Posts Tagged ‘mission’
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
It’s on the craigslist, so it must be legit:
“Skoda Man Press Seeking Stories for Comic Book Guide to the Mission. San Francisco, February 24, 2010 — Skoda Man Press, an independent publishing company, is developing a comic book travel guide to San Francisco’s Mission District, and is currently seeking anecdotes about the Mission.
“We are looking at a wide range of stories that capture the spirit of the Mission,” said Skoda Man editor Lauren Davis. “We want to see everything from that epic night out to slice-of-life vignettes about the neighborhood. We’re looking for tales of great food, lazy days in the park, and strange encounters with eccentric people. We want people who live in and visit the Mission to be able to open the book and recognize their friends and neighbors.”
Sweet. It’ll be like that time Kramer sold his anecdotes to J Peterman for $750 (except that less money is involved).
Remember dooring that cyclist with your Mercedes S67 after parking in front of Farina? (Good times.) Throw in your account of ducking from automatic gunfire and that’s a graphic novelette right there:
Click to expand.
“The editors will choose 20 anecdotes, and then contract with Bay Area sequential artists to create comic versions of the stories. The final book will provide a unique view of the Mission, seen through the eyes of various residents, visitors, and artists.
“Authors of the selected entries will receive $20 and a story credit, plus the opportunity to see their story brought to comic life. Writers should submit their detailed anecdotes to skodamanpress@gmail.com by March 20th.
“Skoda Man Press is a San Francisco-based, independent publisher. The comic book guide to the Mission will be its first published title.”
See you in the funny pages.
Tags: 20, 2010, Anectdote, bay area, boog, comic, craigslist, dollars, editor, farina, graphic, guide, gunfire, Lauren Davis, mission, mission district, novel, press, publisher, restaurant, San Francisco, sequential artists, skoda, skoda man, stories
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
Some people behind San Francisco’s beloved Mission Mission blog are now branching out to cover the entire City of San Francisco plus the Sunset District – it’s called UPTOWN ALMANAC and it looks great.
Here are the deets from Kevin Montgomery.
So why not subscribe now? It’s free.
Bon Courage Uptown Almanac!
“The blog is made up of a few pendejos (who mostly live in the Mission but whatever):
- Bailey Genine: Lived in a broke-ass Tahoe house for three years. Watched a toilet bowl freeze in her house and has puked off of ski-lifts. ’nuff said. Tumblr + Twitter.
- Brizz: The mind behind The Tens. He also spends too much time in L.A.
- Jim Chaney: Author of a generally decent tumbleblog and twitter account. Hails from the alright state of Ohio.
- Kate Horton: Enjoys Urkel-Os cereal. If that isn’t enough qualification, I don’t know what is. Twitter + Tumblr.
- Kevin Montgomery: Some guy that used to write most of the entries for Mission Mission in late 2009. He thinks he’s funny, but he’s not. Twitter + Tumblr.
- Laura Beck: This girl writes for so many publications that there is no way in hell you’d have the attention span to read about them all. Most notably, she’s the lead for Vegansaurus!, which is basically a Grocery Eats for white people. Twitter.
- Serg: He’s been writing Beer and Rap before most of us lived in the Mission District. He also writes Grocery Eats, which is basically a vegansaurus! for meat-eaters/people who hate white-people’s cooking. Twitter.
Tags: 2010, almanac, Bailey Genine, blog, Brizz, district, group, haight, inner, inner sunset, Jim Chaney, Kate Horton, Kevin Montgomery, Laura Beck, lower, mission, mission mission, potrero, San Francisco, Serg, soma, sunset, upper, UPTOWN ALMANAC
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Via Jamie Whitaker’s Rincon Hill blog comes news of a fight against consideration of the so-called “Beale Street Alternative“ for the San Francsico terminus of California’s nascent High Speed Rail line.
I don’t have a dog in this hunt, but you, well take a gander if you’d like:
Targeting: Supervisor Chris Daly (District 6, City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisor), Medhi Morshed (Executive Director, CA High Speed Rail Authority) and Curt Pringle (Chair of the Board, CA High Speed Rail Authority)
Started by: April Veneracion
Demand the California High Speed Rail Authority stop its consideration of the infeasible Beale Street Alternative that is…
· Risking over $400 million in federal funding to the Transbay Transit Center
· Harming property values in the South Beach neighborhood of San Francisco
· Wasting millions of Prop 1A dollars on study of infeasible alternatives that should be spent on construction”
So that’s the issue. All the deets, below.
