Arts and Culture

20 Aug 2010

Serena Studios: Affordable Belly Dance Classes

I took a belly dance class in college, mainly because of my professor’s insistence and partially because of my love of shiny fabric. I was terrified at first, the only dance I’d taken was jazz in the seventh grade. My fears were assuaged after the first class. Contrary to the

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20 Aug 2010

Things To Do At Rockaway Beach

Summer is almost over, and if you’re anything like me you’re panicking about every passing second that is not spent at the beach. Rockaway Beach is the most Broke-ass friendly of them all, in my opinion, because you don’t have to buy an LIRR ticket, so get out there. It’s

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20 Aug 2010

Broke-Ass Band Interview: The Devil Makes Three

As I’ve mentioned before I first met The Devil Makes Three many years ago when I lived above a coffee shop in Santa Cruz named Caffe Pergolesi.  The three of them worked downstairs at the cafe, so I got to see them perform a lot at the start of their careers.  Now

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20 Aug 2010

Tonight: Let Don’t Touch Me There Touch your Funny Bone

Meet Pat Stango and Blaine Perry. Veritable YouTube celebrities, you may recognize them from such hits as “Pat Stango: Hidden Camera Guy” and  “The ‘Being a Jerk’ Method.” But they do more. They are also members of Don’t Touch Me There, a New York City-based sketch comedy troupe described by one

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19 Aug 2010

Phosphorescent and Sloane Crosley Tonight at CoCo66

As if you need an excuse to partake in CoCo66‘s fantastic $3 draft and well drink happy hour from 4-8PM, now you can count “helping kids read good and stuff” as one of them. Tonight, alt-country troubadour Phosphorescent will join best-selling author Sloane Crosley for a double-bill of entertainment (for

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18 Aug 2010

FREE Music and Food at the Hear It Local Launch Party

It’s shit like this that makes living in San Francisco so fun.  If you like music, food and art then the Hear it Local party  is about to be your new plan for tonight.  If you don’t like music, food, and art, you’re a weird twisted fuck who probably thinks

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18 Aug 2010

In the Flesh: FREE Erotic Reading and Cupcakes

I keep a book called How to Write Erotica on my shelf next to my other reference books about grammar and proper citation rules, because the glossary is a never-ending source of knowledge. Like, did you know that three or more people constitute an orgy? Or that a House of

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17 Aug 2010

FREE Food, Refreshments and a Pinball Tourny from PBR and Rebel8

Um yeah, this is gonna be a good one.  The fine people at PBR and Rebel8 love titties and have decided to do a fundraiser to help fight breast cancer….stupid breast cancer….why you gotta go and fuck with some of my favorite things on earth? The event is officially called

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