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Broke-Ass of the Week – Traven Rice from The Lo-Down
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.
Time Travel to the Year 2000: FREE Lifehouse Concert in Golden Gate Park
Remember how great everything was in the year 2000? Back when we were all 10 years younger than we are now and we thought “Hanging By A Moment” was just a really great song, and that Lifehouse was definitely going to be the next Oasis? Remember back before all the
FREE Rosetta Stone Online Language Lessons with Your SF Library Card
So you’ve got that big trip to South America coming up but you haven’t really spoken anything but Drunken Taqueria Spanish since freshman year of college. Which means you know enough Spanish to navigate your way around say, San Diego, but it probably won’t do you much good in somewhere
Learn to Swing Dance for FREE in Union Square!
In general, I’m not a huge fan of dancing — naturally, I feel extremely uncomfortable when confronted with my complete lack of rhythm — but I’ll tell you what I DO like: swing dancing. I think it’s as much the idea as the actual act: the music, the fashion, the
Pride 2010: Free Tickets to Miss More's Annual Fete and Free Pork Today!
Although insanely popular, I wouldn’t usually recommend local queen bee, Juanita More‘s Pride Party if you were looking to save a little cash during this week’s hijinx. It’s fun and all but there’s an epic line sometimes and the Bambuddha Lounge ain’t exactly bargain basement when it comes to liquor.
The San Francisco Columbarium
Back before the turn of the 20th century most of the Richmond was taken up by cemeteries. A 1901 law made it illegal to bury the dead in city limits and in the 30’s all the graves were relocated to Colma, where they now remain. The Columbarium, built in 1897,
Free HAPA Show at Stern Grove
“Hapa” is a Hawaiian word that means half Hawaiian, half white, but it has been adopted by most Asian-American cultures to just mean “half white, half Asian.” I happen to look super hapa, which was extremely helpful while growing up on Kauai. No one messed with me on “Kill Haole