Quentin Kopp with youthful HSR supporters at San Francisco City Hall during happier times last year:
The whole magilla:
“As a strong supporter of building High Speed Rail throughout the state and into San Francisco’s downtown Transbay Transit Center, I am appalled at your consideration of the Beale Street Alternative. This study is not only wasteful, it risks over $400 million in federal funding for the Transbay Transit Center and is harming property values in the South Beach neighborhood of San Francisco.
Your study of the Beale Street Alternative was proposed to you by a lobbying and law firm on behalf of an unidentified special interest. This location has already been rejected as a technically and economically infeasible terminus for High Speed Rail in San Francisco. San Franciscans overwhelmingly voted for Proposition 1A to bring high speed rail to our Transit Center. Your study of the Beale Street Alternative, widely thought to be pushed by Board Member Quentin Kopp, is a wasteful expenditure of limited Proposition 1A money that should be applied to construction of the project.
With the passage of Proposition 1A, we believe that your study of the Beale Street Alternative is illegal. The voter approved mandate codifies in State law that the northern terminus for high speed rail will be the Transbay Transit Center.
The Transbay Transit Center is a federally approved project currently in construction in downtown San Francisco that has received the support of the San Francisco electorate on multiple occasions. Over $2 billion in funds have already been secured, independent of Proposition 1A. This Center is designed to accommodate high speed rail to downtown San Francisco.
The existence of this project is reason enough to drop your study of the Beale Street Alternative. Additionally, the Beale Street Alternative would likely result in the taking of more than 1,800 current and future residential units in the South of Market area. Your study alone has made many of our homes unmarketable by the required disclosure of your irresponsible study into any potential home sale. In contrast, the approved downtown extension to Transbay will take only 2 dozen residences. Given San Francisco’s housing crisis, this is a far more reasonable approach.
Meanwhile, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority has applied for $400 million in ARRA funds to build the rail box in the Transit Center. While this application has the support of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, we understand that the Federal Rail Authority has expressed concern about your Beale Street Alternative. We are worried that the Beale Street Alternative is not about adequately addressing environmental issues, it’s about political brinkmanship.
It’s time to put high speed rail to San Francisco back on track.
As a supporter of high speed rail and Proposition 1A, I demand you halt your irresponsible study of the infeasible Beale Street Alternatives. I also ask that you hold a formal meeting of the California High Speed Rail Authority in San Francisco, to hold yourselves accountable to the people whose properties and projects you are jeopardizing.”
To Be Continued…
Tags: alternative, association, authority, beale, caltrain, Chris daly, Curt Pringle, High Speed Rail, hill, hsr, jamie whitaker, Judge, Medhi Morshed, mission, neighborhood, petition, Quentin Kopp, rincon, rincon hill, soma, south of market, Station, street, Supervisor, terminal, terminus, transbay
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
From Mission Mission, the website so nice they named it twice, comes word of the new PayDayPlus SF program. The upshot: If you ever need money before your paycheck comes, you can get an emergency loan from a San Francisco credit union instead of a regular payday loan place:
“Sold to consumers as short-term relief during a cash crunch, pay day loans carry interest rates of over 400 percent and catch working people with a steady source of income in a long-term debt trap. On December 17th at 11:30am, San Francisco City leaders, in partnership with local credit unions, will help relieve this burden on hardworking San Franciscans by launching PayDayPlus SF, a low cost emergency loan available to City residents at 13 locations.”
Does the Money Mart at 7th and Market actually charge more than 400% interest when it gives you a payday loan? No se, but I’m betting you’ll get much better terms from PDP SF.
A lively late-night scene in Mid Market.
Mark your calendars for Thursday, December 17th, 2009 – that’s the day we’ll get all the deets on PayDayPlus San Francisco.
How will it compare with this outfit from down south or the Check-Cashing King of the Mission? Stay tuned….
Springing the Debt Trap — for San Franciscans and Californians
Launch of PayDayPlus SF Followed by a Panel Discussion
Sold to consumers as short-term relief during a cash crunch, pay day loans carry interest rates of over 400 percent and catch working people with a steady source of income in a long-term debt trap.
