Arts and Culture

30 Apr 2010

Touching Home: Inspiring For All The Wrong Reasons

A few weeks ago, I attended a free screening of Touching Home, which is based on the true story of these twin brothers, Noah and Logan Miller, whose alcoholic dad died in prison. The twins hail from Marin County and wrote, directed, and starred in this film. Super talented actors

Rebecca Pederson - Cheap Date 0
30 Apr 2010

Soul Imperial at K&M

There’s a ton of “First Saturday” shit happening tomorrow, and while it’s all well and good to stand around in a museum listening to world music and drinking watered-down keg beer, why not do what you REALLY wanna do: get stupid drunk and dance with your friends? Catch the Soul

BAS Writers 0
30 Apr 2010

Sex. Art. Music. Drag. Life Under the Golden Gate

The ‘only in San Francisco’ talk variety Show is doing a live taping at Doc’s Lab on May 6th.  Maria Konner and DJ Dank welcome drag and fashion legend Glamamore, controversial city supervisor Scott Wiener, sexy chanteuse Kitten on the keys, devilish magician Paul Nathan and drag support from Creme Fatale

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30 Apr 2010

Clean Up Dolores Park on Saturday — You’ll Be There Anyway!

Hey, remember when that rumor surfaced about Dolores Park closing and you listened to all 1,000 Elliot Smith albums on repeat, felt that there was no need to take showers anymore because where would you even go to show off your freshly-scrubbed body anyway, and hid under the covers for

Christy Jovanelly - Cheapskate Commentator 0
29 Apr 2010

FREE Sonic Youth and Kurt Cobain Rock-umentary Screenings

I’ve never heard of the Oakland Underground Film Festival before today, but I guess that’s kind of the point, right? With the SF International Film Festival keeping all the local movie critics busy right now, it’s easy to overlook our friends in the East Bay. But tomorrow night the Pavilion

Andrew Dalton - Aggressive Panhandler 0
29 Apr 2010

Broke-Ass Band Interview – Sean Bones

I was tipped off to this interview opportunity with Sean Bones a few weeks back through an email saying he was opening for Dr. Dog.  I love Dr. Dog, so a chance to get some nicely discounted tickets was all the incentive I needed to agree to try out new

Steven K. - Sound Reasoner 0
29 Apr 2010

Once In A Lifetime – Survivors of The Atomic Bombs

Before recently, I was not aware that there are living survivors of the atomic bombs attacks during World War II. It wasn’t until the theatre company of which I am a part was asked to do a show using true stories from the survivors that I found out about these

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
29 Apr 2010

OAK Pop-up sale at the Seventh Heart Tonight at 7pm

Sip, shop and shuffle this evening at Market Street clotheshorse The Seventh Heart as that they are holding a pop-up sale/ welcome to town for OAK of New York City. Doesn’t say if they will be of the complimentary variety or not, but there will be spirits’and scenes, and looks,

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0