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10 Jul 2010

Broke-Ass Porn: Hot Sauce

Once a week we present Broke-Ass Porn. It’s visually stimulating material for the financially impaired. If this shit doesn’t get you going, you’re not as broke as you thought.

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10 Jul 2010

Free San Francisco Circus Fun

If there is one thing I love more than county fairs, it is the circus.  Memories of acrobats, tight rope walkers and those crazy clowns in their crazy cars brings joy to my heart.  Circus music however is terrifying.  Luckily, a more sophisticated, non-creepy version of the circus can be

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10 Jul 2010

Finger on The Pulse BBQ Blowout

Since taking a “break from food”, to open up his own bar, Lady Jays, star chef Sam Mason still knows how to throw a mean BBQ. One a month, New York magazine has been teaming up local chefs with DJ’s and buzz bands to create one delicious spectacle with their

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09 Jul 2010

What’s Up Dog; Or, What’s Up, Cheap Lunch?

It gets expensive eating out if you work in SOMA; restaurants jack up their prices because there are so many suits around taking their clients to lunch. Sometimes I avoid eating lunch all together just so I don’t feel like I’m getting robbed. But after some choice hot dog food

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09 Jul 2010

Look, Ke$ha, We Need to Have a Talk About This “Being a Celebrity” Thing

The usual Friday segment Upgrade Your Comfort Foods/Downgrade Your Trendy Foods will return next week, because it’s really important that I talk to Ke$ha right now. Look, Ke$ha (if that’s even your real name), we need to talk (again) about these pictures that are going around the Internet. You know,

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09 Jul 2010

Cheap and Easy Potluck Brunch Recipes

The easiest and most relaxing way to have brunch with eleven to 15 of close friends/random acquaintances is having a potluck brunch. Instead of waiting 45 minutes to be seated, everyone can start shoving their faces as soon as they walk in the door. It’s an incredibly cheap way to

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09 Jul 2010

The Holland Bar – A Classic New York City Dive Bar

The Holland Bar is a real dive bar where most people are regulars who aren’t worried about how cool or attractive or sober or sane they come off. They come here because there’s a decent jukebox with shit like Jim Croce, Sinatra, and the Stones, pints of Budweiser for $3,

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09 Jul 2010

Pay What You Can to See Tommy Wiseau’s Cult Classic The Room

Few films have affected me as deeply as 2003’s The Room, starring, written and directed by the now cult icon Tommy Wiseau.  This movie really gets at serious, universal issues, such as breast cancer, infidelity, betrayal, and (SPOILER ALERT!) suicide in the most hilarious manner possible, which can be described only as

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