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13 Feb 2009

ClassyTrashy – Fashion Week Party with an Open Bar!

When a fashion week party has an open invite on Facebook it is standard procedure to rag on it.  However, when that open Facebook invitation includes the words “Open Belvedere Vodka Bar”  silence takes over and little hands get RSVP’ing.  I have no idea how long they will be accepting reservations,

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12 Feb 2009

How To Not Be A Cathy Comic Stereotype and/or Super Cheesy on V-Day

      Do you ever feel like you’re just one pint of chunky monkey away from uttering ‘œwake me up when I’m a size five?’  Are you afraid of cheapening your relationship with your significant other by falling into the traps laid out for you by the Valentines Day

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10 Feb 2009

SF: Cheap Bags that are Good for the Environment

  by Monica the Intern       Being eco-friendly isn’t always easy on a budget. If you’re new to the game, it seems a lot more trendy than it should be, right? I remember when my parents would bring their bags back to the grocery store from previous trips and everyone

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10 Feb 2009

NY: Getting Laid…Off

    New York, New York, big city of dreams…ugh…shit ain’t so pretty these days is it?  With the economy residing in Poopsville, more and more people are getting the “it’s not you, it’s me” speech from their employers.  Yes, pink slips are raining down on New York like a

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09 Feb 2009

NY: Where Not to Order Specialty Martini’s…The Holland Bar

  I went to Holland Bar to verify a NY Times article.  I left thinking it was like Cheers. Not cable TV, Beacon Hill, Boston Cheers. This is “HBO Special” Hell’s Kitchen Cheers.  The “Open” sign on the door was hand written on a half-sheet of computer paper.  The Spartan selection

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07 Feb 2009

Free Sunday Standup = Free Laughs + maybe a little fart that squeaks out

  Going to free stand up comedy shows is like trying to swallow pills made for horses: sometimes it goes well, other times it just doesn’t and you want to die.  About a year ago I went to a small standup show in a backroom the size of a refrigerator

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06 Feb 2009

First Thursdays = Free Wine & Cheese

From the desk of Broke-Ass Stuart – Editor in Cheap     The first Thursday of the month in San Francisco generally means one thing, art openings.  And art openings generally mean two things, free wine and free cheese.  Being, well…being me, I simply can’t resist a place that will

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06 Feb 2009

Get Frostbitten

  Last night I went a FREE big air contest sponsored by Red Bull and almost paid 10 toes.  It was the coldest I’d been in my life.  My parents insistence on making me uncool in high school with hats and gloves came to mind as I looked at all

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