
Downgrade Your Trendy Foods: 5 Kitchen Gadgets That Make You Look Like a Tool
Following hot on the heels of Polina’s air-tight Do Not Buy Tupperware post, we’d like to highlight several other kitchen items that are just not necessary for you to spend money on. These are the sorts of kitchen gadgets that every urban Foodster (That’s: Foodie + Hipster, I guess) thinks

Downgrade Your Trendy Foods: The $5 Limonata
While I don’t really believe in illegal activities, I have very few vices in this world that are not at least somewhat regulated by the government (Television with swear words and alcohol being chief among those). So admitting that the Passion Fruit Limonata from Ciao Bella (now with convenient locations

Downgrade Your Trendy Foods: “Rustic” Pizza Napoletana
This edition of Downgrade Your Trendy Foods is dedicated to the Italian World Cup squad who pulled off an unlikely loss against Slovakia, of all places. Finding good pizza in San Francisco seems like it would be an easy win, given our impressive lineup of Italian restaurants, but just like

Downgrade Your Trendy Foods: Sliders
Ever since Harold and Kumar’s fateful trip to White Castle back in the early 00’s, sliders have be steadily moving from stoner food staple, to bar food menu item, to mainstream acceptance. This is great for those of us who don’t live in New Jersey where, despite Harold & Kumar’s

Downgrade Your Trendy Foods: Choose Your Own Ceviche
In the past, I’ve used this humble space to talk about how not look so poor when eating your Mac & Cheese, or Ramen noodles, or Peanut Butter and Jelly. OR WHATEVER. But what about all those trendy dishes the hot new restaurants are serving up that all your Yelp

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FREE Rosetta Stone Online Language Lessons with Your SF Library Card
So you’ve got that big trip to South America coming up but you haven’t really spoken anything but Drunken Taqueria Spanish since freshman year of college. Which means you know enough Spanish to navigate your way around say, San Diego, but it probably won’t do you much good in somewhere

This Week’s Events for the 5 Senses
Wondering what to do for fun this week? Feeling a little dead inside? Wake yourself up with an event for each of the 5 senses! HEAR: The 14th annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival kicks off with a FREE show at featuring the Bitter Honeys, which is a super

Look, Ke$ha, We Need to Have a Talk About This “Being a Celebrity” Thing
The usual Friday segment Upgrade Your Comfort Foods/Downgrade Your Trendy Foods will return next week, because it’s really important that I talk to Ke$ha right now. Look, Ke$ha (if that’s even your real name), we need to talk (again) about these pictures that are going around the Internet. You know,