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collection of pinball machines from the 1940s-60s
20 Feb 2024

The Art and History of (Illegal) Pinball in the Bay Area

The Pacific Pinball Museum (PPM) in Alameda hosts multiple rooms with a rotating cast of over 100 pinball machines from the 1940s – present, all in playable order. I attended Pinball and Pints at the PPM as part of SF Beer Week. Friendly folks sharing their passions of pinball and

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dog in hammock at Hardly Strictly
07 Oct 2022

What Makes Hardly Strictly Bluegrass so Very San Francisco

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass came back in full force this past weekend. The free concert has been around since 2001. It celebrated 20 years virtually last year and this year came back with sunshine, playfulness, amazing music, and smiles all around. Beyond the stacked roster of talented acts that graced the

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08 Oct 2024

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

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05 Aug 2022

“Hella Feminist” Debuts at Oakland Museum of California

BY NAVYA POTHAMSETTY If you dug through the Oakland Museum of California’s archives, you would probably find material ranging from the sublime to the completely bizarre. One of the more odd finds in recent years was a poster featuring what one curator thought to be a rotary phone dial: it was

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15 Nov 2019

Things to Do in NYC When You’re Broke and It’s F***ing Cold

by Hannah Harkness It’s that time of year again in NYC! The sunlight is dwindling, stores are starting their annual holiday display pissing contest, and freezing air is coming through wind tunnels between skyscrapers punishing us for ever believing fall would last more than 2 weeks! If you’re broke, this

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11 Aug 2017

Learn What’s Ailing You at the Museum of Capitalism

San Francisco uber-capitalist Warren Hellman – a private equity titan who had been the youngest partner ever at Wall Street powerhouse Lehman Brothers – told me in 2007 that the central struggle of our times was this: “Capitalism won, and now we need to save the world from capitalism.”

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06 Sep 2016

We wanna send you and a friend to the Pacific Pinball Museum!

  TILT! Stand-Up Comedy and Storytelling at the Pacific Pinball Museum with 100+ Pinball Machines on Free Play! The inaugural monthly comedy/storytelling show brought to you by comedy darling Mary Van Note. Headlining is San Francisco’s own musical comedy weirdo DJ REAL.  Also performing are rising comedy stars Roman Leo

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21 Jun 2012

Pride NightLife Tonight!

  Its mid-June, folks, which in San Francisco means we are heading into the home-run stretch of Pride month.  As Market street gets all polychromatic and workers frantically try to blast all the dried “character” away, all across town festivals, booze- busts, lecturers and shindigs are popping up like so

Heidi Smith - The Ultimate Scavenger 0
06 Jan 2012

Broke-Ass Mom Gets Her Groove Back

Tuesday, January 2nd, snuck up on me like poop oozing out of my son’s diaper while we’re in the middle of story time at our local library, and there’s not a spare diaper in sight.  I had been looking forward to this day for literally weeks.  It was the day

Jennifer White - Mommy No Bucks 0