Art

05 Jun 2014

Etiquette for Using Slurs in a Post-Trannyshack World

Trannyshack flyer from 2010, redaction added My everyday casual slur use was rocked with the recent name change of the drag club formerly known as Trannyshack. Wait, a word that so adorably rhymes with “granny” has negative associations and is considered part of the hate speech vernacular? It’s not okay

Joe Kukura- Millionaire in Training 0
20 Jun 2013

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

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
14 Jun 2013

Libraries, Galleries, and Hostels: The Broke-Ass Traveler’s Sanctuaries in Italy

Photo by Leigh Cuen Italy is not a cheap place to travel. Expensive culinary delights call out to pedestrians like sirens. Italy’s famous museums are costly and offer the crowded feeling of Disneyland or a zoo. Visitors are herded past masterpieces in lines, which often snake around corners and out

Leigh Cuen – Wandering Dreamer 0
29 May 2013

SFMOMA FREE All Weekend!

I was recently in the Big Apple and luckily scored FREE passes to the MOMA while I was there.  It was really awesome – but I would like to think that our SF MOMA is even cooler because they are letting everyone in for FREE this weekend! Festivities include a

Heidi Smith - The Ultimate Scavenger 0
10 May 2013

How To Go To SFMOMA For Cheap(ish) And Treat It Like A Movie Theater

If you’re anything like me, you like museums in theory but the admission is waaaaayyyy unaffordable and it always makes you feel kind of drowsy anyway, so whenever those headliner exhibits of Warhol or Matisse come around, you just look at pictures on the internet instead and feel satisfied enough

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21 Dec 2012

Were the Mayans Right? Find Out Tonight!

For those of us sill believing that Dooms Day is on its way, come out tonight to see what the Mayans really have to say about it. Even broke-asses will have a chance to see what all the fuss is about – it’s FREE! There will be a ceremony to

Heidi Smith - The Ultimate Scavenger 0
26 Sep 2012

Get Cultured at Smithsonian’s National FREE Museum Day This Saturday

In my humble opinion, the best part about visiting This Nation’s Great Capital is all of the FREE Smithsonian museums that Washington, DC has going on.  Would I like to learn about everything from airplanes to the decorative arts?  Why yes, especially if I can do so for FREE!  Because

Carrie Laven - Pretty Penniless 0