Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning has just released his second solo LP, You Gots 2 Chill, and will be playing select U.S. shows next month in support of the stunning, living room record. He’ll be making a stop in San Francisco on December 4th at The Chapel. Wanna win a

My friends over at Alite Designs do awesome stuff. They’ve basically taken the idea of creating gear for the outdoors and made it more simple and stylish. I mean just take a look at the Sexy Hotness Sleeping Bag. It’s been designed so that you can zip as many sleeping bags together as

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

This photos sums up Japan rather well My good friend Sato is a Japanese-American who now lives in Japan. A few  years ago I had a dream that he was getting married. While he wasn’t at the time I decided that when he did get married I would attend the

If today were a Sunday, BatKid probably would’ve gone to Wes Burger instead of Burger Bar. Well, not really, but he probably should’ve (can you say “should’ve” about a theoretical?). Why? Because Wes Burger is fucking awesome and easily one of the best burgers inThe City. Every Sunday night from 6-10pm

Commune SF is 11/13 at the Elbo Room starting at 9 PM! WTF is Commune? It’s a movement of artists, designers, musicians and people that take a stand against tobacco corporations, their practices and their presence in the scene. Commune takes this stance by being pro-local, so each month, a different local band,

This guest post is written by Melissa Bosworth. When I was 8 years old, my best friend was a poor businessman who let me start every Monopoly game with the entire stack of five-hundreds in my bank. The experience taught me a valuable lesson about success:  It helps to start

Where on earth did he leave it? I bartend a few nights a week. It’s what I do to pay the bills since being a writer is obviously not where the money is at. The other day I found a hoodie that someone had left at the Golden Gate Tap