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Phono del Sol: FREE Music and Food Festival
Get your broke-ass down to Potrero del Sol Park this Saturday, July 16th for the 1st ever Phono del Sol – a unique experience where music meets food. This FREE festival is all-ages and runs from12-6pm. You can snack and dance and mingle all at the same time in while

FREE tUnE-yArDs show tonight at Pier 54
When I first heard the new tUnE-yArDs album, whokill, I thought someone had dumped happiness pop rocks in my ears. The woman behind the uke, Merrill Garbus, has been causing a stir with her hootin’, stompin’, strummin’ ways since her debut album BiRd-BrAiNs, so much so that I once saw

Lou’s Cafe – Outer Richmond Sandwich Staple
There’s something extremely comforting about a great neighborhood sandwich shop. Just knowing that there will be a healthy dose of bread and meat (or veggies) waiting for you in your time of need can put even the most neurotic noshers at ease. Lou’s Café in the Outer Richmond accomplishes this

Exercises for Broke-Asses by Dena Stern of Exercise.com
This article is courtesy of Dena Stern of Exercise.com and a former Broke-Ass of the Week. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2010 over two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese. That means that more people in this country are now overweight than not –

Mi Pueblo Es Muy Barato!
Did you ever think there was anything cheap in the North Bay? Sure enough, there is this amazing supermarket in San Rafael close to the canal called Mi Pueblo — it is pretty much like the Mexican Disneyland of all supermarkets. It is bigger than any Safeway I’ve ever been

The Street Taco Is Not a Lost Art at Chile Jalapeno in Oakland
Yeah, I guess San Francisco has some decent Mexican food — but the Easy Bay has Chile Jalapeno Taqueria. Chile Jalapeno preserves the art form of creating the perfect street food, serving their famous street tacos for only a buck and a quarter each. In these shitty economic times (seriously,

Teany Is Anything But Tiny
First things first: how can you not like a tea shop with robots in the window? Second things second, how can you not like a place that has almost 100 teas AND a BYOB policy? Most people know Teany as Moby’s tea shop, which is a good or bad thing

DIY Inspiration: Renegade Craft Fair
If you didn’t go to the Renegade Craft Fair at Fort Mason this past weekend then you definitely missed out. Or you live outside the Bay Area (in which case, you’re still missing out – snap!). Either way, you know I was there taking in all the DIY crafty love