On December 17th at 11:30am, San Francisco City leaders, in partnership with local credit unions, will help relieve this burden on hardworking San Franciscans by launching PayDayPlus SF, a low cost emergency loan available to City residents at 13 locations. and Mayor Gavin Newsom, stay to participate in a community conversation about PayDayPlus SF and learn how you can spread the word to San Franciscans about this new low cost loan to help weather tough economic times. You will also learn more about the problems caused by conventional pay day loans and how your organization can help push for proposed financial empowerment solutions that are moving forward in Washington, DC and Sacramento.
A community conversation following a joint press conference with City Treasurer José Cisneros
Participants
José Cisneros
City Treasurer of San Francisco
Paul Leonard
California Office Director, Center for Responsible Lending
Luis Granados
Mission Economic Development Association
Olivia Calderon
Legislative Director, California Asset Building Program, New America Foundation
Steven Stapp
President and CEO, San Francisco Federal Credit Union
Anne Stuhldreher
Fellow, California Asset Building Program, New America Foundation
Tags: 17, 17th, 2009, 2010, 320 capp, 400, Anne Stuhldreher, california, California Asset Building, California Asset Building Program, California Office, Californians, Center for Responsible Lending, CEO, City, credit unions, d. c., debt, december, director, discussion, Fellow, gavin newsom, interest, Jose Cisneros, Legislative Director, loans, Luis Granados, Mayor, mission, Mission Economic Development Association, Mission Neighborhood Center, New America Foundation, panel, Paul Leonard, pay day plus, paycheck, payday, paydayplus, paydayplus sf, pdp sf, pdpsf, percent, president, sacramento, San Franciscans, San Francisco, San Francisco Federal Credit Union, SF, Springing the Debt Trap, Steven Stapp, Treasurer, Washington
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Here’s last night’s protest against Barack Obama’s Afghanistan escalation made up of members of Code PINK, ANSWER, World Can’t Wait, and the International Socialist Organization, among others. It was a fairly ho-hum affair, without the expected Black Blockers.
Several hundreds gathered at 6:00PM near the cable car turnaround at Powell and Market. Click to expand:
A few words and then they were off down Market Street:
A “hopeless” escalation? Really?
Only Time Will Tell.
Tags: 2009, Afghanistan, answer, Barack Obama, black block, code pink, december, escalation, International Socialist Organization, iraq, market, military, mission, Powell, president, protest, San Francisco, Station, street, uinion square, World Can't Wait
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Well here’s something new under the sun. It’s the Vandal cargo pack for cyclists from the Mission Workshop.
See? It expands, thusly:
So you can carry a pony keg of delicious, if warm, Sierra Nevada on your back, or, indeed, an entire bike:
Their video shows you how it works. (Try not to yell out “co-option, co-option” as you see two tandem riders participating in Halloween Critical Mass 2009.)
Mission Workshop is just getting started, so they don’t yet have a retail store. But they do have a full-on corporate-style media campaign. Here it is, enjoy:
“Introducing Mission Workshop and Their First Expandable Cargo Backpack ‘The Vandal’
Mission Workshop is a San Francisco based company located in the heart of the Mission District. The company was born from over 15 years experience designing and manufacturing messenger bags and clothing. The founders of the bag company Chrome opened Mission Workshop in October of 2009 and just released their first backpack called “the Vandal.”
The Vandal is a weatherproof backpack designed for cyclists and anyone else that relies on their bag to get them through the day. It’s big enough to handle your daily gear and expands for additional cargo when needed. The Vandal’s expansion system gets bigger without using extra fabric and seals flat to disappear when not needed.
According to co-founder Bart Kyzar, “Most people prefer as small of a pack as possible but regularly need extra carrying capacity. Even with a full load, the Vandal can expand to accommodate an additional bag of groceries or a case of your favorite brew. It easily turns from 1200 cubic inches into 2200 cubic inches on the fly.”
The pack incorporates three built in compartments. The main roll top compartment is large and has RF welded seams making it completely waterproof. The middle compartment is perfect for a laptop and the smaller compartment is designed for personal organization. In addition to these, the expandable area is always ready for use when needed.
