Art

Top 10 Blogs for When it’s Time to Escape
I’m sure that I’m not alone in being someone who regularly fires up the ol’ laptop in order to get some work done and then finds herself two hours later having an intense G-chat conversation about the likelihood of a 2012 apocalypse, while simultaneously reading Jezebel and looking at clothes

Broke-Ass Contest: Win a Pair of Broadway Tickets and a $100 gift certificate to an Italian Dinner!
Broke-asses, do I have your attention? Season of Savings will give two of you lucky bastards each a pair of tickets to Superior Donuts, the new Broadway play from the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of August: Osage County. Described by the playwright Tracy Letts as “a love letter to

The 2025 SF Beer Passport is Here!
Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 28 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 28 of the finest locally

Flying Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease — Circus Bella Free Show at Fort Mason
One of the cool parts about growing up in Northern California in the seventies and eighties was a visit from the Pickle Family Circus. Pale did the plastic theme park or weird pizza parlour with a smelly ball pit, when the alternative could be a day in the sun watching

COMICS in Bryant Park, Cheap FILM FESTIVALS, and a HEALTH CARE PARTY this Week!
COMICS PANEL – Word for Word Series in Bryant Park Sometimes I want to avoid Midtown at all costs. When it is hot, it seems hotter there. When it is humid, it seems that all things stick a little bit better there too. However, us broke-asses can’t always choose where

Shakespeare and Lightning Bugs for FREE
Summer has always been a time to get fresh with the insects and the foliage of New York’s wide array of parks. Do not be misled by the implications of the word park ‘“ in NYC we’re talking everything from weedy cracked asphalt corners to Agrarian works of art. While

Garbage = art at Trashion
My friend and I went trolling the streets and returned with a My Little Pony, sparkly fake flowers, and teddy bear. Then we doused them with lighter fluid and set them on fire in a vacant lot for our own entertainment. Luckily, some artists are less self-centered than us, and

Public Barber Salon – a Beer and a Haircut
I’ve seen my future, and it’s pretty hairless. My dad…bald. My mom’s dad…bald. The great Magic 8-Ball of genetics has pretty much already foretold my destiny: Outlook Not So Good. As a result of this, I like to try new shit with my hair every so often just because I

The New Blackbird Bar in the Castro
Sometime last week a friend hit me up to let me know that he was working at a place that was about to open called The Blackbird, and that I should come through on opening night. I was certainly interested in seeing what they’d done to the place. The last