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05 Apr 2019

FICTION: POST-APOCALYPTIC SCI-FI SET IN SF, PART 6

The Spike (Begin at the beginning of the story here) A titch later we’re drying off by a burn barrel, pretty high up on the cliff face, and the Seertlekimmie is telling me about the harvests. The rays and octopus are coming in more and more, but landin’ a whale’s

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12 Jun 2018

Ugliest Painting in the World, Stolen From SF Gallery

One of the world’s finest examples of terrible art was brazenly stolen from 518 Gallery in the Mission, in front of dozens of witnesses, including the painting’s buyer and the festival’s organizers. The caper gone wrong, ended in betrayal and blackmail.

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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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29 May 2018

Fiction: Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi set in SF, Part 5

Part Five Jump the Shark (Begin at the beginning here) The next day I go to see the Seertlekimmie. He’s up and about, putzing around the dock and even though he ain’t lookin’ so hot he seems in good spirits. We stroll around the docks, a sprawling maze of rickety

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26 Apr 2018

Cracking Open A Cold Case: The Golden State Killer and The Legacy of Michelle McNamara

Joseph DeAngelo. If you don’t know that name, you will soon enough. Yesterday, April 25th, 72 year old Joseph DeAngelo was arrested in connection with a cold case that rocked the Bay area for a decade from 1976 to 1986. For a decade, the man known as The Original Night

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15 Mar 2018

Post-Apocalyptic San Francisco Sci-Fi: Part Four

Part Four Fancy Pants So I go up to Deska’s house. As a council member she gets to live in one of the old houses. It’s not made from scraps of cloth, driftwood, and piled stone, not like most of the city. It’s real timber with real windows, not just

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11 Aug 2016

All Men Are Evil Except My Girlfriend

Hosted by queens Abortia and Mentlë Clinik and Lady Bear. There will also be performances by The Truants, Ancient Wing, Beauty Marks, Under The Bleachers, and Corpus Hideous as well as DJ TIMBER and more and help us celebrate The Stud and the generations of weirdos it continues to inspire.

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19 Apr 2016

Three Last Minute, Broke-Ass Tours of The Bay

I have been falling back on these three Bay Area tours when guest strike for years, and they have always gotten positive reviews.

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