Arts and Culture

08 Mar 2016

New Posters Lampoon Mission Real Estate Listings…Using Actual Realty Listing

  Open House Listing: Mission District SF – “Come for the ‘ethnic cafes’ and ‘hip night spots’! San Francisco has become nearly synonymous with the phrase ‘gentrification’ over the last decade, and no case is more exemplary than in the housing market.   Where the Mission District in SF used to

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07 Mar 2016

Here’s your chance to see Sarah Neufeld of Arcade Fire Perform @ Swedish American Hall!

  Sarah Neufeld is a violinist and composer based in Montréal, Canada. Best known as a member of Arcade Fire, she is also a founding member of the acclaimed contemporary instrumental ensemble Bell Orchestre, and most recently as half of an exciting new duo with renowned saxophonist Colin Stetson. Tuesday,

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07 Mar 2016

Louis C.K. Calls Trump “Insane Bigot” and “Hitler”

Over the weekend the brilliant comedian Louis C.K. wrote an email calling Donald Trump an “insane bigot” and “Hitler”. He also said the US was turning into “Germany in the 30s”. It’s an interesting letter and Louis makes some sharp and wonderful points, as usual. It actually reminds me of

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07 Mar 2016

For All Our Friends Who Died Way Too Young

Fletch was the first person my age I knew who died. I was 19 and in college and Sato had called and left a message on our answering machine weeping “Fletch is dead. He died in a car crash” over the telephone lines that stretched from San Diego to Santa

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06 Mar 2016

We’ve got the hookup to The Revivalists @ The Independent!

  True to their name, The Revivalists lean more heavily on the older styles and warmer sounds of the golden age of rock ‘n roll, but the band isn’t afraid to dabble in electronics and sleight-of-studio when it’s right for the song. The group tends not to bother with questions

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04 Mar 2016

This Week’s Interesting News

Stats on US Single Ladies, Porn Data, Millennial Salaries & other interesting stories and commentary from the week

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03 Mar 2016

Broke-Ass Stuart’s Crazy Purim Costume Party

There’s nothing San Franciscans love more than putting on costumes, drinking booze, and dancing. Luckily, there’s a Jewish holiday for that. It’s called Purim and it’s about time everyone (Jews and non-Jews alike) found out how awesome it is. So on Thursday March 24th, I’ve decided to throw the best

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03 Mar 2016

Fuck You, ‘Full House’

Full House nostalgia is on full blast, which is odd considering that Full House was completely shitty and never any good. The Netflix reboot of the male-dominated, whitebread 80s sitcom has set off a nostalgic phenomenon with a porn parody, a gentrification parody and a Brooklyn hipster parody. Were you

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