Arts and Culture

Watch Badass Dance Battles at the Step To the High Line Festival
Teenage dance battles: could there be anything more awesome? No, definitely not. Which is why you should check out the FREE Step to the High Line Festival, taking place this Wednesday through Friday on, duh, the High Line. Each evening, two high-energy step teams will battle it out for the

SF Design Week is here!
San Francisco Design Week Kick-Off Celebration 2011 I try to think back and figure out when my obsession with design began, but I suppose that could be attributed to a multitude of different situations from my past: everything from coloring books to the stacks and stacks of magazines my sister

Enjoy the Sweet Sounds of the Accordion– FREE in Bryant Park
Throw a baguette under your hairy armpit and slap a beret onto your head– it’s time for lunchtime accordion concerts in Bryant Park! Enjoy the sounds of Paris with FREE musette-style accordion music every Tuesday, from 12:30-2:30pm. Pack a picnic lunch, and pretend you’re on a lavish European vacay– all

Hey Ladies: FREE Booze and Food at the Style.ly Cocktail Brunch and Selling Soiree
The folks at Style.ly are hosting a workshop to show you how to get ahead on the secondhand sellin’. The local fashion/tech company will be at hyped new venue The Office (above Churchill) to get the party started. Bring your women’s clothing, shoes, handbags and accessories that you are

A Scumbag’s Guide to Portland – Part 4
Yeah. With your dumb orange car. Hey cats and kittens, it’s that time again! Happy belated Memorial Day. Hope you’re still making out with a soldier you met last night, and eating leftover BBQ, cooked in the name of our brave civil war heroes. It’s that blissful time of year when day-drunk is

The Mr. Mission Competition is Tonight at the Elbo Room!
The lovely Brianna Haag has taken it upon herself to raise a fuckload of money to help fund cancer research. She started Slap Cancer in order to raise $100,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and from what I’m told, she’s already blown by that mark. The Mr. Marina competition she

A Scumbag’s Guide to Portland – Part 3
Picture shamelessly stolen from http://www.boymeetsmusic.com/ Happy Monday my beautiful, sexy, hilarious, rip city scumbags! If you’re one of the few PDeX’s that is unfortunate enough to be employed, chug some coffee and shake off the weekend, because it’s over now and your boss can totally tell you’re hungover and you

A Scumbag’s Guide to Portland – Part 2
Hey guys! It’s Monday, and that totally sucks, but guess what? That also means it’s time for the next segment of the Scumbag’s Guide to Portland, which, depending on how you feel about it, might not totally suck that much. This week covers the letters G through L, so tune in, turn