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26 Mar 2014

Food & Farm Film Festival: 18 reasons to spend $15

Not entirely 18 reasons, but we can thank 18 reasons for next month’s Food & Farm Film Festival. It’s the time of year where our eyes are delighted to gaze upon the pops of color finally revealing themselves at the farmer’s markets and along outdoor trails. It’s spring. Which is a perfect time

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09 Jan 2014

Choosing a cheap-ass wedding venue for under $1,000…

We looked at an insurmountable amount of possibilities for a wedding site. We knew it had to be in Norcal. It had to be in a historic building with character. And preferably in between his bay area and my Sacramento valley rooted families. We settled on six possibilities before we

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15 Oct 2013

Frozen Kuhsterd: An Unorthodox Ice Cream

Frozen Kuhsterd hadn’t been on my radar. It was only a few days after I had read about it, that it was coincidentally going to be down the street from my house. But, as a production baker who’d like to secretly open a quality dessert truck, i’ll almost always spend my

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02 Sep 2013

A Borinquen Soul Summer…

If you think you’ve met a Puerto Rican, you haven’t. You’d never have to question it, because where there is a PR…there will be the flag. Even if the car is a rental, there will be a temporary flag on the rear-view mirror. Few West Coast residents understand Puerto Ricans or

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19 Aug 2013

Cholo Soy: World Class Peruvian Food in Your Price Range

Cholo Soy isn’t just impressive for the food, but also impressive because they make it all in a kitchen roughly the size of your standard minivan. It’s located inside the lobby of Plaza Adelante, an office building on the corner of 19th and Mission. The only indication there’s a restaurant

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20 May 2013

Life of a Musician After An Expensive College Degree

I mean true musicians. The type of musicians who have tons of talent, loads of promise, a refusal to do anything else and no cash. I’m going to let you in on the worst kept secret of a generation: having a bachelor’s degree in ‘Music Anything’ doesn’t exactly secure you

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11 Apr 2013

Check Out Writers With Drinks at The Makeout Room

Cancel your plans and go to the Makeout Room this Saturday. It’s time for Writers with Drinks. It’s hard to do better than the write-up they got from JetBlue.com, so I’ll just steal it: Back in 2001, writer Charlie Jane Anders set out to create a new kind of reading

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