambodian-born lead singer Chhom Nimol. You can be sure at the upcoming Tikva Records’s event, you’ll hear a Yiddish song sung by an acclaimed Cambodian singer.

Sunday, December 11, 2011: Stories on Record
Part of The Idelsohn Society’s mission is to collect stories…stories around music and the artists that made the music. Do you or your parents have a collection of Jewish Records? Were these records a part of the soundtrack to your daily life? Do you remember listening to them in the family living room or going to see the artists when they were on tour? Bring your record collection to Tikva Records on Dec. 11 and show us what you have! Tikva Records will be offering services to digitize those records that are currently lost in time!
-Anyone with a record collection can come down anytime, it’s not only limited to December 11, 2011. Just emailpublicity@jpcutlermedia.com, and we’ll set up a time to meet and check out your collection.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011: Old Jews Telling Jokes
Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman, producers of the wildly funny Old Jews Telling Jokes series, will appear at Tikva Records.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011: Club Unicornio Kosher Mambo Party
A Latin-Jewish, bagels-and-bongos, mambo soundclash between Idelsohn Society DJs and DJs from Club Unicornio and Soundway Records featuring tracks from a goldmine of long lost vinyl, some of which will be for sale at Tikva Records.

Thursday, December 15, 2011: El Gavachillo con Banda La Juvenil Featuring Wil-Dog of Ozomatli
Following his epic performance at the live re-enactment of the legendary album Mazeltov, Mis Amigos (Yoshi’s, San Francisco, August 30, 2010), Wil-Dog will slip into his alter-ego, El Gavachillo, and introduce the Mission to his new project, a punk-rock inspired take on traditional Mexican banda music featuring one of LA’s hottest Mexican bandas, Banda El Juvenil. Wil-Dog is the bassist for Ozomatli, and is of Jewish descent. From an early age he saw first-hand police violence, racism and antisemitism. After dropping out of high school in the 11th grade, he joined an at-risk youth-center and found his purpose and joined Ozomatli. The acclaimed band is known for their vocal activist viewpoints and wide array of musical styles including salsa, funk, reggae and hip-hop.

Saturday, December 17, 2011: 49th Street All-Stars Featuring Dan Lebowitz (ALO), Scott Law (Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings, Melvin Seals, Brokedown in Bakersfield), Nicki Bluhm, Joe Kyle Jr (The Waybacks), Dale Fanning (Materialized), and Jordan Feinstein
Bringing in several all-star players from the greater jam-band community, these select musicians will play tunes honoring the Jewish songwriters that recorded at the famous Brill Building in New York City.

Sunday, December 18, 2011: American Musical Heritage Foundation Presents Kosher Katz and Kittens with Glenn Allen Howard (4:30 pm)

Sunday, December 18, 2011: Record Release Party for Tel Aviv’s Charlie Megira & The Modern Dance Club (2 pm)
“Charlie Megira is probably the best guitar player alive today,” according to Jay Davis. Hailing from Israel’s own Pleiadian realm of Beit-She’an, Megira and his axis of scandalmongers Mimi Shanel (drums and ex-member of Israel’s first garage band Wetbones), Javier Scheiner(guitar), and the Dead Girl (bass), create tunes that interfuse Belial Rock n’ Roll and coffin-shaped New-Wave and Post Punk.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011: Zach Rogue Performance and Chanukah Candle Lighting Ceremony
Lead singer and songwriter for the band Rogue Wave, Zach Rogue will perform songs and light the candles for the opening night of Chanukah 2011.

Zach Rogue’s latest solo recording, Come Back To Us (which he released under the artist name, Release The Sunbird), was recently released by Jack Johnson‘s label Brushfire Records on July 26, 2011. A new solo project for Zach Rogue, Come Back To Us features sun-kissed, joyful songs that are likely some of the loveliest tunes you’ll hear this year. Release The Sunbird marks a musical departure showcasing a whole new side of Rogue. Following an unexpected trip to Bloomington, Indiana to record with friend Mike Bridavsky, Rogue churned out some of the most remarkable music he’s created to date. His indie-rock band Rogue Wave is based out of Oakland, CA, and is signed to Brushfire Records.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011: Dan Lebowitz & Friends
From guitar solos that sweep the gamut of his instrument’s range without sacrificing its natural expressiveness, to rhythmic riffs that chank along with the steadiness of a jackhammer, Lebowitz’s playing is as notable for its variety as its laid-back execution. When Dan’s not busy with his primary band ALO (signed to Brushfire Records), he can be seen performing with numerous groups as both a guitarist and a percussionist. He recently founded the Dan Lebowitz Group, and at Tikva Records he’ll host a rockin’ party with his favorite Bay Area musicians to commemorate the second night of Chanukah.

