San Francisco

Commune SF Featuring Religious Girls, Grill Cloth, Urthdance and More THIS WED!
Oh heyyy… Do you, by chance, like local music, art, and fashion? WE DO TOO! Commune SF is back 10/9 at the Elbo Room starting at 9 PM! WTF is Commune? It’s a movement of artists, designers, musicians and people that take a stand against tobacco corporations, their practices and their presence in

Come Dunk City Officials For Dollars at the 40th Annual Castro Street Fair
Once a year, as the day’s light develops its golden October hue, Castro Street takes on a look akin of yesteryear, when bronzed boys hung out of listing Victorians and a sea of the Eureka Valley’s villagers grooved amongst the beer gardens and cotton candy booths below. True, the

Save Time, Money, Your Body with the Cold Shower
This will likely be one of the simplest tips you hear on Broke Ass Stuart’s, and will also be the one you are most reluctant to take. This is because it requires a certain amount of physical discomfort, and despite however much we fancy ourselves as self-denying dreamchasers, most of

Commune SF Featuring Golden Drugs, Bio Sexual, The Hot Dark and More THIS WED!
Commune SF is back 9/11 at the Elbo Room starting at 9 PM! WTF is Commune? It’s a movement of artists, designers, musicians and people that take a stand against tobacco corporations, their practices and their presence in the scene. Commune takes this stance by being pro-local- so each month, a different local band,

Farewell Widow Norton- The Imperial State Funeral of José Julio Sarria
It was on a cold damp evening, 133 years ago that His Imperial Majesty, Joshua Abraham Norton I entered immortality on the steps of Saint Mary’s Cathedral in Chinatown. The city wept in great frenzy and many have kept his devotion in the many years since, one such devotee being

A Borinquen Soul Summmer…
If you think you’ve met a Puerto Rican, you haven’t. You’d never have to question it, because where there is a PR…there will be the flag. Even if the car is a rental, there will be a temporary flag on the rear-view mirror. Few West Coast residents understand Puerto Ricans or

Kam Po: Pig Ear Soup with a Side of Duck
Kam Po Last week’s article concerned Capital Restaurant’s roast duck, for which I had a lustful appreciation, a sentiment strong enough to effect an immediate return to Chinatown for this week’s post. While tucking into said food at Capital’s low bar last week, a woman sitting next to me clued

On the Greased Path to Morbid Obesity: Capital Restaurant’s Roast Duck
Capital Restaurant What American dislikes the chicken? I, for one, love the chicken. But for some reason, the more sensually inclined fowl called DUCK has never gained quite the same hold on our psyche. Somehow, duck always comes off as excessive. Duck wasn’t actually on my mind when I went