The three-martini lunch used to be a staple of any Ad man or business tycoon worth a damn.  Then, in 1976, Jimmy Carter tried to bring the smack down.  He didn’t succeed entirely, but the trend of meandering, expensed, business lunches dwindled. There was a brief revival during the stock

  by Monica the Intern       With her power-packed strum and her even bigger voice, Thao Nguyen emerged as one of the truly deserving headliners on Thursday night at the Swedish American Music Hall.   “I went shopping for you guys today. Before today, I only had one dress

by Broke-Ass Stuart I feel bad for those of you that read yesterday’s post about the FREE booze, music and Little Star Pizza at the Diesel store, but didn’t get to go.  But don’t trip chocolate chip, you can go tonight instead!  Here’s my advice though: try to get there as

  For the past few weeks Stuart has been defending San Francisco’s Bay To Breakers, a 12k costumed, bipedal shit show, race-ish thingy celebrating freedom of expression and consumption.  So when I saw a list-ette of marathon happy hours in this week’s Time Out New York (TONY) I figured I would

The fine folks over at My Open Bar recently informed me of this awesome event.  Yesterday, today, and tomorrow the Diesel Jeans store in Union Square, SF is throwing a party from 5-9pm where with free booze, music and Little Star Pizza. HOLY FUCK!  Are you kidding me?  The only

  Let me just say I could never live in Yonkers because just saying the name makes me think of the Phillies’ mascot Phanatic. However, despite my thoughts, fresh units in a new urban living space 66Main are being pushed at a ‘œFabulously Frugal’ Open House on March 4th.  I’m sure these

  A review of last night’s FREE Deerhunter show.     By Monica the Intern     In a sonic wash of pedal pushing magic and light, Deerhunter opened Noise Pop 2009 with a performance at Mezzanine, thus kicking off this year’s festival with an orchestrated bang. Before the opening lazy