Damask Boudoir Fashion Show – August 8th

Social Entropy Presents the Damask Boudoir Fashion Show & Performances will be happening at the Oakland Metropolitan Opera House on August 8th and I totally want to go. Look at the dress on the lovely lady above, it’s gorgeous!

Designers Dollymop, Anna Quinones, Luma Gallegos, and Erika von Petrin are a few of the creative fashion minds that will be present and showing their works at this Saturday nights event. There is also talk of treats of music, art, drag, burlesque, belly dancers and more.

What else could you want on a random Saturday night in August?

Via Haute Macabre.

This entry was written by Audrey, posted on August 4, 2009 at 12:10 pm, filed under East Bay and tagged event, fashion. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.

World Wide Vegan Bake Sale SF, mmm!

Do you love deliciously sweet baked goods? How about happy piglets, cowlets*, and goatlets*?

If either of these bring a toothy grin to your face I would love it if you came out to the World Wide Vegan Bake Sale San Francisco and indulged in delicious treats to support the efforts of Animal Place and East Bay Animal Advocates, two bay area non profits specializing in improving the quality of life for animals typically used in agriculture through care, education and research.

I had planned on making deliciousness for the sale, but sadly I will be out of town. This of course doesn’t stop you from going out and enjoying one, two or three (!) desserts for me. The sale takes place on June 27 at 16th and Sanchez in front of Ike’s Place and on June 28th on the 800th block of Capp Street. Thats two days of yumtasticness!

Need more information? Check out the WWVBS SF’s tumblog. Want to help get the word out? Since I won’t be able to provide baked goods for the sale I made the flyer above. It’s available for download as a PDF, why not print out a few and give ‘em to those who need a little sweetness in their life? I’d be most grateful!

Enjoy the sweets sweeties!

Do you have a favorite vegan dessert recipe that never lets you down?

* – I know it’s calves and kids. I’m hip.

This entry was written by Audrey, posted on June 15, 2009 at 2:20 pm, filed under San Francisco, food and tagged dessert, event. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.

March for Quality of Life

   

Tomorrow, June 10th, San Francisco coalitions and advocacy groups will be taking to the streets to march and rally against the proposed budget cuts to support and safety net services, services utilized by our cities low income and homeless populations.

If you feel strongly about the right for all people to have a decent quality of life please get out there and let your voice be heard. Removing funds from these life improving programs is not the solution to our budget issues. The population that these groups service need them and for many these collaborative and advocacy groups greatly improve their situations.

Would you want to help San Francisco’s poor with their bed bug issues? Eviction threats? Helping them figure out where their next meal will come from? I’m guessing most citizens would reply no. If these organizations aren’t there to help these people, who will?

This entry was written by Audrey, posted on June 9, 2009 at 11:50 am, filed under San Francisco, do goodery and tagged event, gathering, social change. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.

Get on your bike and ride…to work!

photo credit to dustinj

Have a bike? Have a work?

If you answered with a double yes I expect, and hope, to be seeing you on your simple machine celebrating “Bike to Work Day” with other lovers of the velo on Thursday, May 14. Yes, that’s tomorrow! Hooray!

Until a few months ago I was not the bike everywhere sort. It took a while to build up my often needed “I own this road” confidence and the average amount of know-how I now posses. Today I am car free and all about riding my wonderful Soma Doublecross, Diana, almost anywhere I need to go. She makes getting around this beautiful city anything but a chore.

I know there are a lot of worries associated with riding a bike in a fast moving city. For my first few rides thoughts of “Eep! What if I get sweaty and stink up my whole office?” to “Ah! What if I get hit by a delivery truck full of frozen waffles?” crossed my mind more than once.

In an effort to help give these fears a swift kick in the ass with good ol’ fashioned knowledge and preparedness here are a few bike related tidbits to make your journey all the more peaceful.

Have fun tomorrow my dears, and be safe!

Will you be partaking in the bike to work greatness tomorrow?

photograph taken by dustinj and used under creative commons.

This entry was written by Audrey, posted on May 13, 2009 at 10:03 pm, filed under San Francisco and tagged bicycles, event. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.