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• What does it take to get blacklisted from a restaurant? [Inside Scoop]
• SF pedestrian hospitalized after road rage assault. [SFGate/AP]
• Your daily blog fight. [Eye On Blogs]
• Two awesome Muni drivers that deserve some recognition. [N Judah Chronicles]
• Anna Conda’s interview audition for SFBG endorsement. [SFBG]
• Or, better yet, just give your keys to someone born and raised in SoCal. [Powazek]

North Oakland / Murder: A woman jealous that her crack-addicted, homeless boyfriend was seeing another woman stabbed him in the neck on August 19, while the two sat in a parked car at San Pablo and Ocean Avenues. Tamara Warren, 39, has two previous strikes for arson and burglary, and could face life in prison. [Chron]

Potrero Hill / Assault: 52-year-old Albie Esparza A 52-year-old man was minding his own business last night around 10:45, walking in a crosswalk at 18th and Missouri, when a two-door-white car came around a corner and nearly struck him. The driver, apparently incensed that Esparza the man should dare be walking in his road, got out of the car and proceeded to beat Esparza the man, possibly with a bat, and knock him to the ground. He’s suffering life-threatening injuries. The driver sped off and police are seeking leads. [Bay City News/Appeal]

SF LoveFest photo by SFHaps

Do you like this (warning: autoplay) kind of music? Do you like crowds? Do you love the fun yet oddly titled SF LovEvolution/LoveFest, the annual rave-ish parade cum dance party? Well then, listen up: The SF LovEvolution/LoveFest lost the right to use Civic Center this year for their annual end-of-summer bash, and now they’re looking for a new venue. the party’s promoters write:

We have worked for months with city authorities on a plan that would allow us to continue at Civic Center, but in the end, it was concluded that our Civic Center festival site was not large enough to safely host an event of such huge popularity.

But:

We’ve been working on an alternative site and continue to do so. We hope to make an announcement next week

To sum up, there is no event at Bill Graham Auditorium this year. But Love Week will go on. Visit sflovevolution.org (warning: autoplay) for more details.

A JetBlue airplane made a “hard landing” at Sacramento International Airpot this afternoon around 1 p.m. after “blowing two tires, sparking a small fire and causing minor injuries.”

According to reports, “A passenger who was on the plane told KOVR-TV that when it landed he heard a bang and then the plane stopped suddenly.”

“We were then told to start evacuating very abruptly, you know ‘Get out! Get out! Get out!’” said “Elvis,” the passenger in question. “I looked back under the plane, and it was on fire, and all four tires were out.”

The plane made the emergency landing shortly after 1 p.m. In a written statement, according to AP, JetBlue says,”the plane appeared to experience trouble with its brake,” which caused the early afternoon emergency.

A total of 15 people were inured. The Airbus SAS A320, coming in from Long Beach, Calif., carried 86 passengers and five crew members.

“Only one is a wanderer. Two together are always going somewhere.” Shot by DottieboBottie.

Todd Lappin of Telestar Logistics (via Laughing Squid) posted this joy-inducing clip of a cell phone — a Metro PCS phone, to be exact — delivering garden fresh grooves on Mission Street.

That is to say, the iPhone just got served.

Hat tip: Mission Mission

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Near Dark’

FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts celebrates the myth of the vampire and how it will never die with Rare Vampire Films. The films include Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark — a “badass hillbilly nightmare”, Vampire Hookers by Cirio H. Santiago — “a long orgy scene, endless toilet humor, and sexy girl vampires with tan lines,” and Vampyr by Carl Theodore Dreyer — “unquestionably one of the greatest vampire films” with an “overwhelming atmosphere of dread.”

7:30 p.m. // Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St) // $6-8

MUSIC: SF Zinefest kicks off with a Benefit Show presented by SMiLE! Featuring music by Upstairs Downstairs, Sleeptalks, Coloring, and Uni & her Ukelele with Miguel Zelaya of The Harbours, along with DJ Neil Martinson of SMiLE!

9 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia St) // $5-20

COMEDY: Philadelphia sketch comedy troupe Writing Man Productions make their Bay Area debut with Sci-Fi: An Evening of Science Fiction Themed Shorts. “An eccentric amateur astronomer turned entrepreneur, a furniture salesman on a distant planet, and an undocumented alien” all make an appearance in the show.

7:30 p.m. // The Dark Room (2263 Mission St) // $20

Tickets for Pop-Up Magazine 4, which will take place on Thursday, September 9th, went on sale today. Get them right now. They’re bound to sell out quick.

Pop-Up is the world’s first live magazine, created for a stage, a screen, and a live audience, featuring stories, documentary films, interviews, facts, photography, and radio presented by contributors to the New Yorker, This American Life, the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, All Things Considered, Mother Jones, and Wired.

Issue 4′s line-up includes bestselling author Mary Roach, acclaimed photographer Jim Goldberg, public radio stars The Kitchen Sisters, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Amanda Micheli, novelist Yiyun Li, and many, many more talented and prominent folks.

Wow, that’s a mouthful.

All teff injera at Moya (Laura Beck/Vegansaurus)

by Laura Beck

Veggie Combo at Moya

Moya is so new they haven’t even had a grand opening yet and we already can’t get enough. It’s the only Ethiopian restaurant in SOMA, and a very welcome addition. Moya is a woman-owned (you go, girl!) family enterprise and let us tell you, they knows what they’re doing in the kitchen. The veggie combo is a massive plate filled with all sorts of deliciousness, from spiced red lentils to a carrot, potato, green bean combo that will blow your mind one more time. You scoop it all up with their freshly made injera bread. Bonus: an all-teff gluten-free version of the injera is also available and it’s bomb— all tangy, spongy goodness! It’s a little extra because teff is currently worth more than gold plated platinum but worth it. Ooh, and they have tofu tibs! And the Shuro, OMG. The $8 veggie lunch combo special means we’ll be there often (read: Sayanora, suckas!).

Tofu Mole Burrito at Papalote

Some people are partial to the soyrizo, some people swear by the grilled veggies, but for our money, the tofu mole burrito is where it’s at. It’s rich, creamy, chocolaty, and absolutely delicious. Never mind the fact that Papalote isn’t exactly autentico and the burritos cost as much as a college education. Screw it. It’s the price we pay for our San Francisco-fied (read: white-ified) burrito happiness. Viva la Gentrification! Kinda!

Deep Fried Eggplant with Miso at Minako Organic Japanese Restaurant

Minako is awesomely run by a mother/daughter team and they are mega dynamos. Daughter Judy (ha!) runs the front while mama goes to town in the back. They have a huge variety of outstanding Japanese dishes and vegan sushi (try the vegan eel roll! For real!) but we go gaga for the deep fried eggplant. It makes every other deep-fry experience we’ve had seem sub par. That might seem hard to believe because deep-frying is always the best way to prepare anything, but you must trust. The batter is light and crispy, the eggplant perfectly tender, and the miso sauce DEAR LORD. It’s a revelation. If you can send the plate back without licking it than you have more restraint than us. Also, maybe your taste buds/soul are dead?