31 Oct 2009

DIY Diva: Tips to Help You Travel on the Cheap

Heyo!  The DIY Diva here.  Even though you’ll see this come the normal time for my column on Friday, October 30th – I am sitting at my trusty computer writing this on TUESDAY, October 27th.  Why, you ask? Well, I’ll be happy to tell you, if you just wait a

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30 Sep 2009

Vicarious US Travel: FREE Reading

Unless you’re Wayne or Garth and you have a green screen in your new studio, then you have to rely on pop culture to take you to the places you’ll never visit. Instead of waiting for Sufjan Stevens to finish an album about each of the 50 states, you can

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27 Sep 2009

Travel Books You Want to Read This Fall: Part 2

Now I know you’ve been waiting desperately for the final ten books on my Travel Books List.  Thinking about them kept you up nights this week, eh?  Well today is the big reveal! 11. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Some books you finish and you sit processing

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20 Sep 2009

Travel Books You Want to Read This Fall: Part 1

Being a Broke-Ass means so much more than not having a lot of money.  For you, it might mean spending less in order to live it up more.  For others, it means working less in order to simply enjoy life more.  And others choose to take on six different part-time

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06 Aug 2009

The Aluminium Age of Travel

Im currently in the Bolt Bus, hurtling down the highway at a zillion miles per hour (60) headed towards the real center of the universe NYC.  In the months prior to my move from NY to Boston, I rode the ol’ Bolt Bus a number of times and had the

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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!

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17 May 2024

Employees Save Jack London Square’s Favorite Pub, Sláinte Oakland

I’m sure you’d agree that the hallmarks of a great Irish pub include great drinks, a thriving community, authentic Irish food and live music. Sláinte Oakland in Jack London has all of that but its origin story and remarkable revival following the closure in 2023 is what gives this place

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09 May 2024

10 Brave, Bizarre, & Beautiful Films at CAAMFest

It’s Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2024.  This also means it’s time for the 2024 edition of the annual Center for Asian-American Media Film Festival (hereafter “CAAMFest”).  Running from May 9-19, 2024, CAAMFest will screen films at the SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theatre, the Great Star Theater, the Roxie Theatre,

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07 May 2024

Why Does Flying Suck So Much?

Written By: Ian Firstenberg Airports are Hell. Airlines are the Devil. To purge the evil, the government should use the same strategy it employed against the railroad: seize it. It’s unclear whether it’s the barrage of bright neon colored advertising, the prison cell sized workspaces, the perpetual delays or the

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