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’
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.
by Laura Beck
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!).
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?
Come to my window, crawl inside and wait by the light of the moon…
Hey, you! You have a little over two hours left to bid on one of the skull-shatterinigly wonderful items that will go to benefit La Cocina, an equally astounding local food service program that helps “cultivate low-income food entrepreneurs as they formalize and grow their businesses by provid ing afford able commercial kitchen space, industry-specific technical assistance and access to market opportunities.” Primarily, they help out women from communities of color and immigrant communities.
What’s more, without La Cocina, you might never have heard about The Street Food Festival or The Creme Brulee Man. And that? Isn’t a world we want to live in.
A few of the items on which you should bid during your lunch hour? Whole Animal Butchery w/ Americano’s Chef Kory Stewart (fascinating!), Chef for a Day at Chez Panisse (dare you to sneak in a bag of Buegels!), Flour + Water Pasta Class and Dinner (Chef Thomas McNaughton is, in a word, hot!), Mexican Mama Tamale Making with El Buen Comer (¡Olé!), In Home Meat Class and Private Dinner w/ Fatted Calf (all kinds of amazing!), and A Very Progressive Dinner with the Tablehopper (Can you keep up?), and more.
You have until 2 p.m. today to put in your bids. There are a slew of other fun gastronomic treats from which to choose. Check out the silent auction in its entirety.
After 35 years of providing mental health, substance abuse, and senior services to the LGBT community, HIV/AIDS patients and beyond, New Leaf announced it will close its doors by the middle of October. Why? Because it ran out of money. Everything from high operational costs, reportedly poor management, and a tenacious economic crisis are to blame.
“There were a lot of tears around the table. Some of the board members were former clients at New Leaf; one was a long-term client. This hits people personally,” Thom Lynch, interim executive director of New Leaf, explained to the Bay Area Reporter. “It’s very, very sad, but I’m also really proud of the organization for taking a really hard look at itself and making a tough decision.”
Fortunately, other local organizations serving the queer community will pitch in to assist clients who rely on New Leaf services. SF Appeal reports, “The Lyon Marin Health center and San Francisco AIDS Foundation will step in to help mental health and substance abuse cases. HIV and AIDS patients will be referred to the AIDS Health Project.”
Last Thursday, the Independent Arts & Media launched the San Francisco Arts Market, an open-air marketplace for local artists and businesses to sell their hand-crafted wares, including ceramics, clothing, jewelry, literature, music, paintings, photography, and wood-carvings.
The market, which was started in an effort to revitalize the arts community and cultural economy around San Francisco’s Civic Center, will take place every Thursday at U.N. Plaza from noon to 6 p.m. until the end of October.
The Office of Economic and Workforce Development, who are partners in the Arts Market SF venture, along with The San Francisco Arts Commission and Blick Art Materials, are making it their goal to organize a community event in U.N. Plaza every day of the week.
Artists, sign up now to participate.
“Traffic signals are out due to power outage in the Broderick / Post Street area. To avoid traffic congestion, avoid the area until 1 p.m.,” alerts AlertSF. So, there you have it.
Our favorite crime reporter, Mike Aldax over at the Examiner, brings us news today of the case against Pacifica resident Antonio Santiago III, age 26, whom authorities accused of making a bomb threat call to Caltrain last year. The cop who traced the call got one digit of the phone number wrong, erroneously leading investigators to Santiago’s cell phone.
Santiago, however, seems to have taken quickly to being accused, as Aldax reports. “There’s a reason it took this long to figure out they got the number wrong. Santiago, who has mental health issues, falsely confessed to the crime… [saying] he was ’sitting around with friends and he was bored’ when he made the call.”
This sounds like the beginning of a Coen brothers movie.
SFPD Chief George Gascon will announce today the identities and arrests of the suspects in the fatal Union Square shooting of German tourist Mechthild Schroeer, reports BCN (via SF Appeal).
“We believe very strongly that we have identified the suspects in this case,” Gascon told the San Francisco Police Commission last night.
Understandably, Gascon also admitted peevishness at the public’s lack of outcry. During last night’s meeting, “he said that in another city, his phone ‘would be ringing off the hook’ over such an incident.”
Schroeer, an elementary school rector, was shot and killed by stray gunfire during a battle between teens attending an under-18 party at a private club, just outside the entrance to the comedy club on 414 Mason street.