Thursday, December 22, 2011: Rebecca Bortman (lead singer of My First Earthquake)
Rebecca Bortman will perform original Chanukah songs inspired by the Festival of Lights. Bortman sings and writes My First Earthquake‘s lyrics. She’s worked with electronica artists such as DJ Amplive, DJ Howlermonkey, The Amazing Rolo, and Mercury Rev’s Anthony Molina. She’s also a visual designer, and she handles the art for her band and is art director for the Disposable Film Festival.

Tuesday, December 27 & Wednesday, December 28, 2011: Jeremiah Lockwood Hosts Final Two Nights of Chanukah 2011
Jeremiah Lockwood will host the final two nights of Chanukah 2011, which will consist of a psych folk jam featuring him alongside Ethan Miller (Comets On Fire, Howlin Rain) and Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars/The Black Crowes). Lockwood is a well-known guitarist and singer-songwriter for such bands as Balkan Beat Box and The Sway Machinery.

*Double Feature Yiddish Musical Screenings Daily at Tikva Records: The Idelsohn Society will be showing double feature Yiddish musical films at Tikva Records including The American Matchmaker (directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, famous for the Film Noir classic Detour, 1940) starring Leo Fuchs, The Canter’s Son (1937) starring Moishe Oysher, and Catskill Honeymoon (1949) featuring Bas Sheva.

The film schedule in December 2011 is listed here:
Thursday, December 1 – Sunday, December 4, 2011
12 pm: American Matchmaker
2 pm: The Canter’s Son

Tuesday, December 6 – Sunday, December 11, 2011
12 pm: The Canter’s Son
2 pm: Catskill Honeymoon

Tuesday, December 13 – Sunday, December 18, 2011
12 pm: Catskill Honeymoon
2 pm: American Matchmaker

Tuesday December 20 – Wednesday, December 28, 2011
12 pm: American Matchmaker
2 pm: The Canter’s Son

*Jewlia Eisenberg of Charming Hostess will be manning Tikva Records during the daytime hours. Stop by and check out the awesome selection of vinyl, just in time for your Chanukah shopping needs!

About The Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation
The Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation is a critically acclaimed all-volunteer non-profit organization. The participants are a small but dedicated team from the music industry and academia who passionately believe that Jewish history is best told by the music they have loved and lost. In order to incite a new conversation about the present, they believe we must begin by listening anew to the past. They do this in a number of ways:
*Re-releasing lost classics like Mazeltov Mis Amigos, and compilations like “Jewface” and “Black Sabbath,” which recently reached #71 on Billboard’s Top 200 Album chart.
*Filming the story of every veteran Jewish musician they can find across the country to build a digitally-based archive of the music and the artists who created it, in order to preserve their legacy for future generations.
*Curating innovative museum exhibits that showcase the stories behind the music, like “Jews on Vinyl,” which is currently travelling the nation.
*Creating concert showcases like “Mazeltov Mis Amigos” at Lincoln Center and Yoshi’s, and the “Jews on Vinyl Revue” at the Skirball Cultural Center.
*Publishing books such as Roger Bennett and Josh Kun’s And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost.

All of this work is driven by the passion and energies of volunteer supporters and donors across the country who share the belief that music creates conversations otherwise impossible in daily life. The Idelsohn Society’s work has lifted the past into the present, from the pages of theNew York Times, to the NPR airwaves, to the stage of Lincoln Center. You can join The Idelsohn Society in their mission by visiting them atwww.idelsohnsociety.com, and on Twitter @idelsohnsociety and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Idelsohn-Society/182862531087 .

The Idelsohn Society would like to thank our sponsors for making this store come to life: Jewish Community Federation, Koret Foundation, Richard And Rhoda Goldman Fund, Reboot and BoingBoing.net.

Media Contacts:
Jesse P. Cutler, JP Cutler Media, 415.655.3431, publicity@jpcutlermedia.com
Margaret Pitcher, JP Cutler Media, 415.816.1945, margaret@jpcutlermedia.com

For more information regarding the album, Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950 – 1973, please contact Regina Joskow @ Missing Piece Group: regina@missingpiecegroup.com.

