New York

31 Aug 2016

Seven Great NYC Bars and Their SF Equivalents

OFF MENU IS SPONSORED BY BENDER’S BECAUSE THEY ARE BADASS. DROP BY AND MAKE SOME BAD DECISIONS WITH SOME GOOD PEOPLE! This originally appeared in my Weeknighter column for 7×7. Our Weeknighter columnist Stuart Schuffman recently spent some time in the Big Apple and we tasked him with finding San Francisco’s synonymous bars across the

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29 Aug 2016

Goodbye, Gene Wilder.

Jerome Silberman was born in depression era Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1933. We lost him today, another one of the greats, known to us as Gene Wilder. To many a millennial Gene Wilder was just a meme; a wide-eyed Willy Wonka in a fly sienna velvet top hat with many captions

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28 Aug 2016

It’s International Go Topless Day

Besides the fact that I really love boobs, I support International Go Topless Day because it’s absurd that men can go topless whenever they want but women can’t. This is a protest against gender inequality and one in favor of body positivity. Real talk: by definition, there is nothing more

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24 Aug 2016

Woman Single Handedly Repels Leslie Jones’ Trolls on Twitter

It was only a month ago that Milo Yiannopoulos released his flying monkeys onto Leslie Jones for simply being a middle-aged black woman, I’d throw successful in there too. Jones temporarily left Twitter, Milo was eventually 86’d from Twitter. In the most recent attack on comedian Leslie Jones, the Drudge Report

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24 Aug 2016

I’m Fat, Latina, and a Phantom in Mainstream Culture

I don’t see me. For who can find a phantom? I am nothing. I am hollow. I am dust. I’m fat and Latina. I belong to a phantom culture; a society that solely exists as a result of colonialism and where women were born in their mother’s beds to midwives.

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24 Aug 2016

The Art of Love: Indigo Keys Release Their Debut Album

  Souls of Society visionary, Dijon Bowden, first caught our attention back in 2011,  when he started walking the streets of San Francisco documenting the cultural Fabric of the Bay Area through portrait photography and storytelling. Now he has teamed up with Annie Anton and Craig Wenaweser, aka “Keys”, chronicling what can only be

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24 Aug 2016

Give the Gift of Edible Faces

It’s hard to buy gifts for people. You sit there and think, “if only there was a way I could lock into the cannibal that resides within us all…but with sugary icing.” Well, now you can. And with plenty of time before the holiday season really kicks into gear and

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23 Aug 2016

Gloriously Insane Excuses Men Give To Get Out Of Dates

 “Only I could get stood up by a man who has eight cats. Yep. Eight.” My hilarious dating life has been the subject of not only one insane book Hope You Have An Amazing Birthday…And Get Raped By A Bear, but also a dating column, two very sassy blogs, and loads

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