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A Valentine’s Guide for Lovers and Haters
Valentine’s Day is a weird little holiday. With fuzzy historical origins, no significant religious ties, and mostly exclusive to half the population, it’s the Sarah Palin of holidays, loved by some and despised by a lot. It sneaks up on you every year with pandering shitty movies, Duane Reed starts

Broke-Ass Porn: Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations
Once a week we present Broke-Ass Porn. It’s visually stimulating material for the financially impaired. If this shit doesn’t get you going, you’re not as broke as you thought.

A Relaxing Friday Night In
While living in NYC it can seem unnatural to stay in on a Friday night. That particular transgression falls somewhere between uncool and downright unpatriotic. After a particularly grueling week that left me wanting to hibernate, I decided to throw caution to the wind and’stay in my apartment this Friday

Pop-Up Wedding: Vegas Comes to San Francisco
Wanna get hitched? Feel like making some mistakes usually reserved for trips to Vegas? Well UrbanDaddy is hosting a Pop-up Wedding event at the W Hotel this Sunday where you can renew some vows, get legally bound, or just watch others take the plunge while drinking FREE champagne. They promise

Housing Works V-Day Mixer
I know that even those of us in relationships are sick to death of all of the Valentine’s Day coverage that the Internet spews forth like so many partially chewed-up conversation hearts. That being said, it IS almost Valentine’s Day and we DO all have to do something with ourselves tonight.

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,