An old bar closing never ceases to sadden me.  Many of my favourites are now just ghostly vapor in my delirium-addled memory.  Expansion, Ginger’s Trois, 7-11 Club– was it just yesterday we were getting frisky?  The wind cuts through my coat a little quicker now. The House of Shields has

Life seems somehow more unfair when you are unemployed. There are the obvious things like the whole lack of money issue, which certainly puts a damper on obvious indulgences like feeding yourself and imbibing alcohol. Even if the money is there, with no job, its hard finding reasons to drink

While you may not able to bask in the splendor of another three-day weekend, there’s still plenty of cool stuff going on to distract you from the fact that tomorrow is another sobering Monday. If you missed the free Yeasayer show last night, shame on you, but because this is

This weekend seems like a funtastic funstravanga of bombastic proportions, and the 3rd Annual Artsfest just ups ante. The funariffic street fair offers art booths and vendors, musical performances, community groups, art activities and awesome retailers all for your amusement and enjoyment. There will also be chalk drawing and “tasty

Okay, it’s been awhile since you heard, er, read my voice but I figured you missed me.  Didn’t you?  You keep thinking, “Where is Monica the Intern?”  Right?  I knew it. But I digress. The real reason I showed back up here on this little soapbox is to tell you

Now that Memorial Day has come and gone the summer season is officially in full swing.  With the warmer season comes the major desire to escape the city every chance I get.  My favorite summer activities always involve the beach.  A beach day can be hard to achieve for us

I’m pretty excited to be hyping this event because it combines several of my favorite things in life:  facial hair, books, FREE stuff, and hot guys.  Well, I don’t really know about the last one, but I feel like if I talk about it like it’s true, it will be.

Sure there’s plenty of ways to live in denial about your brokeitude.  For example, you can just start buying all kinds of shit and putting it on a credit card.  But unfortunately that eventually catches up to you, and you end up having to fake your own death and flee