We've been meaning to try Mission Pie since we read about it in the Chron -- it's a homey dessert cafe (which we need more of in the Mission!), whose pie ingredients are grown by Mission High students at a local organic farm, to teach them agricultural, environmental, and nutrition skills. The students then staff the cafe behind the counter. (The pies themselves are currently baked off-site, but they're hoping to get a professional pastry......

We'll get right to this week's post in which our Security Guy once again asks questions that were asked in our last post, but first, we just wanted to remind you that if you have any questions you'd like our security guy to answer, send them to editor@sfist.com ...

--It's San Francisco Cocktail Week! Drink specials galore. --One of the Google founders got married. In a swimsuit. At David Copperfield's house. --In other Google news, you may have noticed they've redesigned the search page. --Mission High sells pies. These look great! --Gavin tries on eyeglasses. --Angry T-Third commuters give Nat Ford a piece of their mind. We may be covering this more in depth later on the site. --Sunshine law gadfly Kimo Crossman......

Droll NPR commentator (who was previously fired for cursing) Sandra Tsing Loh brings her one-woman show, "Mother On Fire," to the Women's Building tonight! For a 9 night run! The show's about her travails trying to find an appropriate school for her kindergarten age daughter in the California school system and ran for 7 months in LA. Here's the one-liner. "I looked at public schools, private schools, parochial schools -- even Baptist school. It turns......

-St. Boniface Catholic Church in the Tenderloin is having a money crunch which could affect it's ability to handle the homeless. -Cabbie is found shot to death in the Richmond Annex ...

We're breaking with our Blotter tradition of SF crime movie clip art because, well, we can't find two other animal-related stories to post an Animal Roundup and -- would you look at how cute that marmoset is??? The Peninsula Humane Society responded to a call from an engineering student in East Palo Alto who saw a monkey running on a neighborhood fence, which turned out to be a member of the species known as the......

In preparation for Gavin Newsom's first State of the City Address, the Examiner [mimes eating a banana] for our mayor in today's PJ Corkery column. ...

Party for a good cause on Valencia on Sunday....