Christine Borden

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• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: SF Beer Week's Speakeasy Beer Launch Party to Culture/Entertainment
  To kick off SF Beer Week, sample a new brew from Speakeasy. A brewmaster will hang out at Whole Foods to fill you in...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Friday Night Art Opening with Food Carts to Culture/Entertainment
  Are people over food carts yet? No? It's probably going to rain on your hip street food anyway, but there's still art to look...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Author Event - Terry Castle at Books Inc. to Culture/Entertainment
  Catch writer and literary critic Terry Castle as she reads from her new book The Professor and Other Writings. This one is a collection...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Noise Pop Warm Up Concert - The Rumble to Culture/Entertainment
  Missed this? Amber Gregory reviews the show here! If My First Earthquake isn't cute enough, try them on for free. To get into the...
• Posted The Sexual Manifesto: Taking Pictures of Your, er, Self to Culture/Entertainment
  Women don't usually solicit cock pictures. But then again, most straight guys can't take a decent amateur shot to save their (sex) lives. And...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: 1st Annual Fillmore District Cocktail Crawl to Culture/Entertainment
  Crawl your way through delicious cocktails from the Filmore District without breaking the bank. Participating venues include Yoshi's, 1300 On Fillmore, Rasselas Jazz Club,...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: RuPaul's Drag Race Viewing Party to Culture/Entertainment
  Covergirls! RuPaul's Drag Race is back on the tube, and that means that a fabulous night of drinking and rooting for your favorite queen...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: For Fuck's Sake - An Erotic Education Art Show to Culture/Entertainment
  Friday night titillation, here we come! Check out an erotic education art show, complete with a Good Vibes-infused silent auction, performance and art, treats,...
• Posted 'Coming Home' at Berkeley Rep Revisits Old Hopes For South Africa to Culture/Entertainment
  Roslyn Ruff and Lou Ferguson in Coming Home. In Coming Home, playwright Athol Fugard returns to the Jonkers' home in a reexamination of post-apartheid...
• Posted The Sexual Manifesto: Reconsidering Missionary to Culture/Entertainment
  Poor missionary: outside of the vanilla sect, this old standard is much maligned. Sometimes, though, all it takes is a new partner or a...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Great American Comedy Festival - SF Audition Show to Culture/Entertainment
  The Bay Area's funniest comedians are clamoring to get into on the Great American Comedy Festival, and that means you benefit with some seriously...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Cinema Drafthouse (Movie & Beer: 'Funny People') to Culture/Entertainment
  Calling all Judd Apatow fans: the Independent is screening Funny People tonight. With its (allegedly not-so enforced) two-drink minimum, this is one way to...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Bawdy Storytelling--Virgin Territory to Culture/Entertainment
  Hear authors, poets, comedians, actors, and "real people" recount their smutty stories. This month, Funcheap's own Johnny Funcheap will tell a lewd tale to...
• Posted Appealing Events: Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Berkeley Rep to Culture/Entertainment
  Roslyn Ruff stars in Coming Home. Big name Athol Fugard opens his new play at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre tomorrow evening. Directed by Gordon...
• Posted The Sexual Manifesto: The Case for the Facial to Culture/Entertainment
  There are a lot more degrading things you can do than share a moment of pleasure with your partner. But that's not how everyone...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: The Harvard Psychedelic Club to Culture/Entertainment
  Ah, the good ol' days when you dropped acid in the Ivys instead of popping Adderalls. Those who still remember (or are struggling to...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Euripides' 'Cyclops' (the Oldest Play About Drinking) to Culture/Entertainment
  All we heard was "free," "play," and "drinking." Treat yourself to a free golden oldie with Euripides' Cyclops, presented by Atmos Theatre's San Francisco...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Vampires & Victorians With 'Jane Bites Back' to Culture/Entertainment
  For fans of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, now you can imagine Jane Austen herself as a...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: $1 Wine Tastings at Franklin Square to Culture/Entertainment
  If you're in the Oakland area at the end of the workday today, whip out a dollar to de-stress for the upcoming weekend. That's...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Prohibition--Then and Now to Culture/Entertainment
  Let's talk alcohol and marijuana politics, shall we? Tonight you can join some hip cats (including Brian Sheehy, owner of speakeasy Bourbon and Branch)...
• Posted The Sexual Manifesto: The Sexual Resume to Culture/Entertainment
  What if we lived in a world in which people readily handed over their sexual resumes to new partners? Not a list of who's...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: The Jewish Film Class - 'Jellyfish' to Culture/Entertainment
  From an installment of three films set in Tel Aviv comes Jellyfish and a promised spirited discussion. Ahem: Co-directed by popular writers (and husband...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: SF Zoo Free Admission Day to Culture/Entertainment
  Now's your time to taunt the tigers and harass the primates...for free. All day today, admission to the SF Zoo won't even cost you...
• Posted The Sexual Manifesto: A Frivolous Appreciation Of Boobs to Culture/Entertainment
  Boobs are so amazing that even gay men can't help but ogle a pair and give them a friendly squeeze. Yes, this is a...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Free Tuesday Film Screening of 'Rocky' (1976) to Culture/Entertainment
  Not a working stiff? Check out a free screening of the Sly Stallone classic Rocky. Because, um, it's free and it's got that one...
• Posted Your Guide to New Year's Eve to Culture/Entertainment
  New Year's Eve can be expensive, but it doesn't have to be. Below, I've featured the most interesting and best deals around town. Save...
• Posted The Sexual Manifesto: Can BDSM Be Feminist? to Culture/Entertainment
  Images of women crying out in pain and receiving a sound beating don't usually scream "feminist." For some, it's cause for alarm, calling up...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Target Family Free Day at Contemporary Jewish Museum to Culture/Entertainment
  Instead of swinging by the movie theater this Christmas to catch that Sherlock Holmes movie, you can delight in the Contemporary Jewish Museum...for free!...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Free Peets Coffee Day to Culture/Entertainment
  Technically, you get free coffee or tea. Technically. But the purpose of Peets Coffee's generosity is to encourage your own. Each store will donate...
• Posted Funcheap Daily Fun: Telegraph Avenue Holiday Street Fair to Culture/Entertainment
  Come on, procrastinators, let's head on down to a colorful street fair where we can pick up some last-minute art, crafts, trinkets, and tchotchkes...