The easiest and most relaxing way to have brunch with eleven to 15 of close friends/random acquaintances is having a potluck brunch. Instead of waiting 45 minutes to be seated, everyone can start shoving their faces as soon as they walk in the door. It’s an incredibly cheap way to

The Holland Bar is a real dive bar where most people are regulars who aren’t worried about how cool or attractive or sober or sane they come off. They come here because there’s a decent jukebox with shit like Jim Croce, Sinatra, and the Stones, pints of Budweiser for $3,

Few films have affected me as deeply as 2003’s The Room, starring, written and directed by the now cult icon Tommy Wiseau.  This movie really gets at serious, universal issues, such as breast cancer, infidelity, betrayal, and (SPOILER ALERT!) suicide in the most hilarious manner possible, which can be described only as

The Seaport Music Festival has brought attuned New Yorkers an impressive array of artists these past few weeks. The series opened up a fortnight ago with the jaunty sounds of the Apples in Stereo before transitioning during its second week to the lo-fi wonders that are Beach Fossils and Woven Bones. Week number

Salty wardens of the waves, Surfpulse.com is throwing another one of their Second Surf Sundays this weekend at Joxer Daly’s to help raise fund for ArtSeed.com and their continuing effort to bring youngins in to touch with artsy types. The carrot to entice you on your journey to the damp

Local housing heroes Dolores Street Community Services like a good shindig and tonight they’re holding their WowWowWowWow Happy Hour featuring the cookies and milk of barflies, tamales and beer, to raise some masa for their AIDSWalk sponsorship. You get two different kinds of tamales for $8 and can wash them

Everyone, including native New Yorkers, looooooooove giving advice to people about living in New York.  Half the time, you’ll hear the same things over and over and over again.  But which of these oft-repeated pieces of advice or factoids are actually true? 1) Traffic! ONLY IN NEW YORK!  AMIRITE?!? If

When I lived in Hayes Valley I pretty much assumed every single drinking option nearby was going to be way above my price range, and all of the restaurants were full of fatcats who had Opera tickets later. But if you look close enough you can find a couple watering