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Cheap Flowers: The San Francisco Flower Mart
Ok, so you really fucked up this time. Not only did you forget your anniversary, which also happens to fall on her birthday (which you also forgot), but you didn’t close the front door all the way which allowed her cat to run out and get hit by a car.
Hawaii Poke Festival and Spam Musubi Eating Contest
Get your very own slice of Hawaii and celebrate the beginning of San Francisco Summer at the Hukilau‘s 9th Annual Poke Festival and Spam Musubi eating contest! Spam Musubi, for those of you unawares, is a block of rice topped with a slab of grilled Spam and wrapped in seaweed.
Cheap Lunch Specials at Ayola
When I’m having a good day at work, I celebrate with lunch at Ayola. When I’m having a bad day, I eat my feelings at Ayola. In sum, I spend a lot of time at Ayola. Good thing it’s so delicious ‘“ and cheap! The $8.56 lunch special includes a
Dealing With Post-Traumatic Relationship Stress
Here is a thing I find disturbing – apparently, due to a bad breakup, Tim Gunn has been celibate for like, 20 years. I know this not because Tim Gunn and I are BFFs, as we ought to be, but because he wrote it in his new book, Tim Gunn:
Pancakes at Tom’s Restaurant: the Fluffiest of the Fluffy
Fluffy is a word that describes many of the most awesome little things in life, like bright green grass, blankets, whipped cream, bunny rabbits…so I ignored the rest of the menu at Tom’s Restaurant after I saw “Fluffy Pancakes” as an item. Then I went into a brief internal/external debate
Celebrate a Decade of Art with the Fecal Face After Party Tomorrow Night
If there’s one thing being broke in San Francisco teaches you, it’s that art parties aren’t just for hoity-toity, chardonnay-sipping museum donors. Gallery shows and openings are usually small-scale deals, but I can’t remember the last time I went to one and didn’t end up polishing off a couple free
Economy Candy. (Enough Said.)
When my family comes to visit, there’s nothing my little brothers enjoy more than asking why we have to walk so much (specifically, “Why can’t we take a subway to the subway?”), followed by consistently ordering refills of Root Beer at restaurants that do not offer free refills, thereby creating
Sam Amidon Show and Interview
On Monday, September 13th I have the great honor of opening for Sam Amidon at Café Du Nord. Sam’s a folk singer from Vermont who reinvents old Appalachian folk songs into modern masterpieces. So I’m being a bit grandiose, but everything I hear about the guy is nothing but goodness!