Fitting Characters and Scripts
Unwittingly, my mother teaches me in this conversation her generation’s word for gay: 同性恋. I look it up in an online dictionary, three characters in my mother’s tongue. Same, sex, and love. ...more
Posts Tagged: shopping
The Upper Far East
So much for the ‘glamour’ of selling pretty things to pretty people. ...more
Damage: The Soul-Crushing Science of High-End Bra Shopping
What did it mean to be damaged? Beyond repair? Short of surgery, there was no going back. More importantly, back to what? ...more
Where Nothing Bad Can Happen
Monica Drake on Nordstrom vs. Goodwill, the blues vs. the mean reds, and one tantalizing sweater. ...more
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/20-12/26
This week in San Francisco, eat for a cause with Food Not Bombs, open mics at Amnesia and Kaleidoscope, Post-Impressionists at the De Young, and volunteer work gets fun at City Impact’s Christmas Block Party.
Monday 12/20: Joint Food Not Bombs in Union Square for a Sit/Eat against Sit/Lie.
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