I Screamed Like an Emo Teenager on BART Because Green Day, Fall Out Boy, & Weezer Are Touring Together
This Tuesday started like any other, a drowsy morning filled with fumbling around in my Walnut Creek apartment, trying not to wake my sleeping boyfriend as he snored through the morning. Besides music, he’s what makes me happy, my lifeline. I took my pills and walked into my “beauty room,”
Do You Know What the Actual Boundaries of The Bay Area Are?
You can’t ‘rep The Bay,’ if you don’t even know what it is. Everyone from The Bay loves to say they’re from “The Bay”. It’s almost a rite of passage. You’re not really from here if you haven’t obnoxiously shamed someone for their lack of ability to recite “Feeling Myself”
100 Year Old Tosca Cafe is Closing Down
OFF MENU IS SPONSORED BY EMPEROR NORTON’S BOOZELAND THE TENDERLOIN’S NEWEST HISTORIC DIVE. HAPPY HOUR NOON – 7PM Back in the day Tosca was part of what I called “The Holy Trinity of San Francisco Bars”. Along with Specs‘ and Vesuvio, Tosca represented the funky old North Beach bohemian scene that was part of
Kate Rhoades : Artist You Should Know
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights Bay Area artists who are doing incredible work, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep the bay a strange and wonderful place. If you’ve taken a bus lately you may have seen Kate’s work, she’s got a delightful series
Beat the Heat with Cool Art Events
Has the recent heatwave got you feeling beaten down? Cool off by checking out these art happenings and by checking out SF Design Week at the end of June. As Pride approaches, there are also a ton of related art events where you sh0uld discover your next favorite LGBTQ artist!
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We wanna send you plus one to see Local Natives at Fox Theatre Oakland!
If you distilled California into soundwaves and vibrations, it might resemble the sonic and spiritual interplay of the Los Angeles quintet—Taylor Rice [vocals, guitar], Kelcey Ayer [vocals, keys, percussion, guitar], Ryan Hahn [guitar, keys, mandolin, vocals], Matt Frazier [drums], and Nik Ewing [bass, keys, vocals]. Hills and valleys of six-string
BART Trolls Elon Musk on Twitter, A Nerd Fight Ensues
Elon Musk tweeted about his vision for a subterranean superhighway, currently being worked on by his ‘Boring Company’ in Los Angeles. Musk’s tweet soon came under a hail of Twitter fire (shocker), from people who clearly didn’t read his FAQ. One of the trollers was our beloved Bay Area Rapid
TROY CHEW’S “SLANGUAGE” OF PAINTING
Troy Chew is an artist whose work explores the African Diaspora within the context of urban culture. His ongoing painting series “Slanguage” references the colloquial speech rooted in our urban areas and Hip-Hop music. He has a new solo show at Cushion Works (yes, an actual cushion-making business) in the