Bummer.  That was always one of my favorites.

For the unfamiliar:

(second photo by Troy Holden)

Ever mucked about on the Potrero Del Sol Park playground? You know, the skateboarder-y Dolores alternative with the multi-person swing and diagonal spinning chair of happiness? If not, learn yourself. If so, you might have noticed a wad of crummy tin-roofed warehouses stuffed under the 101. 

One of those warehouses, goforaloop Gallery, has arranged a free masquerade party on Saturday night. Performances include wiry LA rock'n'rollers Queen Caveat, and ~wait what~, a mash-up DJ whose subtlety will shatter the awful impression you've gotten from the brazen tossers who play at Bootie. The kid also produced the B.I.G./London art rock mixup album The Notorious xx. 

Behold their Lil Jon en-crunked event page.

I hate this band The National. So while the flannel set were droning to their supremely unexciting set at Treasure Island Music Festival, I decided to keep my negativity to myself by browsing the vendors. That's where I met Mary Weather, aka Judy Elkan, a local screen printer who lets you buy your favorite free Mission landmarks in clothing form. She takes photos, sometimes collages them together as she did for this Dolores Park number, and applies them to [vertically integrated apparel brand] t-shirts and tank tops. 

Now you can be surrounded by the Sutro Trident of Hope, mafia-organized ice cream vendors, and piles of bicycles regardless of where you spend your Saturdays.  

Judy says the cops told her to get permit last year, but when she found out that only allowed her to sell at the Ferry Building, she defiantly raised a fist and set up her blanket/storefront at Dolores Park. Apparently the po po haven't given her any guff this year.

Sucks for Blue Bottle because the park is apparently a very lucrative spot. “My best day I made $400 in 3 hours” says Elkan.

Where do we draw the line on commercializing public spaces? Is Mary Weather eroding the fabric of the neighborhood by selling water-based fabric ink hand prints? Is this the first step on the road towards Mission souvenir shops and mass produced “I ♥ Dolores Park” mugs?

Or is this Count Chocula shirt cool enough to make you forget your morals?

Shocker, right?

Some local Bay Area filmmakers are currently in the process of finishing their documentary, Day Laborers: The Invisible Workforce, on Arizona's SB1070 bill.  

To raise the funds they need to finish their project, they're holding an event tonight (Tuesday, Oct 19th) from 7 to 9pm at the Mission Cultural Center (2868 Mission St).  The $20 ticket includes a 'work in progress' screening of the film, free food and wine, and speakers from Puente AZ, La Raza Centro Legal, KPFA and the San Francisco Day Labor Program.  More info here.