BY CHRIS LEBOA  There is life in Downtown Oakland on a Friday night. Corvettes drive slow. Jerk salmon is sold. Metalheads in leather jackets wait for a show at the Fox. Walking down Broadway there is that corner spot that used to be called Slug Bar but now it’s now

BY SAYRE PIOTRKOWSKI, NICO SIMONIAN & Others Our inaugural Favorite Albums of the Year article is here! Every year we publish a Favorite Songs of the Year article and playlist, like this year’s We’re Patterns in Repeat. This year, our contributors submitted their favorite album(s) of 2024 and wrote a little

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

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

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

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.

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

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,

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