Mission District

if their is spot in san francisco where the sun actually shines the mission district is it. great palces to go .places to be.places to see…

My wife and I spent nearly a week on Valencia Street, right next to the “New Yorker”. And we got to meet Dave Eggers.

There are great restaurants here, like Poncho Villa, but on the down side, some side streets are poorly lit and full of junkies.

Guerrilla Wordfare and Locus Arts Present:
Emergent Sea 9/11: Artists of Color Speak to a Rising Tide of Repression & Resistance 5 Years After ‘Sep. 11’

An evening of spoken word / poetry / hip-hop / music featuring:

• Denizen Kane – Korean-American poet/emcee/musician of Typical Cats / I Was Born With Two Tongues
• Maceo Cabrera Estevez – Cubana-un-American comedian/performance artist/writer
• Matthew Shenoda – Coptic poet, educator and activist, author of the American Book Award-winning ‘Somewhere Else’
• Elmaz Abinader – Award-winning Arab American author, playwright and poet
• Brown Buffalo Project – Chicano Poets/ Hip-Hop Artista and community educators
• Bushra Rehman – New York-based Pakistani poet/performer and co-editor of Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism’

Sat Sep 9, 8:00 pm
Locus Arts, 180 Capp Street, San Francisco
(1 block off Mission between 16th and 17th)
$7 – 10 sliding scale, nobody turned away for lack of funds
FFI: Contact Emmanuel at mexirican17@gmail.com or (260) 602-7954 or Locus Arts at us@locusarts.org

eat the burritos. just do it.

The food. SO many great places to eat, it’s almost not funny. I should create entries for all of them as I can. My sis used to live just off of Cesar Chavez down from Valencia a bit so I got to know the Mission reasonably well, and I always loved it.

Travellers, versus tourists? Tourists don’t like the stink, the crowds, the prostitutes and homeless people, the noise and the people standing around in very suspicious ways. They are afraid of the police presence, the graffiti, the barrage of other languages being spoken. They would never dare set foot in the hole-in-the-wall restaurants.

Travellers dig the huge variety of food (as Mazi said, everything from expensive to “on a dime” food), the thrift and used book stores, the bars, the life in this neighborhood.

I always suggest to anyone visiting this city, who has even a modicum of adventure in their spirits, to come to the Mission. It’s a special place, and it’s worth an afternoon and/or evening of your time.

From the best bums selling 1980’s video tapes on the street to the hippest bars and expensive restaurants and the best burritos in northern California. The streets may be a little dirty, but there is something for everyone to enjoy here if you open yourself just a bit.