San Francisco

11 Feb 2010

Why Haven’t You had Brunch at the Thai Temple yet?

Do you like Thai food? Do you like Brunch? Of course you do, these things are dealbreakers. So, you should combine these great loves with that other love of your life (your girlfriend/boyfriend, you jerk) on the holiest of corporate holidays this weekend and treat her/him to some cheap brunch

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11 Feb 2010

Save the Boathouse Valentine’s Dance This Saturday

Is S.F. Rec and Park a long arm of gentrification?  With rumblings of what the newly beautified Dolores Park may entail, it remains to be seen. Apparently, however, the pearl of the Mission, is not the only contentious jewel in the city’s parkland crown as that locals feel an impending

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10 Feb 2010

Drink Up for the Pups: Tonight at Elixir

This one should resonate with all the dog people and vegans in the audience: Rocket Dog Rescue has rescued a couple pups that need some expensive surgery so they’ll be holding a drink up/fundraiser at Elixir in the Mission tonight to help pay for their Vet bills. $1 from the

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10 Feb 2010

Valentine’s Day Flashmob Pillow Fight

Valentine’s Day makes me want to punch myself in the face.  It also makes me want to punch everyone else in the face (especially cute couples’”they’re the worst).  But how to justify random acts of violence on the stupid day of love?  Clearly the geniuses behind The Great San Francisco

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09 Feb 2010

Fuck You Hitler: Mein Kampf Exhibit at the CJM $5

A Jew after my own heart, Linda Ellia has made an art of defacing relics of Nazism.  In 2005 Ellia came across a French translation of Hitler’s infamous memoir Mein Kampf (which means ‘œOur Struggle’ in English).  Holding the thick manifesto in her hands, she felt an immediate visceral response

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09 Feb 2010

Broke-Ass Financial Coaching: Life, Death, & Insurance

When I was 23, someone tried to sell me a grave plot, for myself. He told me that I could get such a great deal and that it wouldn’t burden my family if I bought it when I was young etc. WHOA! It didn’t truly occur to me, until that moment, that one day, I was going to die.

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08 Feb 2010

Celebrate SF Beer Week with FREE Food and Cheap Pints

So, as you may have noticed from the Swagger Stagger video I was in: it’s SF Beer Week!  And today there is a dope event going on that even you, my dear broke-asses, can afford to attend. Wes Anderson and Kenny Scherr from the Whole Foods in Potrero Hill, have

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08 Feb 2010

The Swagger Stagger: Walking San Francisco in Search of Good Beer

My good friend, Sayre Piotrkowski, is one of the only Cicerones (a beer sommelier) in the Bay Area.  While we used to drink lots and lots of Budweiser together in college, his tastes have matured while mine have apparently stayed fairly pedestrian.  Because of this he decided to honor SF

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