North Beach can be a conflict of interests.  You got all this cool history, the center of the city’s Italian culture, aaaand…douche bags.  Even after you live in the city for years, you still make the occasional excursion over to this venerable hood hoping for the best, and usually getting

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.

Homeygrown’s Biannual Clothing Exchange SWAP! NOT SHOP! is this Saturday the 19th at Soundwave Studios in Oakland.  Their loftier goal: to ‘œcounteract the disposable nature of consumerism by providing the time and place for shopping renegades to recycle clothes and other reusable items.’  Their lower goal: get you boozed up

There are few bars in the Castro that don’t give me the willies. While on vacation in San Francisco before moving here I went into Badlands. Innocently fooled by the large crowd, it got me thinking that it may be a somewhat respectable establishment. On my trek through the bar

Sticky, sweet and svelte- the sentiment one might have when leaving the 500 Club on a Sunday afternoon. As of late they have been holding their Sticky Sundaze, hosted by Clare and Emily.  Fruity, sublime concoctions blended within an inch of their life and hot paninis pressed on site to

There is something to be said for a basic t-shirt. We spend our lives looking for the perfect fit. We steal them from boyfriends and best friends, wear them until they beg for mercy and customize them to the point of designer-ware overload. From the simple white crew neck to

I’ll be guest bartending on Wednesday night at Elixir for a fundraiser that’s being put on by The League of Young Voters.  If you’re not familiar with them, their goal is to empower young people nationwide to participate in the democratic process and create progressive political change on the local,