Rae Bathgate - Down and Out and Overseas

Why Everyone Should Work in a Restaurant
Everyone should work in a restaurant at least once. Ask any server, bartender, barista, cook, dishwasher, buser, greeter, and they’ll agree. It’s a conversation I often have with other people in the restaurant industry. This conversation is half bitching about customers (sorry not sorry) and half enumerating all the ways that working in a restaurant makes you a better person.

How to Catch and Eat a Pigeon
You might have read Hemingway’s quote: “There is no hunting like the hunting of man.” Well, I respectfully disagree. You may have pursued fascists over the Pyrenees, but you haven’t really hunted until you’ve tracked the urban squab, as it soars through its concrete jungle. Pigeons: they are the ultimate adversary. Pigeons aren’t

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!
It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

PROFILE OF A MODERN-DAY ADVENTURER: The ‘Fancy Feral’ Life of a Vagabond Fashion Model
Beautiful, polished, fashion model, also travels on a shoestring budget, sleeps outside, hitch-hikes, dumpster dives, and can handle roughing it. Meet Velocity, a modern day adventurer.

“My #Selfie, Myself” – Selfie and Self-Portrait Art
Opening Nov 27th @ Public Works SF, a show that examines the current idea of ‘self’ through art in the modern world.

Forgotten cowboy slang we should all use again
CATAWOMPUS: Fiercely, eagerly, awry, cockeyed, crooked, skewed.
Example of a modern-day use: “Yeah, I don’t know how to feel about last night. She took one look at me without my clothes on, told me I was all catawompus down there, made me wear kitty ears and told me to go for it.”

We Spoke to Parents Who Bring Their Children To Burning Man
Does going to Burning Man as a child change the person you become, and does it do so for better or for worse? We asked several parents who bring their children to Burning Man why they do it, and what their experiences were

The 10 Oldest Bars in the World
Let’s go back 1,000+ years and explore history through some of the finest drinking establishments known to man. Do you like history, witchcraft, and booze? Well, this is the article for you.

10 Life Lessons I Learned from Musicals
For not being a real actress or singer (I just annoy people by singing the songs in my head and re-creating dramatic scenes from Star Wars), I have an oddly extensive knowledge of musical theater. No, this is not a pissing contest, I know you also love Cats. I simply