Arts and Culture

26 Nov 2010

Sing Your Way to $500 at Japantown Karaoke Contest

The thing about karaoke is that you either love it or you hate it.  There’s really no ambivalent feelings where the art of singing cheesy ’80s songs to an audience of completer strangers is concerned.  I happen to be in the first camp of people, the camp that kind of

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26 Nov 2010

Spend Black Friday Bowling at Brooklyn Bowl

By some estimates, the average Thanksgiving meal is approximately 3,500 calories. That excessive, and the ensuting emotional/guilt toll only makes it worse. You likely feel pretty awful right now just thinking about it it. Which is why spending the day bowling might be a good solution. Not only will you give

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25 Nov 2010

A Day at the Races: The Met Museum

Actually, no. Not unless ‘œthe races’ is a cheeky synonym for one of the  most crowded art museums in the universe. (It isn’t.) Nevertheless, I spent a few hours yesterday at The Met. I hadn’t really been to a proper cultural institution since I moved back to NYC and I

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24 Nov 2010

Magic Show and City Opera SF at 2010 Finale of Friday Nights at the de Young

If you’re like me, you have been to exactly zero editions of Friday Night at the de Young this year, despite the events being FREE and really cool.  And if, like me, you regret this fact, Friday is the last opportunity in 2010 to experience some low-key museum fun after

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24 Nov 2010

FREE Movie Night Friday at Great American Music Hall

Not to be outdone by places like The Independent and The Park Chalet, Great American Music Hall really wants to get in on this free movie night thing, and what better way to start off a movie series in classic San Francisco venue than with another SF classic: Alfred Hitchcock’s

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24 Nov 2010

Watch the Inflation of the Macy’s Balloons for FREE

I feel like a bit of an asshole for saying this, but I can go my entire life without seeing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in person. Standing on a sidewalk with swarms of tourists in the cold cuts into my time for gluttony, napping, super family fun time and yelling

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23 Nov 2010

Voidwell Homecoming Dance Better Than Your Homecoming

Brooklyn, for better or worse, has a glut of musicians and performers who get dubbed “cutting edge” or “the hot new thing.” Much like the terms “awesome,” “extreme,” or “neo-c0nservative,” these terms are overused to the point of becoming meaningless, no different from say “um” or “er” in your sentence.

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22 Nov 2010

FREE Comedy in 3D and The World’s Only Pencil Musician

Looking for something to do tomorrow night?  How about comedy and watching someone make music with a pencil?  Yeah, you read that right.  Tomorrow Danny Dechi is hosting his weekly comedy show at the Rockit Room on Clement St.  While I don’t know who the comedians will be I do

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