As I walked across the border from Tijuana, I felt my body relax as I entered the United States. We had done it– we took a circus to Mexico. The surrealness of the last 10 days all started to come back to me as I sat on the train to

Who wants to hang out and drink FREE beer? On Wednesday, May 1st, I’m buying a keg of beer at a San Francisco bar and inviting all my paying supporters on Patreon to come drink. It’s a great excuse to hang out, meet some cool new people (including some BAS writers),

SF is Getting an Absurd Willy W*nka Immersive Experience Take a whimsical, immersive journey INTO THE WONKYVERSE—inspired by the World of Willy W*nka & the epic failure in Glasgow.   On FRIDAY, MAY 3 Join a wildly diverse collection of creators for an evening of artful absurdity! Dress up and join hundreds

This article is made possible by the fine folks at I Love the Tenderloin Week. Back for its second year, the I Love the Tenderloin Week festival is nearly upon us! This time it’s running from April 21st – April 27th and it sounds fantastic! Besides the obvious restaurants, bars,

Irving’s Penn’s level of craft and decades-long career make for a must-see show at de Young.

On a rainy Thursday night in San Francisco, I slapped on a sportscoat, drank 2 pints of Maui Waui IPA, and swallowed 1 g of dried, psychedelic mushrooms. 

A violently adorable raccoon looms ominously from a shopping cart filled with junk food against an idyllic seascape. Around her fly seagulls and a pigeon wearing a pink iced donut. I say ‘her’, because emerging from this raccoon’s fur are tiny baby raccoons. Hissing from the bottom of the shopping

There are fewer theatrical venues available.  Returning to the in-theater experience still proves a hard lift for way too many viewers.  And the 800-pound gorilla known in film festival circles as the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter “SFFILM”) has radically downsized in scale and scope this year. Should this