2011

Five Summer Movies to Avoid
Ah, summer blockbusters: They have a reputation for being especially vapid. Often visually overcooked with little or no story line, it seems as though Hollywood collectively decided that the best medicine for the heat is to flood your brain with total garbage. Remember The Last Airbender? How about You Don’t

East Bay Unwrapped: Oakland Athletics 2011
Did you know that the Athletics have the best pitching in baseball right now? Or that Coco Crisp’s ‘fro is bigger than the Disney World Epcot ball? Or how about that there are some amazing deals and giveaways for the Oakland Athletics 2011 season? Well, even if you didn’t know

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!
It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

Fundraising Without The Fuss: $10 = Happy Hour All Night!
We’re only one month into 2011, but I’m sure many of you have already thrown your resolutions out the window and are simply hoping for next year. Your struggle with that last 10 pounds may be a joke, but cervical cancer, unfortunately, is not. This month is Cervical Cancer Awareness

Around the World Tips for the Best 2011 Ever!
I haven’t decided if 2010 is a year I’m happy to see go or if I’ll find myself staring wistfully out the window, hoping to see it walk back home and tell me, Baby, I’ve been a fool for leaving you. But I do know I’d like to do 2011

$5 Showing of The Wizard of Oz at Paramount Theatre — Thursday
2010: It’s been, I can boldly say, a year for all of you. What events that unfolded throughout certainly vary per individual but I’m going to assume for most of you, if not all, it involves blush-inducing indiscretions, stolen cop cars driven into the Bay, ventures into the exciting world