You’ll be up at 7 a.m. for Bay to Breakers on Sunday, so you probably don’t want to party TOO hard on Saturday.  Solution:  head to Ritual Coffee’s 5th anniversary party!  The festivities start at 2pm and end at 9pm, so it’s kind of perfect.  The event is FREE and

So you saw Ghost World when you were 15, dyed your hair black and cut it in an unflattering, butchy bob like Thora Birch.  Then you watched Art School Confidential a couple years ago while you were, in fact, enrolled in art school and laughed sardonically at the oh-so-true irony

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

Anyone who’s anyone has a Gmail address nowadays, and why the F not — it’s FREE and enables a crazy distracting feature called Gchat. Sure, it’s not a new idea. After all, I still have my AIM screen name, SMP1155, from seventh grade. But because the chat windows pop up

For David Hasselhoff, it’s alcohol and cheeseburgers.  For Amy Winehouse, it’s the pesky crack rock.  For Lawrence Taylor, it’s 16-year-old girls.  For me, it’s bacon.  Everyone has their weaknesses, but luckily mine is not punishable by hard time in the slammer and can be innocently indulged this Saturday at San

Ever wanted to take a road trip across the United States?  Ever wanted to make a documentary while doing it?  If you answered yes to both questions, maybe your name is Brian or Austin Chu, because they actually did that shit.  Six months, one crashed car and probably lots of

In general, I’m of the opinion that most children are bratty, snot-nosed runts that are good for nothing until they hit age 18, but recently my good friend got knocked up and I got to thinking that maybe I wouldn’t be so adverse to the idea of having a little

Hey, remember when that rumor surfaced about Dolores Park closing and you listened to all 1,000 Elliot Smith albums on repeat, felt that there was no need to take showers anymore because where would you even go to show off your freshly-scrubbed body anyway, and hid under the covers for

Baskin Robbins was my family’s go-to for ice cream when I was a kid.  I was so into it that I only learned a year ago that “Jamoca Almond Fudge” is not a universal flavor like chocolate, vanilla or strawberry, but a copyrighted Baskin Robbins concoction.  When I moved to