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Last Minute Xmas Shopping Ideas in SF
Oh, here comes Santa Claus, a-gain. How is that every year I always seem to wait until the very last minute to go Christmas shopping? I have literally one week to get all of my gifts in order…and there is no way in hell that I’m going to any
Broke-Ass Nostalgia: Mallrats
One can’t mention the film Mallrats (1995) without giving a nod to Clerks (1994). Clerks was writer/director Kevin Smith’s low-budget, indie masterpiece. It isn’t necessarily a novel idea these days, but in the early nineties, a movies about hourly-wage employees based mostly on snappy dialogue and not much action was
FREE Portrait Day
Long-gone, unfortunately, are the days when unwedded royals swapped portraits and sized each other up for marriage. Ringlets were ogled and dentures examined before anyone decided anything. And then, only then, were locks of hair exchanged. Now we have Facebook (yep, there was no middle ground there at all) and
What does a Broke-Ass Mom want for the Holidays?
This is actually a harder question than it may seem. Something about giving birth to another human being makes you not need or want as much. Or at least that’s how it feels. It’s hard to separate your needs and wants apart from your family’s. But for everyone’s sanity you
The Live Local Card: Support Local Business While Getting Discounts
Have you heard about the Live Local Mission card yet? It’s pretty fucking badass and probably the perfect stocking stuffer for your favorite Missionite.
BA of the Week – Anhvu Buchanan
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.
Last Beat Church of 2011 Tonight
For a lot of Americans, the holiday season is the only time people actually go to church. And for the other lot of us, there is another kind of church that is a bit more hedonistic than Midnight Mass. Come lose your religion tonight, Thursday, December 15th, for the last
