Arts and Culture

14 Dec 2010

FREE Cocktails, Food, and Entertainment at City Hall

This sounds like a pretty awesome FREE event.  It’s almost too good to be true.  Luckily this is San Francisco, so magical things do happen on a daily basis.  Check out this press release.  Sorry I’m just cutting and pasting it but I’m swamped with work today: THE WORLD TREE

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14 Dec 2010

Bear Hands Rock/Jam/Groove at Bowery Ballroom

The Brooklyn indie scene is dominated by electro outfits looking to make quick cash from free software on their laptops. While their aesthetic can be admirably DIY, their sound more often than not comes off as POS. Every now and then, though, a band comes along unafraid to sit behind

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14 Dec 2010

This Week’s Music Picks: FREE and Affordable!

I was standing in line today behind two old ladies. I mean, really old ladies. I mean, so many wrinkles you can barely see their eyes old. And one of them said in her thick New York accent: ‘œI went to see Burlesque and that Christina Agoraphobia is such a

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12 Dec 2010

Watch Polar Bears Unwrap Presents at the Central Park Zoo

Fact I just learned about polar bears, from David Attenborough: apparently their sense of smell is so acute that they can detect a baby seal under the ice from a MILE AWAY. That is ridiculous. And I think it means that the Central Park polar bear must be constantly tormented

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11 Dec 2010

Annual Running of the Santas: Santacon

Santa’s always had a reputation as a bit of a drunkard. Blame the harsh climate of the North Pole, or the VFW hall where mall’s do their Santa recruiting, but beneath those jolly layers of red velvet lives a man who just likes to have a good time. If you

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10 Dec 2010

Trust the Buffalo, Go to the Bell House

I end up writing about a bunch of events at the Bell House, because they always have great stuff like taxidermy contests and oil spill benefit concerts. But in all of these posts, I’ve failed to talk about how much ass The Bell House kicks. It’s tucked away in a

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10 Dec 2010

FREE Drinks, Snacks and Shenanigans at the Mission Holiday Block Party

So much to do this week!  Another reason I love this time of the year — it’s super busy, but in a fun, endless-ugly-sweater-parties kind of way.  Right off the heels of last night’s Divis Art Walk comes tonight’s Mission Holiday Block Party, a FREE event that over forty local stores,

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10 Dec 2010

Faux Punk Play Pretend at (Le) Poisson Rouge

Faux Punk is a Daft Punk cover band that fills a void. Considering that Daft Punk is physically incapable of being present at more than one place simultaneously, Faux Punk rises to act in their stead. (Sort of like what Batman is currently doing.) Daft Punk has been in the

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