Guest post by: Andrea Gonzales-Paul If you’re a person who has spent a lot of time and energy making an independent film that didn’t get into the festival circuit and/or didn’t secure distribution, please read on. Backstory: I made a deeply personal documentary about how my liver almost — but

by Jonas Barnes This year was full of blockbusters, franchise milestones, and what will be the end of a decades long saga with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but I’m not here to talk about those. I’m a cinema fan across the board, but I’m specifically an indie cinema

A couple days ago Supervisor Matt Haney presented me with a Certificate of Honor on behalf of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco. It was to celebrate BAS publishing more than 10,000 articles over the past 10 years! If you wanna make sure BAS is

Feline getting tortured for 2 hours?  The CGI film adaption of ‘Cats’ that cost $95 million to make, is an uncanny valley full of cat puns and horrors, according to most film critics. British director Tom Hooper, who previously turned the stage musical Les Misérables into a 2012 movie, has

GUEST POEM BY MUSTAFA K. ‘Twas the night before impeachment when all through the White House, A creature was tweeting with no whereabouts of his spouse. He desperately penned a letter to the Madam Speaker, In foolish hope it’d make her pursuits weaker. The Democrats were nestled all snug in

In Windsor California, the brewer Barrel Brothers released a canned beer called Mandatory Blackout, an imperial porter to commemorate the brewery losing power for 10 days during this falls wild fire warnings.  As you can clearly see, the label and porter is inspired by the PG&E Logo. The co-founder and

As I’ve written about before, there’s a blight of empty storefronts all over San Francisco, particularly in North Beach. Luckily some plucky artists and makers have gotten together and opened Local Maker Mart to give people a place to shop for local art and goods. After three years of sitting