San Francisco

The Power Apocalypse is About to Hit the Bay Area
Update, 1:50 p.m.: PG&E tortures residents by postponing the scheduled shutoff in many East Bay cities until 8 p.m. Wednesday evening. A bunch of kids woke up today in parts of Northern California thrilled that schools were closed, that is until they realized their phones won’t charge and microwaves can’t

Things Do Not Look Good for Mike Pence If Trump Is Impeached
With Donald Trump’s impeachment all but certain, and the possibility of his subsequent conviction in the Senate growing a little less remote every day, it’s worth looking at what might happen if he does indeed leave the White House for good, rage-tweeting during Fox and Friends from Mar-a-Lago forever. Pretty

We Wanna Send You an SF Wine Passport!
Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Wine Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. The San Francisco Wine Passport is amazing, you get 22 glasses of wine at 22 great SF bars & restaurants for only $40. It honestly

There Are SO Many Film Festivals Coming to the Bay Area!
RECAP: A drunken film festival! A twisted Takashi Miike crime comedy! A San Francisco 1990s underground film series! That’s just scratching the surface of what’s interesting and coming out this month. So this month’s film preview is broken up into three parts. In this installment, there are three film festivals

Why You Should Support Dean Preston for District 5 Supervisor
Political junkies call electoral contests such as the one coming this November an off-year election. The characteristics of such elections are: no big political office such as President or Governor, low voter turnout, and usually a more conservative electorate. But interested BAS readers can turn San Francisco’s off-year election into

There’s a Petition to Turn the Salesforce Tower into a Game of Pac-Man
Remember last year how after a very popular petition they turned the Salesforce Tower into the Eye Of Sauron for Halloween? Well this year there’s a petition to turn it into a humungous game of Pac-Man. The goal of the petition is to get the attention of Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff

42nd Mill Valley Film Festival Preview
Among fall Bay Area film festivals, the Mill Valley Film Festival (hereafter MVFF) has long been considered the biggest one around. MVFF’s 42nd edition, which runs from October 3-13 this year, brings to eager arthouse and indie films audiences 215 features and short films from the US and the rest

Study Shows Flat Earthers More Likely to Own LaserDisc Players
Flat earthers are also 6000 times more likely to tell you that Apple maps are the best online maps