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Film Festival-Packed February Plus Cat Videos Too
February may be the shortest month of the year. But who would have expected it to be packed with film festivals? Even if you don’t consider the S.F. Independent Film Festival, there are four other film festivals happening this month. In those other festivals, you can see first-hand accounts of
Applying to the SF Fire Dept Was Not What I Expected
Somewhere in between winter and spring of 2018, I was snooping around for a new job. My past was filled with low-brow, laughable, but wholly necessary jobs: hot dog cart guy for Stanley Steamers SF; bike delivery guy for Pita Pit and Pot Belly’s in the freezing Chicago winter; a
The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide
A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But
Broke-Ass of the Week: Natasha Tanksley-Perry
Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.
Jet lag and $1 beers
I just got back last night from 10 days in the Yucatan Peninsula. It was mostly spent reading on white sand beaches in the Mayan Riviera, and truthfully it was Plan B. The original idea was for my lady and I to visit Cuba, smoke some cigars, drink