Update @ 8:31 a.m. Bikes and the City reminds us of the Make Rock festival on Treat Avenue @ 17th Street.
Sometimes I have to wonder, are we only about food… and then I think, let’s eat!
For Safari users, today’s feature on La Cocina‘s street food extravaganza is here. I can’t believe I had to be in the East Bay yesterday. ARGH!
Mission Mission reports that Your Lunch was not among the happy cooks.
The NYTimes reports on San Francisco becoming the mecca for excellent Peruvian fare, with three of the locations, Límon’s Rotisserie, Mi Lindo Peru and Inkas right n the Mission. The Peruvians, like the Chileans and others, came with the Gold Rush and the Times reports that a pisco sour from Peru was the drink of choice among miners.
Something to drink while reading, the SF Examiner‘s suggested The Hunger Season, the new collection of poetry by William Taylor whose poems come from knowing the city well.
Fast forward a few pages and there’s a tip on the California Academy of Sciences free days to locals. Those of us living in the Mission’s 94110 zip code can visit for free Oct. 30, 31, and Nov. 1. If you live somewhere else, check out the page here. It’s a great deal considering tickets cost anywhere from $14.95 to $24.95.
The Examiner also has a profile of Luis Cancel, the Arts Commissioner who, among other duties, oversees the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts that is currently hosting the very good 3Worlds attended by Mission Loc@l. No mention in the profile of the Mexican Museum, which will be evicted from Fort Mason in September.
Mmmm wonder what Cancel is doing about that odd battle. Odd because, as the supervisors voted at their last meeting, logic suggests that it makes sense to leave the struggling art museum where it is until it gets some financial legs. Cancel is monitoring the museum’s progress and meting out a $250,000 Redevelopment Agency grant it recently received. Maybe there’s just too much baggage in the Fort Mason-Mexican Museum relationship that began in 1982.
Or maybe Mayor Gavin Newsom will get inspired to mend the relationship after spending a few days in Mexico City gazing at the Diego Rivera murals. The murals are apparently not on his schedule, according to the SF Chron, but he can easily slip out to view them before returning home on Wednesday.
Okay, Armand takes over tomorrow. He will be sharing Today’s Mission with Amanda and Kate.
Enjoy, Viola