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Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry Documentary Screening in SF
Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry is a feature length documentary exploring the roots of American tattooing through the life of its most iconoclastic figure, Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins. Considered by many the foremost tattoo artist of all time, Collins is the father of modern day tattooing, whose uncompromising lifestyle and larger
NYC Theatre: The Guilt of Not Caring
Having recently moved from New York where I spent the majority of my life, I am used to the questions about it from elatives, or family friends based in other areas, who are interested in what they percieve to be the whirlwind of cultural activities that a young professional woman
FREE Books, FREE Reading, FREE Show
Tonight, you can enrich your broke-ass brain with some FREE literary events around the city. FREE Bushwick Book Club Bushwick Book Club is to traditional book clubs like sex toy parties are to Tupperware parties. Instead of people discussing a book they all read, the Bushwick Book Club has local
Fill It Up – $1 Tacos and $2 Chelas at Taqueria Pancho Villa and El Toro
Generally speaking, this small family of taquerias isn’t the cheapest in the city, but the quality is better than most (super-bland Can-Cun anyone?) Despite their central locations, they aren’t resting on their cash cow’s security, and if you’ve caught their charmingly goofy commercials you’ll know that they have recently added
How to Make a Garden in Berkeley for FREE: Part II
We may be heading towards September, but there is still time to plant a fall crop (consult a Planting Schedule), and if you follow these steps, you can do it for absolutely FREE! I already covered the first steps in last week’s post: Step 1. Preparing the land: The FREE
FREE: Last Pool Party and Cinebrunch
At the risk of sounding like a jaded before my time geezer, I have not attended any of the free-for all ‘Pool Parties’ this summer. On paper they have everything I like, free music, watching people get killed execution style via dodgeball, beer, and scantily dressed youth. But since having
5 Best Broke-Ass Bookstores
Find the City’s best selection of cheap classics—you know, all the books written before even your great-grandmother was gobbling on Moby Dick—and newer books too. For cheap.
Grab Your Sack and Let’s Swap: Clothing
My friend recently told me about a time that she was working at a bar in Portland in the early 90’s. Courtney Love was on tour and came in after her show only to be seen using toilet water to shoot up and blowing chunks all over herself. Later that