Mission Community Market to Feature Photo Opportunities!

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

The Uptown Almanac inbox was set ablaze this morning with hot information that at THIS THURSDAY'S Mission Community Market will feature Photo Opportunities!  Thank God.  But seriously, you've already heard about this Market from the 500 other San Francisco virgins with keyboards, so I'll just cut to the chase and highlight what will be there tomorrow:

  • Deliciously prepared foods from La Cocina and the Mission Market
  • Fresh produce from farms such as Blue House, Tomatero, Twin Girls, Hidden Star and Organic Pastures
  • Collaborative youth mural project led by Chris Treggiari of Root Division Arts Collective. Youth from YMCA Mission Girls and the Mission Beacon will be in attendance. All are invited.
  • Activities and play space hosted by the Mission Beacon and the Dolores Community Youth Alliance
  • Live Music from Porto Franco records
  • Capoeria from Abada Capoeira
  • Crafts and artisans from the Women’s Initiative and MiSBA
  • Health resources and information from CARECEN, Rec and Parks, Shape Up SF


Sounds like they'll actually have fresh food there, which is basically the only thing I care about because biking 7 blocks to Rainbow is hard.  Can't wait!

Thursdays 4pm-8pm.  22nd and Bartlett.

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Hipster Emergency: PBR Goes Upscale

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Today I bring you exciting news from the Orient:

Everyone's favorite American Shit Beer lager is now being exported to China in a fancy new glass bottle under a new name, “Pabst Blue Ribbon 1844.”  According to Danwei, an advertisement in the business magazine Window of the South reads:

It's not just Scotch that's put into wooden casks. There's also Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer 1844

Many world-famous spirits
Are matured in precious wooden casks
Scotch whisky, French brandy, Bordeaux wine…
They all spend long days inside wooden casks

[cut]

It's truly a treasure among beers

So, how much does one rebranded, Scotch-like pee-burrr cost you?  $44 U.S. dollars.  Seems like a lot of money, especially considering when I was in China in December, a 32oz of PBR was $0.07 USD.  Coolster legitimacy ruined.

(Danwai, via The New Yorker.  Thanks for the tip, anonymous reader!)

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At Least They Didn't Rename Mt. Diablo for Him

— By Brizz |

Support brutal dictatorships in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia? Create homelessness at the astonishing levels we see today? Triple the deficit? Ignore the AIDS epidemic?

Spotted somewhere around 3rd and Brannan.

Reyes Mural Painted Over to Create Fresh Canvas for Tags

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

I've been enjoying this Reyes/Cancer Carl mashup in the Capp and 20th parking lot for a while now.  Hands down some of the best stuff this lot has seen in the years I've lived here.  Well, sometime late last week, this wall got painted over, so now the only way you'll be able to see some interesting Reyes work is just walk for 5 minutes in any direction around the city.  Snap!

Even though this Capp St. Reyes piece is gone, one two blocks down in the 22nd st parking lot survives:

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T-Mobile is the new Foot Locker

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Remember when the city of Oakland rose up against Foot Locker's reign of terror and thwarted their menacing plans to sell kicks?  Well, apparently Mission kids couldn't handle being upstaged by our revolutionary neighbor and opted to take over the T-Mobile building on Mission St. in order to protest Gavin Newsom's gentrification agenda.  Mission Loc@l reports:

A group of housing activists occupied the vacant second floor of a building on the corner of 20th and Mission Streets Monday night and said they don’t plan to leave unless they are forced out.

T-Mobile occupies the first floor.

“We are going to vote with crowbars,” said one protester at the rally that began at 5:50 p.m. at the 16th Street BART Station..  Unlike other anti-

Of course, it wouldn't be an anti-gentrification protest without “the vehicle of gentrification” helping transport the audio equipment:

Way to go, guys.

(Link - all photos Mission Loc@l)

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Rad Restaurant Coming Soon

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

No sure how rad this place will actually be, but with their fancy new beer and wine license and proximity to The Lex, you'll be able to hella faded and dine on their alleged Soul Food menu. Anyway, not sure how “cool” the name “Radish” is.  Are they admitting that their food is only “kinda rad” or are they just doing a little play on the root vegetable?  Fuck it, it's a better name than Grub.

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Dispatches From The Sunset

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Reader Jarvis chimes in with the difference between living in the Mission and The Sunset:

I see this truck with the cool-kid ninja EVERYwhere.  But, I live in the Sunset; I'm sure seeing this kind of shit happens all the time when you live in the Mission and life is so cool that you don't have to make videos about how cool it is to remind yourself it's cool.  But it ain't like that in The Set.  Yeah I said ain't, I'm a cowboy…

Dunno about that.  Pretty certain we take a lot of video/photos to prove to ourselves that our neighborhood is worth living in.  Also, “The Set” is way better of a nickname than “The Mish.”

Plus, as Beej noted, there is some hella rad sidewalk graffiti (aka the harbinger of hip) over there: