While my favorite portrait of Johnny Cash is the painting that hangs behind the bar at Bender’s (you really need to go see it), this cover that Shepard Fairy did for Antonino D’Ambrosio’s new book A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, is pretty

Oh, doughnut! Whether you be called sinker or soul cake, come in bar shape or circle, you are a grand staple of cheap eating! Doughnuts are in the upper echelon comfort foods.  It can be cold and unforgiving outside, but for a few minutes you have the sugary embrace of

Its finally your turn to experience life outside of the 15 block radius that is the Mission. Just think: experiencing microclimates and bums outside your comfort zone! Actually seeing the city that you blow thousands of dollars down a runway on every month! Getting to meet more than just hipsters

Here is the first installation of the Broke-Ass Bulletin, a post designed to catch you up on some of the stuff you may have missed during the week. Instead of bogging this down with underfunded sleazebags that WERE running for governor and cracks in the Bay Bridge [It’s starting to

Abandoned Planet Bookstore reminds me of the strange and funky shops the used to line Valencia when I first moved to the Mission.  Something about it always made me think of the weird old bookstore from The Never Ending Story.  If you’ve never been to the place, but you’re into

Do you like the feel of the chase? The rush of uncertainty, the bubbling of blood, the thrill of the adrenaline levels pounding in your…skull? There is nothing quite like that anxious, stalker feeling, and tonight, you can get a taste of it without the bite of the restraining order

My man Matt Murphy just hipped me to this event tonight.  They are calling it Night of the Living Drunk 2.  Not only is the show FREE, but there is also gonna be FREE BBQ!  Although it’s always kinda Halloween in San Francisco, as the actual holiday approaches we al