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23 Jul 2010

Kindness Kitchen: Best Free Indian Food Ever!

I had heard a lot about Kindness Kitchen ‘” Stu blogged about it, NBC 7 did a piece on it, even our journalism department at SF State did a multimedia piece on it. Naturally, I was curious. In no way, shape or form am I considered poor, but I am

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23 Jul 2010

How to Win at Dinner Parties

Let’s face it, being broke means you don’t often entertain guests because nothing sucks more than trying to live on the cheap and ending up floating dinner for some freeloader. But I’ve recently realized that, if you play your cards right, you can host a reasonably exciting dinner party (I

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23 Jul 2010

Free Energy, Best Coast, and Loose Limbs Play by the Sea

I’m afraid of the beach. I know you didn’t ask, and its likely you don’t care – but it matters. And its irrational. My fear of the beach has no experiential basis. Sure, BP might have added to my phobia, but my fear remains source-less. But Best Coast is my cure. When

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23 Jul 2010

Off the Grid: A Street Food Lover’s Paradise at Fort Mason Tonight

What happens when a bunch of street food carts and trucks join forces?  LOTS of eating, obviously, at an awesome FREE event tonight at the Fort Mason Center! Off the Grid is kind of like Thanksgiving — it brings together people from the same family with many differences and eccentricities

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23 Jul 2010

Fake Boobs: Not Your Only Option

When I was in Las Vegas last weekend, the thing I could not stop obsessing over, apart from the buffets and 99-cent margaritas, was alllll the breast implants. It was like a breast implant convention. And I guess most of America is used to this, but I was somewhat alarmed.

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22 Jul 2010

Guilt-Free Fun for the LES Girls Club tonight at Marfa

Tonight, join the Lower East Side Girls Club to celebrate the fact that the neighborhood isn’t the haven of crack dens and rampant crime it used to be. Tex-Mex spot Marfa will offer up an open bar from 6-8 PM (cough, did you read that!? OPEN. BAR.) with appetizers and

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22 Jul 2010

Papusas: The Taco Alternative at Balompie Cafe

With all the talk about Mission Burritos and Taco Trucks, people tend to forget that Mexicans aren’t the only ones in the Mission cooking up delicious dishes from their homeland. Of course, there are a ton of Peruvian places around town these days and there’s that Venezuelan place on Valencia,

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22 Jul 2010

Function like an Adult: or at Least, Pretend to

I often get mistaken for a real adult. I have an office job, I’ve lived (and not studied) abroad, I subscribe to the New Yorker!! and buy whole-grain bread and do laundry semi-regularly. To those looking in, things appear to be full steam ahead into the world of maturity and

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