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12 Oct 2011

Avoiding a Broke Birthday

Everyone seems to have at least one month where it’s birthdays galore! For me, that is this month- October. Aside from my own birthday (on the 8th! whoop whoop!), I currently know of at least twenty people with birthdays this month! Damn…(Maybe it was all that excitement between New Year’s

Paulette Greenhouse - The Penny Pincher 0
12 Oct 2011

What I Learned About Dating from the Chinatown YMCA

If you want me to like you, you don’t have to take me out to dinner or buy me things. You don’t have to have a fancy job, or live in a trendy neighborhood. You don’t even have to dress well. Besides finding someone who can feed me, there’s just

Carrie Laven - Pretty Penniless 0
11 Oct 2011

Broke-Ass Band Interview: Whiskerman (Tonight @ Amnesia)

If you’ve ever gone to a show in San Francisco or the East Bay and seen an excellent violinist or cellist in the band, it was probably one of the inimitable Patzner brothers. Graham, Anton, and Lewis Patzner are go-to string players for every Bay Area band that knows what’s

Chloe - Pennywise Reporter 0
11 Oct 2011

Broke-Ass Kitchen: Baked Egg Cups

Anyone reading this already knows that eggs are a broke-ass’s best friend. Two of those yolky wonders will run you about $.30, keep you full for hours, and are one of the few foods that are almost perfect just the way they are (Just like you! Awwww). Heck, even renowned

Jill S. 0
10 Oct 2011

F3 at the Cotton Mill: Free Art/Fashion Show in Jingletown

  You probably know the Cotton Mill Studios as the cool building you pass on the 880 on your way to the Oakland airport with the “lofts for rent” sign that makes you think “it must be awesome to live there.” Maybe you know it because yes, people really do

Robin Hardwick - Cost-Conscious Connoisseur 0
10 Oct 2011

Broke-Ass Halloween: Group Costume Ideas

Some of you are fine with slapping on some cat ears and using your eyeliner to draw on whiskers as a Halloween costume. And then, some of us have standards for our Halloween costumes. We have to be the one that people are talking about. The ones that get comments

Robin Hardwick - Cost-Conscious Connoisseur 0
10 Oct 2011

Monday’s Bargain Basement at Bottom Of The Hill

Bottom of the Hill is one of the premier music venues in San Francisco. It’s pretty damn sweet. You can catch everything here from Dear and the Headlights to Kinch to folk and funk. Now certain Mondays are just another reason to dig this place. Bottom of the Hill plays

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