Whitney Cummings is both hilarious and full of swagger. I first saw her perform at Shoreline in a lineup that consisted of comedy heavy weights like Louis CK and Jim Gaffigan. And she killed it, it’s not often you see someone in stilettos makes you laugh that hard, it’s a pretty deadly combination. She had that +20,000 crowd on the edges of there seats.

“I used to live in a closet under the stairs! Years ago, I think I paid $400 for it. Doubt it would rent for that amount anymore….” – Kristi F.

“Are you Harry Potter?” – Jenny L.

The awesome peeps at Four Barrel Coffee are throwing a fun Anniversary Party Wednesday, August 19th!  Celebrating 7 years of full fledged business in San Francisco!  Party from 12-4pm includes some awesome stuff: $1 drinks. Anything that you can drink is only $1!  Four Barrel will be donating the money from the $1

  Paul Madonna writes and draws All Over Coffee, the weekly series published in the San Francisco Chronicle and on theRumpus.net.  His stories and drawings have been published internationally and exhibited in galleries and museums. He is the author of two books, All Over Coffee (City Lights 2007), and Everything

San Francisco’s Root Division provides studio space, arts education, art exhibitions and helps to foster and build the creative community in our city.  Through the kind donations from Bay Area residents and organizations they are opening amazing new digs in Mid-Market, and throwing cool art filled events to celebrate.  Check out

  The ‘Comedian You Should Know’ series highlights funny people performing in San Francisco.  We’d simply like to give some dedicated press to people who make us laugh.  You can catch Drew opening for James Adomian at Doc’s Lab August 6th. We first got to see Drew perform on the Kinda

PLEASE READ AND SHARE! So as most of you know by now, we have closed Viracocha. Not temporarily, but completely, this time. We begin dismantling and demolition this weekend. However… There is still an opportunity to save the Basement Performance Level

An anti-gentrification philosophical tantrum by performance artist and poet Gómez-Peña reflects on the dangers of the ultimate “creative city,” and what it means to become a foreigner in his own neighborhood, waiting for the much touted eviction notice.