Bay Area

AOC, BBC & Claire Denis: Preview Of SFFILM Festival 2019
Broke-Ass readers living in the S.F. Bay Area who want longer immersion in the world of film outside the Hollywood sphere are in luck next week. April sees the return of the annual SFFILM Festival. Formerly known as the San Francisco International Film Festival, this two week event enters its

Over 100 Drag Kings & Queens To Perform in Oakland
Via – Mama Celeste (aka Grey Tartaglione) The Bay Area Drag Festival is Coming Back to Oakland From Friday April 26th to Sunday April 28th, over one hundred drag kings, queens, and queer performers from the Bay Area and beyond will come together for the second annual Oaklash Drag Festival. Organized by

Where to See Indian Films in the Bay Area
There’s an embarassment of riches for anyone who loves to see Indian films in the Bay Area. Here’s a break down of the many spots playing these flicks.

Ask a Tenant Attorney: How to Protect Yourselves from Rent Increases
Ask a Tenant Attorney is your chance to learn how to survive as a tenant in San Francisco. In each edition Tenant’s Rights Attorney Daniel Wayne addresses a different issue for residential tenants. In this edition we discuss two laws tenants NEED to know in order to avoid losing their rent control. For

NEW YEAR, MORE BAY AREA ART EVENTS
Did you make a resolution to be more creative in 2019? Start the year off right by attending an arts-related event that you wouldn’t normally go to, even if that event happens to be a party! From DIY taxidermy to shibari (yes, the bondage practice), the Bay Area continues to

A Few Good Things George Bush Did for the Bay
President George H.W. Bush is being honored among a cast of characters that make up our past and present, good and bad, inspirational and disturbing – all under one chapel roof in an emotional and fairly awkward collision of worlds. We could wax poetic on the late president’s legacy, but

Ordering Weed is Finally Just like Amazon Prime
It’s crazy how easy it is to get cannabis delivered to your door these days. Far from the shady and unreliable ways you used to ‘score pot’ back in the day, before it became completely legal in CA, remember? Meeting some guy in a parking lot, or having to drive

Bay Area Artists Have Taken Over Yerba Buena
It’s opening night for the latest exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Under-, over-, and well-dressed people of every age and persuasion are chatting in drink lines and dancing in the pink-tinged darkness of the Center’s theater. In short order the DJ will blast a snarky, sugary