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13 Oct 2010

$1 Tickets to Treasure Island Music Festival This Weekend, Just for Helping Out

If you’re trying to get in to the Treasure Island Festival this weekend and are willing to do some volunteer work in exchange for $1 addmission, then you’re in luck: Some friends of ours at Clean Vibes and SFEnvironment.org dropped us a line to let us know that there are

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13 Oct 2010

Knitting is for Pus**** by Olek

Knitting goes in and out with being the “it” hipster crafting activity, but Polish artist Olek isn’t the kind of knitter who works on scarves on the train. She’s more likely to knit a cocoon around the train itself. Her knitting sculptures are giant, we’re talking camouflage covers for convertibles,

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13 Oct 2010

DIY: Cereal Boxes

Cereal is as important to a broke-ass as ramen noodles. It has zero prep time and requires only two items which can usually be purchased at any corner store. Plus, it’s tasty and has vitamins and calcium and all that. Hell, I’d be having some myself, RIGHT NOW, if I

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13 Oct 2010

Science Meets Kitchen at How to Cook Like a Scientist Night

Past How-To Nights at Bazaar Cafe have taught us how to get a book published, how to grow veggies, and how to make a telescope, among other things — all for FREE.  This month, Jeff Potter, author of Cooking for Geeks, will be at the cafe to teach all you

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13 Oct 2010

New York Philharmonic Tickets on the Cheap

Nerd alert!!! I freakin’ love classical music. I hear a lot of “I just don’t really get iiiit” or “but there’s no siiiinging” when talking about it with friends who prefer to listen to bands in ratty clothes who learned to play three chords on a guitar last year and

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13 Oct 2010

Fall Fashion: Sally Draper Style

So it doesn’t take a cultural-critic genius, or  a Marc Zuckerberg coding type to tell you that Mad Men has been kicking serious ass this season.  Yes, part of it is because Don Draper has become more human, more layered and complex, part of it is because we’ve delved deeper

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12 Oct 2010

This Week’s Events For The 5 Senses

Wondering what to do for fun this week?  Feeling a little dead inside?  Wake yourself up with a FREE event for each of the 5 senses! SEE: There’s nothing like a Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze collaborative mindfuck to topple you into an existential crisis. Catch a FREE screening of Adaptation this

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12 Oct 2010

Disposable Fashion: A Blessing Or A Curse?

As a shopper, your dollar has more worth than it’s monetary calculation. The way you spend your money says tells advertisers exactly what, where and who to pitch their products to. A consumer society is always looking for the next fad, the latest technology and the latest products. And as

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