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22 Mar 2010

Simple Pleasures at Wright's Popcorn and Nut Co.

Some weeks back, I mentioned Wright’s Pink Popcorn in a post I wrote about the Stow Lake Boathouse. Wright’s Pink Popcorn is one of those items one finds on dusty corner grocery shelves and at sports concessionaires that is a certain class of ancient snack on par with the likes

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11 Mar 2010

A View of What the Mission was like in 1980

When you’ve grown up somewhere, there eventually comes the time when you’re walking down the street and realize: that you have walked up and down that street so many times, hung out on it with your friends, passed through it on the way to a party –  and it’s not

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08 Mar 2010

$2 Bulleit Bourbon Shots Thursdays at Bourbon Boys

Cheap drink specials are great, but the rub is that the liquor featured usually isn’t.   Which is why the latest Thursday night binger’s jackpot is Truck‘s Bourbon Boys.  From ten ’til two, less than clothed guys are pouring $2 shots of Bulleit Bourbon in an overheated bar decorated like

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04 Mar 2010

White Elephant Sale Saturday and Sunday in Fruitvale

White elephant sales- the ultimate combination of trash and treasure!  Overflowing in possibility for the cash-strapped, collectors and pack rats and a nightmarish trip to the brink of a nervous breakdown for the fastidious and organizationally obsessed- they are as part of the American landscape as tractor pulls and taco

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04 Mar 2010

Free Treats and Discounts at Meet a Microhood: The Mission Mid-Twenties Tonight

Neighbourhood designation is a debate that never tires in this town.  I suppose that’s true of most places, but before you know it you’ll be at a party where two people are squaring off over what amounts to a one block radius.  Old Todo guides are cited and people are

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25 Feb 2010

Audio Heirlooms 5th Annual "Listening Party" on Sunday

Often, when someone has died or the realization dawns that the kids are no longer kids, people will lament that they had never pulled out a tape recorder to document all those little things and stories that happened back when. For five years, Evan Roberts of Audio Heirlooms has been

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22 Feb 2010

Vienetta Discotheque – Cheap Booze and No Cover Every Monday

For the discerning palate.. There was never enough of you to go around was there?  So continental, so refined, why couldn’t you come in a larger size?  How many dinner parties were transformed into sticky melees because of you? Well unlike its namesake, Vienetta, the latest disco at the UndergroundSF,

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