Big day with Mapp, preparations for Sunday Streets and Mission Mission reports police busy busting the Mission’s ambulates cafes. What next?
Well, it didn’t seem tonight like much of anything bad would happen. The weather finally turned warmer, the wind died and the Mission felt lovely on the walk through the Mapp sites filled with music, poetry and art.
Paul Flores tried out his new one-man show on the Mission’s transformation, folks Flores wrote about ate icecream at Humphry Slocombe’s new parlor on Harrison Street and a man with a large tattoo on his back sat upstairs in his second floor apartment hardly noticing what was going on below. It was all good.
But especially wonderful was the backyard at 1369 York Street, El Jardin York. There, Mareni Orduna and Carlos Disdier hosted an evening that made one feel that Flores was wrong; that Latin America is very much alive in the Mission and at its best with artists like the singer Mamacoatlt and the Flamenco dancers with Gypsy Tease and others. It was a garden where the men were all good looking, the women beautiful and the bartender French. It was hard to leave.