Arts and Culture

A Brief History of East vs West Coast Rap
Last week March 9th, marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Notorious B.I.G. In his few short years of superstardom, Biggie left a crater-sized impact on the music industry and a cloudy legacy behind him.

We wanna send you and a friend to see Chronixx @ Ace of Spades in Sacramento!
Lately, when I’m feeling down or defeated, there’s nothing like some socially aware music with bangin’ beats to get me out of my funk. And it’s not just me that Chronixx is that’s uplifting, Jamaican musician Chronixx has ignited a torch in people’s hearts the world over and is confidently lighting the

The XXXFiles: X-Files Agent Mulder’s Secret Porn Obsession
The X-Files. What can you say about it? It changed TV forever. How many shows can you think of right now that have been influenced by it? It has become an integral part of 90’s nostalgia and a landmark in Television history. X-File fans know of a running joke through the first

Weird & Wonderful Ep.8: Talking to Weirdos at Madrone
Wow, we are at Ep.8 of Weird & Wonderful w/Broke-Ass Stuart! This has been such a cool adventure so far. In this Ep Sonny and I take our show on the road. We set up at Madrone Art Bar on Divisidero on a Tuesday afternoon and talk to a whole

The Honey Bear BART Bandit of San Francisco: fnnch
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights local artists before they exhibit their work somewhere awesome, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. Meet fnnch, BART’s unofficial artist in residence… You may have seen fnnch’s work around town, he’s

SXSW is BullSX!T
SXSW jumped the shark long ago, so be glad you’re not attending the Doritos-sponsored Spring Break for corporate America that’s getting underway in Austin, Texas. SWSW calls itself a “music, film, and interactive festival”. What in the Hello Fresh is an “interactive festival”? It’s where the normally cool city of

We wanna send you to see Symphony Silicon Valley perform Chamber of Secrets Live!
John Williams has composed film scores for most of our beloved films: Jaws, the Star Wars series, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Indiana Jones series just to name a few. Here is your chance to hear one of his film scores live, as he has scored three of the Harry Potter

“I Want a Dyke For President” Poem Posted in Castro District Front Yard
My friend Aubree sent this to me earlier today. She saw it posted in the front yard of a house on Ord St. between Market and 17th Sts. Written in 1992 by Zoe Leonard an artist, activist, and member of the queer women art collective Fierce Pussy, “I want a Dyke for President”