Arts and Culture

06 Jul 2010

Music Picks of the Week: From Jew Harps to a Pas de Deux

Here are some very varied music picks for the week. Wednesday, July 7th: The Rumble SF. Future Sounds presents the Rumble SF, a FREE concert at Du Nord featuring AB & the Sea, So Many Wizards, and What Laura Says. The event is sponsored by Noise Pop, the Bay Bridged,

Chloe - Pennywise Reporter 0
05 Jul 2010

World Cup Deals at Pisco and FREE Pizza at Palio D'Asti

So here’s the thing.  See that picture at the top?  That’s me driving a tractor.  I’m currently at my girlfriend’s family’s farm in upstate NY and I’m pretty much trying to be as unplugged as possible.  It’s really a lovely feeling and totally needed.  I’ve even had a garbage plate

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
03 Jul 2010

Step Right Up and Go to the Marin County Fair

County fairs are one of my favorite things about summer.  Call me crazy, but the combination of fast rides, funnel cake, caramel apples, games and carnies makes me feel like I’m 11 again, which in this case, is a good thing.  It has been a long time since I got

Alison Lambert - Half Price Headliner 0
02 Jul 2010

Jazz Isn't Just For Old, Boring People at the Fillmore Jazz Festival

Of course, this being the 4th of July holiday weekend, you know you’re about to go get pretty fucked up at least one of the days, whether you’re in the city, slutting it up in Vegas or houseboating like Gramps used to do in Shasta.  That’s why it’s pretty awesome

Christy Jovanelly - Cheapskate Commentator 0
01 Jul 2010

Street Art Goes Legit During FREE Friday Night Soirée at the DeYoung

Imagine for a moment a world where Street Art is prominently displayed on the walls of a well-respected art museum. Imagine a world where trash is turned into something other than a big pile around the trash can because the trash can is full. A world where every cold, irony-shriveled

Andrew Dalton - Aggressive Panhandler 0
01 Jul 2010

$1 Jell-o Shots, Animal Behaviour and $100 to the newest CHICKENBEAR at the Powerhouse July 4

‘œAre you bummed that there isn’t a San Francisco Street fair that specifically targets your metaphoric internal homo animal designation? Are you sorta chickeny? Fox-curious? Wolflexible? Does hotmusclebear.com leave you lukewarm? Are you a Turkey Vulture? A pigasus? A bearacat?’ So say Walter Gòmez and Mica Sigourney of CHICKENBEAR. Sounding

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0
30 Jun 2010

Why the New Clipper Card is Good News for The Brokes

If you haven’t ridden any Bay Area public transit in a while (I know! It’s expensive these days, right?) you might have missed out on the billions of ads for the new one-card-to-rule-them-all transit pass system called Clipper. Apparently Clipper isn’t much more than a fancy focus-grouped version of Translink,

Andrew Dalton - Aggressive Panhandler 0