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Live Drawings…
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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The iPad Isn’t The Only Buzzworthy Pad This Week
Posted in Deals, tagged Exercise, Gough, Sports, The Pad Studios, Union, Yoga on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
FreshGuide‘s latest deal (ending soon!) is $30 for $85 worth of yoga at The Pad Studios (1690 Union at Gough). If you haven’t been, I highly recommend it. I had a six month membership at The Pad this past year and loved every minute of it. It’s a really clean and hip-looking studio with great instructors and sweet owners. The power yoga classes are small, with fun music! And actually, the studio offers a 10 sessions for $10 deal for new customers, which you should try first before exercising this deal. I could go on, but I’ll just leave it at two thumbs up.
Boulange Staff Offer Tips to Haiti Sunday
Posted in Restaurants, tagged Doctors Without Borders, Green, Haiti, La Boulange, Polk on January 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
San Franciscans, and Americans, are generous folk. There’s been plenty of charitable giving and events for the people of Haiti all over the city — really too much to list. But I learned that La Boulange (2310 Polk St. at Green) is doing something special locally for earthquake relief, something that will mean more if you participate, so I wanted to share. 
The staff members from every La Boulange in the city have gratiously offered to donate all of the tips they make this Sunday, Jan. 31 to Doctors Without Borders in Haiti. The organization has been in Haiti for 19 years and already has roots established there, so it’s a smart choice. Better yet, La Boulange itself has decided to match all of the tips the staff earns on Sunday. So when you’re hankering for a fresh jus d’orange or some bread pudding after an indulgent Saturday night out this weekend, get your butt over to La Boulange and tip well.
The Dirty 30
Posted in Seen, tagged Mobile on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This 30 bus is COVERED in tagging from floor to ceiling. Don’t people have anything better to do?
Casablanca Calls It Quits
Posted in Bars, Restaurants, tagged Casablanca Cafe, Clay, Polk, Sacramento on January 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Casablanca Café (1609 Polk at Sacramento) has newspapered its windows. You bohemians will have to find a new place to smoke your smelly hookah and drink your discount beer. Interestingly enough (or not), the other Moroccan spots in the ‘hood, Tajine and Cossu, have also recently shuttered their doors — anyone want to cry foul?
Dine About Russian Hill
Posted in Events, Restaurants, tagged Dine About Town, Restaurants on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The ninth annual Dine About Town event kicked off on Friday and will run through the end of the month, with bargain prix-fixe lunches and dinners throughout the city. No doubt the affair aims to pull San Franciscans out of their rabbit holes and into restaurants they’ve yet to try, but for some of us, uncharted dining territories sit within the perimeter of our very own neighborhoods.
If your digs are in Russian Hill, you’ll be happy to hear that a few local restaus are participating in Dine About Town . . . (more…)
Score Spencer and Daniel’s Vino on the Extra Cheap
Posted in Stores, tagged Coupon, Joffer, Shopping, Spencer & Daniel's, Stores, wine on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have never heard of MyJoffer.com before but from some elementary deduction I have arrived upon two things: a) it has a dumb name and b) it seems like a Groupon knockoff. But more importantly, for the next day and a half, the site is offering a 50 percent discount on gift certificates for $10 worth of wine at Polk Street’s very own Spencer and Daniel’s Wine Outlet (1541 Polk at Sacramento). SnD’s offers great deals on dozens of varieties of wine, which all seem to be up for grabs with this coupon, so I’d have at it I were you — and I will, too.
Prostitution on the Rise in Russian Hill
Posted in News, tagged Crime, David Chiu, George Gascon, News, Prostitution on January 13, 2010 | 10 Comments »
About a month ago, I moved into a new apartment not far from Lombard St. Around 1:30 a.m. after taking a half a dozen Zipcar trips from my old digs, I finally unloaded my last moving box. As I walked to my new building, I noticed a haggard, toothless woman standing in the doorway. I asked if I could help her, and she responded, “I am a prostitute and the dude in Apt. 3 called me. Can’t you help me out?” Seeing as my place was Apt. 3, I knew she was bluffing, and just wanted to come in. So I made an excuse and tried to sneak my way past her. She then proceeded to call me a b*tch when I wouldn’t let her in. Welcome to the neighborhood, I thought.
During my two years in my previous apartment just two blocks away, I’d never had an experience like this. Could the local flavor really change so much in just a few hundred feet? As it turns out, it may have been more about climate than geography.
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