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10 Sep 2024

When Is San Francisco Getting Jollibee?

There’s only one thing I love more than fried chicken: Filipino Fried Chicken, and luckily there’s about to be a lot more Filipino Fried Chicken in the Bay because Jollibee is coming to Alameda. Which is great. Alameda deserves delicious fried chicken, but one city remains free of Jollibee’s chickenjoy,

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
05 Sep 2023

Legendary LGBTQ Bar, the Stud, Reopening In San Francisco

San Francisco can be a heartbreaking place to be a business or a patron, but it’s not all doom and gloom; sometimes your favorite businesses come back to life, and in the case of the Stud, that is exactly what is happening.  During the Pandemic, the Stud lost its location

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
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

BAS Editorial Team 0
23 Aug 2023

San Francisco Nonprofit Looks to Revive SoMa with Filipino Culture

The vacant storefronts along San Francisco’s South of Market Mission Street Corridor could soon be filled with more Filipino businesses, thanks to the nonprofit economic development and arts organization Kultivate Labs.

Guest Writer 0
24 Mar 2023

“Wine is For Everyone” at Female-Founded Wine Shop DECANTsf

I’ve always found the wine industry to be really intimidating. There are so many wine varieties, as well as seemingly so many rules – when to swirl and when not to swirl. So, when I found a wine bottle shop and bar where you feel OK being a newbie, I

Katy Atchison 0
03 Mar 2023

A Taco Competition Supporting Women’s Rights: My Taco, My Choice

This coming Taco Tuesday, March 7th, there will be a chef taco competition featuring up to 12 women chefs from the Bay Area at Merkado in SOMA. The event is called “My Taco, My Choice” and it will benefit The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. Competing chefs will create

Katy Atchison 0
28 Dec 2022

What I Learned at an Active Shooter Workshop

“No guarantees,” said Deputy Chief Ken Craig throughout the evening. “You won’t know how you’re going to respond until it happens.” The ominous disclaimer hushed the room as one by one, we placed ourselves at the center of a worst-case scenario. What would you do if, on a night out

Jake Warren 0
05 Oct 2022

San Francisco’s Best and Worst Rebrands

Chicago stubbornly calls their landmark skyscraper Sears Tower, rejecting the Willis name. In Kansas City where I grew up, it’ll always be Sandstone Amphitheater. No matter where you’re from, you no doubt know somewhere/something special that now goes by a shittier name. San Francisco has plenty.  For instance, in an

Jake Warren 0
If only I had a public restroom!
31 Aug 2022

An End to Soiled San Francisco Sidewalks?

Between finding parking and finding an apartment in San Francisco ranks the undue stress of searching for a public restroom. The city has few truly public restrooms to begin with, and most of them close overnight. Few alternatives exist. Sooner or later you’re bound to find a hot, wet coil

Jake Warren 0