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Tosca Cafe, San Francisco, California, 2016, 35mm

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Travel Tuesday: Responding to an SOS from actor Sean Penn, the team behind NYC's The Spotted Pig resurrected this divey but beloved Italian bar in San Francisco. Here, 11 new places to eat in San Francisco.

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The Bronx Blogging Community's Networking Event At the Gun Hill Brewing Company Was A Hit!

The Bronx Blogging Community’s Networking Event At the Gun Hill Brewing Company Was A Hit!

Look at all that Bronx Brewed Beer! ©Welcome2TheBronx.com

This past Tuesday night, the Bronx blogging community and photographers descended upon the Gun Hill Brewing Company on Laconia Avenue for Brewers and Bloggers Networking event bringing many talented voices together.

The crew attending the event was as diverse as our beautiful home borough of the Bronx is and provided for an exciting…

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Meet Your Bronx Bloggers Tonight At The Gun Hill Brewing Company!

Meet Your Bronx Bloggers Tonight At The Gun Hill Brewing Company!

Back when I first started blogging in 2009, the Bronx pretty much just had a couple of active bloggers — the original BoogieDowners Erin and Lou Cicalese who started actively blogging in 2008 and Nicole Perrino, founder of BronxMama who also started in ’08.

The BoogieDowners were my inspiration to start Welcome2Melroseand begin to tell the narrative of our neighborhood which was being highly…

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Sam Lipsyte In Conversation with Joshua Mohr Tonight at the Epicenter!

Join us at the Epicenter for the launch of The Fun Parts, a new hilarious and deeply felt story collection from bestselling author Sam Lipsyte. Sam will be in conversation with San Francisco novelist Joshua Mohr. Book sales and signings to follow.

The Fun Parts includes: A boy eats his way to self-discovery, while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. An aerobics instructor, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, makes the most shocking leap imaginable to save her soul. A grizzled and possibly deranged male birth doula. A doomsday hustler about to face the multi-universal truth of “the real-ass jumbo.” And a tawdry glimpse of the northern New Jersey high school shot-putting circuit, circa 1986.

Lipsyte expertly works the line between hilarity and pathos.

—The New York Times Book Review

Sam Lipsyte is the author of two story collections, The Fun Parts and Venus Drive, and three novels: The Ask, The Subject Steve and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Joshua Mohr is the author of four novels: Termite Parade, Some Things that Meant the World to Me, Damascus, and his newest, Fight Song. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco.

March 12, 2013 - 7:00 PM Tosca Cafe 242 Columbus Ave. $5-10 suggested donation Pre-register Online!

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Join us at the Epicenter this February 19th for the launch of Rosie Schaap’s new memoir Drinking with Men. In conversation with Robin Ekiss and Co-presented by Green Apple Books.

Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars. Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at fifteen she told commuters’ fortunes in exchange for beer, and continuing today as she slings cocktails at a neighborhood joint in Brooklyn, Schaap has learned her way around both sides of a bar and come to realize how powerful the fellowship among regular patrons can be.

In Drinking with Men, Schaap shares her unending quest for the perfect local haunt, which takes her from a dive outside Los Angeles to a Dublin pub full of poets, and from small-town New England taverns to a character-filled bar in Manhattan’s TriBeCa. Drinking alongside artists and expats, ironworkers and soccer fanatics, she finds these places offer a safe haven, a respite, and a place to feel most like herself. In rich, colorful prose, Schaap brings to life these seedy, warm, and wonderful rooms. Drinking with Men is a love letter to the bars, pubs, and taverns that have been Schaap’s refuge, and a celebration of the uniquely civilizing source of community that is bar culture at its best.

February 19, 2013 - 7:00 PM Tosca Cafe 242 Columbus Ave. San Francisco, CA $5-10 suggested donation Pre-register online

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Illustration by Nicole Georges.