Sitting by the bay on Mission near Rice Paper Scissors

It is 7 a.m., 55° and headed to 61°. Details for the next 10 days are here.

Dive Bars. Should we see it as a sign of stability or progress that the Mission has three out of the 15 dive bars on SFist list? Would we have had more if Carlos’s bar and Pop’s were still around?

Humphry at the Ferry Building. The Mission-born, British-named Humphry Slocombe has opened at the Ferry Building, reports Inside Scoop SF.

Lers Ros Thai, on 16th Street just east of Guerrero, gets a nice write-up in SF Weekly. This is something that has changed in the Mission. Nowadays, it is not uncommon for the Mission to be the second, third or fourth location of a restaurant that got its start elsewhere. The 16th Street place is the third location in the city for Lers Ros. Earlier, when ML first started, the Mission was an incubator for food trends. Maybe that still holds. Recent examples?

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    1. Unfortunately, most of this “wealth” is just numbers on computer screens.

      When the prices of stocks are bid up by herd mentality, the nation hasn’t gotten “wealthier”, it’s gotten stupider.

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