Yerba Buena always throws a good party, and the one last night centered around their '08-'09 season Big Idea "Ritual and Redemption" was no exception. Mission Street Food brought back their original taco truck for one night only and parked it on Third on the sidewalk right outside the museum's sculpture court. Brent and I arrived early to sample one of everything on offer (pork belly on flatbread and a duck taco for him, the king trumpet mushroom on flatbread for me, Szechuan eggplant and garlic glass noodles to share), and MSF also built a "night market" in the sculpture court proper with more delicious goodies. Inside the museum Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence rubbed elbows with art patrons while a few brave souls volunteered for ink from tattoo artists Philip Milic and Andrew Mann at one end of the lobby (oh that hypnotic buzz from the tattoo needles) and trailers from trashy films like Getting It On! screened upstairs. I hung out for a rockin' set from the Ex-Boyfriends followed by a fabulous drag show hosted by Monistat and Anna Conda, and I also spent some quality time inside the Nick Cave exhibit. More on that tomorrow.
Also tomorrow if you happen to be in the East Bay Seth Grahame-Smith, author of the much-buzzed-about literary mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, will be doing a reading at Diesel. Personally I prefer to revisit the Austen in its original form, but Grahame-Smith has clearly tapped something in the cultural zeitgeist. The undead are popping up everywhere right now.