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THE VISTAS OF SAN FRANCISCO: Pairing Buena Vista Park with a Dead Guy Ale
LOCATION: BUENA VISTA PARK BEVERAGE: DEAD GUY ALE by ROGUE The following installment in this series takes a decidedly morbid turn, despite the fact that our setting is a park whose whimsically creative name translates to “Good View”. In fact, Buena Vista Park is San Francisco’s oldest official park and
Help Save the Lives of Dogs with Rocket Dog Rescue’s $5 Fridays
This Friday is $5 Friday ($5riday, for short), Rocket Dog Rescue’s new monthly event! The last Friday of every month, we are asking people to make a $5 donation to help us keep up with the never-ending medical costs that are a very real part of the work that we
Freaky-Deaky Friday: Cheap Drinks & Free Ike’s Place This Friday 6/26
My life mantra has become “Let’s get weird”. In fact, I’m pretty sure that’s what I want it to say on my tombstone. So I’ve decided to throw a monthly party in celebration of getting weird. It’s called Freaky-Deaky Fridays. And… It’s a Costume Box Dance Party! and it happens
Hunt for a Good Pupusa: Panchita’s No. 2
And so I continue my mission to find a pupusa that would justify, at least in my mind, their ubiquity, nay, their very existence. In Panchita’s No. 2 I’ve found a pupuseria whose product at least gives me hope and prevents me from writing them off as nothing more than bland, pudgy
FREE Comedy Night: House Show in Brooklyn presented by Sylvan Productions
On Friday, July 26th, San Francisco-based comedy group Sylvan Productions is invading Brooklyn for an East coast premiere at their FREE House Show starting at 8pm. After being recently voted the “Best Comedy Troupe” by SF Weekly, Sylvan will be combining the best comedy and musical talent from East to
What You Should Really Expect From A Broke Musician
I’m a 20-something artist living in New York City, and, quite frankly, I’m tired of trying to make people believe that I have my shit together. It’s way too much work. I constantly find myself having to choose between taking a shower, brushing my teeth, shaving, dressing appropriately for whatever
Let’s Get Wet: Broke-Ass Water Activities
If you’re a fellow cube dweller by day, you’re lucky enough to enjoy free air conditioning for approximately eight hours Monday through Friday while the rest of the city – namely tourists who don’t believe in deodorant – slog around the streets, coated in their own sweat, and clog the
Banking Tips for Broke People
Even though we all claim to be broke-asses, most of us keep the small amount of money we do have in the bank (unless you are my friend Gabe who doesn’t believe in banks). But, as most of us have realized by now, banks are pretty sneaky. They say