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09 Jul 2010

What's Up Dog; Or, What's Up, Cheap Lunch?

It gets expensive eating out if you work in SOMA; restaurants jack up their prices because there are so many suits around taking their clients to lunch. Sometimes I avoid eating lunch all together just so I don’t feel like I’m getting robbed. But after some choice hot dog food

Rebecca Pederson - Cheap Date 0
09 Jul 2010

Pay What You Can to See Tommy Wiseau's Cult Classic The Room

Few films have affected me as deeply as 2003’s The Room, starring, written and directed by the now cult icon Tommy Wiseau.  This movie really gets at serious, universal issues, such as breast cancer, infidelity, betrayal, and (SPOILER ALERT!) suicide in the most hilarious manner possible, which can be described only as

Christy Jovanelly - Cheapskate Commentator 0
08 Jul 2010

FREE Enchiladas and Surf Flicks for a Good Cause

Salty wardens of the waves, Surfpulse.com is throwing another one of their Second Surf Sundays this weekend at Joxer Daly’s to help raise fund for ArtSeed.com and their continuing effort to bring youngins in to touch with artsy types. The carrot to entice you on your journey to the damp

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0
08 Jul 2010

Tamale Happy Hour to Raise Money for AIDSWalk

Local housing heroes Dolores Street Community Services like a good shindig and tonight they’re holding their WowWowWowWow Happy Hour featuring the cookies and milk of barflies, tamales and beer, to raise some masa for their AIDSWalk sponsorship. You get two different kinds of tamales for $8 and can wash them

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0
08 Jul 2010

$1 Negra Modelos at Las Estrellas in Hayes Valley

When I lived in Hayes Valley I pretty much assumed every single drinking option nearby was going to be way above my price range, and all of the restaurants were full of fatcats who had Opera tickets later. But if you look close enough you can find a couple watering

Andrew Dalton - Aggressive Panhandler 0
07 Jul 2010

$3 Stargazing at the Robert Ferguson Observatory in Sonoma

Summer can mean a lot of different things to a lot of people: there’s the requisite picnicking, summer music festivals, trips to secluded swimming holes, etc etc. But if there’s one outdoorsy excursion we tend to overlook in our pursuit of places to drink beer outside, it’s finding a nice,

Andrew Dalton - Aggressive Panhandler 0
07 Jul 2010

FREE Wine, Beer and Food at Dickerman Prints Tonight

I just got back last night at 1:30am from being on at my GF’s family’s farm in upstate NY.  So I’m still a little tired, bug bitten, and slightly jet lagged.  But it was an awesome trip!  I got to eat a garbage plate, fuck with big time illegal fireworks,

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0