Arts and Culture

02 Jun 2010

Get Cultured, Bank of America-style (and it’s FREE!)

Attention Bank of America customers: Whatever beef you have with the red-white-and-blue financial institution, squash it. At least for a couple days here and there. I’m not sure how I stumbled upon this little known fact, but BoA offers its cardholders FREE admission to more than 100 museums, zoos, science

Mikey Rox - Cut-Rate Copywriter 0
01 Jun 2010

I’m in a Film that Won an Award – The Swagger Stagger

Remember back in February when I was in that short film the Swagger Stagger?  You know the one 4sp Films made where my friend Sayre Piotrkowski and I roll around San Francisco drinking good beer and eating food?  Well guess what?  It won an award, and I didn’t even know it was

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
31 May 2010

Parked: The Gowanus Food Truck Festival

New York is a fat kid’s dream. There are pizza places and bagel shops every 1.5 blocks, as well as trucks waiting for you on the sidewalk when you suddenly crave a chocolate crossiant or flaffel. Normally, it’s totally worth walking a few extra blocks to find an ice cream

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0
31 May 2010

Broke-Ass Haiku: Cheap Chinese Food

So we at Broke Ass HQ, like many of you, often spend time shooting the shit and coming up with new ideas to make you laugh, cry, save money and live your life. The haiku, a Japanese form of poetry, is a beautiful and simplistic way to show your affection

Monica Miller - The Intern 0
30 May 2010

Memorial Day Drama

Sometimes I am too poor to see a play on Broadway.  Sometimes I am too poor to see a play off-Broadway, or at an off-off-Broadway theatre, or in the basement of Two Boots Pizza.  Sometimes I am too poor to watch a movie in the theatre, or to get a

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
30 May 2010

Reasons to Stay in the City for Memorial Day Weekend

I relish three-day weekends, not just because of the time off, but generally there is a mass exodus from the city and I get to roam around a little bit more people free. For those of you who were like f this I’m outta here. I’m happy for you, but

Laura S - Spendthrift Scribe 0
29 May 2010

San Francisco Carnaval this Weekend in the Mission

Are you ready to Samba? I hope so, because the two-day San Francisco Cultural Arts Traditions Carnaval celebration is happening all day today and tomorrow in La Mission and is sure to be a multicultural bucket of good times. The festival offers all the Salsa, Samba, Reggae, Tango, Hip- Hop,

Alison Lambert - Half Price Headliner 0
29 May 2010

Hoes Weising Hoes – Getting Your Friends To Drink Budweiser

It took Bros Icing Bros about two weeks to go viral and spawn the spin-off, Hoes Weising Hoes. The Encyclopedia Brotannica and the BroBible declared that women can’t fairly get iced because they actually like the taste of Smirnoff (hence why it’s called “bitch beer”), so the only reasonable alternative

Rebecca Pederson - Cheap Date 0