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13 Feb 2010

Pop-Up Wedding: Vegas Comes to San Francisco

Wanna get hitched? Feel like making some mistakes usually reserved for trips to Vegas? Well UrbanDaddy is hosting a Pop-up Wedding event at the W Hotel this Sunday where you can renew some vows, get legally bound, or just watch others take the plunge while drinking FREE champagne. They promise

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12 Feb 2010

Housing Works V-Day Mixer

I know that even those of us in relationships are sick to death of all of the Valentine’s Day coverage that the Internet spews forth like so many partially chewed-up conversation hearts.  That being said, it IS almost Valentine’s Day and we DO all have to do something with ourselves tonight.

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12 Feb 2010

Upgrade Your Comfort Foods: Drinking at Breakfast (Again.)

We’ve talked before about brunch, but since the weekend is coming up and you’ll (hopefully) be sharing some pre-noon cocktails with that special someone this weekend, I thought I’d focus today on those alcoholic beverages which are deemed acceptable breakfast-fare by the general population. Everyone is familiar with the ubiquitous

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12 Feb 2010

Don’t Spread the Clap: FREE NYC STD Clinics

Valentine’s Day is Sunday. Before you go get you some lovin’, make sure it’s the only VD you’ve got. The same government program that stocks every bar with NYC condoms also runs STD screening clinics in all of the boroughs that offer FREE screenings for the HIV, the clap, syphilis,

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12 Feb 2010

$2 Sale at Goodwill This Weekend

Ever since I started dressing myself, I’ve been shopping in thrift stores.  I’m pretty sure it’s long gone now, but when I was growing up there was an AMAZING one in the Clairemont area of San Diego called Action Thrift.  It was the size of a grocery store and because

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11 Feb 2010

Have a Sexy Childhood

Rainbow Brite was pretty much my best friend in the world as a child. I had her doll, the dolls of her friends, and even her ride–a unicorn with a shiny star on it’s forehead.  My favorite toy out of  all of the Rainbow Brite gang was, bien sur, her friend

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11 Feb 2010

Why Haven’t You had Brunch at the Thai Temple yet?

Do you like Thai food? Do you like Brunch? Of course you do, these things are dealbreakers. So, you should combine these great loves with that other love of your life (your girlfriend/boyfriend, you jerk) on the holiest of corporate holidays this weekend and treat her/him to some cheap brunch

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11 Feb 2010

Save the Boathouse Valentine’s Dance This Saturday

Is S.F. Rec and Park a long arm of gentrification?  With rumblings of what the newly beautified Dolores Park may entail, it remains to be seen. Apparently, however, the pearl of the Mission, is not the only contentious jewel in the city’s parkland crown as that locals feel an impending

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