Many have adopted the habit of buying local in terms of the food they consume.  It is my personal philosophy that the same rule should apply for clothing.  Especially beautiful vintage clothes.  Especially when said clothes are sold in a shop mere blocks from my home.  Yeah.  I’m lucky. I’m

Okay so maybe you group together the term “food truck” along with artisan, pork belly, comfort food, and all the other foodie terms you’re sick of, but c’mon, it’s delicious food that travels to you! Can it really be that bad?  Some of the buzz-iest food trucks in town with

One of my fondest memories of elementary school is going to the quarterly book fair.  While the popular kids who — damn them — were born with naturally straight teeth and perfect vision stood around looking bored (if beautiful), eight-year-old me was pawing through those racks, trying to find the

Everyone who’s lived in San Francisco for a reasonable amount of time knows that, usually, it’s significantly cheaper to live somewhere in the avenues. I don’t venture out into the avenues much (past 10th, anyway). When I do, though, it’s nice to know there is at least one option for a watering

The love story of a boy, some cheese fries and an Afghani man named Abdul…well more or less.

Is it a coincidence that both National Beer Drinking Day and National Pot Smoking Day fall in the same month? Have a few beers and figure that one out today, as we celebrate 78 years of legal beer consumption in America. Prohibition came to an end in 1933, when FDR

Lisa Peterson, our broke-ass of the week, hails from Seattle and now calls East Boston home.  She’s not afraid of rain (“just wear a hood”), once accidentally spent 4oo bucks on a meal in Iceland (damn you, Björk, and your funny currency), and sells books at a travel bookstore in