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27 Dec 2009

FREE Froyo Today!

According to Urban Daddy, the new Cultivé in Cow Hollow is giving out FREE Froyo today if you mention Urban Daddy.  Apparently this place as crazy flavors like Snickerdoodle, and toppings like Mango Coconut Jelly.  They’re giving out 8 0z. cups of the frozen goodness.  I really don’t know what else

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27 Dec 2009

Christmas Re-Gifting and Gettin’ Freaky

The gifts are unwrapped, the eggnog upchuck stain cleaned up, and all that snow has turned into sludge, it’s time to face the cold reality that Christmas is over. It was fun while it lasted and now you are the proud owner of 12 new pairs of argyle socks, a

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27 Dec 2009

Family Gathering Getting You Down? Lighten it up with Famingo!

So here we are.  The time of the year we all love to hate.  When Grandma’s strange recipe for fruit-cocktail-Jello-salad is unearthed, and the clan of second-cousins-once-removed emerge from the wood works.  When a dinner is considered successful if little Genie makes it through the meal without spilling a glass

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26 Dec 2009

Dance Your Holiday Stress Away

photo by classiquepromotions.co.uk Phew. It’s over! The stressful parts of the holidays are in the past and now we have New Year’s Eve to look forward to. Wild, crazy, slightly overrated New Year’s, when we can drown the year’s sorrows in unhealthy levels of alcohol. But until then, it’s important

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25 Dec 2009

Out of NYC, and Confused

Merry Christmas, or whatever you celebrate, brokeass readers! I spend every Christmas making one of my semi-annual pilgrimages back to my home country. That being Portland, Oregon. It’s always a bit of a shock coming back west after being in New York for six months. The big differences don’t freak

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25 Dec 2009

Chinese Food, Movies and Booze for a Really Good Cause

While Stuart pointed everybody to the alternative-to-Christmas activities going on in San Francisco last night, New Yorkers have their own alternative to Christmas happening today. The long held tradition of non-Christmas celebrators ordering Chinese food and going to the movies is a great one, and the venerable 92nd Street YTribeca

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25 Dec 2009

Upgrade Your Comfort Foods: Peanut Butter and Jelly

Look, we know you’re broke. We’re all broke but you just look silly sitting there with your Kirkland Brand Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches. Sure, it’s a comfort food, but you know what? The “PB&J as comfort food” thing is basically like replacing all the posters in your apartment with

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25 Dec 2009

El Super Burrito

While some Mexican food restaurants have fancy and romantic names like El Farrolito or Taqueria Cancun, the people at El Super Burrito said, ‘œFuck that! Let’s have our name tell people exactly what we do; we make big motherfucking burritos. That’s what we do!’ It’d be like a clothing store

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