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Why Even Your Young, Broke A** Should Have a Living Will
by Hannah Harkness Hi there! Is the impending war giving you an increased sense of mortality? Are you aware that there were more mass shootings than days last year? Are you watching all of the coverage of climate-change induced natural disasters? If you are, you shouldn’t need convincing to get

Bosses Inherently Suck and the ‘Cool Boss’ Myth is Bullshit
By Ian Firstenberg Bosses suck. It’s not exactly their fault. They suck for largely structural reasons — unless they’re just abusive and mean — but overall, they’re positioned to exploit your labor as much as possible. Because that’s what drives profit. This sentiment is not new or even particularly radical,

The 2025 SF Beer Passport is Here!
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 28 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 28 of the finest locally

Absinthe Isn’t Special and You Aren’t Special for Drinking It
by Charles Irwell I see you there. You’re twirling your Hercule Poirot ‘stache, adjusting your pince-nez specs and drinking espresso from a cup so small you hold it with tweezers. Sitting there, in your Fort Greene café, keeping an eye on the Penny-Farthing you rode here on. Watching the world go

Pick + Pay Comics in Real Time at NYC’s “Capitalism” Show
by Jonas Barnes This Wednesday, January 8th, there’s a new show hitting NYC. In the Big Apple, there’s no shortage of live entertainment choices on any given night, so you’ve got to be asking me… what’s so special about THIS show? What makes me want to write an article about

Friends Distribute 50 Care Packages to Homeless People Over the Holidays
On December 29th, 2019, Levi Beckett initiated Project You Matter, a GoFundMe project to spread some kindness and holiday cheer in the Bay Area.

Save Beetlejuice from Being Unjustly Booted off Broadway
by Jonas Barnes Last year I saw that one of my favorite films of all time was being turned into a Broadway musical. I’d never been a huge musical fan in general, but I was still really excited by the news. Here I was, living in New York City, finding

The 2020 Minute “Best of The Decade” Playlist You Needed
We gathered together our most knowledgeable, and opinionated, friends from in and around the music industry and asked them to come up with a playlist that represented the past decade. Here it is…

NYE Traditions Everyone Should Adopt
by Charles Irwell I will fight anyone that has a problem with me saying this is the most wonderful time of the year. However, I won’t disagree that ‘tis the season for crap journalism. This usually falls into three possible categories: The first crap type is the end of year round-up.