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Cheap Date Night: "From Here to Eternity" at The Paramount Theatre in Oakland
A couple weeks ago I had an amazing experience — I got to go to a Sufjan Stevens show at The Paramount Theatre in Oakland. While I wish he would have played, say, at the Fox due to his new album’s funky, dance-y nature and the Fox’s spacious general admission area,
An Evening With Wavy Gravy
My whole life I’ve been hearing stories about Wavy Gravy from my aunts who went on tour with the Merry Pranksters, from my Bay Area ex-hippie family members, and from my friends. People always joke about going to clown camp, but Wavy actually started the amazing Camp Winnarainbow. Some of
1¢ Shots Courtesy of the Lex Every Hard and Fast Tuesday
Okay, so when it comes to getting toasty, you could hardly do worse than making a pit stop at the Lexington Club. The Lex has a fondness for making a drop-in worth your while by offering booze in varieties of heavy-handed and cheap, or perhaps hard and fast? They have
Raise Money for the Red Cross While Getting Drunk on Wine
While the French are just now begrudgingly admitting that California puts out some badass wine, we here in the Bay Area have known this for years. In fact it’s probably harder to get bad wine in San Francisco than it is to get good wine…not that I can really tell
Turning a Waiting Room into Art
This art installation was suggested by Ashley over in our NYC bureau. It sounds pretty fucking cool, the only draw back is that it’s only open on the weekends. Still, if you’re in the East Bay, it certainly warrants checking out. I’ll let the Doug Garth Willams’ artist’s statement do
Screw Tapas and Head For Happy Hour Sangria Deals
The beauty of sangria is that there’s so many different ways to make it and it’s totally easy to do at home with an extremely cheap bottle of wine. But sometimes your apartment might be a tiny bit dirty and you don’t want to have friends over for drinks. So
FREE SFAQ Symposium with FREE Music and FREE Bar
The San Francisco Arts Quarterly might be trying to woo me. Saturday, November 13th, they are presenting a symposium for the release of their latest FREE quarterly–described as a “hybrid between arts calendar and newspaper.” And what does the symposium entail, you might ask? Everything you could possibly want: A