Choose Your City

08 Jun 2011

Cheap Buns at Cherry Blossom Bakery

  On my way to work this morning, my carpool stopped at Cherry Blossom Bakery on Clement. Welcome to Heaven is what the place should be called. I think the quote of the day came from my roommate, Celise, when she said with a wide-eyed grin, “I never thought I

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08 Jun 2011

Roebling Tea Room, Actually a Tea Room

As I grow older and appreciate things like concert venues with seats and using a cold as an excuse to stay in on a Friday night, I find myself craving drinks beyond those that will get me black out drunk. Just kidding! But I understand that there are some folks

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07 Jun 2011

Free Oldest-School from EPMD Today for FREE

Ah, summer. Specifically, ah, summer concerts. You’ve long recognized that to stage outdoors for money requires you to go in the red on security, so you just raised your hands and said “fuck it, everybody’s invited.” And bless you for it. Now these summer shows get to be venues for

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07 Jun 2011

Beat It: Learn Michael Jackson Choreography for FREE!

It’s been my lifelong dream to be in a Michael Jackson video. Ergo, my life was pretty much over in late June 2009. However, here’s a chance for me — and you, if you’re similarly awesome — to renew my purpose on this earth: Bay Area Flash Mob is putting

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07 Jun 2011

Broke and Bored Activities: Reading NYC Signs

If you’re anything like my roommate and I, you derive pleasure from nonsensically mocking olds reading signs and/or just the existence of the particularly hilarious signs and graffitti tags abound in NYC. That’s right– reading signs.  It sounds way too simple to make any sense. But, the thing is you

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06 Jun 2011

Help Kelly Malone Kick Cancer’s Ass on Thursday!

SO by now you probably know about Kelly Malone, the DIY Queen of SF, and her mission to beat the shit out of the evil, crazy expensive cancer that’s come back around to creep on her like an ex who just doesn’t get the hint.  We told you how to

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06 Jun 2011

Good Coffee On The Borderlands At Barcey’s

It’s easy to just think of New York as a series of subway stops. After all, you go underground, everything’s the same, then you’re somewhere else- no real way to connect the larger world. However, despite popular belief, Brooklyn and Queens share a lot of unceremonious borderland. No rivers, waters,

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06 Jun 2011

Get FREE U2 Tickets!

I’ll start this by saying I haven’t enjoyed U2‘s music since Achtung Baby or since The Edge started wearing that obnoxious hat all the time, whichever was most recent. BUT I still consider U2 to be one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands of all time, and if you

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