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19 Jun 2015

Retailers Post Unsold, Unexpired Food For A Discount W/ PareUp

Hungry? Broke? Malnourished? Do you live in a city where anything green costs more than what you make in an hour? Then stop reading this, get PareUp , and treat yourself. And you’ll be helping to curb food waste while you’re at it. PareUp connects users with discounted food that New

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18 Jun 2015

THIS WEEK’S TOP EVENTS in San Francisco + NEW YORK

Rad Upcoming SF Events Azúcar Con Aché THU. 06/18 | 6:00PM @ YERBA BUENA GARDENS A sizzling multicultural salsa group with members hailing from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the United States. ADMISSION: FREE SF City Hall Centennial Celebration FRI. 06/19 | 6:00PM – 11:00PM @ SAN FRANCISCO CITY HALL

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18 Jun 2015

2 NY Best Selling Writers Read at the Basement Series SF 6/19

The Basement Series presents: COMPULSION. Two NY Times Bestselling mystery writers—Cara Black, David Corbett reading along with some chick named Melissa Dodd and four other carefully curated newcomers. Plus FREE BEER. $5 – $10 sliding scale at the door with proceeds going to Dave Eggers ScholarMatch and Lit Camp scholarships. Friday, June 19,

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16 Jun 2015

Ask A Grown Up: How Can I Tell If My Boyfriend Is An Alcoholic?

Happy Tuesday, Broke-Asses! Given the seriousness of today’s question, let me start today with an amusing story: Once upon a time, I lived in San Francisco and was fun. I had lots of friends and a cool job and expendable income and an active social life and was always out

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15 Jun 2015

Profile of a Modern-Day Adventurer: Train Hopping & Hitchhiking in America

Ever wanted to just drop everything and go? Ever wanted to run away and join the circus, live a life on the high seas, train hop, hitch hike, explore abandoned buildings and have the greatest adventure of all? Adventure, along with a problematic lack of patience, is what entices me

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50% off New Glasses + Free Shipping!

We wrote about the 6 rad reasons why shopping for glasses on GlassesUSA.com will change the way you buy glasses forever. You can read about that here. But here's the important part: YOU GET 50% OFF + free shipping on your first pair of frames. Click to find out more!

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap
12 Jun 2015

BAS Pride 2015: Dragula, SOME THING’S Got Talent & The Maricón Collective

As Pride month starts picking up steam, it would seem that the city is learning a couple of things: One is that perhaps some are a little unfair when it comes to passing judgment on the merits of our bodacious sister to the south, Los Angeles, and the other is

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12 Jun 2015

The Beatnik Shindig will be the largest gathering of Beat characters in 20 years

Through sprawls of twisting novels, jolting poetry, and a touch of drugs, a clique of artists belonging to the late ‘50s crafted the Beat legacy. At the peak of their activity, general America viewed them as destructive, wicked, and super gay. Naturally, bookstores and classrooms now showcase their work around

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12 Jun 2015

How SF County Jail Compares to ‘Orange is the New Black’

‘Orange is the New Black’ has its season premiere this week, so people will care about women’s incarceration issues for, oh, the next 48 hours or so. How does the TV show depiction of female incarceration compare to the real-life experience of women inmates here in San Francisco at the

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