The Vandal has also stepped up the design on the backpack harness by integrating a frame sheet and fiberglass rods for support and comfort. This makes the Vandal much more comfortable than other cycling packs and has given it enhanced stability under heavy loads. The Vandal is PVC free and only uses fabrics coated with urethane. In addition to the environmental benefits, urethane coatings are much tougher than PVC and better retain their waterproof capabilities.
Specs:
– Weatherproof Capacity: 1200 cubic inches
– External Cargo Expander 1000 cubic inches
– Materials: Urethane Coated Nylon (PVC free)
– Load Suspension: LDPE Frame Sheet with Fiberglass Stays
– Removable waist strap with optional load bearing waist belt
Retail Price: $225 Made in the USA with a Life Time Warranty
Mission Workshop Products are sold online at http://www.missionworkshop.com/ and through select retailers nationwide.
Tags: 2009, backpack, bag, Bart Kyzar, beer, Cargo, chrome, company, critical mass, district, Expandable, founders, halloween, keg, mission, Mission Workshop, pony, Sierra Nevada, the Vandal, Vandal, workshop
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
If you can tell the difference between the helipad-hating “Neighbors of SFGH” vs. the Stop the Helipad haters, well, then you’re one up on me. What they are, they’re a bunch of NIMBYs on a hill who don’t care how many people have died, and how many more will die, due to the lack of a helipad at San Francisco General Hospital. Anyway…
These hill-folk richers just had a party to raise money for their fight. [Oh, man, I've just discovered that writer Sajid Farooq yesterday posted "$100 Dinner Could Ground Pesky Lifesaving Helicopters*" over at NBC Bay Area, saving me the trouble of crafting a more complete post. Thanks, MSM! Click on over there for the deets.]
An artist’s conception of the “Neighbors” of San Francisco General Hospital having their high-rent lifestyles impinged upon by EMS flights buzzing about:
Lovey and Winston are not happy.
Read on to see the fruits of the labors of the Stop the Helipad people:
“A head-on collision on the Golden Gate Bridge in May threw the evening commute into chaos and drew immediate cries for new safety measures. Lost in the flurry of traffic reports and debate about possible barriers, however, was the aftermath of the crash for the most seriously hurt victim. Dr. Grace M. Dammann had to be transported by helicopter about 25 miles to John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek because San Francisco General Hospital lacks a helipad for its acclaimed Level 1 Trauma Center.”
Mmmm. According to an American College of Surgeons Consultation Survey of San Francisco General Hospital’s Trauma Program:
“The lack of a helipad and helicopter service is a major deficiency in providing optimal trauma care for San Francisco General Hospital and San Francisco. It is difficult to understand why a city the size of San Francisco does not have any medical air transport. The congested roads and bridges with the surrounding water make helicopter service an essential medical support service.”
Oh well, here’s another artist’s conception of what the next Neighbors of SFGH fun-raiser might look like, maybe down by the chopper-free Warm Water Cove off of 24th. I think Gilligan is the webmaster:
(Note Mary Ann in pigtails and high heels, you don’t see that look much these days.)
Obviously, NIMBYs are people too, and their concerns should be amplified and paid ‘tention to. But they go to far when they tell doctors how to save lives. We’re getting a pad at UCSF Mission Bay and we’ll, eventually, get another pad at the new and improved, earthquake-safe SFGH.
How many will die unecessarily until then?
*”Pesky Lifesaving Helicopters” – Pwned! I’m still laughing.
Tags: $100, 953 De Haro, dinner, general, helicopters, helipad, heliport, hill, hospital, level, mission, mission bay, neighbors, Neighbors of SFGH, nimby, nimbys, one, potrero, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, Sajid Farooq, San Francisco, san francisco general hospital, sfgh, Southern Heights, stop, trauma center, ucsf
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
As seen on 16th Street:
Click to expand
(Or it could be a Crocs-wearing Woody Harrelson getting into character for his next film…)
Tags: 16th, begging, child, crocs, district, grown, man, mission, shoes, street, valencia, Woody Harrelson
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Well there I was looking for four Norwegian gals, trying to find Dow Alley without Google Maps (not functioning due to its monomaniacal obsession with upgrading the software on my so-called smart phone) and I stumbled upon the biggest motorcycle free parking lot that’s anywhere close to Union Square. I’m all like, why aren’t there meters for all the bikes here?
Anywho, take a gander, on the MapJack (as the view from Google StreetView was just too hard to figure out). It’s like a motorcycle showroom just out the back door of the ThirstyBear Restaurant and Brewery (ask about their Great Recesssion lunch specials).
