FROM PERKS
There’s a new way to see the world, and it doesn’t involve leaving the comfort of your sofa. You see, Perks is hooking you up with a selection of canvas prints featuring the United States and the world beyond from iCanvas. And because we know you appreciate a good discount almost as much as you appreciate fine cartography, you’re getting 50% off.
SCOOP DREAMS
You clearly chose the wrong school. Because the owners of this newly opened gelateria in SoMa attended a gelato university in Bologna to learn how to make the perfect scoop, and suddenly they’re serving you flavors like coconut, banana-and-rum and Irish coffee. They clearly chose the right school.
GO BIG
You thought you’d never recover from the loss of Big, that tiny, beloved, menu-less bar of yore. Then it came back in the form of BiiG, with a marble bar, a requisite moose head and a new set of rules like, “Skullduggery of any kind will not be tolerated.” So apparently there’s no skullduggery.
WEIRD SCIENCE
The Exploratorium is hosting their annual Science of Cocktails event where you can do things like get your hands on drinks from over 20 different (open) bars and test your wine knowledge in their Red or White game. Or just keep drinking wine. That’s how you gain wine knowledge, right?
END-OF-SEASON’S GREETINGS
Unionmade is having their end-of-season sale, which means you can take an extra 20% off their already 40% off items, which includes always-useful, never-not-handsome things like fisherman sweaters and vintage T-shirts. It helps that our city doesn’t really pay attention to seasons.
IN IT TO SPIN IT
Everyone’s favorite Susan Sarandon-backed ping-pong bar, SPiN, is hosting a Super Bowl viewing party with drink specials, a menu involving street tacos and nachos and a bunch of cozy places to watch million-dollar commercials from. Football’s cool, too.
Joe Starkey is the tallest person in the room 90% of the time. He enjoys liquors that aren’t smoky, dive bars that are, and has a vague dread that someone, somewhere might be having more fun than him.
