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100K Tulips In SF, & You Can Pick Your Own for Free
Why this is happening a few weeks AFTER Valentine’s Day is beyond me, but Tulip Day is a Dutch-inspired day that was invented to celebrate the opening of Tulip Season in Amsterdam. Anyway, next month there will be 100k + tulips in Union Square San Francisco, and they’re free! Deets

Beer Bust & Tournament of Champions with Broke-Ass Stuart
LAUGHING MONK & BROKE ASS STUART’S BEER WEEK CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS This is going to be a super fun day…again! The gaming experts at Play in the Bay Sport & Social Club are holding three FREE tournaments throughout the day at Laughing Monk with us! There are going to be

BEER BUST & TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS w/ Broke-Ass Stuart
LAUGHING MONK & BROKE ASS STUART’S BEER WEEK CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS This is going to be a super fun day…again! The gaming experts at Play in the Bay Sport & Social Club are holding three FREE tournaments throughout the day at Laughing Monk with us! There are going to be

Heroic Images from the Haight St Blackout last night
At approximately 830pm in Hayes Valley, some PG&E equipment caught fire underground. The result was a blackout for neighborhoods on the surrounding power grid. Upper and Lower Haight St, Hayes Valley, parts of the Castro, Western Addition, even the goddamn Ballet had to close down and cancel its performance. As

Hooray! There’s a Valentines Day Drag Show to End Homelessness!
Can Valentines Day be redeemed? I mean, come on, it’s the ultimate weapon in the Hallmark-Industrial-Complex’s box of patriarchal, conforming, consumerist tools. One of San Francisco’s premier nonprofits helping the homeless is hoping to do better on Valentines Day. Community Forward SF, which provides support to the most vulnerable homeless

Do You Really Want a Relationship, or Is It Just Almost Valentine’s Day?
by Laurie Riihimaki It’s February, and all the candy aisles are stocked with red heart-shaped boxes filled with sticky caramels and nutty chocolates. There are giant teddy bears near every register. Florists are pushing roses by the dozens to everyone passing by! Valentine’s Day is near, and looming. Valentine’s Day

13 Bafflingly Gendered Products that Make No Sense
by Kate Brunotts Shopping for razors is especially difficult when you have to decide between being a froofy little girl or a brooding alpha male. I know it’s hard to believe, but it turns out that the blue and pink razors are largely the same outside of their color and