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Full Disclosure: I’m Going to Circumcise My Son
If I ever have a son, I am going to circumcise him. *cleans out inbox to make room for fun emails* I remember the first time I heard the word circumcision. I was in fourth grade, and it was the first year students at my elementary school were allowed to take

How to Avoid the Broke-Ass Look
Just because you’re a broke-ass doesn’t mean everyone has to know. ~If you’re like me, you really do not see the necessity in purchasing socks and view it as a mere inconvenience as well as a waste of money, so you would rather just steal them from your boyfriend’s or

Broke-Ass Giveaway: 2 FREE Tickets to Vital Vox: A Vocal Festival at Roulette
Okay, so let’s try this again. Vital Vox: A Vocal Festival was supposed to celebrate its fourth annual event with Sabrina Lastman, Philip Hamilton, Sasha Bogdannowitsch and more at Brooklyn’s 400-seat theater, Roulette, back in October 2012. But as we all know by now, Hurricane Sandy hit and leveled New

The FREE Arts for the City book launch party
What do you know about the history of art in San Francisco? If you’re like me, not much. But next week Thursday you could find out plenty at the book launch party for San Francisco: Arts for the City Civic Art and Urban Change, 1932–2012. If you’ve ever enjoyed the

An Ode to Kate’s Kitchen in the Lower Haight
OFF MENU IS SPONSORED BY EMPEROR NORTON’S BOOZELAND THE TENDERLOIN’S NEWEST HISTORIC DIVE. HAPPY HOUR NOON – 7PM What little charm and authenticity left in the Upper Haight is barely peeking its head above the noxious, briny waves of retail commerce, the crowds of shopping tourists fresh from Union Square, and the crusty

Treat Your Feet in Chinatown, NYC
Despite the calendar that indicates that spring is arriving this week, New York is clutching on to winter as tight as Times Square tourist holds on to his wallet. All this recent slushy snow and ass-whooping wind that bounces off the city’s concrete and creeps through my layers of goose

Win a Pair of Tix to the Disposable Film Festival!
If I recall, and I could be totally wrong, I’m pretty sure I was a sponsor of the very first Disposable Film Festival when it was playing at the Roxy Theatre. Now our little film festival is all grown up and is doing its thing over at the Castro Theatre.