Take in some culture before you black out on St. Pattie’s Day! I’m gonna come right out with the good news: ODC, our favorite dance company who calls the Mission home, is holding a special St. Patrick’s Day Small Plates one-hour performance at YBCA’s Novellus Theater, complete with a reception

First come sushi restaurants, then comes a chain drug store, then a palm reader, and then a neighborhood has reached the peak of gentrification. The sushi and Thai joints arrived on Bedford Ave long ago, but the palm reader spot and Duane Reade are brand spanking new. (As are a

Nerd-o-rama-ding-dong… What is it that makes nerds so goddamn cool these days?  I feel like everywhere I go I’m surrounded by high-wasted pants, suspenders and (of course) those non-prescription, Clark Kent glasses. I swear I saw a guy dressed just like Steve Urkel last weekend – and girls were flocking

Despite it being one of the largest bars I’ve ever been to in NYC–seriously, you could do cartwheels after a couple rounds (OK not really)–I ALWAYS forget about The Ginger Man until after I’ve already chosen to go to another (crappy) bar. You’d think its 66 taps and 120 bottled beers would dance

Come out and celebrate local blog Haighteration! Today is our friends over at Haighteration‘s 1st birthday, and in honor of the awesomeness of their neighborhood blog, over 40 businesses in the Lower Haight will be offering all sorts of goodies.  Just mention “Haighteration” and you’re golden. Highlights include a special

Indispensible Technological Improvements Well, isn’t this something. Here I was always under the impression that Hello Kitty just sort of, like, happened. Like one day we all went to sleep and the next we woke up and there was this ubiquitous, mouthless cat that was emblazoned upon anything with a

See? Classical music is sexy. Classical musicians rarely have hordes of screaming fans, groupies, or even dressing rooms. This is a goddamned shame, people. Let’s turn the panty-flinging tide in their favor tonight at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music‘s Concert Hall, where a FREE battle of the bands, the

What better way to ring in the anticipation of Spring than by going to one of the the biggest beer gardens in the city? And guess what? They’re now having a 90s night every Tuesday so you can live out your La Bouche Pandora station out where the world can