Arts and Culture

Dispatches From The Road: One Cold Night In Canberra, Australia’s Capital
It’s easy to give into your own prejudice and hate Canberra. As soon as you step into this place, the blood in your veins turns to ice. Winters here are chilly, and if you fly in, chances are you will be left waiting outside in the cold night for a

BAS Pride 2013: Win Tix to Hard French Hearts Los Homos Pride Party!!
Happy Pride 2013…We at BAS are once gain bringing you the best and cheapest that pride has to offer, from cheap drinks, to free events, to give aways and more…Stay tuned all week for our pre pride line-up, as well as Pride in Pictures next week! If you feel like

BAS Pride 2013: Win a Pair of Tix to San Francisco’s Big Gay Birthday Party!
Happy Pride 2013…We at BAS are once gain bringing you the best and cheapest that pride has to offer, from cheap drinks, to free events, to give aways and more…Stay tuned all week for our pre pride line-up, as well as Pride in Pictures next week! The fine folks over

The Tamale Lady’s 60th Birthday Party is Friday at The Eagle
As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, The Man has set his sights on our beloved Tamale Lady and is trying to make it so that she can’t do the thing she does best: slang tamales. News broke last week that Virginia Ramos (aka The Tamale Lady) would no longer be

BA of the Week: Neon Artist Meryl Pataky
Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

Win a Pair of Tix to Oddball San Francisco History
I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’ve been doing a lot of giveaways for events at the Old Mint. That’s because FlipSide has been absolutely killing it and throwing really cool parties. This party is a fine example. It sounds fucking fantastic. To get all the info and/or buy tix to

STOP! No U Turn… FREE Found Streetsign Poetry Reading!
Missing Links Press launches Found Dharma… Nothing says summer solstice like hearing some poetry created from serendipitous street signs. (By the way, did you know that the word serendipity comes from a fairy tale called Three Princes of Serendip? Go read about it.) This Friday poet Genine Lentine will read from

Broke-Ass Octophiles: Cheap and in Love with the ’80s
What exactly is the correlation between being broke and being obsessed with/nostalgic for/stuck in the ’80s? I know it’s not just me. Go to any hipster neighborhood (Williamsburg, etc.), try to picture everyone without their iPhones, and voila, you could very well be in 1984. Is it because hipsters are