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As the time has shifted away from Daylight Savings Time, and we've lost an hour of daylight, San Francisco bicycle commuters are increasingly riding home in the dark!. To alleviate the problems that this can cause (i.e. getting in an accident with a car, pedestrian, or another bike), the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition are giving away 2000 free bike lights.
You can pick up your free bike light from November 14 to December 15, 2011 at any one of the may Light Up the Night stations that the two groups are hosting at various bike-trafficked locations throughout the city.
Now if only someone could get helmets on the rest of the cyclists who insist on going bare-domed!

If you're familiar with cheap food in San Franciscoo, and we hope you are!, then the burrito probably comes to mind as the iconic food. It's cheap, quick, delicious, and filling! If you're more prone to think of burritos as the dung bags you find frozen next to the microwave in a gas station convenience store, let us change your perprective - a proper burrito is a beautiful thing, food for the masses, the people's meal!

Greetings, Dollar Hounds!  Just wanted to let you know the publishers of CBGSF has finally woken up and smelled the recession.  An all-new, totally revised Cheap Bastard's Guide to San Francisco for 2011 is in the works, and it will be available this fall.
Keeping it real (and cheap),
Your Beloved Bastard,
Karen Solomon

Yesterday, my son's nanny told me he was exchausted from navigating the "vortex of douchebags" at Tartine Bakery -- harsh words from someone watching your infant son!  I know what he means (yes, he's a "manny"), but still, Tartine is one of the best bakeries in the U.S., and, as an infrequent customer, does that mean that I'm included in that vortex?

All sobering thoughts (but I keep going back for those awesome morning buns!).

Unfortunately, I really can't vouch for their burgers -- they might be awesome for all I know!

The rain is torrential, positively Biblical (at least by San Francisco standards), what do you do?  Play in the flash flood that formed outside your house?  Slide down the muddy hills in Dolores

Sports Basement on Bryant street will soon be offering free CPR certification in Spanish (it is already offered in English).

We've said it before, but we'll say it again:  Free beats Cheap anytime!  It goes without saying, really, but it bears repeating.  And what's a better way to get something for free than by just giving it up?  We're referring, of course, to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's Gas-Free Fridays.  It's not that you need a special excuse to leave the car behind when you're commuting, or otherwise travelling around the Bay, but SFBC's Gas-Free Fridays campai

Maybe the title of this post should be "Cheaper Rent..."  After all, San Francisco, as you know, is not a cheap place.  And the #1 expense for most folks is rent - that huge chunk of change you fork over every month to the person (or faceless corporation) that owns the building you live in.  (Hell, even if you"own" your place, it's the bank that really calls the shots -- and they won't even fix your toilet if it backs up!)

A donkey's age ago, way back in 1993, Snoop Dogg released the song Gin and Juice, which instantly became a West Coast G-funk hip hop classic (much to the delight of frat boys everywhere).  But with the seemingly materialistic chorus "with my mind on my money and my money on my mind," was Snoop actually offering advice to the Cheap Bastard in all of us?