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We’re Patterns in Repeat – Our Favorite Songs of 2024
By Sayre Piotrkowski and Nico Simonian Our official playlist, “We’re Patterns in Repeat,” is HERE! It is that time of year again! 2024 is the sixth year running that BAS has convened a group of the most passionate music nerds in our midst to compile a list of the year’s

Broke-Ass Recipes: Beef Stroganov
To be sure, Beef Stroganov most certainly does not refer to a lewd act committed with cattle. As a matter of fact, it is a hearty dish of Russian origin defined by the sour cream and Dijon mustard that go into its proprietary sauce and damn good eating on cold

The 2025 SF Beer Passport is Here!
Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 28 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 28 of the finest locally

Performer You Should Know: The Radiant Lily Diamond
Lily Diamond Vickers is a Sonoma Valley native who has become a local celebrity, radiating positive energy and radiating a love for making people smile and feel good, which enhances her talent as a performer.

Broke-Ass Recipes: Cock-a-leekie
Though cock-a-leekie is considered Scotland’s official soup, it was adapted from a French recipe using chicken, broth and onions through replacing the latter with its gentler taxonomic relative, the leek, which has been widely cultivated in Scotland since the Middle Ages. Though the first recorded instance of this change dates

Nutcracker Nightmare Fantasy: A Sensual Twist on the Classic Tale
By Kellie Hanna Nutcracker Nightmare Fantasy is a provocative holiday experience you won’t want to miss. Told through seductive aerial, pole, modern dance, and roller skating, the story is a reimagining of the familiar Nutcracker Ballet plot. It’s got elements of circus and burlesque, and it’s more kinky than wholesome,

Broke-Ass Recipes: Trifle
The word “trifle” was first used in a culinary context in 1585, appearing in The Good Husvvifes Ievvell, a cookbook by English author Thomas Dawson. The term referred to a thick cream flavoured with sugar, ginger and rosewater. By the middle 18th century, the recipe evolved to entail setting biscuits

How Isabella Manfredi’s New Show Wardrobe Invites Us Into The Importance Of Clothing
By Cole Hersey In fashion today there seems to be an obsession with the vintage 90s look, or at least something close to it. Big graphic t-shirts are in along with baggy pants. Styles come back because enough time has passed for us to forget all the horrible aspects of that

SantaCon’s Founder Has a Few Regrets
SantaCon, a holiday event started by the Cacophony Society, began in 1994 as a way to mock the commercialization of Christmas, but has since grown to involve hundreds of thousands of people worldwide…for better or worse.