Like most people that live in Portland right now, you’re probably thinking something along the lines of “the sky is grey, everything is grey, the choices I make get perpetually worse every year, my life is going nowhere, I want to die, is there someone available to take care of

Just because you’re a broke-ass doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate some good wine in fine atmosphere. Actually, it’s almost like just living in the Bay Area gives you a better palate for food and wine no matter how rich or broke you are. If you happen to be of the

  I like to celebrate my birthday with brunch.  It’s got all the components of a good day: booze, food and friends.  This year my birthday fell on a Sunday, historically an epic brunch day.  I was excited.  I became even more excited when I learned that Thee Parkside was

Do not pay $150 for a NYE meal at a fancy NYC restaurant. I repeat, do not pay the $150. Why? Because you can wait for your parents or richer sister who works in finance to be in town to take you out to a meal that fancy. This is

Full Disclosure: I’m lazy as fuck right now and am just gonna cut and paste the info for this giveaway. That said, it does sone like it’s gonna be a pretty great party. I mean it is two legendary Bay Area party promoters doing a NYE event together. How can

There will be Strip Dreidel.  Yup you read that right…well there should be. It didn’t work out last year, but I’m really gonna push for it this year. Heeb or not, you are cordially invited to spend Christmas in the company of the “chosen” people…chosen to be alienated and bored

If you are on the right track, right about now your head should be a terror storm of the large umbrella group known as holiday music.  It probably started innocuously enough when you heard a far away ditty from your childhood lilt upon the frosty air and a single tear,

                    A typical sight at Brothers Restaurant   One Tuesday evening, I accompanied one of my roommates to an Irish bar on Geary Street in the Inner Richmond.  Fifth and Geary, to be precise.  I like the Inner Richmond; with the