I babysat for two little girls during college.  The 4 year-old was kind of an asshole (can you say that about a kid?), but the toddler was pretty cool.  Anyway, one day the mom asked me if I knew CPR and Heimlich maneuver, in particular the methods designed for toddlers. 

In keeping with my ‘œHow to Make a Garden for Free in Berkeley’ series (Part I, Part II), here is a perfect opportunity to get a bunch of starts for your winter crop (though this looks to be more of a flower than veggie kind of party).  A FREE plant

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One of my old roommates gets immediately overwhelmed by large, overstocked stores.  As soon as she enters a thrift shop, a library, or a salvage yard, she has to pee’”it’s some sort of physiological phenomenon triggered by clutter.  For her, Urban Ore is the worst (the bathrooms are nothing to

It’s that time of year kids!  Time for two of the more contentious festivals in the city:  The San Francisco Italian Heritage Parade (aka Columbus Day Parade) and Fleet Week! Military grandstanding and attending celebrations named after an ambitious sailor who initiated mass genocide may not rank high in a

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition does a lot of things for the biking community.  To name just a few, they put on all sorts of weekly rides and annual events (like Bike to Work Day), they advocate for improved street maintenance, better bike accommodations on the Bay’s streets, bridges and

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

This 1851 photo of SF just slightly predates stop motion videography. My very talented friend Tony Benna just sent this to me and I thought all you SF head would dig it.  It’s crazy stop motion video shot with a miniature San Francisco at night.  It’s apparently some kind of

After 13 years of being a vegetarian, I recently crossed back over to the dark side.  However, my reasons for being a vegetarian had nothing to do with the idea of human consumption of meat.  As a faux-hippie, semi-political teen in Los Angeles, I took on the label of Vegetarian