Booze

28 Feb 2010

Super Cheap Wine Tasting in Livermore

So it’s a Sunday, you want to get your day drink on in Dolores Park, but it’s the end of February and the weather is fucking apocalyptic.  I’m over this devil rain that doesn’t come down on you, it comes across at you, like all horizontal and shit.  Anyway, you

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27 Feb 2010

Eat Here: BYOB Restaurants

Going out to dinner with a big group is always fun, until the check comes. Then, it turns into a cluster fuck of confusion while people try to figure out how much they owe, how much they should tip, etc. And then you get pissed when you have to pay

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25 Feb 2010

Earn Your Way to FREE Classes at the Crucible in Oakland

People who like Oakland seem to like it because they think it has a certain grit that the wine-and-cheese-shop-lined streets of San Francisco are be missing. Personally, I’m not a big fan of Oaktown and I cannot claim to be very Oaklandish, but every now and then there’s an event

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25 Feb 2010

Audio Heirlooms 5th Annual “Listening Party” on Sunday

Often, when someone has died or the realization dawns that the kids are no longer kids, people will lament that they had never pulled out a tape recorder to document all those little things and stories that happened back when. For five years, Evan Roberts of Audio Heirlooms has been

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24 Feb 2010

The Science Behind “Breaking the Seal”

At some point in the past few nights of dive bar drinking, the conversation landed upon the fact that I take more pisses than an old guy with prostate problems.  And it’s true, I totally do.  Once I piss for the for the first time after having a few drinks,

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24 Feb 2010

A FREE Event to Avoid: Red Bull/Vodka Tasting at Eastside West

99% of the time, we here at BASGDWS like to share with you suggested things to do. Usually this is stuff we’d be going to anyway and we want you to come too because we love you and we’re all about reciprocation. (There’s also the theory that we’re a top-secret

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24 Feb 2010

Learn How to Lie, Cheat and Steal for FREE

I immediately start singing the Tool song Intolerance in my head when I hear the words, “Lie, cheat, and steal” together, because Tool is permanently lodged in my subconscious after listening to them a lot in high school. In general, I’m not a liar, cheater (except at board games) or

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22 Feb 2010

Vienetta Discotheque – Cheap Booze and No Cover Every Monday

For the discerning palate.. There was never enough of you to go around was there?  So continental, so refined, why couldn’t you come in a larger size?  How many dinner parties were transformed into sticky melees because of you? Well unlike its namesake, Vienetta, the latest disco at the UndergroundSF,

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