See? On the sidewalk, in marked spaces, unmarked spaces, both sides of the street, not a ticket in sight (uh oh, see the comments, but still…) - it’s Biker’s Heaven. Click to expand:
How on Earth did the City neglect to meterize this lane when rates have gone up 180% (that’s $100 extra per month for a typical biker, and the SFMTA wanted to raise rates higher) so far this year?
Leave us travel back to 2004, when the towaway signs got took down and unmetered parking began:
“TOW-AWAY, NO STOPPING ANYTIME – RESCIND
UNMETERED MOTORCYCLE PARKING – ESTABLISH
Kaplan Lane, east side, from Clementina Street to the northern terminus.”
See that? The MUNI people, the people so rich they could afford to run CultureBuses all over town pretty much completely empty for months and months just for their own pride, actually turned down a chance to raise revenue. It’s amazing. It’s like a trip back in time when you take Clementina off of third to encounter The Alley of Free Parking.
So spread the word to all your two-wheeled buddies. Hurray!
Oh, wait a second, some of the hundreds of riders who regularly use Kaplan to Stick It To The Man want to keep things a secret. For example, Mark W. says:
Shhhhhh!!! 
So let’s keep things on the low down. This is a secret worth keeping, despite the occasional hit-and-run chain reaction accident. Of course, there are other places to park for free in San Francisco, but they’re not all hidden away like Kaplan.
So, this is how it’ll be. When I see you carrying your helmet at the Gold Club or the Metreon, I’ll just offer my knuckles for your knocking and we’ll both say, in unison: “Kaplan, baby!”
Let’s let Yelp’s Rachel S. make the final pitch:
“*a*b*u*n*d*a*n*t* motorcycle parking that’s strides away from Moscone center, Yerba Beuna Gardens and SFMOMA. Tiny note that’s, y’know, likely of little interest… it’s free. Gratis. No cuesta nada. Really. And what’s more, it’s safe at most all hours in my experience. Which sort’ve stands to reason given the surrounding businesses: the early-morning dark is monitored by the Starbucks’ clientele, the late-evening hours are overseen by Thirsty Bear’s patrons. Plus, the walk from your parked bike back to the real world is through either an architecturally rich alleyway or a sculpture garden, depending on which direction you’re headed. Win all around.”
See you there!
Kaplan Lane is in my ears and in my eyes/
There beneath the gray-ish urban skies
Tags: 2nd, 3rd, alley, area, bike, bmr, clementina, cultureBus, folsom, free, howard, kaplan, kaplan lane, lane, meters, meuseum of modern art, mission, moma, motorcycle, mta, Muni, ninja, park, parking, rates, scooter, SFMTA, soma, south of market, street
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Here’s what you do – you check out the old trailer for 50 Cents‘ “gritty” new movie, Before I Self Destruct, or log onto Yahoo! Movies to see the new trailer. And if you like that, then sign up for free tickets. San Francisco’s showing will be at the Metreon in the SoMA on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 8:30 PM sharp.
Don’t expect the tunes from the movie to have anything to do with the album with the same name, but 50 said he sweated the details making sure the soundtrack would be right. So, sign up now before all the ticks are gone.
See you there.
50 Cent Announces a Ten City Screening Tour of His Directorial Debut Film: BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT
Fans can download their tickets* exclusively through MovieTickets.com Yahoo! Movies premiers a new BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT Trailer
This November 50 Cent will be hitting the road to screen his latest film, BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT. Beginning on Tuesday Oct. 27th, fans can log on to www.movietickets.com/50 to download their tickets* to these exclusive screenings.
Date Market
2-Nov Boston
3-Nov Philadelphia
4-Nov DC
5-Nov NYC
7-Nov Atlanta
9-Nov Chicago
10-Nov San Francisco
11-Nov Los Angeles
12-Nov Houston
13-Nov Dallas
Spookyvision:
About the Film, after the jump
(more…)
Tags: $10, 2009, 4th, 50 cent, Atlanta, before, BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT, boston, chicago, City, d. c., Dallas, director, film, free, hip hop, Houston, i., los angeles, Metreon, mission, movie, new york, November, nyc, Philadelphia, rapper, San Francisco, SELF DESTRUCT, soma, tickets
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