2010

• Local standup comedian Chris Garcia KILLED US with this bit all about the Mission
• A car plowed into a group of celebrating Giants fans, the driver was pulled out, and beaten by an angry mob

2009

• “You Occupy Wallstreet kids think you invented tagging banks, well we were doing it in 2009 when you were still worrying about midterms”
• Someone clearly partied too hard on Capp street

2008

• Everyone wants to say they live in the Mission, even though they really live in “Missiontrero”
• The UFO Response team took a case in the ‘hood. It probably turned out to be a weather balloon

2007

• Xeni from BoingBoing favorited a picture of a dumpster we posted, so apparently is what it takes to make it on the Internet. That, and steampunk Star Wars ukuleles.

[Killing My Lobster via Boing Boing]

2010

• SF Gate got its feelings hurt by Mission bartenders, cried to mommy about it
• It snowed last year, too! If you count white stuff falling from the sky as snow

2009

• Guy went to Safeway, watched asshole hit his girlfriend, kicked dude’s ass, and (probably) later slept with asshole’s girlfriend
• Magic Curry Cart got it’s start

2008

• Little Star Pizza tried to reason with taggers
• Two safety-conscious individuals got married in bubble wrap

2007

• We saw the earliest incarnations of viral sidewalk marketing

Looks like one of our beloved F Market cars broke free from it’s tracks, evolved a set of wheels, and headed for the big apple.

Here’s its baby picture.

[via minimalist steampunk star wars ukulele photo repository Boing Boing]

Diligent reader mo kaze noticed that “they” glued in blue discs on 18th Street and thoughtfully snapped a pic for our consideration.  I am assuming that “they” refers to DPW officials and not aliens disguised as public officials detectable only by XRAY specs.

What do you think, readers?  Futuristic parking sensors or viral marketing campaign for the new TRON movie?  If the former, no word yet on whether or not they register pedestrians standing in parking spots and holding them for their friends’ vehicles.

UPDATE!!!

Looks like the future is here!  SFpark has the scoop . . .

Previously:

Okay for Pedestrians to Occupy and Hold Parking Spots?

(via that up-and-coming blog BoingBoing, almost as big as Mission Mission)

Update: I feel like I owe this to the Pad. Here is their explanation (via James Fallows):

I’m only sorry the intention of this drive was unclear to you. Actually, our drive was a part of a bigger organized effort spear headed by the founder of JADE yoga mat, during the weekend of the annual San Francisco Yoga Journal Conference. JADE asked studio owners, teachers, students alike to give up their old or used mats so that the thousands of suffering people in Haiti may have somewhere softer the  ground to sleep.

So yeah, it’s a misunderstanding, but you gotta admit it’s a funny misunderstanding. Like that time my math professor wrote that equation “f=avt” on the board in a way that looked like “f=art”. The class had a giggle, he set the record straight, and got over it.

Irazu Costa Rican Restaurant in Chicago seems to have sussed out the right tone. No defacements whatsoever.

Great gallo pinto too!

(Special thanks to Agnes and Jaime!)

Previously:

Little Star Bathroom Note

So asks the new documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto, premiering in San Francisco at Mezzanine on Thursday at 7:00pm as part of the SF Film Society’s bimonthly SF360 Film+Club program.

Girl Talk (who I’m sure everybody is tired of me gushing over, over and over) is the film’s “central protagonist,” but we’ll also hear from bossa nova great Gilberto Gil, Creative Commons dude Lawrence Lessig and Boing Boing bro Cory Doctorow.

Director Brett Gaylor will be there, and as per the “Club” portion of the event, some prominent DJs and VJs will perform following the screening.

Get your tickets here.

This is probably one of the better pieces of art we’ve seen on the Valencia Street Art Wall in a long time: larger than life, whimsical, kind of unsettling.

Johnny0 at Burrito Justice did some legwork and determined that it’s the work of one Jesse Hazelip, a presumably local artist specializing in animal-weaponry mashups. Link.

What’s more, the artist has a blog on which there’s a very nice behind-the-scenes look at the installation of this very installation. See it here.

Photo by Amor de Cosmos.

Related:

Triceratopter on Boing Boing Gadgets.

Squid with Human-Like Teeth/Gloryholes for Beginners Mashup on Mission Mission.

I was like, “Hey Sad Vader, why so glum?” And he was all, “Dude, read between the lines.”