The Daily Femme is a new site that features interviews with young, professional women. It was created as a positive alternative to the likes of HotorNot.com. As founder Cherie Hannouche puts it: “While welcoming all interested readers, it seeks to build a community where women can learn from each other.” Casey is the site’s second [...]
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Cartoon of the Week: Telephone and Soup are baa-aaack!
Telephone and Soup have jumped the gun and appeared in your Christmas stocking early! Here they are:
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Madrid = ham + good times
This weekend we rebooted our Moroccan visas with little trip to Spain. It turns out it is EXACTLY like Morocco. Well, except for the gambling and shows called “Sexo”: And the beer, wine and ham at every single corner: For realz. Spaniards are about as serious about eating ham as Muslims are about not eating [...]
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Ta da! Cartoon of the Week
Check it out. Every Thursday.
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Pub Crawl!!!!! I mean– Lit Crawl!!!!!
This week is San Francisco’s 10th annual literary festival called Lit Quake. This Saturday night (October 17th, 6-9:30 pm) is the Lit Crawl through the Mission– think pub crawl, but with books and readings instead of booze. Check out the full schedule here, and download the map of the route here. If we weren’t in [...]
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Shitty Kitty Show was Shitastic
The Shitty Kitty show at Mission: Comics and Art opened last Saturday. Attendees mingled, boozed, and hopefully laughed aloud at the likes of this: Some folks were even moved to draw their own on the spot. That’s what Shitty Kitty will do to you. While all this was going on, we were sleeping on the [...]
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Shitty Kitty Show will be f-ing MAGICAL. Go.
We’ll be in Morocco, but you’ll be at the show at Mission: Comics and Art at 7 pm. Right? And the after party at Shotwell’s at 11 pm. Right? RIGHT. Because you love Shitty Kitty and so do we. Despite her being so damn shitty. Because she is so damn shitty. Watch the G-rated video [...]
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Breaking the Fast
It’s breakfast for dinner every day here during Ramadan. Even if you haven’t been fasting. And what you have for the breakfast (called ftour in Arabic) is pretty much the same every single day, every place you go. At first it’s really exciting. (“Oooh! I love this kind of soup! And these cookies? YUM.”) Then [...]
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Why We Came Back to Morocco
No, it wasn’t because we were sick of everyone’s San Franciscan shenanigans. We came to Morocco to a) finish our non-fiction book “To Timbuktu” and b) do more research for a fictional graphic novel we want to write, set here in Rabat. We’re tentatively calling it “Al Beb”, meaning in Moroccan and Standard Arabic, “The [...]
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