Monica Miller - The Intern

21 Mar 2009

Midnight Movie and a Flask of Fun

  The Clay Theatre is known for their hilarious Midnight Movie specials and is often prone to crazy contests before their showings on Saturday nights. When I was a lame ass freshman in the dorms, living on campus at SFSU [aka middle of nowhere], my dorm-mates and I would constantly look

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21 Mar 2009

50% Off at RVCA All Weekend!!

    If you’re like me, you like to keep up appearances. Also, if you’re like me and every other hipster and skater on the block, you’re in love with RVCA. Though their shit can be a little expensive, I love that I can wear both the dude stuff and

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20 Mar 2009

The Snuggie Pub Crawl

Have you ever wanted to go on a pub-crawl but in the most comfortable way possible? The Snuggie has taken the world by storm and now it has even been deemed acceptable in public….sort of.

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03 Mar 2009

Le Savy Fav – Noise Pop Finale

  from the desk of Monica the Intern     With their raucous brand of punch-laden indie rock, Les Savy Fav brought this year’s Noise Pop festival to a sweaty and dramatic finale. Coming on stage wrapped in rags disguised as fake bandages, front man and vocalist Tim Harrington announced:

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28 Feb 2009

Noise Pop Review – Thao Nguyen

  by Monica the Intern       With her power-packed strum and her even bigger voice, Thao Nguyen emerged as one of the truly deserving headliners on Thursday night at the Swedish American Music Hall.   “I went shopping for you guys today. Before today, I only had one dress

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25 Feb 2009

Deer Freely Hunted

  A review of last night’s FREE Deerhunter show.     By Monica the Intern     In a sonic wash of pedal pushing magic and light, Deerhunter opened Noise Pop 2009 with a performance at Mezzanine, thus kicking off this year’s festival with an orchestrated bang. Before the opening lazy

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25 Feb 2009

A long-winded, desperate justification for swilling booze at Art Openings

  The other day, Stuart provided the etymology for mack and hoodlum.  Not one to be outdone, I’d like to turn to Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word (the critics responses excerpted in wikipedia are hilarious and make me look like an asshole!) to explain how I can antisocially walk into a

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10 Feb 2009

SF: Cheap Bags that are Good for the Environment

  by Monica the Intern       Being eco-friendly isn’t always easy on a budget. If you’re new to the game, it seems a lot more trendy than it should be, right? I remember when my parents would bring their bags back to the grocery store from previous trips and everyone

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