“This is an art event exhibiting a wide variety of body decoration. Our bodies are the art work. This is a “bare as you dare” event, which means that participants (and spectators) can attend completely naked if they wish. However, since it is a body art event, participants (including nudists) are encouraged to decorate their bodies in some manner. Decorating can include tattoos, body paint, jewelry (including genital jewelry), hennas, costumes and “leather gear”.

Some people refuse to stand for the national anthem because of an ugly-sounding “slave” lyric in the song’s little-known third stanza. But this ugly-sounding reference is actually on permanent display in Golden Gate Park, glorified for all time at the Francis Scott Key statue in the Music Concourse between the

Dance Gavin Dance is an American post-hardcore band formed in Sacramento, California in 2005. They are perhaps most well known for their frequent line up changes and the many publicized disputes between band members. To date, they have released four full length studio albums, including Downtown Battle Mountain Pt. II, and

  Jessica Bennett, Contributing Writer, The New York Times; Author, Feminist Fight Club Peggy Orenstein, Author and Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine–Moderator The first rule of the Feminist Fight Club is you MUST talk about the Feminist Fight Club — and we invite you to San Francisco’s first public meeting. Jessica’s

When you Move Away From San Francisco, there are many things you will miss, and this may be the ultimate list

We did the homework. The food & drinks that taste the same, have the same ingredients, but cost way less at TJ’s than at Whole Foods, Safeway or Costco.

We love to 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. Wanna be a Broke-Ass of the Week?  Holler at us here and we’ll send you the questionnaire.   SAN FRANCISCO, CA- Travis