Author: cappstreetcrap
Winner winner chicken dinner
February 1, 2015
Pollo on the go.
Devastating fire in the Mission used as marketing opportunity
January 31, 2015
Yesterday, Mission Mission wrote about receiving a press release from a startup using the recent fire at Mission and 22nd streets to market their app. The four-alarm blaze on Jan. 28 left one man dead, sent six to people to the hospital, destroyed businesses and left dozens homeless. Out of courtesy, the blog did not […]
CAPPellini
January 30, 2015
Sidewalk dining at its worst.
Now in Arizona, Omer Travers stars in a music video
January 29, 2015
Controversial Valencia Street fixture and entertainer Omer Travers may have traded San Francisco for Arizona but he still has an audience. Earlier this month, a music video for a song called “Apollo” by French electro-pop band Ruby Cube was posted to Travers’ Facebook page. From 2013, it shows Travers, a.k.a. Bum Jovi, cavorting with a group of fundamentalist […]
Soggy celery
January 28, 2015
All the limp celery you could ever hope for, 16th and Capp.
From the ocean to the Mission
January 27, 2015
The Latin American Club just got a facelift via a bunch of new booths. Very nice! The booths previously lived at John’s Ocean Beach Cafe on Sloat Boulevard. The diner is, sadly, being torn down after 35 years of business to make way for a new development. [Photos of the new booths from Latin American […]
Toshio Hirano retiring, will play second goodbye show
January 26, 2015
It looks like those of us who hoped that Toshio Hirano’s goodbye announcement earlier this month only meant a long break may be out of luck. Turns out that the country crooner is retiring. Above is a screenshot from his bass player Kenan O’Brien’s Facebook page. Hirano plays at the Rite Spot Cafe tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. […]
Weird Fish not belly up yet
January 23, 2015
Fans of Dante’s Weird Fish may have been surprised to see it open past its anticipated closing date at the end of 2014. Turns out, the pescetarian restaurant could stick around until early summer, and some of its dishes will live on at the bistro that’s replacing it. Irfan Yalçin bought Weird Fish near 18th […]
Chair’d remains
January 22, 2015
Happened upon this spooky scene on Capp Street over the weekend. Hoping that wheelchair was vacant when it caught fire.
Ugh. Mission accomplished?
January 20, 2015
No idea whether they were related but this weekend a baby shower was going at dive bar El Tin Tan on 16th Street while a car bearing a charming sticker was parked out front.