Restaurants who are eliminating the plastic straws and takeout containers that are choking the oceans, killing sea life, and washing up on our beaches

By Matthew Gerring If you’re a regular reader of Street Sheet by Coalition on Homelessness, you might be surprised to hear that the paper’s recent upgrades — full color front pages and a new website — were sponsored by the same people who brought you AirBnB: Silicon Valley’s preeminent startup incubator,

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

Russiagate bombshells galore are getting ready to go boom, as fired FBI Director James Comey is about to give his first congressional testimony. We’ve got your Comey testimony bingo (FBI-NGO?) and Comey testimony drinking game for a gavel-to-gavel gigglegate that will have you Comeying in your pants. Both real news

There is a musician from Oakland who has been rocking stages around the world for years. He plays the piano, raps and produces, just to name a few of his many talents. You may have heard of him. His name is Kev Choice. He has released four albums and tours

Screw the played out stuff, here is what you really want to do in San Francisco

According to numerous news reports gay men in Chechnya are being thrown into concentrations camps where many are beaten, tortured and murdered

Heroes are humans, and when they are ruined, when their actions come to light, you didn’t ruin them by telling people. They ruined themselves.