Shopping, Style and Beauty

D-Structure to Close in Lower Haight
Graphic t-shirt & hoodie store D-Structure (newly DSF) will close it’s Lower Haight store front February 1st. DSF has held cool parties and events in its store since 2006, and they’ve sold a lot of designs by local San Francisco Artists. A recent rent hike is blamed for the closure.

New York’s Best Lesser Known Bookstores
While the era of big bookstore chains dominating the business of reading is slowly coming to a close, the scrappy, independent booksellers who stood in defiance for so long seem to be hitting their stride.

This Article Will Change the Way You Buy Glasses Forever
Get em straight from the manufacturer, and cut out the middleman. Selection is dope, return policy is dope, and obviously the price is cut in half

Oh Great! ‘Hoverboards’ Are Going to be Made Legal on CA Streets
Sorry Brah, but your ‘hoverboard’ is the fucking worst. Your mother thought it was ‘pretty neat’, but that girl in your office who you have a crush on, uses your hoverboard as a punchline in the ladies room. ‘Hoverboards’, don’t actually hover, they are the Segways for guys who…like Segways. They are

12 Christmas Gifts for Writers
This piece originally appeared, in part, at DalyProse.com Writers are hard to shop for. Our tools are simple but we can be hopelessly picky about them–I don’t know how many wide-ruled legal pads I’ve re-gifted–we already have all the books, and the things we really want you might not be

Men with “Holiday Beards” is Now a Thing
This amazing and beautifully ridiculous project was conceived, art-directed, and written by Katie Nash and photographed by Anna-Alexia Basile. It is fantastic! Happy Holi-Dudes! The word on the street is that the beard ‘trend’ is on it’s way out, but it seems the look is still hanging on, literally, to hipster chins all

Beautiful Women in Bookstores: Kat
Beautiful Women in Bookstores is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a celebration of reading, intelligence, independent bookstores, and of course, beautiful women. In a time when bookstores seem to be disappearing this is our effort to show how sexy books and reading really are. Each installment will have a different

Unique and Simple Gifts That Won’t Make You Look Cheap this Holiday Season
Nobody likes the idea of maxing out credit cards just to make sure your holiday purchases don’t look like they came from the bargain bin at Goodwill. You also don’t want to look like a cheapskate either. But, you don’t have to over-extend yourself this season to make sure your