Arts and Culture

When Anarchist Punks Become Nazis
Racist punks are supposed to look a certain way. They wear boots and braces. They shave their heads. They live in other cities. In other scenes. In other decades. Except sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they’re in your band. In the aftermath of the capitol insurrection, concerned citizens have started identifying

What San Franciscans Want in Their New Monuments: A Report
The New Monuments Taskforce was asked to study San Francisco’s 87 public monuments, and what do with them. The project mapped out where all our monuments and asked the public everything from ‘what monuments (if any) should be removed’, to ‘what should a monument be?’ The taskforce is led by

Color That Lights Up SF Streets : Kate Tova Artist You Should Know
To escape the gray skies, the soviet facades, and 6-month long Russian winters, she painted with bright, intensely warm colors. The type of color palette that can light up a dark street corner.

San Francisco May Have a New Office of ‘Drag Laureate’
Well this is absolutely delightful! San Francisco is considering creating the office of Drag Laureate. Yesterday on SF Gate, Peter-Astrid Kane (also a contributor to this website) wrote that the “Bay Area Reporter noted the idea was one of many in S.F.’s ‘LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy,’ a 2018 report that was revised

How to Watch the Sundance Film Festival From Home
Before the Coronavirus changed everything, the only way a person could take in the full Sundance Film Festival experience was to travel to Park City (or a surrounding town), dress very warmly, and brave insanely long lines for a chance to score a screening ticket. The 2021 Sundance Film Festival,

The Bernie Sanders Mittens Shirt is Here
Yes indeed, the Bernie Sanders Mittens Shirt is here! By now I’m sure you saw all the incredible memes of Bernie Sanders sitting in different places. In fact we collected the best of them and put them all right here. Well now you can have Bernie sitting with you everywhere you

The Best & Funniest Bernie Memes
Bernie Sanders may not have won the presidency, but he won our hearts. His mittens, his ‘this inauguration is not my whole day’ jacket, and his general ‘don’t touch me’ demeanor, was easily the biggest meme of the 2021 inauguration. People gleefully put his punim in the most historic, hilarious,

Cobra Kai is a High School Karate Soap Opera and it’s Great
For those sane enough to not have purchased YouTube’s video streaming service (because that’s where the show was before Netflix bought them out), Cobra Kai is the continuation of the 80’s classic The Karate Kid. A film in which Pat Morita won an Oscar for best supporting performance, and Ralph