Arts and Culture

08 Jun 2010

FREE Family Passes to SF Attractions

Finally, a compelling reason to have children. SF Kids‘ “Check Out San Francisco” program allows San Francisco families to get FREE passes to a long list of museums, aquariums, zoos, and a bunch of other places I didn’t even know were here. Like the Haas-Lilienthal House (what surly teenager wouldn’t

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08 Jun 2010

A Broke-Ass Guide to Seeing FREE Movies

This movie is racist! They are playing off racial stereotypes of both black people AND leprechauns. Seeing movies is great and all but it can be pretty expensive.  I mean in cities like San Francisco and New York, movies cost over $10!  That’s just ridiculous.  What follows is a list

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08 Jun 2010

Museum Mile Festival: FREE Admission to 10+ Museums

There’s this exhibit at the Guggenheim that I am fairly certain I will hate but that I want to see because I am interested in masochism and also surprises. Not at the same time. However, the Guggenheim is expensive as fuck for no reason (18 bucks to fume about how

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07 Jun 2010

Ditch Hotels forever with AirBnB

While in the process of planning a long awaited vacation abroad at  the end of this summer, the question of where we would stay during our international escapades became a hot topic of debate particularly due to lack of cash flow. When traveling as a couple, the idea of fighting

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07 Jun 2010

FREE Anthony Bourdain Book Signing

Anthony Bourdain is the kind of chef/TV show personality who will show you the Montana hotel room where a former director went on a coke and shooting binge, and then go downstairs to tell you about the buffalo meat something he’s eating. Then other nights he ends up in the

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07 Jun 2010

House of Shields Changing the Guard

An old bar closing never ceases to sadden me.  Many of my favourites are now just ghostly vapor in my delirium-addled memory.  Expansion, Ginger’s Trois, 7-11 Club– was it just yesterday we were getting frisky?  The wind cuts through my coat a little quicker now. The House of Shields has

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06 Jun 2010

Unemploymaina #1 – Evenings with Craig

Life seems somehow more unfair when you are unemployed. There are the obvious things like the whole lack of money issue, which certainly puts a damper on obvious indulgences like feeding yourself and imbibing alcohol. Even if the money is there, with no job, its hard finding reasons to drink

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06 Jun 2010

FREE Open Art Studios and Party like it’s 1986

While you may not able to bask in the splendor of another three-day weekend, there’s still plenty of cool stuff going on to distract you from the fact that tomorrow is another sobering Monday. If you missed the free Yeasayer show last night, shame on you, but because this is

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