Arts and Culture

25 Jan 2010

Super Cheap Yoga in the Mission and Soma

This amazing photo is from Blogadilla.  It’s also from 1972. If you remember awhile back Chloe told you about all the FREE Yoga classes in the East Bay.  That was cool of her.  I hope at least one of you sent her a holiday card for that. Here on this

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25 Jan 2010

Bar Workers Ball Tomorrow Night!!

Calling All Service Industry Workers (ONLY!): Working behind the bar or out on the floor tended to be a little on the lean side this year. Things have gotten so bad that the city has become a veritable graveyard of boarded up taverns and dusty dining rooms with papered windows.

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25 Jan 2010

Book Club Burlesque Does The Curious Sofa

While Bushwick Book Club combines bitchin’ music with works of literature, the Inbred Hybrid Collective’s book club multiplies the sexiness of reading times five. Their Burlesque Book Clubs feature local artists and performers in shows about a piece of literature. They’re starting the year with The Curious Sofa, Edward Gorey’s

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25 Jan 2010

OK, Tim Riggins, Ya Got Me!

I’ve just wrapped up watching the entirety of Friday Night Lights, Season 1.  I know, I know: welcome to 2006!  It’s just that I’ve resisted watching this show for four years because I just assumed that it would be boring and/or exactly like a TV version of Varsity Blues.  Although

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24 Jan 2010

Brooklyn Haiti Fundraiser

People have many opinions about those “crazy kids” living in the hipster hotbed that is Bushwick. They turn dumpsters into swimming pools, try to secede, and throw riotous parties in their DIY music spaces. Cynicism aside, these kids know how to work with what they got and put together huge

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23 Jan 2010

Food Carts and Drinks at Fabric8’s 4 Year Anniversary

It’s a lazy Saturday morning and I’m pretty deep into a Law and Order marathon right now.  This means that Imma do a little cuttin’ and pastin’.  Here is all the info for you from Fabric8: It’s been 4 years in the Mission and 14 years in business(!), so let’s

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23 Jan 2010

Volunteer and Get FREE Disneyland Passes

This is a message to all those who love magic, happiness, and fun. While many may argue that Disney is a sexist, brainwashing, racist corporation that only cares about sucking cash from the masses, I argue that those people, while a little correct about the sexism/racism thing, can go suck

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23 Jan 2010

A Wine Filled Upstate Escape

When I got married, my husband and I celebrated our union with a honeymoon trip to Italy. I made sure our voyage included many clichéd romantic moments’candlelight dinners, wine tours and er’um’an audience with the Pope.   In an effort to relive those magical moments, my husband and I happened upon

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