Arts and Culture

BAS Readers get Half Off Tix to SF City Football Club Games!
Guest post by Tyler Hinman Soccer fans in our city don’t have to go all the way south to a Quakes match to watch the Beautiful Game live. Instead, they can see San Francisco City Football Club play their Premier Development League games at historic Kezar Stadium. What’s more, Broke-Ass Stuart

NYC Drag Queen Of The Week – Kizha Carr
There is no shortage of drag queens in NYC. You can’t throw a rock without hitting some twink in a dress thinking he’s got what it takes to shantay down the runway just because he’s seen every season of Ru Paul’s Drag Race while practicing YouTube makeup tutorials. There’s a

Occupy ICE is Blockading ICE Headquarters in San Francisco
Guest Post by Lia Russell In response to the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy of separating families from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border, thousands across the nation have mobilized to “occupy” their nearest ICE facilities and in response to the mass roundups and detentions that have become the norm under

We wanna send you and a friend to see Bombino: The Sultan of Shred
Home. Where the heart is. For Bombino and most other Tuareg, there’s only one place that can be. In recent years, the rest of the world has largely written off that home as a hot and savage wasteland, a bolt hole for religious extremists and terrorists, a geopolitical video nasty

NYC Drag Queen Of The Week – Marti Gould Cummings
There is no shortage of drag queens in NYC. You can’t throw a rock without hitting some twink in a dress thinking he’s got what it takes to shantay down the runway just because he’s seen every season of Ru Paul’s Drag Race while practicing YouTube makeup tutorials. There’s a

29Rooms: A Feast for Your Eyes and Your Instagram
We’ve reached an interesting juncture in history where visual art and social media are making sweet sweet love to each other and creating very shareable babies.

Punk Rock Karaoke for Trans Inclusive Gym in Brooklyn
Going to the gym can be stressful for anyone but it can be especially difficult for those whose outside appearance may not represent who they really are (read Shakina’s experience with it right here). Trans people live with the knowledge that just using a public bathroom could result in awkward

Join the Nationwide March for Immigrant Rights
Tomorrow (Saturday) 6/30 there will be a nationwide march against the cruel and inhumane ways that the Tr*mp administration is treating immigrants. Details about the SF march are below and you can find info about marches in your town right here. Immigrant rights are human rights, and human rights are