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Doctor Discovers Potential Vaccine in Beer

By combining his two passions, virology and home brewing, Dr. Christopher Buck may well have brewed the world’s first beer vaccine.

San Francisco Already Up To 5 Pedestrian Deaths This Year

How many more have to die before City Hall takes public safety seriously?

What Your Birth Chart Says About Your Dating Life in San Francisco

Dating in San Francisco can be a sport, a spiritual practice, and a part-time job with no benefits all at once.

Welcome Spring At The BAMPFA

Joe Kukura, Journalist, Friend, & Patron of San Francisco Culture has Passed Away

An SF Icon and long-time BAS contributor has passed into the great beyond

What the 'Dumbest Law' Contest Gets Wrong About San Francisco

Newly appointed D4 Supervisor Alan Wong launched a competition to find SF’s dumbest law and gave examples like not being allowed to play ball games in the streets.

Cinequest 2026 Is Here! Boasting 268 Films From 44 Countries

San Francisco Bay Area filmgoers who don’t mind traveling to the South Bay should check out the 2026 Cinequest Film Festival (hereafter “Cinequest”). Running from now to March 22, 2026, Cinequest will be screening in both San Jose (at such venues as the California Theatre and the Hammer Theatre) and Mountain View (at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas). Boasting 268 films from 44 countries, the festival brings everything from (the expected) new films to personal appearances by such stars as Vivica A. Fox and Steve Zahn.

Revitalizing the Lost Art of Repair at the Haight NOPA Repair Cafe

For those who simply enjoy fixing things, to those who love a free, third place full of neighbors, this volunteer-fueled cafe gives San Franciscans an opportunity to revitalize items, instead of adding to a landfill.

Interview With “Andre Is An Idiot” Director Tony Benna

It’s not a spoiler to say that Andre Ricciardi, the titular Andre of Tony Benna’s documentary “Andre Is An Idiot,” does indeed die. Given that he had Stage 4 Colorectal Cancer, Andre’s long-term survival was never open-ended. Yet this Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary is not a totally grim and humorless tale but ultimately a comedy. In fact, some reviews have praised Benna’s feature as one of the year’s best comedies.

Spamalot Farts in The General Direction of San Francisco

“It’s big, but is it art?” ask the French after threatening to fart in the general direction of a bemused King Arthur (Major Attaway) in the North American tour of Spamalot, on now at Golden Gate Theater. Well, it has all of the beloved signifiers of classic Monty Python.