Shopping, Style and Beauty

03 Oct 2009

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

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02 Oct 2009

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

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01 Oct 2009

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

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29 Sep 2009

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

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29 Sep 2009

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

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28 Sep 2009

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

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24 Sep 2009

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

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23 Sep 2009

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

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