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13 Feb 2020

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

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08 Feb 2019

Meet Nathan Temby: Dueling Pianist At Johnny Foley’s

Around 6-8 times a month patrons at Johnny Foley’s, an Irish pub which straddles the border of the Tenderloin and Union Square, can hear the musical stylings of Nathan Temby. Temby is part of a rotating roster of pianists who perform in Foley’s cellar in what are known as “dueling piano” shows.

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21 Aug 2018

With the Owner in Jail, The Westin St. Francis is for Sale!

The Westin St. Francis is up for sale, and its current owner is none other than the Chinese government.  Why?  Because its previous owner was Chinese insurance magnate We Xiaohui, and he was recently sentenced to 18 years in Chinese prison for fraud and embezzlement.  His Westin purchase was part

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27 Apr 2018

Red Hots Burlesque Wrecks Conventions With Body TABOO defiance

Red Hots Burlesque just had its 10th anniversary, but also spawned a new multimedia midnight cabaret incarnation that will make Union Square weird as hell this Saturday night. Body TABOO defiance defies normal description, but producer Dottie Lux tells BrokeAssStuart.com, “It’s a performance art showcase of different interdisciplinary performance artists

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19 Dec 2014

All the Things for Jews (and Lonely Gentiles) to Do on Xmas in SF

If you haven’t spent a Christmas in San Francisco, you’ve been missing something special. December 25th might just be one of my top five favorite days of the year in this city.

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
12 Dec 2014

The City That Was: Christmas at Normandy Lane in SF’s City of Paris

In The City That Was, Bohemian Archivist P Segal tells a weekly story of what you all missed: the days when artists, writers, musicians, and unemployed visionaries were playing hard in the city’s streets and paying the rent working part time.   Forced against my better judgment to go to Union Square the other day,

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18 Dec 2013

FREE Ice Skating All Day Today in Union Square

Hey! I’m slammed right now so only have time to cut and paste this shit but here it is. It’s hella branded by Celebrity Cruise lines and Alaska Airlines, almost to a ridiculous extent, but they’re the folks footing the bill for you to get your skate on. Regardless, here

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