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13 Jun 2011

Comida Corrida at Mission Favorite La Oaxaqueña

Now that the city is beginning to see an influx of high end restaurants introducing San Franciscans to concept of Mexican food being a little bit more beyond tacos and that divinely corpulent prince of Mexico’s most northern territories, the burrito, it’s not as hard to find things like sopes, huaraches, squash blossoms,

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09 May 2011

Basa Seafood Express: Your New Mission Seafood Stop

One of the supposed perks to living in a port city is that comestible sea creatures are supposed to be not only plentiful, but also cheaper than you would get inland. Growing up near Morro Bay, down the coast, I remember this being the case but in San Francisco not so much. As a matter

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13 Apr 2011

Protest the Eagle Tavern’s Closing – Drink at Surprise Leather Bar Tonight at Skylark

Just in case you haven’t been following the saga that is the impending closure of SoMa mainstay, the Eagle Tavern, the Guardian’s Emily Appelbaum gives a pretty good run-down up until this point here. In addition, if you want to join in the rabble that have amassed to protest these proceedings, put

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10 Apr 2011

Call To Action – Save The Eagle Tavern!

San Francisco has been getting a nasty rep for losing its edge for a while now, and with only 49 some square miles of land to occupy it’s not hard to see how things can get a little homogenous with the right variables at play. Of these, one be the urban property

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04 Apr 2011

Broke-Ass Bar Guide – 440 Castro

With over 2,000 gin bins on the Barbary Coast, we here at BAS thought it might be time to catalogue them and keep you informed on what they have to satiate your thirsty, thirsty ways. So, here is the Broke-Ass Bar Guide – San Francisco. You get to know a little bit about what

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17 Mar 2011

Catch "Litter" This Weekend For $5 At Zeum Theater

Children, children everywhere.  The earth may be buckling like the merry widow on an over-enthusiastic auntie post-holiday gorge, but you wouldn’t know it by the way them babies be popping out  these days. Well, anyone who’s Catholic or part of some other culture that subscribes to a loaves and fishes

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28 Feb 2011

May The Flapjack Be With You — FREE Pancakes at IHOP

I have always had a fondness for the International House of Pancakes.  I said this to a friend in passing one time and he informed me it was because I’m of English heritage.  According to him, every Englishman he knows enjoys the occasional stop at the worldly griddle shack. I

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