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Drugs, Sex, and Holly Rollers
So imagine if Walter from the Big Lewbowski did roll on Shabbos! Just when you thought you had heard of everything, I come across this movie called High Rollers. It’s about Hasidic Jews recruited in the nineties to serve as drug mules for bringing Ecstasy into the US. Now, I

2010 Maker Faire Bay Area and Bike Ride
I love me some DIY, and this weekend is the 5th annual Maker Faire! The two-day DIY extravaganza is happening in San Mateo. How does one get San Mateo you say? Well, I don’t effing know, but lucky for you (if you have a bike) there is an organized ride

Kelly Bensimon: Crazy Ass Bitch
Can we please talk about the insanity that is The Real Housewives of New York? I know that it can be sad to watch reality starlets fall victim to the pressures of living out portions of their lives on television (paging Heidi Montag), but Thursday night’s episode Housewives was so

After Hours Fantasy
When forced to work late at an office in Time Square sometimes there is nothing better to do than to carry out all the things from which you have been holding back. To do those bold acts, finally, while you privately rue the day you decided to throw your family’s

Cafe Dolci: The Cheapest Sandwich Shop in San Francisco?
I think I may have found the cheapest sandwich shop in San Francisco. It’s so cheap that I am telling everyone to go eat there, and not because I’m a particularly generous or helpful person, mind you. I just want everyone to spend their money on this food because I

Appropriate Housewarming Gifts For (and From) Broke People
So you’ve got a friend (or friends) moving in to a new place, and in another one of those attempts to feel like a responsible grown up human being who people actually like outside of Happy Hour settings, you’ve decided that you should give some gift to your friend (or

Brunch at Marine’s: Escape From the Strollers
Several weeks ago, I decided I wanted to venture to a brunch place that provided more options for my dirty hippie of a stomach (i.e. they serve tofu scrambles). So my BF and I naively wandered down to Fifth Avenue in Park Slope on a Saturday at 2pm. We opened