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Upgrade Your Comfort Foods: Drinking at Breakfast (Again.)
We’ve talked before about brunch, but since the weekend is coming up and you’ll (hopefully) be sharing some pre-noon cocktails with that special someone this weekend, I thought I’d focus today on those alcoholic beverages which are deemed acceptable breakfast-fare by the general population. Everyone is familiar with the ubiquitous

Don’t Spread the Clap: FREE NYC STD Clinics
Valentine’s Day is Sunday. Before you go get you some lovin’, make sure it’s the only VD you’ve got. The same government program that stocks every bar with NYC condoms also runs STD screening clinics in all of the boroughs that offer FREE screenings for the HIV, the clap, syphilis,

$2 Sale at Goodwill This Weekend
Ever since I started dressing myself, I’ve been shopping in thrift stores. I’m pretty sure it’s long gone now, but when I was growing up there was an AMAZING one in the Clairemont area of San Diego called Action Thrift. It was the size of a grocery store and because

Have a Sexy Childhood
Rainbow Brite was pretty much my best friend in the world as a child. I had her doll, the dolls of her friends, and even her ride–a unicorn with a shiny star on it’s forehead. My favorite toy out of all of the Rainbow Brite gang was, bien sur, her friend

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

Not Without My Mobile Device Daughter
As of the end of last week, a new NY statewide ruling has authorized a $200 fine for cabdrivers talking on any mobile device, even if it’s hands-free. Whoa, whoa, whoa, New York State, do you really think you’ve thought this through? I get the reasoning behind it– it’s frustrating,

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