Arts and Culture

2nd Annual Mission Prom Night
There are many things I enjoy more now than I did in my youth: Disneyland, mustard, good arch support, to name a few. The best example that comes to mind, however, is the prom. Possibly for the desire for a major do-over, or maybe just because I like any excuse

Five Things You’ll Never Look Cool Doing
We’ve all had those embarrassing moments where one minute everything is fine, and the next you can feel the blood rushing to your face and are eyeing what could be your quickest escape route so you can go home and cut yourself. Below are five things that it’s almost impossible

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with FREE Burritos & Biking Tonight
Happy Cinco de Margaritayo! Or Mayo, whatever. To most, today is a day to get unapologetically drunk on tequila. To few, it is a day to pay homage to Mexico’s Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, when the Mexican army defeated invading French forces from conquering the state of

Silkscreen Your Way Through Cinco de Mayo
For those of you who are over wearing a Mexican sombrero, a fake mustache and shooting squirt guns full of Tequila this Cinco de Mayo, let your creative juices flow at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art’s Craft Bar with Etsy Labs. Every first Thursday of the month the

Win Tickets to the World Premiere of GUSH at the Roxie
Listen up, guys and girls. Word on the street is you’re trying really hard to please your lady, and she definitely appreciates the effort, but you’re not quite there yet. And it’s totally acceptable to blame it all on the elusive G-spot. It would be a million times easier if

Great Broke-Asses of the Past: Jack Dawson
Jack Dawson, the man who stole my twelve-year-old heart, is, perhaps, the sexiest of all Broke-Asses. He won his way, fair and square, on to the mighty Titanic in a game of poker with some Swedes, exhibiting true, tainted Broke-Ass luck. When invited to the upper decks, he did his

Tonight! Shh, It’s the Secret Secretaries
Within the past year, locals The Secret Secretaries have gone from “What’s so secret about ’em?” to “punk-styled ‘lit rock’… musically virtuosic… pure poetry” (Charles Kruger). Remain at Cafe du Nord after the group’s set tonight for the Quiet Lightning Reading Series, and you’ll have yourself a seriously cerebral night

Curbing Consumption: A Money-Saving Lecture for Broke Asses
Despite its annoying, clipboard-carrying solicitors stationed on the sidewalk outside every grocery store in this town, Greenpeace’s heart has always been in the right place. So it’s fitting that former Greenpeace CEO Paul Gilding is the brains behind tonight’s talk, “Curbing Consumption: Forming a New Economic Model,” sponsored by the