Arts and Culture

24 Aug 2009

New York, I Love You Part Deux: Times Square

In some article I was reading awhile back, the author talks about what it can be like to be a tourist in NYC.  He says that with other cities one travels to, it’s easy to experience the old aphorism that it’s “a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want

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24 Aug 2009

FREE Food and the Chance to Win a Surf Board at the Riptide

This one comes straight from my man Johnny Funcheap.  This Wednesday the Riptide, is throwing a bad ass party to kick off the Outside Lands Festival.  This little fiesta is to raise money for the Save The Waves Coalition and there will be FREE food, surf movies on the big

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24 Aug 2009

FREE Games, Beer and Mac n Cheese at Glasslands

A few weeks ago, I accidentally wound up at a bar on bingo night. Apparently, bingo is a game you can be bad at. The entire group of seven next to my friend and I won a scratch off lotto ticket, so did my friend’pretty much everyone in the bar

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23 Aug 2009

The Pleasures of Jade Walking and Soundwalk Audio Tours

One of the joys of living in a large city is that most of the time you don’t have to own a car.  Sure I’m not eligible for the Cash for Clunkers deal, but I also don’t have to pay attention to gas prices while the rest of the country

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23 Aug 2009

How to Make a Garden in Berkeley for FREE Part I: Steps 1 & 2

We may be heading towards September, but there is still time to plant a fall crop (consult a Planting Schedule), and if you follow these steps, you can do it for absolutely FREE! I lived in Berkeley for 6 years, but it was the 6th year which solidified my love

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22 Aug 2009

Clement St. Pub Crawl: Forget Outer Richmond, It’s What’s Inside That Counts

Outer Richmond is charming and gorgeous. You’ve got the beach and the nice plump caboose of Golden Gate park at your fingertips. But if there’s anything my best friends have taught me, it’s looks don’t matter and beauty is skin deep. What really counts? Inner Richmond. When hearing the words

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22 Aug 2009

Warm Up (like you need help doing that) at P.S.1 Today

So it’s almost the end of August.  Remember all those plans you had way back in May and haven’t gotten around to yet?  Well it’s time to get started folks. Head over to P.S.1 ‘“ like right now ‘“ because today (Sat. Aug. 22) the MoMA extension in Long Island

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21 Aug 2009

Street Food gets its own…Street?

My coverage of the burgeoning street food scene in SF is never ending. First, there was the article. Then, there was Curtis encouraging people to clean up the park, and in turn, winning Best of The Bay. San Francisco magazine decided to do a full on spread on the who’s

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