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01 Mar 2016

PROFILE OF A MODERN-DAY ADVENTURER: The ‘Fancy Feral’ Life of a Vagabond Fashion Model

Beautiful, polished, fashion model, also travels on a shoestring budget, sleeps outside, hitch-hikes, dumpster dives, and can handle roughing it. Meet Velocity, a modern day adventurer.

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29 Feb 2016

How The Blind Barber Became a Successful Bar & Barbershop

A few summers ago in the Hamptons, I met a young man with a great personality and an ability to make everyone have a good time. At the time, he was the general manager at Ella Lounge, a spunky little LES staple that is now (sadly) gone. Now co-owner of

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29 Feb 2016

The 7 Best Dressed Oscars of All Time

The Oscars were on Sunday, and it wasn’t just a celebration of great acting and films but all the red carpet broadcasting makes the fashion just as important. If you took a drink every time you heard ‘Who are you wearing?’ you would have been deader than a George R.R. Martin character.

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26 Feb 2016

7 San Francisco Bars to Cry In by Yourself

It’s been the worst day imaginable. Your dog died, you got fired, your laptop was stolen, and your partner comes out of the closet – as actually being straight – and runs away with someone of the opposite gender. All you wanna do is go to the nearest bar and be left alone to cry your eyes out into a big glass of booze. Here’s a list of the best bars in San Francisco to do that in.

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26 Feb 2016

The Most F***ed-Up S*** To Happen At ‘Miss Behave Game Show’

Usually you turn your phone off at the theater, but Miss Behave Game Show is a wild satire of smartphone use where the audience competes using their smartphones competitively and interactively during the show. Playing at the Great Star Theater through March 5, Miss Behave Game Show pits the audience

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25 Feb 2016

This Week’s Events | San Francisco + New York

Rad Upcoming SF Events GIN N JAZZ: KAMASI WASHINGTON IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID KATZNELSON  THU. 2/25 | 3:30PM – 6:00PM @ SWEDISH AMERICAN HALL This interview would discuss the founding of the Young Jazz Giants, with focus on Billy Higgins, the recording of that record and the path from there to

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25 Feb 2016

Drawing Naked People in Oakland

I approach a nondescript looking building in east Oakland. “What an unassuming place to draw some boobs at.” I thought

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25 Feb 2016

Animal Collective plays the Fox Theater in oakland and we’ve got tickets!

  At the beginning of Animal Collective there were two of them – Avey Tare and Panda Bear – banging drums and tweaking synths in their bedrooms, singing strange and sometimes heartbreaking songs about imaginary friends and childhood pets. Carried along by washes of squalling feedback, the music was noisy,

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