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11 Jun 2013

Ryoko’s Latenight Tendernob Sushi

              Ryoko’s     If you like eating raw fish below street level, two options come to mind.  The first: Sushi Time, a tiny shoe box crammed into the corner of a small subterranean plaza in The Castro.  If that sounds like a recipe for

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10 Jun 2013

Win a Pair of Tix to the Cocktails and Bitters: How to Build a Better Drink

The fine folks over at Skill Exchange, who are all about teaching workshops to make you better at being a functional person, are doing a rad event that will appeal to your inner sophisticated drunkard (you as a less functional person). It’s a workshop that teaches how to make better cocktails

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06 Jun 2013

Win a Pair of Premium Tix to An Evening Affair with Dan Savage and Daniel Handler ($160 Value)

Inforum at the Commonwealth Club are rad. Not only do they put on amazing events, they also let me give away tickets to you, my dear and demented readers. This particular one seems pretty incredible. I’ve got a pair of premium tickets for one lucky winner. This includes his book,

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06 Jun 2013

Twitter: ‘Tweet, Tweet’ or ‘Cheap, Cheap’?

What’s worse than being broke? Being broke and lazy. Sure, you could walk three extra blocks to the slightly cheaper bodega or put in five minutes of Yelping to determine the bar with the best drink specials, but ain’t nobody got time for that. And – I’m just gonna take

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05 Jun 2013

Full Disclosure: How I Lost My Virginity

Women, specifically the prospect of having sex with them, both terrified and fascinated me growing up. I would immediately volunteer myself into the friend zone because that always seemed easier than enduring the potential failure of romantic pursuits. It certainly didn’t help that I was a “dorky” kid, who was

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04 Jun 2013

What’s In My Bag?: Broke-Ass Edition

For many reasons I am unable to relate to mainstream fashion magazines, notably because they pimp $400 t-shirts as a feasible item to purchase. At that point (which is usually within the first 10 pages), I slam the magazine down on my coffee table and leave in a fit of

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04 Jun 2013

East Midwest Music Group Releases Debut Album “Shuffle” for VH1 Save The Music Foundation

We sat down with East Midwest Music Group last week to talk about – you guessed it – being a broke musician. Let’s preface this piece by mentioning that the things that we’ve learned in our ‘pow-wow’ could easily apply to all performers, freelancers and generally people who don’t have

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03 Jun 2013

Brokelyn and Broke-Ass Stuart present: The Jorts-off Dance Off!

This is an epic event years in the making. Myself and the fine folks over at Brokelyn are finally joining forces in brokeitude to bring you The Jorts-off Dance off! That’s right we are throwing a FREE dance party this Thursday and we want to see all your lovely financially

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