Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco)

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.

SF Bike Coalition Happy Hour Monday + Register with Mikes on Bikes
To kick off pride this week the SF Bike Coalition will be hosting a LGBTQ meet and greet happy hour at Duboce Café for all those queers that like to get from point A to point B on wheels and their own steam. Duboce Café will be donating 10% of

Meat to Go – Boccalone's Famous Salumi Cone
My fondness for pork is pretty common knowledge amongst anyone who knows me. That said, I really have to admire Chris Cosentino and Mark Pastore’s mission to make porcine delights (‘œtasty, salted pig parts’ to be exact) more accessible to the people. Which is why, if you happen to be

The BAS Pub Crawl Itinerary: Support Your Local Tavern and Cheer Us On!
Well, if you were too deep into a bender to buy tickets to this Friday’s annual bar crawl, you can look upon the melee as a spectator sport as our own little pied piper and his trail of beer rats do our cannonball run through the hazy streets of San

House of Shields Changing the Guard
An old bar closing never ceases to sadden me. Many of my favourites are now just ghostly vapor in my delirium-addled memory. Expansion, Ginger’s Trois, 7-11 Club– was it just yesterday we were getting frisky? The wind cuts through my coat a little quicker now. The House of Shields has

Free Wine and Vice Courtesy of D-Structure
Vice has got to be one of the most popular words in the English lexicon. People love it. Apart from the obvious partaking, people love to gossip about it, watch it, read about it. It’s like popcorn, very salty popcorn. Local purveyors of clothing/art/parties, D-Structure is hosting their First Fridays

Election 2010 – Meet the Candidates: Robert Retana: Superior Court Judge, Seat No. 6
It’s hard enough keeping up with one’s day to day nonsense in the great city of San Francisco, so when it comes time to cast your vote, outside of the inane commercials produced for high-profile candidates, it can be hard to find out anything about anyone else. By no means