Columns

13 Jan 2011

Get Down with $1 PBR at Uptown Almanac's 1st Birthday

Our friends at Uptown Almanac have been publishing their Internet web thing for a whole year now and to celebrating turning one, the PBRs at Bender’s Bar are turning $1. Since it’s Bender’s, you can expect people lining up for tater tots at the grill while others line up for

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12 Jan 2011

Brush Up On Your Guitar-Making Skills at Bazaar Cafe

Pretty soon it’ll be too late for New Year’s resolution references (if it isn’t already), so I better use them all up while still appropriate. New Year’s Resolution No. 3:  Appear devastatingly attractive to members of the opposite sex.  For mating purposes, obvi.  This is a purposefully open-ended resolution that

Christy Jovanelly - Cheapskate Commentator 0
11 Jan 2011

Good Food Awards Marketplace

Good Food Month kicks off this Saturday with a special marketplace featuring finalists from the Good Food Awards. From January 14’“February 20th, the Bay Area will celebrate “the myriad food crafters creating tasty, authentic and responsible food, and the agricultural communities they are tied to.” Saturday’s marketplace will take place

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10 Jan 2011

The Grand Lake Theatre: Free Popcorn and the Flicker of Celluloid

During the Depression, movie houses were havens of escapism from the grim realities outside-a dreamlike vacation for a pittance.  They would even have cool things like entertainment and promotional give-aways to drum up business.  You caught the double feature, got a little soft shoe and walked out with a stoneware

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0
09 Jan 2011

"Bargain Bites" Restaurants in SF

Leaving a(n empty) oven on can only warm your apartment up so much and does nothing to assuage an empty stomach. And as the old adage goes: empty stomach, empty oven equals a one-way ticket to Unhappy Town. (Or something like that.) So might I suggest perusing the San Francisco

Jessica Longo - Two-Bit Reporter 0
09 Jan 2011

Wednesday Nights at The Cellar = The Cheapest Way to Get Smashed

Today I was feeling nostalgic for the good old days when I first moved to San Francisco and would go to the Bar on Castro’s Monday $.80 drink night, like, every week (the perks of working from home, right?!).  Since then, the Bar on Castro has moved to Church &

Christy Jovanelly - Cheapskate Commentator 0
08 Jan 2011

FREE Vintage Paper Fair

Hal Lutsky is at it again.  His famous tri-annual vintage paper fair is happening again this Saturday and Sunday, and it is going to be a paper-filled funanza.  It’s a commonly recognized fact that old stuff is better (with the exception of food and underwear), and old paper is especially

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