Tabitha Soren’s photographs investigate the difficulties of everyday living.  Whether it’s the disquieting images of people in looming danger in Running, or the anxiety-inspired oceans capes of Panic Beach, Soren is interested in what humans can and cannot endure. For her newest collection, Fantasy Life: Baseball and the American Dream, Soren spent over a decade following 21 members of the

Are you stressed out about the Trump Administration’s attack on women’s reproductive rights? Do you get headaches thinking about what he’s doing to our immigrant communities? Are you having issues stomaching his Climate Change denial? Well luckily for you there is now the Softy Screamer! When your regular pillows are

There are few people in SF who have been untouched by the housing crisis. From budding artists to retirees, while we hear a great deal about the many adults who have been forced to relocate as prices rise, there isn’t as much noise about the impact to children and families.

Thanks to hypergentrification and mass displacement, we can now add  ‘extreme commuting’ to the essential lexicon of Bay Area inequality.  And we need to start using it in sentences more often. Because ‘extreme commuting’ helps to define a broken city, where high-paid workers and their wealthy bosses occupy the former homes of displaced SF workers and commute to Silicon Valley via gratis luxury buses that pick them up within blocks of their front door

  The late-night porn-jacking habits of anti-pornography GOP senator Ted Cruz have entered the national conversation, as the pompous “family values” bullshit-spewing rube clicked ‘Like’ on a pornographic tweet and breathed beautiful life into late-night Twitter like it was “covfefe” all over again. He also breathed life into the pornographic Twitter

Riot Fest is a multi-day music festival specializing in punk, rock, alternative, metal, and hip-hop. Founded in 2005 in Chicago. Carnival Rides, amazing food vendors, sideshow performers, and more add to the atmosphere of this independent music fest. In 2005, Riot Fest booked a multi-venue weekend of punk and rock

Broke-Ass Stuart is now accepting poetry submissions to be featured in the BAS Poetry: Arts & Culture column. Written & curated by Corinne Avganim. Monday, bloody Monday. Not sure about you, but I need a major distraction from reality today. So, I have decided to spend the day embodying Bloody Maria – a graphic