If you’re an artist who’s been looking for the perfect gallery in which to show your stuff, now’s your perfect opportunity with the first juried exhibition over at Gallery Hijinks!  They’re looking for works from all over the world and for any medium, and there’ll be live performances from sound artists and lectures from local artists like Renee Gertler.  Plus, they’re having an auction at the end of the month for all unsold works starting at 50% of the price!

Check out all the details here!

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Our pal Wesley came upon the unsettling scene:

Suitcase found with 80 severed heads, at 18th and Guerrero. The Mission really is Little Mexico.

Insensitive, Wes!

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The Bold Italic just published a big feature on El Rio’s monthly lube wrestling party, with gorgeous photos and astute reportage by our boy Joshua Cobos:

I’ve found myself there on a handful of occasions, slack-jawed and bewildered at sights that made my insides squirm with conflicting emotions. Watching women romp around in red latex, splashing it up in an inflatable pool, is my inner sailor’s dream come true. Add liquor and lube, and that fantasy becomes exhilarating – until, of course, the substances splash toward me, at which time that dream turns into a nightmare.

Read on for lots more pics and analysis.

[via KevMo]

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Here’s the latest in a series of shocking fake ad campaigns that have been popping up on Muni buses. The text reads: “Fartine Bakery & Cafe. Wait in line for five hours to buy a fucking donut.” Someone should smash the windows of that place before they sell any more pastries.

[Muni Diaries via Grubstreet SF]

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Our pal Jenny Odell, word-renowned repurposor of Google Maps satellite images, has a new shirt available on Threadless this week. It’s 104 Airplanes!

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Every week, photographer Joshua Cobos shoots a roll of film just for us. He picks the best 13 photos and we post them here, and it’s called “Bad Blood with Joshua Cobos.” Here’s what Joshua has to say about this week’s installment:

After the next issue of Bad Blood, I’ll be incorporating staged photos, prisms, archaic process & psychedelic influences into this column. Up to this point the photographs have served as my personal journal, where I’ve been, what I’ve seen & who’s been around me. These 13 continue my exploration of street photography with inspiration from fashion photography & what I’ve learned from being a journalist. Locations involve a birthday party in Nob Hill, a Haight Street performer’s “loot”, returning a uhaul with my recently reinstated drivers license, a work party at Zynga, the antique fair in Alameda (thank you Katy) & Virginia Plain’s staircase after dinner.

Thanks, Joshua! Ten more shots after the jump:

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Read the rest of Bad Blood with Joshua Cobos: Where I’ve Been, What I’ve Seen and Who’s Been Around Me

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I Am Bummed. (Right?)

[via WBTC]

Update: And, it’s gonna be a fancy grilled cheese place.

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24th and Bryant.

[via Meesha]

Update: And, the finished piece.

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Rice Cracker Sushi is popping up tonight at Dear Mom, and I can’t wait to see what exactly some of these curious sushi rolls entail!

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Hot new look for the summer – a gently worn, authentic Eddie Bauer bag. Real deal Mission District grime and good times embedded in the thread. Stop being a Chrome drone or Timbuksnoozer and get some stylee. Guaranteed to keep your booze brisk and your tacos crisp while you’re chillin at Dolo parque this summer. Nuff said!

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It’s a drink on the menu at Rock Bar. First it’s great because it’s fun to order. Then it’s great because it contains Powers Irish Whiskey, Averna, St. Germain, and Angostura and creole bitters.

(The new bowling machine was not immediately enthralling, but it could grow on me.)

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We were all pretty bummed to find out a while back that Valencia Playground and Pool was closing for renovation that would take over a year.  While we welcomed the idea of modern improvements like a new turf soccer field and futuristic playground equipment, there were also a number of concerns voiced by the community regarding access to these improvements, since the other recently created soccer fields in the Mission (Garfield and Franklin) have replaced the free-form pickup nature of the sport with rigid scheduled blocks restricting use that are a massive pain in the ass to reserve.

While efforts were made to reach out to the primarily-Latino footballers who played in this park and agree to a compromise on when the area would be available for free use, there was some skepticism as to whether the new allotments and enforcement would be fair.  Well, starting next week we finally get a chance to see how it will all work out, according to Patrick Hannan from the City Fields Foundation:

The full park will open later this summer but the new soccer field will “officially” re-open with a small ribbon-cutting ceremony at 930am on Tuesday, May 22 followed by some soccer play with the students from Everett Middle School. The soccer field and Valencia Street play area will remain open through the rest of construction.

Please join us! Should be a nice event and you can be among the first to try out the new soccer field.

Of course, not everyone seems happy about the news:

What’s the deal with every new playground not having shade? I can’t wait for this place to open, but it will probably take 5 years for whatever stupid little tree they put in to grow enough to provide shade. I’ll just have to take an umbrella.

and

I guess Im the complainer here. I hate this park. First they “accidentally had to cut down all of the beautiful huge mature trees. Then they removed all grass with cement (I mean side to side, front to back). Then they put in a bunch of kids shit even though there is a full great kids area just a few feet away. I hate it.

And those both seem to be reasonable points.  What’s your take on the situation?

Previously:

• They’re closing the park
• Valencia soccer sucker punch melee
• Mission Playground adds new concrete rubble pile play area
• New wave Valencia playground sprouting
• The sun sets on the playground of the future

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(Thanks, Uselysses!)

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Relatively new pie pusher Mission Pizza has finally published their menu and boy the choices are overwhelming! Three types of Mission themed pies plus a Mexican Mariachi to boot. Somehow though they’ve amazingly been able to procure all toppings at the same cost. No matter your slice, you pay the same price! The only variable in price seems to be pie size. Any theories as to this egalitarian pricing scheme?

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SFist reports:

[A] representative of the now-shuttered bowling alley was spotted checking out the space left vacant by a Delano’s Market at 27th and Geary. Adding some legitimacy to the rumors that Serra Bowl could eventually re-open out in the avenues, the alley’s owners recently posted on their Facebook page, asking for help scouting out spaces large enough to house a bowling alley. [link]

Meanwhile our former Delano’s is going to be a dumb Fresh & Easy or something?? Tragic!!

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