Choose Your City

09 Aug 2011

Win a Dinner Party for You and 7 Friends!

Being low on the dough makes it hard to eat in places that don’t serve your food in disposable material, so when you’ve the opportunity to enjoy the generosity of a local glittering social benefactress, you snatch it up, no? Well, Perseus, the gods have positioned you well. However, your worth must

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08 Aug 2011

Check out Why Participate?, at Flux Factory This Week

Looking at art and overeating are pretty much two of the finest activities in the land.  Well, you have a chance to do both for FREE this week by visiting Why Participate?, an exhibition at Flux Factory in Long Island City.  A group showing by artists who are concerned with

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08 Aug 2011

Tonight! Care about Your Government for Once

I know that voting can seem like a hassle and that keeping up with the news is god-damned depressing. But the San Francisco mayoral election is coming up (November 8 of this year, to be exact), so it’s important for you to start paying attention if you don’t want our city

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07 Aug 2011

Testing One, Two, Three…

One of my favorite parts about summertime is that it is concert season; all the great festivals and many great artists come to town to take advantage of the weather and lift our spirits with their wonderful melodies. The bad part, though, is that all these concerts total up really

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07 Aug 2011

Party This Thursday at Cure Thrift!

  Just when you’d decided never to leave the apartment without utter life-or-death necessity again this summer (the city’s a freak show! It’s hot as balls! The line in Duane Reade is anxiety attack-inducingly long and the whole damn town is crawling with tourists who stop at random in the

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07 Aug 2011

FREE Mayoral Candidates Forum at Castro Theatre

As a San Francisco resident you reserve the right to know what your politicians have in mind for your city.  What better way to be brought up to speed than to attend the upcoming Mayoral Candidates Forum taking place at the Castro Theatre. On Monday, August 8 from 7:00p.m. –

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06 Aug 2011

San Francisco Theater Festival Sunday August 7th

This year the San Francisco theater festival has nestled down right on the shores of the bay in Fort Mason. The festival will be presenting 135 shows in just over six hours time spread throughout 15 venues scattered in the nooks and crannies of the Fort Mason Center. According to

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06 Aug 2011

Fortune Tellers: Not for Broke-Asses!

Scare tactics that leave your wallet empty…. I have a confession to make. The other day I was shopping at Ross on Geary, scrutinizing a $3 wooden hair brush under florescent lights, when this gypsy woman walked by and seriously looked inside of me. “Your aura is really open right

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