Arts and Culture

A Straight Person’s Guide for Attending Pride
Hooray! It’s Pride Month in San Francisco. The rainbow flags are flying proudly on Market Street, queer people are coming from all over the world to experience our friendly, little city and it seems like there might be fornicating gay unicorns around every corner. If you’re a straight person who wants

5 reasons to love Bloomsday
It’s Bloomsday. The anniversary of a writer’s first date with his future wife, written into literary history as the day in which the story of perhaps the most important modern novel in the English language takes place: the 16th of June 1904. Weird people around the world are going to

We Wanna Send You to the SF Opera!
The San Francisco Opera is performing three separate AMAZING operas this month! And we are giving away orchestra tickets to ALL THREE! La Boheme on Sunday, June 25 at 2:00pm Rigoletto on Tuesday, June 27 at 7:30pm Don Giovanni on Friday, June 30 at 7:30pm Check out our awesome behind

Punk Rock Photos from SF’s Better & Worse Times
By Sarah C Brady Nostalgic for the grittier, bygone San Francisco? Upcoming exhibit, Jim Jocoy: Order of Appearance, transports viewers back to a raw moment in SF history, when stateside punk was being birthed in local dives. Jim Jocoy, a Korean-born and Bay Area-based artist, has photographed the likes of

Redeveloping the Abandoned Packard Plant in Detroit
Arte Express has purchased almost all the land surrounding the Packard Plant with the intention of turning old shipping containers into mixed income single family homes

We wanna send you plus one to see Tony Rock!
Tony Rock is a comedian, actor, producer, writer and CEO. Professionally, this man wears many hats. Host of Russell Simmons’ “All Def Comedy Live” AND the newly revamped legendary talent competition “Apollo Live”, comedian and actor Tony Rock continues to prove his exceptional star talents. Rock starred in critically acclaimed,

Bay of the Living Dead: You Made Me Hate Myself–Well I LIke Myself Now!
Welcome to Bay of the Living Dead, a twice a month column about the horror genre. Willard (1971) Willard was a sensation when it was first released in 1971. The low budget chiller played to packed houses for months, grossing $14,545,941, an enormous amount of money in those days. Willard was a love story, perhaps one

Backstage for La Bohème at the San Francisco Opera
Backstage is humming with activity at the San Francisco Opera House. There are three separate operas to prepare for and mere days to get ready. That’s three separate casts, stage designs, musical scores, and hundreds of different costumes, props, lighting sequences, and stage movements all preparing for the spotlight in