Art
FREE Vintage Paper Fair This Weekend
The San Francisco Vintage Paper Fair comes around every few months, but I’m going to go ahead and say I still had no idea what it was. Vintage Paper? Like old posters? Or like Grandpa’s old letters to Grandma? Or maybe just the soggy brown bags from malt liquors passed?
My New Favorite Place in the East Bay: Revolution Café
Revolution Café is located in West Oakland in a neighborhood known as The Lower Bottoms, not a particularly endearing name, but somehow fitting for a place west of “Dogtown.’ From the outside it doesn’t look like anything special, but when you walk through the front door its awesomeness will smack you
Art Murmur: Oakland’s FREE First Fridays
With the markers of Halloween behind us and Thanksgiving ahead, we Bay Area dwellers know that there is very little time before the months of incessant rain arrive to ruin our outdoor fun. So make use of the next few weekends! If you’ve never been to the Oakland Art Murmur,
The Rock Paper Scissors Collective
If you read Monica’s post about Workshop on Saturday, then you know that BAS loves DIY. And the more the merrier, so here is another DIY hub in the East Bay. In the heart of the Oakland art scene is a little hole in the wall called the Rock Paper
Flying Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease — Circus Bella Free Show at Fort Mason
One of the cool parts about growing up in Northern California in the seventies and eighties was a visit from the Pickle Family Circus. Pale did the plastic theme park or weird pizza parlour with a smelly ball pit, when the alternative could be a day in the sun watching
Public Barber Salon – a Beer and a Haircut
I’ve seen my future, and it’s pretty hairless. My dad…bald. My mom’s dad…bald. The great Magic 8-Ball of genetics has pretty much already foretold my destiny: Outlook Not So Good. As a result of this, I like to try new shit with my hair every so often just because I
The New Blackbird Bar in the Castro
Sometime last week a friend hit me up to let me know that he was working at a place that was about to open called The Blackbird, and that I should come through on opening night. I was certainly interested in seeing what they’d done to the place. The last