Here’s news that’s barely news anymore: a business in San Francisco has closed. I know it’s shocking because things stay open forever in San Francisco. The only thing more plentiful in the city than its many hills are the erections of successful entrepreneurs going over their balance sheets. Sarcasm aside,

It’s pretty normal to hate on tech in the Bay Area. It’s actually cliche at this point. The hip kids hate A.I. now. It’s tech, but for people who want to circumstantially murder the working class so they don’t have to interact with the people that they’re displacing when they

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

On Wednesday, December 20, sound healers, writers, and many more will hold space in a Mission District gallery to dream of what Palestine might be like in 20 years, 100 years, the future. “Voices of Palestinian Futures” is an integrated program featuring six Palestinian artists exploring what lies in store

Since the beginning of the Pandemic, San Francisco has been no stranger to businesses closing. So when I hear about a local business biting the dust, I’m not exactly surprised, but the closure of Philz did strike me as odd. Since you’re reading a BAS article, I’m going to go

In a perfect world, everyone can coexist peacefully. I would love to live in a place where the presence of one group doesn’t threaten the presence of another, but we don’t live in a perfect world. And in the Mission District, one of San Francisco’s few (kind of) working class

PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK When I texted the owner of Buddy, after realizing that all the reservations for the pizza pop-up Jules were already taken, fortune smiled upon me. Alvaro Rojas, one of the owners of Buddy, told me because of the Eater article that came out August

Gentrification is inherently a touchy subject in the Bay Area. Everyone calls everyone else a gentrifier all the time. Most people don’t actually know what gentrification is. So, first, let’s define it.  Gentrification: a process in which a poor area experiences an influx of middle-class or wealthy people who renovate

For whatever reason, the last article that I did where I asked ChatGPT some shit about San Francisco did pretty well. I don’t know why, but people seem to be interested in what our robot overlords think. So, due to curiosity, and not at all laziness, I’ve asked ChatGPT to