Arts and Culture

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

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0
10 Mar 2010

Tomorrow Night: Free Local Music and $1 PBR at Milk Bar

When you go to college in the town that made Dave Matthews popular you start to associate the term “local music” with shitty cover bands and impressively mediocre acts that might not ever release anything more substantial than xeroxed fliers to their show at a friend’s house. San Francisco, on

Andrew Dalton - Aggressive Panhandler 0
10 Mar 2010

Kill a Tree Tonight, Plant One Tomorrow

Sure, I spend a lot of time writing about food, my feelings and the dog from my favorite commercial ever, but buried deep in the recesses of my brain, there’s a bestseller brewing.  I can feel it.  A real page-turner about a sassy, twenty-something broke-ass who works in cafes all

Christy Jovanelly - Cheapskate Commentator 0
09 Mar 2010

Anarchist Book Fair This Weekend

Overgrown beards, crazy backwoods haircuts, homemade tattoos,  screenprinted patches, questionable hygiene, freegan roadkill eaters’oh yeah and books.  These are the things you will find at the 15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair (how fun are stereotypes?!).  Since 1996, the Anarchist Book Fair has been a meeting place for anarchist

Chloe - Pennywise Reporter 0
08 Mar 2010

Anthony Kurtz Photo Show with FREE Wine and Beer

If you remember, a little while back the Dickerman Prints Gallery had that badass show of Baron Wolman’s photos.  Apparently they are pretty into things that are awesome and are having an opening party on Wednesday night for Anthony Kurtz’s new photo show, “It All Came So Close to Never

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
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

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0
07 Mar 2010

Cheap Drinks — Yelp Drinks Week!

I hope you’re paying attention because THIS IS IMPORTANT: Today is the last day of San Francisco’s Yelp Drinks Week.  Twenty-five participating bars and restaurants are selling selected drinks for half off.  That’s halfway to FREE.  Get on that shit! Yelp says that these deals are good all day “until

Rebecca Pederson - Cheap Date 0