San Francisco

01 Nov 2009

FREE ADMISSION to CA Academy of Sciences for Mission Residents!

Its finally your turn to experience life outside of the 15 block radius that is the Mission. Just think: experiencing microclimates and bums outside your comfort zone! Actually seeing the city that you blow thousands of dollars down a runway on every month! Getting to meet more than just hipsters

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31 Oct 2009

Broke-Ass Bulletin — The Week of October 30th!

Here is the first installation of the Broke-Ass Bulletin, a post designed to catch you up on some of the stuff you may have missed during the week. Instead of bogging this down with underfunded sleazebags that WERE running for governor and cracks in the Bay Bridge [It’s starting to

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30 Oct 2009

Abandoned Planet Bookstore in the Mission is Closing

Abandoned Planet Bookstore reminds me of the strange and funky shops the used to line Valencia when I first moved to the Mission.  Something about it always made me think of the weird old bookstore from The Never Ending Story.  If you’ve never been to the place, but you’re into

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30 Oct 2009

Journey To The End Of The Night — FREE!

Do you like the feel of the chase? The rush of uncertainty, the bubbling of blood, the thrill of the adrenaline levels pounding in your…skull? There is nothing quite like that anxious, stalker feeling, and tonight, you can get a taste of it without the bite of the restraining order

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29 Oct 2009

FREE BBQ and Show Tonight at the Blarney Stone

My man Matt Murphy just hipped me to this event tonight.  They are calling it Night of the Living Drunk 2.  Not only is the show FREE, but there is also gonna be FREE BBQ!  Although it’s always kinda Halloween in San Francisco, as the actual holiday approaches we al

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29 Oct 2009

Spectral Ambassadors Grant a FREE Audience – Yokai University SF Campus in J-Town

Hallowe’en may not be part of Japan’s culture, but that doesn’t mean they don’t like a good story about ghosties any less than the rest of us.  In Japan, they’re known as yokai and come in all sorts of fun shapes and sizes. It would seem they decided to impart

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29 Oct 2009

Hua Zang Si Buddhist Temple

I like to wander.  It’s really one of my favorite things to do. You know, just kinda going for a walk and seeing what kind of cool shit I come across.  Well for awhile I always noticed this humongous red church on 22nd St and it reminded me of some

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28 Oct 2009

A Broke-Ass take on “When Life Hands You Lemons”

Starting the first day of college, we were all broke.  When friends came over to study at our modest abodes and were, as college students perpetually find themselves, hungry, we each asked ourselves, ‘œWhy share what little I have?’  However some of us chose to share and some of us

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