Arts and Culture

BAS Folsom 2015 In Pictures! (NSFW)
Folsom 2015, as the interwebs predicted, the city is just a box glazed old-fashioneds in search of an emergency pastry chef. As the denizens of the Barbary Coast resume solid food diets and start to emerge from the week- long coma just in time for Castro Street Fair, Hardly Strictly this weekend, and Fleet Week and Italian Heritage Day next weekend. SWEET FUCKING CHRIST, SAN PANCHO!

This Week’s Events | San Francisco + New York
Rad Upcoming SF Events Jo Kreiter: Needles to Thread THU. 10/01 | 8:00PM @ YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS Choreographer and aerial site-artist Jo Kreiter presents an off the ground dance production suspended between buildings in a Tenderloin alley. ADMISSION: FREE Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2015 FRI. 10/02 – SUN.

Beautiful Women in Bookstores: Sonia
Beautiful Women in Bookstores is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a celebration of reading, intelligence, independent bookstores, and of course, beautiful women. In a time when bookstores seem to be disappearing this is our effort to show how sexy books and reading really are.

Win Tickets to Michael Ian Black @ Cobb’s Comedy Club!
Originally from Hillsborough, NJ, sketch comedian Black has co-created, wrote and starred in such seminal television programs as “The State,” “Viva Variety,” “Stella” and “Michael and Michael Have Issues.”. Other TV credits include his role as the quirky bowling alley manager “Phil” on the network series “Ed,” and his witty commentary on cable’s

Win Tickets To Cannibal Ox @ The New Parish!
Formed by Vast Aire and Vordul Mega in Harlem, New York, Cannibal Ox is one of the most revered independent groups in hip-hop history. Their 2001 debut, The Cold Vein, is widely regarded as one of the best and most innovative hip-hop albums of all-time. Saturday, October 5, 2015

ShakesBEER: An NYC Pub Crawl
The other weekend I went to the theater. Ok maybe it wasn’t so much of a theater, as it was a theater of the human condition. A bar, I went to bar. But I went to this bar to partake of the theater of the human condition, to soak up the

Win Tickets To See Beirut @ The Greek in Berkeley!
Sweet madre hey-sus, I love me some Zach Condon. Beirut’s music merges a variety of genres with a Balkan beat underlining. Their energetic performances have got everybody talking all across the globe, most noticeably from their appearance on the BBC program, later with Jools Holland in 2010. Beirut like to

30 Days Micro-Dosing with LSD
“Now I understand why all the flower children from the ’60s eventually sold out, bought houses and watch Fox News.” That’s a snippet from my journal entry on day ten of my experiment. The experiment in question is micro dosing with LSD—that is, ingesting a tiny dose of lysergic acid diethylamide every