How does one who is just starting out in the world pay for starting out? I am currently a senior in college who is looking for a job. While I have yet to find one, I am still nonetheless concerned about where I will be living. Namely, I'm concerned as to how I'll be able to pay for everything. I go ...

Please make it clear to me just how essential property managers are. I'm moving out of town, and I've rented out my condo to tenants. Because I won't be able to manage the property in person, so I found a property management company that can do it for me for a monthly fee. Most people I talk to seem...

When Mission Mission noticed earlier today that 988 Valencia, the spot that the ill-fated American Apparel would have lived in, is now up for rent, SF Appeal took the ball and ran with it. "What should fill the AA space?" they ask. The spot is going for $7,500, which jibes with what the AA spokesboy...

Topics: A track by track review of ‘Red Light Fever’ from Darkness frontman Hot Leg. Listener emails, requests and a toast to Nick in Australia for the beer fund donation. Another toast to all of the donations for my SXSW fund. A Nashville Pussy show review. Music by: Ginger Hot Leg Nash...

Upgraded: Weird contraband found at airports Downgraded: Pigeon welfare The NY Daily News has a set of photos of items found by customs agents at airports. Most are drug related, but my favorite has to be this image of a man with pigeons wrapped up and kept in his long underwear: “Sir, your pa...

I have my moments of being a gadget geek … oh hell, I’m always a gadget geek, though the current economy hits this brand of geek pretty hard. Recently Amazon put out its upgraded Kindle product, Kindle 2, which I’d been eying since it was hinted at a while back. The Kindle 2 is an ...

Filed under: Wacky & Weird Adam Pascal -- "Roger" from the original cast of "RENT," now at the Pantages in L.A. -- put Jeremy Piven on blast last night for using sushi to bail on his Broadway play -- calling Piv's excuse "crap" and total bull. See Also Piven Back on... Permalink...

According to Netflix, during the Oscars their subscribers added two million movies to their queues. Two million in just three hours. In the meantime, I was looking for more clips of Kate Winslet......

HATE SCHOOL MUSICAL — From the land of Orange County comes two pieces of news: 1) A mayor there is a big racist asshole and doesn't even know it; and 2) Rent will go on. Yes! It got the OK at Corona del Mar High School.Read the rest of This Spring, After a Long Fight, Orange County Will H...

Now that long-running musical Rent has closed on Broadway, the inevitable, awful high school productions have begun. Which is ruffling parental and administrative feathers across the land. But, really, what's the big deal with Rent? Well, you know, it has gay stuff in it. Like references to committe...