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New Affordable Housing Resources for SF Artists
If you are like us, you’re tired of losing San Francisco artists and creatives to eviction and displacement because of skyrocketing housing costs. The good news is there is some recent money and support being set aside for affordable housing specifically for artists and nonprofit workers in SF. 18% of

Helicopter Footage of Hurricane Irma Damage is Devastating, Storm Now Moving North Toward Florida
The Caribbean island of Saint Martin was virtually destroyed and the category 5 hurricane has not slowed down as of this morning. The strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic skirted Puerto Rico last night with 185 mph winds leaving an estimated 1 million people without power.

We wanna send you to see Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli as BLACK STAR!
Black Star is an American Hip Hop duo, formed in 1997, from Brooklyn, New York. The duo is composed of artists, Mos Def and Talib Kweli. Black Star arose from the underground Hip Hop movement of the late 1990s, which was in large part due to Rawkus Records, an independent

Indian Summer is San Francisco’s High Holidays
While the rest of the Northern Hemisphere is blowing sad kisses to their shorts and sundresses while mournfully closing the drawers their summer clothes live in, San Franciscans are taking off as much clothing as possible and running outside.

BAS Fiction- It Pays
IT PAYS by Allyson Darling Violet-colored feathers encircled my eyes; the elastic tied around my head pulled at my hair — a Mardi Gras mask wasn’t exactly the item I had imagined wearing to protect my identity. I lied on my stomach with my feet splayed out on a

The Best Cheap-Ass Wines & Where to Find ’em
By Rachel Fogletto Don’t you hate it when you’re making a wine run and you’re faced with the dreaded pop-quiz question from your well-meaning wine sales clerk, “Are you looking for anything in particular?” First of all, no one in the liquor store scanning the price-tags is looking for anything

Emergency DACA Rally: Fight Deportations Together!
via Bay Area Resistance Trump just ended DACA. He just put the lives of 800,000 young immigrants at risk. These are our friends, family and neighbors who are losing their permit to work and stay, who are now at risk of deportation. But remember, DACA was won through the courageous