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Renegade Holiday Shopping FREE All Over the Bay This Weekend!
If you are the gift-giving type, it is quickly approaching that time of year when certain friends and family expect presents. However, if you’re the broke gift-giving type, finding affordable presents can be a little stressful. The fun fix? Crafts! This time of year is perfect for making presents and
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This Saturday: FREE Vegan Ice Cream Social & That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals Book Party!
This event is gonna be rad. I know how some of you feel about Café Gratitude, and as a vegan I will be the first to admit that it’s an unusual establishment, but it’s also FREE ice cream and an important book, so suck it up. On Saturday afternoon the
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The Fun Things To Do On Alameda Island
We got to the East Bay in 20 minutes & never worried about traffic, a bridge toll, parking…or any other hassle. Our only concern was drinking in the beautiful views on the SF Bay Ferry.
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FREE Moore Brothers Show @ Oakland’s First Fridays
Remember when I told you to go to the Oakland Art Murmur before the months of incessant rain started? Well it looks like global warming has bought you a few more weeks of rain-free fun (my circadian rhythm was so confused by yesterday’s nearly 80º temperature that I forgot it
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SF Green Festival and Green Week
Alright. I’m about to get super green on you, so if you hate trees and recycling and wildlife and the planet then don’t bother reading on. But also if you really hate all those things do me a solid and try not to procreate. This weekend is the annual San
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My New Favorite Place in the East Bay: Revolution Café
Revolution Café is located in West Oakland in a neighborhood known as The Lower Bottoms, not a particularly endearing name, but somehow fitting for a place west of “Dogtown.’ From the outside it doesn’t look like anything special, but when you walk through the front door its awesomeness will smack you
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A Broke-Ass take on “When Life Hands You Lemonsâ€
Starting the first day of college, we were all broke. When friends came over to study at our modest abodes and were, as college students perpetually find themselves, hungry, we each asked ourselves, ‘œWhy share what little I have?’ However some of us chose to share and some of us
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FREE Appetizers at Franklin Square Wine Bar
Geoff King got at me the other day to hip me to a great deal he came across. Apparently the fairly fancy Franklin Square Wine Bar in Oakland has an amazing happy hour where they give out delicious FREE appetizers. When I asked what kind of food it was, he
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This Saturday: FREE Oakland Plant Exchange
In keeping with my ‘œHow to Make a Garden for Free in Berkeley’ series (Part I, Part II), here is a perfect opportunity to get a bunch of starts for your winter crop (though this looks to be more of a flower than veggie kind of party). A FREE plant