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17 Nov 2010

Cool, Crafty Things You Can Do With Your Old CD Cases

I have been waiting a long time to do this: After finally figuring out a way to salvage 56Gb of music off my dying laptop, I’m officially going digital. Those 900+ cds that have been taking up way too much space in the corner of the living room? Yeah, they’re

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17 Nov 2010

Soft Spot, Where Everybody Knows Your Name

New Yorkers go to a lot of bars. Mostly because there are more bars in NYC than people (maybe), and we don’t have to drive so we can get as drunk as we want any time we damn well please. But finding a bar you actually want to go back to

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16 Nov 2010

Happy Hour and Time Capsule Making with Muni Diaries and I Live Here SF

Did you go to the I Live Here SF retrospective the other week like I told you to?  Well you should have, but if you didn’t you can still see all the great art when you got to the Muni Diaries Happy Hour tomorrow. This sounds like a pretty rad

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16 Nov 2010

Broke-Ass Buyer Beware: As Seen on TV

I would consider myself to be a discerning consumer on most accounts.  I shop around for the best deals, wait for sale season and generally exercise restraint from impulse purchases.  That said, I must confess my weakness.  As. Seen. On. T. V. From an early age I was a sucker

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16 Nov 2010

Spruce Up Your Ag Skills at the Mills Community Garden

I started out on BrokeAssStuart.com as the crunchy, garden-loving, East Bay correspondent and it’s about time I got back to my roots. Pun! If you remember, I told you last year how to set up a garden for FREE (Part I & II). Now I’m coming at you with some new gardening opportunities. Mills

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16 Nov 2010

Ways To Cut Costs This Holiday Season

The leaves are blowing around and the temperature is dropping, which means it’s time to celebrate the holiday season. You will overeat and drink too much, all which are fixable. But people are always looking at ways to cut costs around this expensive time of year. Here are a few

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16 Nov 2010

Cup: Coffee With Room For Trivia

You know what one of the signs that I just made up of what a great coffee place is? Consistency. You know what shop has more consistency than Goods and Second Stop COMBINED, even though it might not necessarily have as “good” of a coffee brand? That’s right: a little

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15 Nov 2010

FREE Snacks, Wine, Massage, and 15% Off at Sports Basement

The folks over at Laundry Locker are teaming up with Sports Basement, Larkin Street and a gang of other sponsors to throw a party in the name of charity.  They;ll be giving out FREE snacks, wine, beer, massages and 15% off at Sports Basement.  That’s my kind of party!  There’s

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