Shopping, Style and Beauty
One Thing Far, One Thing Close, One Thing Movin All Over The City
I don’t usually head out to Jersey on a Saturday night, but this looks really, really cool. The community-run, depression-era grand Loew’s Movie Palace in Jersey City is showing two films from the 1920s today: the Marx Brothers’ first film The Cocoanuts (1929) at 4pm, and Safety Last with live
DIY Diva: Composting Bins for Under $20
Heyo- the DIY Diva here with part two of my “grossest project yet” post about building composting bins. So, faithful readers, I took a bit of crap last week from commenters who objected to my post about the process of researching how to build a composting bin to prepare mulch
FREE and Low-Cost Healthcare in San Francisco!
Where can you find the best FREE and low-cost healthcare in the City? Zeitgeist: The perfect place to go if your medical condition involves an abnormally low blood-alcohol level. Healthy San Francisco: For every other medical condition, try Healthy San Francisco, Gavin Newsom’s baby, the quote-unquote innovative health access program
Isotope Comics
Isotope might be the only ‘œComic Book Lounge’ in the world and it’s definitely the only one in the City. Seriously, who thought a comic book store could be so cool? Unlike most other comic book stores which are generally cluttered and small, Isotope is a big open space, with
Teens Be Scary!
I will admit it, I watch Gossip Girl. It took me a while to type that, and I cringed as I did, ashamedly. Because the truth is I really hate that show. It’s not a guilty pleasure like The Rachel Zoe Project, Real Housewives or eating an entire tray
Stilettos, Sweatpants and Suits: The New Office Uniform
I recently met with an real estate broker to check out some apartment prospects. Granted this was a Sunday and I know people can get a little laissez-faire with their wardrobe choices when it comes to the weekend, but when this guy rolled up in a stained Snapple sweatshirt with
WTF! People Still Read Books?
Here is a FREE event for all of you Literati Gangsters out there. And it happens monthly. So feel free to sport your Literati colors and do this, well, every month. Babble-On Thursday marks the monthly Babble-On literary reading at Dog Eared Books in San Francisco, where you might hear
The Public Library: Perks and Pitfalls
I love me an overstuffed bookshelf but let’s face it, books are pricey (especially new ones) and storage space lacking. So, the library it is. Don’t get me wrong, I really love the library: its musty smell, its quiet’”it’s a core-of-society kind of place’”plus remember what a rite of passage