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04 Jan 2012

How to Successfully Meet the Parents When You’re a Broke-Ass

So you’ve finally done it– you’ve met someone who makes you happy. Someone who doesn’t make you want to barf when you look at them. Someone who doesn’t care that you drool during your sleep, or sometimes like to re-enact dance sequences from Billy Elliot while wearing a Forever Lazy

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03 Jan 2012

My Broke-Ass Best of the Year List, Part Two

I previously discussed television, books and comedy.. FILM I won’t get into too many, because you can read many aggregates of critics reviews of films, but here are some films that are worth seeking out: The Skin I Live In is a Spanish-language drama/horror from infamous Spanish director Pedro Almadovar

Robin Hardwick - Cost-Conscious Connoisseur 0
02 Jan 2012

The Balboa Theatre

I had the fortune or misfortune, depending how you look at it, to have a tonsillectomy exactly a year ago. It may be all ice cream and naptime for kids, but let me tell you, for semi-adults, recovering from a T & A (tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy for you ENT newbies)

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30 Dec 2011

Pre-NYE Roller Disco

Any good disco party is, from start to finish, a fleshy, hairy, glittery mess slick with sweat and your choice of several other warm liquids. Any good foray on roller skates is pretty much the same deal, if you’re doing it right. Meaning: combined, they make a gloriously hot pantsed

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30 Dec 2011

Broke-Ass Mom Resolves

I’m not sure I believe in New Year’s Resolutions.  I feel like they are just an additional way to feel bad about yourself by the end of the year.  Then you can look back and say, “Shit, I said I was going to lose how many pounds, and I’m up

Jennifer White - Mommy No Bucks 0
29 Dec 2011

Booty Bounce Bungalow Tonight at Public Works

For many of us, tonight marks the first night of a four-day-weekend. And not just any weekend, might I ad, but  probably the biggest weekend of the year. Start saying your goodbyes to 2011 tonight, Thursday, December 29, at Public Works. Join in for  the premier of a new monthly

Heidi Smith - The Ultimate Scavenger 0
29 Dec 2011

BA of the Week: Poet/Community Manager Stephen Rosenshein

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0

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