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Win a copy of the Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book from Chronicle Books
I’m teaming up with the fine people of Chronicle Books to do some cool giveaways. As you can probably guess by the picture above and the title that says “Win a copy of the Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book”, the first giveway we’re doing is the Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream

The Skint’s Second Annual Bastille Day Bash
I had no clue what the Bastille Day was about until the good folks at The Skint provided me with the following info: Here’s what Bastille Day means to the French: civic pride, national celebrations, a commemoration of the storming of the Bastille and the rise of the modern French

Cheap-ish Puerto Rican: Sol Food @ SF Food Lab
With my hometown dining companions trailing behind me as I scurried through the Market St. mass traffic of vagabonds and ill-forgotten street pharmacists, it’s impossible not to spot the lone foreign flag hanging outside the door. As a self-proclaimed unpatriotic citizen, the flag represents more than nationalism. The flag

FREE Poetry Chaos: 16th and Mission
Every Thursday night on the southwest corner of 16th and Mission, a crowd begins to gather. A woman will kneel down and take out sidewalk chalk, patiently tracing a sprawling pastel circle on the concrete. At 9:30, the first poet will step into the chalk and let loose a yawp

George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic – FREE Show Tonight in Rockefeller Park
George Clinton & the P-Funk band are going to be in New York City tonight for the River-to-River Festival. That news is music to the ears for all of you funky brothers and sisters out there. Not only is the living legend in town to bang out that revolutionary music

Tale of the Gutter: What Makes a Gutter Punk?
All this talk of gutter punks has been forcing me to question what exactly a gutter punk is. Upon reflection, I started to feel like an asshole for generalizing and stereotyping this certain sect of homeless. Upon investigating, I started to realize I didn’t even know how to identify a

McCarren Park SummerScreen Returns Tonight With Cruel Intentions! FREE Movies for All!
Grab your jorts. Grab your girlfriend. Grab your boyfriend. Grab your lawn chair. SummerScreen is back. That’s right. After an exceptional 2011 season, SummerScreen is returning this week with a showing tonight of Cruel Intentions featuring Sarah Michelle Gellar and that other dude who was in all those teen movies