Arts and Culture

Weird & Wonderful: Depression, Art, and Pop’s Bar
This time on the Weird & Wonderful podcast we recorded in at Pop’s Bar on 24th St. a legendary dive bar in the heart of the The Mission. We get into some pretty heavy shit including dealing with depression and how to intervene with when you see someone being harassed.

BAS Fiction – Inroads Up Hills
INROADS UP HILLS by John Christopher Nelson The rises and falls distort Celia’s sense of place. Tonight is too cold for May, and the cartilage in her knees stiffens as she navigates the familiar, unsafe path to her apartment. Hosting at a bar means getting stuck at work until the

Founder of Rocket Dog Rescue Mugged, Thieves Steal Donations Meant for Rocket Dog
I got a message from a reader today informing me that Pali Boucher, founder of Rocket Dog Rescue, was violently mugged last night. Besides her personal belongings the thieves also got away with all the donations she’d collected at a Rocket Dog fundraiser earlier in the evening. For those unfamiliar, Rocket

We wanna send you to see Sub Pop band LOW!
Sub Pop will release Low’s Ones and Sixes, the group’s latest studio effort, on CD / LP / DL worldwide Friday, September 11th. The album, featuring the standouts “No Comprende” [listen here], “What Part of Me,” “Gentle,” and “No End,” was co-produced by the band and engineer BJ Burton at

BAS Poetry: New Work from Bjorn Winberg
Broke-Ass Stuart is now accepting poetry submissions to be featured in the BAS Poetry: Arts & Culture column. Written & curated by Corinne Avganim. Okay, this is bizarre. In an older post, I mentioned how BAS Poetry has turned my inbox into a treasure trove of pleasant surprises. The latest gem – an email from a

NYC Summer Grub Series: The Chelsea Market
By Jonas Barnes NYC is a city full of anything and everything you could want. Entertainment, 5-star cuisine, drinks and homeless men masturbating are just a sample of the indulgences you can take part of every day in NYC. As the summer rolls in, the city unleashes pure culinary bliss

We wanna send you and a friend to see Rostam Batmanglij!
The son of Iranian refugees, Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter Rostam Batmanglij was born in Washington, D.C. in 1983. He attended Columbia University where he studied classical music, and simultaneously focused on songwriting, recording, and production in his own time. In his last year there he began producing the first

WE WANNA SEND YOU TO PLUS A FRIEND TO SEE SEU JORGE’S TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE!
In commemoration of David Bowie’s passing, Seu Jorge performs a special tribute to him while recreating the set to the film A Life Aquatic on stage alongside screens crafted as boat sails that will be displaying images from the film. Seu Jorge, one of Brazil’s most talented contemporary singers, rose