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09 Aug 2011

Win a Dinner Party for You and 7 Friends!

Being low on the dough makes it hard to eat in places that don’t serve your food in disposable material, so when you’ve the opportunity to enjoy the generosity of a local glittering social benefactress, you snatch it up, no? Well, Perseus, the gods have positioned you well. However, your worth must

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03 Aug 2011

Shop at Kaplan’s Surplus!

Of the bare basic resources that everyone who lives in this city should know about, I would say that Kaplan’s should always be close to the top of the list. Along with burritos, corner store sandwiches, park/festival booze, thrift stores, etc., it’s just one of those staples that you can

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27 Jan 2024

The San Francisco 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 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

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19 Jul 2011

Catch ‘Tales of the City’ Before It’s Gone!

The curtain will be dropping soon over A.C.T.’s Geary Theatre as the musical incarnation of Armistead Maupin’s ‘Tales of the City’ comes to the end of it’s maiden engagement in the town of it’s conception on July 31st. If the hijinks and rites of passage of those gentle children atop Russian Hill were

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12 Jul 2011

Pay Your Respects to Casa Sànchez This Week

San Francisco has been the birthplace of many an iconic brand over the years, from Levi’s to Rice-a-Roni to the It’s-It. Among this pantheon of venerable marketing greats you will surely find a smiling lad astride an aerodynamic elote that goes by the name of Jimmy the Cornman. For some of you out

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22 Jun 2011

Free Meat Fix at SFBG’s Annual Pride Kick-off This Wednesday

Holy Week is upon us queers! In addition to the juggernaut of over-priced parties and cover charges that will greet thee at every turn, there are the occasional events that will provide you with more than a diabolical hangover and shredded wallet. Each year, the city’s own voice of the proletariat, the

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13 Jun 2011

Comida Corrida at Mission Favorite La Oaxaqueña

Now that the city is beginning to see an influx of high end restaurants introducing San Franciscans to concept of Mexican food being a little bit more beyond tacos and that divinely corpulent prince of Mexico’s most northern territories, the burrito, it’s not as hard to find things like sopes, huaraches, squash blossoms,

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09 May 2011

Basa Seafood Express: Your New Mission Seafood Stop

One of the supposed perks to living in a port city is that comestible sea creatures are supposed to be not only plentiful, but also cheaper than you would get inland. Growing up near Morro Bay, down the coast, I remember this being the case but in San Francisco not so much. As a matter

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13 Apr 2011

Protest the Eagle Tavern’s Closing – Drink at Surprise Leather Bar Tonight at Skylark

Just in case you haven’t been following the saga that is the impending closure of SoMa mainstay, the Eagle Tavern, the Guardian’s Emily Appelbaum gives a pretty good run-down up until this point here. In addition, if you want to join in the rabble that have amassed to protest these proceedings, put

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